New Music CDs

All About Luv is the sixth studio album, and first English-language album, by South Korean boy group Monsta X.

Twentieth-century African American composer Margaret Bonds receives long overdue recognition with the world premiere recording of her crowning achievement. With an expressly written libretto by Bonds' friend Langston Hughes, this Christmas cantata focuses on Balthazar, the dark-skinned king who journeyed to Bethlehem to witness the birth of Jesus Christ. This unique seasonal album also includes a selection of specially arranged songs, including a setting of Hughes' poem I, Too, Sing America.

Altogether, The Bitter Truth carries listeners on a journey both familiar and fresh, recapturing the heavy-yet-melodic hallmarks that made Fallen one of the most successful albums of the 2000s and pushing Evanescence into the future with a graceful maturity and worldly perspective.

Past and present come together in this vibrant release from Sono Luminus, music by African-American Composers for Clarinet & Piano, as clarinetist Marcus Eley, and pianist Lucerne DeSa display the timeless class and musical stylings of composers whose music runs rich with the knowledge and desire of gifts to be returned through the notes on a page, and the instrument in one's hand.

Features eleven songs, including singles Let Me Love You Like a Woman and the title track.

Christopher Cross sailed to the top of the charts, and to Grammy gold, with his self titled debut album. The album also includes the single Ride Like the Wind.

It was in Benin City, in the heart of Nigeria, that a new hybrid of intoxicating highlife music known as Edo Funk was born. It first emerged in the late 1970s when a group of musicians began to experiment with different ways of integrating elements from their native Edo culture and fusing them with new sound effects coming from West Africa´s nightclubs. The repetitive nature, the skeletal composition and the relentless exploitation of synthesizers, electric guitars and ‘80s effect racks resulted in a spiced up brew with an odd psychedelic note.

From her breakthrough hit Vision of Love to the record-breaking One Sweet Day, this collection features 28 of Mariah Carey's biggest hits. Also included are collaborations with Whitney Houston, Luther Vandross, Jay-Z, and more.

Fearless (Taylor's Version) is the first re-recorded album by Swift. Recorded with fresh vocals, Fearless (Taylor's Version) consists of all the 19 tracks from the Platinum Edition of her second studio album Fearless (2008), her 2010 soundtrack single "Today Was a Fairytale", and six additional "From the Vault" songs that did not make it on the 2008 album.

An avant-garde collection of sound effects, jazzy improvisation, and comic vocals displays the group's sense of humor and wacky approach to their music.

Reigning CMA Entertainer of the Year Eric Church’s April 2021 albums Heart and Soul came out of 28 days spent in the mountains of North Carolina, writing and recording. Both the Heart and Soul albums are composed of 9 songs each.

Produced by Grammy Award-winning producer and violinist Johnny Gandelsman, the album features stirring and evocative original music inspired by one of America’s greatest writers.

Between the Texas Swing, boogie-woogie, sprightly two-steps and hillbilly bop, all remastered and sounding better than ever, these 28 tracks are a trip back in time to a music that is timeless.

The composer and arranger Willi März knows the characteristics of the tuba and knows how to stage it effectively. The Divertimento with harp and orchestra, for example, presents itself sometimes light-footedly, then again lyrically expressive and surprises with the tuba's flexibility. Again and again the tuba enters into dialogue with the harp, whereby this apparently so contradictory duo complements each other perfectly. The artistic range of Willi März' works encompasses both quality light music and sophisticated art music.

Introducing the new album from Latin R&B legends Tierra on Thump Records! The new album includes the hit singles I’m So Young with young vocal sensation JD Musgrove and the new Christmas classic Merry Christmas My Love.

A very special collaboration between two titans in music: Toumani Diabaté, the Grammy-winning Malian kora virtuoso, and the London Symphony Orchestra, renowned worldwide for their performances of orchestral music on record, film and stage. The title translates from the Mandinka language as ‘ancestral’, a fitting theme for an album that brings together ancient griot melodies and Western orchestral arrangements, resulting in an achingly beautiful and fresh Afro-neo-classical sound that will appeal to admirers of African, traditional and new classical, and ambient music.

Seven years after releasing their debut album, which included the hit Cool Kids, Echosmith is back with a new album. The new release includes the singles Lonely Generation and Shut Up and Kiss Me.

Price’s First Symphony was composed in 1932 for a contest sponsored by the Wanamaker Foundation and performed by the Chicago Symphony under Frederick Stock the following year. Her Fourth Symphony, composed in 1945 and recorded here for the first time, was discovered in 2009 among a sheaf of manuscripts in her former summer home on the outskirts of Chicago.

One of Rachmaninoff's most popular pieces, the Second Symphony is an indulgently melancholic and sentimental work: a magic box of the late-Romantic orchestra. Dramatic sections played by the full orchestra contrast heart-breaking swells that only this composer could have written. The LSO has a long history with the Second Symphony, recording it many times with conductors such as André Previn, Gennady Rozhdestvensky and Valery Gergiev. For this recording, which was captured during the opening of the London Symphony Orchestra's 2019/20 season at the Barbican Hall, the Orchestra's Music Director Sir Simon Rattle conducted from memory, performing the uncut version of this symphonic treasure.

From boundary-pushing koto musicians to experimental jazz virtuosi, Japanese music has long embraced all things avant-garde. Rough Guide highlights some of today's key innovators whose individualism challenges the conformist perception of Japan.

Reigning CMA Entertainer of the Year Eric Church’s April 2021 albums Heart and Soul came out of 28 days spent in the mountains of North Carolina, writing and recording. Both the Heart and Soul albums are composed of 9 songs each.