2016

20th anniversary edition.

Solid Gold Rock'n'Roll [Digipack / 3 CD]

Med rebellisk swing, rytande blues, lekfull improvisation och hoppfulla texter om en solidarisk och jämställd värld delar Swing Tarturo på sitt debutalbum generöst med sig av både allvar och glädje. Deras unika nyskrivna nutidsswing är skarp, fräsch, experimentell och överraskande. Bandet har blåst liv i och förnyat den traditionsbundna, nästintill utdöende 20-talsjazzen. Swing Tarturos musik låter som en gammal vevgrammofon, eller en galen urspårad cabaret från 30-talet kryddat med en näve punk och är svår att stå still till. De har rört sig mer och mer mot en repertoar med tonvikt på sångerskan Julia Stokes musik i samma tradition och har på albumet Operation vision gått ifrån de gamla klassikerna med undantag för en låt. Den ännu högst aktuella antirasistiska Strange fruit från 1936. Mötet mellan ärligt djärva texter om jämställdhet, empati och vardagsångest och den uppfinningsrika, ofta humoristiska musiken skapar en spännande och särpräglad samling låtar.

Love plays a significant part in most operas, but all too often it is frustrated, or entangled with deception, humiliation and betrayal. With her new disc Camilla Tilling presents a near-comprehensive catalogue of the emotions that the vagaries of love can raise in the breast of an operatic heroine. And these emotions are universal and timeless, afflicting servants and countesses, Grecian princesses, a sorceress from Damascus and a young lady of 18th-century Naples alike. Gluck's Armide glories in having Renaud in her power - until she realizes that her feelings makes it impossible to destroy him as she had planned. Newly raised from the dead, his Euridice is defenceless against the strong emotions of the living, and beset by doubts when Orpheus refuses to acknowledge her on their way back to earth. In the bravura aria Come scoglio, Mozart's Fiordiligi proclaims her steadfast love for Guglielmo, but in the following act of the opera she regretfully admits to having been enamoured by another. And from The Marriage of Figaro we hear Susanna inviting the loved one to a nocturnal rendez-vous ('Deh vieni, non tardar') as well as her mistress, the Countess, wondering in 'Dove sono' what happened to the loving marriage she once had. With a soprano typically described as 'radiant', 'vernal' or 'silvery', Camilla Tilling has performed several of the roles featured here at venues such as Opéra National de Paris, Covent Garden, Salzburg Mozarteum and Drottningholm Slottsteater. On this recording she partnered by Philipp von Steinaecker and his Musica Saeculorum, whose period instruments bring out all the sweetness, pain and regret that Gluck and Mozart magically worked into their scores.

Ruíeu Andre: Falling in love 2016 [CD + DVD]

Now That's What I Call Rock [CD]

The Dad Album [Digipack / 3 CD]