Debbie Kruger speaks at length with 45 of the most celebrated Australian & New Zealand songwriters of the twentieth century, whose work has left an indelible cultural imprint on our cultural landscape. In candid, face-to-face interviews, the songwriters discuss their successful careers, share their thoughts on tapping into their creative sources and tell the stories behind many of theor classic songs.

Step into the dynamic world of contemporary jazz-funk with Andrew D. Gordon's music instructional book "100 Ultimate Jazz-Funk Grooves for Flute." Renowned for his expertise in jazz and funk music, Gordon brings forth a comprehensive collection, offering a wealth of inspiration and exploration for flautists.As a distinguished composer, educator, and performer, Andrew D. Gordon is celebrated for his ability to seamlessly weave intricate jazz harmonies...

Salsa is one of the most popular types of music listened to and danced to in the United States. Until now, the single comprehensive history of the music--and the industry that grew up around it, including musicians, performances, styles, movements, and production--was available only in Spanish. This lively translation provides for English-reading and music-loving fans the chance to enjoy Cesar Miguel Rondon's celebrated El libro de la salsa.Rondon...

When lockdown was imposed in 2020 many artists began streaming performances from their own homes. In response, pianist Francesco Piemontesi and director Jan Schmidt-Garre launched a concert series to showcase artists living in Berlin, given in the renowned Schinkel Pavillon with an expert technical team assembled at short notice. Fourtheen concerts were held, without audiences, under the name Home Music Berlin featuring some of the world's leading...

Springtime in Amsterdam is a joyful feature film created by director Christof Loy, world renowned for his work in international opera houses. Meeting accidentally in Amsterdam, a group of four people experience a series of confusions that must be resolved in 48 hours. A richly varied musical score that includes Viennese operetta, Dutch and French chansons, and songs from the American song book, is performed by a renowned cast of singers and conducted...

An exile from his native land following the failed revolution of 1848, the impoverished Richard Wagner is in Zurich working on his opera Tristan und Isolde. There he meets Otto and Mathilde Wesendonck, ardent admirers of his music. Wagner's passionate and scandalous affair with Mathilde, whose poems he set to music, is explored in this feature film by director Jens Neubert. After their relationship ended, Wagner left Zurich for Italy, forever remembering...

Finnish opera star Camilla Nylund sings masterpieces from the Great American Songbook in this unique collaboration with the ORF Radio Symphony Orchestra Vienna under their music director Marin Alsop. The classic songs in this film were specially arranged to suit Nylund's performance style, vocals and personality, as if they had been written for her. This is a special edition of the concert film-project by André Heller in black and white.

Ronnie Milsap's soulful voice and powerful stage presence earned him a distinguished career in music. The singer responsible for 41 hits, six Grammys and seven Country Music Awards performs.

Distinguished Bach specialist Sir András Schiff returned to the BBC Proms in 2018 to present Book II of The Well-Tempered Clavier. Extending the variety already evident in Book I (available on Naxos), Bach's effortless brilliance and new-found sonorities push harmony and counterpoint further than ever with a combination of ancient and modern styles, church austerity and galant lightness. Schiff has said that 'no-one combines the sacred and the secular...

La Perricholi - in reality, Micaela Villegas - was Lima's leading theatrical l lady in the 1770s when Peru was a Spanish colony. Her life was fictionalised in a one-act play by Prosper Mérimée and a libretto was fashioned on which Offenbach created his opéra bouffe La Périchole, reflecting the creative mania in Paris at the time for Spanish life and art. La Périchole and Piquillo, her lover and companion in misfortune, are impoverished street...