The chemistry between tradition and innovation powered Sir Simon Rattle’s relationship with the Berliner Philharmoniker, above all during his time as the orchestra’s Chief Conductor and Artistic Director (2002-2018). As the successor to Wilhelm Furtwängler, Herbert von Karajan and Claudio Abbado, his mission was to take this pre-eminent musical institution into the 21st century. “What Rattle has brought … is a new spirit of adventure,” declared The Times in 2006, and later looked back on the “exhilarating, epoch-hopping eclecticism of Simon Rattle’s era in Berlin”. Through all this Rattle preserved the orchestra’s distinctive sonority, notable, in the words of the New York Times, for its “sheer grandeur … and rich, red-blooded warmth”. He first conducted the Berliner Philharmoniker in 1987, and the recordings in this 45CD box span the years from 1994 to 2012. Very much reflecting Rattle’s vision for the orchestra, the symphonic, choral and operatic works range from pillars of Austro-German Classicism, Romanticism and Modernism through French, Russian and Czech repertoire to showcases for contemporary contemporary composers from around the world – and even a film soundtrack. As Rattle said at the end of his tenure in Berlin: “Music is for everybody, and we’ve all believed this.”

2024 wieder erhältlich: Das erste & meistverkaufte Album (weltweit) von D. J. Bobo aus dem Jahr 1993, mit den Tophits: »Somebody Dance With Me«, »Everybody Keep On Dancin« und »Take Control«. Das einzige Album mit den »Original Hits«.

"Sturm Und Twang! - A Private Collection Of German Underground Pop" is a fascinating album that showcases a unique blend of German underground pop music from the 1980s and 90s. The album features a selection of tracks from various artists, each with their own distinct style and sound. So, put on your headphones, turn up the volume, and discover the magic of German underground pop.

Die liebevoll aufbereiteten 8LP- und 5CD-Boxen „Westernhagen 75 (75 Songs: 1974 – 2023)“ enthalten je mindestens ein Lied aus allen von Westernhagens bisherigen Alben. Die umfassend geremasterte Trackauswahl mit vielen Raritäten und Überraschungen reicht über die zarte Individualität des Frühwerks, die ungehobelte Rock’n’Roll-Aufsässigkeit des Pfefferminz-Prinzen, die neugierige Experimentierfreude der mittleren Achtziger, die große Geste seiner Megastar-Phase bis zur Hingabe und Musikalität der vergangenen Jahre. Zudem enthält die 8LP-Box ein 32-seitiges Hardcover-Buch mit allen Album-Covern, Linernotes und unzähligen Fotos. Diese finden sich ebenfalls in der 5CD-Box im Booklet wieder. Darüber hinaus erscheint eine 2LP-Gatefold-Edition mit einer Auswahl von 18 Songs und eine 2CD-Digipak-Edition mit einer Auswahl von 34 Songs.

Die liebevoll aufbereiteten 8LP- und 5CD-Boxen „Westernhagen 75 (75 Songs: 1974 – 2023)“ enthalten je mindestens ein Lied aus allen von Westernhagens bisherigen Alben. Die umfassend geremasterte Trackauswahl mit vielen Raritäten und Überraschungen reicht über die zarte Individualität des Frühwerks, die ungehobelte Rock’n’Roll-Aufsässigkeit des Pfefferminz-Prinzen, die neugierige Experimentierfreude der mittleren Achtziger, die große Geste seiner Megastar-Phase bis zur Hingabe und Musikalität der vergangenen Jahre. Zudem enthält die 8LP-Box ein 32-seitiges Hardcover-Buch mit allen Album-Covern, Linernotes und unzähligen Fotos. Diese finden sich ebenfalls in der 5CD-Box im Booklet wieder. Darüber hinaus erscheint eine 2LP-Gatefold-Edition mit einer Auswahl von 18 Songs und eine 2CD-Digipak-Edition mit einer Auswahl von 34 Songs.

100 Eurosong Klassiekers is a various artist compilation album. Released in 2010 on Universal.

For its 30th anniversary this extremely beautiful box presents LACRIMOSA from all sides! Over three CDs, with a total playing time of three hours and forty minutes, the legendary 25th anniversary concert immerses the listener in LACRIMOSA's incomparable live atmosphere.

