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Mythologies is a full-length score conceived for a ballet of the same name and composed by Thomas Bangalter, known around the world as a member of Daft Punk, the influential French electronic music duo. With Daft Punk, Bangalter fused funk, disco, rock and pop. Here, he again breaks down musical barriers: Mythologies, his first orchestral work, embraces idioms from the Baroque to modern American minimalism. Its movements have names like ‘Zeus’, ‘The Gorgons’, ‘Aphrodite’ and ‘Funeral Dance’.

Ballet, like music, is in Bangalter’s blood. His mother was a ballet dancer, his father a songwriter and producer; and he was taught piano as a child by a music staff member at the Paris Opera. “With electronic music, it’s so hard and it takes so much time to infuse emotion in the machines,” he told the New York Times. “So to write a chord or a melody and have the performers — human beings — play it and have this instant emotional quality to it, is really quite exhilarating.”

Mythologies is billed as exploring “contemporary rituals and the founding myths that shape the collective imagination”. It was premiered in 2022 as a collaboration between the Ballet de l’Opera National de Bordeaux and the Ballet Preljocaj (led by the French choreographer Angelin Preljocaj, who invited Bangalter to create the score). Mythologies is performed on this world premiere recording by the Orchestre National Bordeaux Aquitaine under conductor Romain Dumas.

Prokofiev: Violin Concertos is an album by Itzhak Perlman, released in 2023. Prokofiev: Violin Concertos includes a.o. the following tracks: “Violin Concerto No.1 In D Major, Op.19 I. Andantino”, “Violin Concerto No.1 In D Major, Op.19 Ii. Scherzo: Vivaciss”, “Violin Concerto No.1 In D Major, Op.19 Iii. Moderato”, “Violin Concerto No.2 In G Minor, Op.63 I. Allegro Moderato” and more. The album is a classical LP.

Following a year of staggering losses, personal introspection and bittersweet remembrances, Foo Fighters return with But Here We Are, on Roswell Records/RCA Records.

A brutally honest and emotionally raw response to everything Foo Fighters endured over the last year, But Here We Are is a testament to the healing powers of music, friendship and family. Courageous, damaged and unflinchingly authentic, But Here We Are opens with newly released lead single “Rescued,” the first of 10 songs that run the emotional gamut from rage and sorrow to serenity and acceptance, and myriad points in between.

Produced by Greg Kurstin and Foo Fighters, But Here We Are is in nearly equal measure the 11th Foo Fighters album and the first chapter of the band’s new life. Sonically channeling the naivete of Foo Fighters’ 1995 debut, informed by decades of maturity and depth, But Here We Are is the sound of brothers finding refuge in the music that brought them together in the first place 28 years ago, a process that was as therapeutic as it was about a continuation of life.

Directed by George Scott and produced by Lou Adler and John McDermott, the film presents the complete multi-camera 16mm footage filmed and recorded by Adler in 1973 but never before released. Home Again: Carole King Live In Central Park provides an inside view of a generational talent at her prime, performing one of the biggest and most momentous concerts of her career in the city where she was born. The film features exclusive interviews and never before seen performance footage.

Reissue, Remastered
Reissue on vinyl of the nineteenth Elton John studio album Ice On Fire, remastered at world-renowned mastering studio Lurssen Mastering. Elton’s first record since Blue Moves produced by his original long-time producer Gus Dudgeon, and released in November 1985. Featuring the singles Nikita, Wrap Her Up, Soul Glove & Cry To Heaven. This reissue is faithful to the original track listing, packaging and cut at Abbey Road Studios.

Reissue, Remastered
Reissue on vinyl of the twentieth Elton John studio album Leather Jackets, remastered at world-renowned mastering studio Lurssen Mastering. Originally released in 1986, the album includes Heartache All Over The World, Paris, Hoop Of Fire, Angeline & Slow Rivers (Featuring Cliff Richard). Reissue is faithful to the original track listing, packaging and cut at Abbey Road Studios.

“Pocket Symphonies” from the Dresden-based-composer and producer Sven Helbig is the antithesis to the usual musical crossover. “Pocket Symphonies”, symphonic pearls in the form of songs, are twelve short pieces for orchestra and piano quartet. Now available for the first time on vinyl