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Chastity Suffer Summer

Deathwish Inc. Pop/Rock The LP caps off an album trilogy that showcases Williams’s emotional range as a lyricist but also his boundless love of outsider music. It’s an album that shows how healing and staying content is hard but necessary work. Available January 14 14737836 $15.99

Billy Talent Crisis of Faith

Spinefarm Pop/Rock Juno Awardwinning rockers Billy Talent’s new album features ten tracks produced entirely by the band’s guitarist, main songwriter, and Juno-nominated producer Ian D’Sa. Available January 21 14738931 $18.99

C.P.E Bach Sonatas & Rondos Marc-Andre Hamelin

Hyperion Classical The music of C.P.E Bach makes complex stylistic demands of the performer like little else of its time. Marc-André Hamelin’s performances set new standards in this endlessly absorbing repertoire. Available January 7 14701002 $38.99

Johnny Reid Love Someone

Universal Music Canada Country Johnny Reid returns with his first new album in four years. It includes the tracks Hey Delilah; Have a Little Faith in Me; I Owe It All to You; and Love Someone. 14737818 $20.99

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No Bad DaysBlue Rodeo Many a Mile

Warner Music Canada Pop/Rock 14742469 $20.99 Almost 35 years have passed since Blue Rodeo came onto the scene with the release of their debut album, Outskirts. The group shows no signs of slowing down as they release their fifteenth studio album.

Ride the Cyclone The Musical Original Cast Recording Various Artists

Ghostlight Records Soundtracks A wildly original new musical, part comedy, part tragedy, and wholly unexpected. Originally developed and created with Victoria BC’s Atomic Vaudeville, it toured across Canada. 14733674 $32.99

Colin James Open Road

Stony Plain Music Blues For his new album, Colin James managed to set up three full band sessions in Vancouver for recording, and the rest was done remotely through pandemic lockdowns using studios on both sides of the Atlantic. 14596215 $24.99 Sue Foley Pinky’s Blues

Stony Plain Blues A raw, guitardriven romp through the backroads of Texas, with Foley’s Telecaster ‘Pinky’ at the wheel. 14458323 $22.99

Old Friends New Friends Nils Frahm

BMG Rights Management GmbH 2 Discs 14661471 $19.99 Nils Frahm continues to explore the space between classical and electronic music with an unconventional approach to the piano. Tennstedt Conducts Strauss Featuring Jessye Norman

Jessye Norman

LPO Guest Artists: London Philharmonic Orchestra Soprano Jessye Norman is the star at the heart of this live performance from the London Philharmonic Orchestra archives, recorded in 1986 under the baton of Principal Conductor Klaus Tennstedt. 14651732 $16.99

Solo

Yiruma

Decca The second part of the year-long project to celebrate the 20th anniversary of Yiruma’s music career. This release contains simple piano solo arrangements that have always been loved by his fans. 14431226 $18.99 Haydn The Creation Le Concert des Nations

Alia Vox Jordi Savall leads La Capella Reial de Catalunya and Le Concert des Nation in Haydn’s The Creation. The composer confessed that while composing he had ‘felt an extraordinary religious fervor.’ 14651577 $45.99

Underwater

Ludovico Einaudi

DECCA Featuring twelve beautiful and intimate piano tracks featuring his trademark melodies, the album was written while Ludovico Einaudi was isolated at his home in Italy. Available January 21 14633804 $24.99

Telemann Viola Concertos Overtures & Fantasias Antoine Tamestit

Harmonia Mundi Guest Artists: Sabine Fehlandt, Akademie Fur Alte Musik Berlin Alongside Sabine Fehlandt and the musicians of the Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin, Antoine Tamestit pays splendid tribute to this pioneering music, which blends melodic charm and contrapuntal rigor into an organic whole. Available January 7 14701005 $25.99

Horn and Piano A Cor Basse Recital Teunis van der Zwart

Harmonia Mundi Guest Artist: Alexander Melnikov Teunis van der Zwart and Alexander Melnikov have chosen to pay tribute to Giovanni Punto, now unknown to most music lovers. This provides an opportunity to discover the unique sound of this instrument in four emblematic works. Available January 7 14701006 $25.99 Bach & Hanson

Cameron Carpenter

Decca Gold Cameron Carpenter releases a recording of J.S. Bach’s The Goldberg Variations juxtaposed with his own transcription of American composer Howard Hanson’s Symphony No. 2 in D-flat Major, Opus 30, W45, ‘Romantic.’ Available January 7 14541277 $18.99 Amata Dalle Tenebre

Anna Netrebko

Deutsche Grammophon Guest Artists: Orchestra del Teatro Alla Scala Anna Netrebko’s new album is based on four arias from her latest recordings. It explores Anna’s performative practices to embody different heroines and their stories. 14587776 $18.99

The Florentine Renaissance

The Orlando Consort

Hyperion A celebration from the Orlando Consort of the musical and literary worlds of Florence’s golden age under the Medici, in a selection of works which includes a number of first recordings. Available January 7 14701003 $25.99 C.P.E. Bach Sonatas & Rondos Marc-Andre Hamelin

Hyperion The music of C.P.E. Bach makes complex stylistic demands of the performer like little else of its time, the extraordinary drama and intensity tempered by Enlightenment elegance and the influence of the Baroque. Available January 7 14701002 $38.99