Freudiana was to be the 11th album by The Alan Parsons Project, but during its development, Eric Woolfson decided to turn the album into a rock opera. It was released as simply "Freudiana," and is known as the "unofficial" Alan Parsons Project album. Alan Parsons continued as a solo artist with the 1993 album Try Anything Once, which was musically in a direction more or less continued from that of 1987's Gaudi. Eric Woolfson hit upon the idea of researching the life and works of Sigmund Freud with a view to their musical potential after he finished the tenth Alan Parsons Project album Gaudi. He retraced Freud's footsteps and explored his realms through his homes in London and Vienna (both now museums) as well as literary sources including Freud's classic cases whose real identities he concealed by use of names such as Wolfman, Ratman, Dora, Little Hans, and Schreber, the Judge. In addition, Freud's writings on his discovery of the 'unconscious', his well known theories such as the 'Oedipus Complex', the 'Ego' and the 'Id' and perhaps his best known masterpiece, 'The Interpretation of Dreams' all served as springboards for musical ideas.

The discography of Strauss’s last opera is not exactly crowded, but the two existing accounts provide formidable competition for any newcomer. First there was Sawallisch, conducting the Philharmonia for EMI in 1957 (unfortunately in mono) and a cast led by Schwarzkopf, Ludwig and Fischer-Dieskau. Then, in 1971, came that other supreme Straussian, Karl Böhm, with Janowitz, Troyanos and (again) Fischer-Dieskau, recorded in Munich for DG. The new Decca set brings together many of today’s leading exponents of Strauss’s roles, dominated, for me, by the unsurpassed Clairon of Brigitte Fassbaender, now alas, never to be heard on stage again following her retirement. Heilmann and Bär make an ardent pair of rival suitors, Hagegård an admirable Count and Halem a sonorous, characterful La Roche. (There is a delightful link with the past history of the opera in the person of Hans Hotter: he sang Olivier in the 1942 premiere, La Roche in the 1957 Sawallisch set, and here, at 84 when recorded in December 1993, a one-line cameo as a servant.) For many, though, the set’s desirability will rest on Te Kanawa’s Countess.

Dschinghis Khan (known in some countries as Genghis Khan) is a German Euro disco pop band. It was originally formed in Munich in 1979 to compete in the Eurovision Song Contest with their song "Dschinghis Khan". Their original eponymous song came in fourth place at the 1979 Eurovision Song Contest in Jerusalem. Appearing at the height of the disco boom and following on the heels of other German-produced bands such as Boney M, Arabesque, and Silver Convention, the band achieved wide popularity throughout the world, especially in Europe, Russia, and Japan, though they went wholly unnoticed in the United States. Their songs invariably were themed on historical figures and exotic cultures and locales.

Zeitgeist (Spirit of the Age) is the debut album by German electronical act Schiller. It featured the singles Das Glockenspiel, Liebesschmerz and Ruhe, all of which reached the Top 30 of the German singles charts. This is limited edition includes bonus disc.

During the mid-'70s, Germany's Kraftwerk established the sonic blueprint followed by an extraordinary number of artists in the decades to come. From the British new romantic movement to hip-hop to techno, the group's self-described "robot pop" – hypnotically minimal, obliquely rhythmic music performed solely via electronic means – resonates in virtually every new development to impact the contemporary pop scene of the late- 20th century, and as pioneers of the electronic music form, their enduring influence cannot be overstated…

Falco was the most internationally successful pop artist ever to come out of Austria, best known for his 1986 chart-topping hit "Rock Me Amadeus." Born Johann Holzel in Vienna on February 19, 1957, he was a classically trained child prodigy, but after graduating from the Vienna Conservatoire, he relocated to West Berlin and began fronting a jazz-rock band…

After Arthur Brown briefly ascended to stardom via the Crazy World of Arthur Brown's only album, it was a long three-year gap until the release of the next LP bearing his lead vocals, Kingdom Come's Galactic Zoo Dossier. (Although the material on Brown's Strangelands had been recorded in the interim, that record wasn't released until the late '80s.) And if not for Brown's immediately recognizable vocal histrionics, it could be the work of an entirely different artist. The Crazy World of Arthur Brown's exhilaratingly jazzy, madcap psychedelia had been jettisoned for far darker excursions into mordant early progressive rock. While there was still a carnivalesque classical-jazz-rock organ base to the arrangements, guitar also took a prominent role, and the melodies were far gloomier and more obtuse.

The complete collection of Achim Reichel’s innovative avant-garde project in the early 1970s. The lavishly designed 10 CD box-set includes all five studio albums and almost five hours of rare and unreleased music, a new remix-album – Virtual Journey – as well as a hardcover book with the artist’s own liner notes. A lucky accident was the catalyst. In Hamburg in the early 70s, while playing with his new Akai X330D tape machine, Achim Reichel discovered he could build soundscapes of guitar echoes and add even more simultaneously. He spent hours in his room with headphones on, growing his orchestra of guitars. A.R. & Machines recorded five studio albums. Their debut, “Die grüne Reise”, – The Green Journey – was released in 1971 on tape cassette and vinyl, and was met with complete confusion, even from the music press, who had no genre-drawer to stick it into, and is a lasting Krautrock monument captured on tape.