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Great Marches & Waltzes – The London Promenade Orchestra CD

The London Promenade Orchestra, Eric Hammerstein, Conductor; The National Honor Band, Edwin Philip Pryor, Conductor

Featuring 20 orchestral marches and waltzes performed by two ensembles: The London Promenade Orchestra under conductor Eric Hammerstein, and The National Honor Band under conductor Edwin Philip Pryor.

The program spans three centuries of orchestral pageantry and ballroom elegance — from Sousa's brisk parade classics and Strauss-era Viennese waltzes to operatic favorites from Carmen, The Merry Widow, and The King and I, closing with Elgar's stately Pomp and Circumstance March No. 1.

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Les Brown & His Band of Renown – Sentimental Journey CD

Sentimental Journey with Les Brown featuring 16 tracks drawn from Les Brown and His Band of Renown recordings, including classic performances with vocalists Doris Day, June Christy, and Jo Ann Greer. 

Les Brown (1912–2001) led one of the most disciplined and commercially successful big bands of the twentieth century. This compilation draws on recordings spanning Brown's career, including tracks licensed from Hindsight Records, presenting the band's instrumental showpieces alongside vocal features for three of the era's finest singers.

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Moonlight Classics – Romantic Piano & Orchestra

From The World's Most Beautiful Melodies series by Readers Digest

This collection showcases romantic piano and orchestral favorites, featuring renowned pianists Robert Docker, Christian Steiner, Earl Wild, Douglas Gamley, Michael Reeves, Eileen Joyce, Raymond Lewenthal, and Richard Alden performing timeless melodies by Williams, Debussy, Rachmaninoff, Rubinstein, Mozart, Schumann, Grieg, Beethoven, Brahms, Chopin, Rossini, Fauré, Addinsell, and Gershwin.

The album's focus on romantic piano concertos and orchestral showpieces makes it an ideal introduction to classical music's most accessible and emotionally evocative works.

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Guitar by the Sea – Acoustic Guitar with Ocean Sounds CD

Produced by Steve Gruskin – Guitar: John Foley

Guitar by the Sea is part of the Majestic Moods series, released in 1995 by Sunshine Mountain Productions. Produced by Steve Gruskin and featuring guitarist John Foley, this album combines peaceful acoustic guitar melodies with the relaxing sounds of the ocean, creating an immersive soundscape that transports listeners to coastal tranquility. Manufactured in the U.S.A. at 55 Crystal Avenue, Suite 248, Derry, NH 03038, this album exemplifies the mid-1990s trend of blending instrumental music with nature sounds for relaxation and stress relief.

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Josh Groban – Stages & Noël Special Holiday Double Pack 2-CD Set

Two Complete Albums – 28 Tracks Including Broadway Classics & Holiday Favorites

Stages features 15 tracks drawn from productions including The Phantom of the Opera, Les Misérables, Into the Woods, Carousel, Sweeney Todd, The Wizard of Oz, Chess, Finian's Rainbow, and more. The album features notable guest duets with Kelly Clarkson, Chris Botti, and Audra McDonald.

This Special Holiday Double Pack bundles Stages with Groban's beloved 2007 holiday album Noël, which features 13 Christmas classics and became one of the best-selling Christmas albums of the 2000s, reaching #1 on the Billboard 200 and eventually selling over 8 million copies in the United States alone.

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Ludwig van Beethoven – Symphony No. 9 "Choral" CD

Dresden Symphonic Orchestra and Choir – Herbert Berger, Conductor

Symphony No. 9 in D minor, Op. 125, commonly known as the "Choral" Symphony, is Ludwig van Beethoven's final complete symphony, composed between 1822 and 1824. This groundbreaking work made history as the first major symphony to incorporate vocal soloists and a chorus in the final movement, setting Friedrich Schiller's "Ode to Joy" to music. The Dresden Symphonic Orchestra and Choir, under the direction of conductor Herbert Berger, perform this monumental work in a DDD digital recording.