Monteverdi: Daylight. Stories of Songs, Dances and Loves
Die Italiener faszinieren nicht nur durch den reinen Zusammenklang der Stimmen, ihrer virtuosen, farbenreichen Beweglichkeit, sondern vor allem durch ihren natürlichen und lebendigen Zugang. Sprechende Phrasierungen, ein phantasievoll ausgestaltetes Continuo und ein transparenter Musizierstil mit gewohnter technischer Perfektion nehmen ...
Komponist: Claudio Monteverdi (1567-1643)
Genre: Classic
Subgenre: Chamber Music
In ihrem ersten auch physisch erhältlichen Album bei naïve stellt Valentina Lisitsa zwei große im Jahr 1908 entstandene Werke gegenüber, in deren Interpretation sie sowohl die Tiefe als auch die Virtuosität ihres Spiels unter Beweis stellt: Maurice Ravels »Gaspard de la Nuit« und die Klaviersonate Nr. 1 von Sergej Rachmaninoff. ...
Komponist: Maurice Ravel (1875-1937), Sergej Rachmaninoff (1873-1943)
Genre: Classic
Subgenre: Instrumental
Vivaldi, Cantate per soprano I
This new recording in the Edition Vivaldi series - the first of two volumes dedicated to Vivaldi’s cantate da camera for soprano - displays the energetic vitality with which a new generation of artists in their thirties is encountering the baroque repertoire. ...
Komponist: Antonio Vivaldi (1678–1741)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Vocal
This new showpiece in the Collection Diotima, in which the eponymous quartet devotes itself to monographies of contemporary composers, offers here a triple line-up of some of the foremost composers of their generation: this album is a living image of serious music today, which in this 21st Century has focused on ...
Komponist: Stefano Gervasoni (1962), Gerard Pesson (1958), Enno Poppe (1969)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
Salonen: Cello Concerto & Ravel: Sonata for Violin and Cello
Nicolas Altstaedt presents here his version of Esa-Pekka Salonen’s monumental Cello Concerto, originally composed for Yo-Yo Ma, and given its Finnish premiere by the Franco-German cellist under the composer’s direction. In partnership with the Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra and conductor Dima Slobodeniouk, he reveals its full expressive ...
Komponist: Maurice Ravel (1875-1937), Esa-Pekka Salonen (1958)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Concertos
Meditative Baroque music: Dhrupad is the oldest and purest genre within the North Indian classical music and can trace its origins to the recitation of Sanskrit texts in Hindu temples more than two thousand years ago. Dhrupad reached the Mughal courts in Rajasthan in the 16th century, where it developed into a classical art form. ...
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
2017 kehrten Midnight Oil nach längerer Auszeit mit einem Pub-Gig in Sydneys legendärem Club „Seline“ zurück. Mitten in diesem schweißtreibenden Set wandte sich Sänger Peter Garrett mit den Worten “Rage, rage, against the dying of the light” an sein Publikum. Er zitierte damit Dylan Thomas’ Gedicht ‘Die gute Nacht’, in dem der walisische Poet daran ...
Genre: Rock
Subgenre: Modern Rock
Nach seinem Erfolgsalbum “Raised Under Grey Skies“ aus dem Jahr 2017, auf dem Hits wie “September Song“ oder “Passport Home“ vorhanden waren, hat JP Cooper nun sein zweites Studioalbum “She“ angekündigt. Das neue Album ist inspiriert von Frauen im Leben des britischen Singer-Songwriters und behandelt Themen wie Glaube, ...
Genre: Pop
Subgenre: Pop Rock
White Lies starten mit einem neuen Album ins Musikjahr 2022. »As I Try Not To Fall Apart« heißt der sechste Longplayer der englischen Alternative-Rock- und Post-Punk-Band, der Nachfolger von »Five« aus dem Jahr 2019. Das Album wurde in den Studios Sleeper und Assault & Battery in West London aufgenommen. Der langjährige Mitarbeiter ...
Genre: Rock
Subgenre: Adult Alternative
Verdi: La forza del destino (Live)
Giuseppe Verdi reiste 1862 nach St. Petersburg, um das Werk La forza del destino uraufzuführen, das vom dortigen kaiserlichen Theater in Auftrag gegeben worden war. Die Vorlage sprach den Sinn des Komponisten für tragische Intensität und die Unbarmherzigkeit des Schicksals an. Das lokale Publikum war sowohl an ...
Komponist: Giuseppe Verdi (1813-1901)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Opera
In the 25 years since Bugge Wesseltoft founded Jazzland Recordings, he has engaged in numerous group projects and collaborations such as New Conception of Jazz, duos with the likes of Sidsel Endresen, Henning Kraggerud and Henrik Schwarz, one-off projects such as Trialogue, Bugge and Friends, and OKWorld! ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Nu Jazz
SCHIMMERLING sind Jeansjacke, Philosophie, Schweiß, Choupette und Tiger, Hure und Heiliger Geist, Fleetwood Mac und Talking Heads, Aroma, Liebe, Muse und Springsteen, klug und wahnsinnig. Die Band, in deren Zentrum Shimmoneq als Sänger, Gitarrist und Texter steht, ist Haltung! Sein Gesang suggeriert nämlich mit jedem Ton, den er standesgemäß ...
Genre: Rock
Subgenre: Adult Alternative
”Otilia scoops up a spell of inspiration. Developing alternative playing techniques with my harp I discover mysterious colors and new forms of sounds. I like to use the harp also as a percussion, and by adding kalimba, sandpaper, mom’s silver spoons, my own voice and a looper, I created my one-woman’s orchestra. ...
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Instrumental
Valentina Lisitsa marks her debut on the Naïve label with a release commemorating the 150th anniversary of Russian composer Alexander Scriabin’s birth. The program includes eighteen short pieces spanning his body of work, from his early anthology of 24 preludes – modeled after those of ...
Komponist: Alexander Scriabin (1872-1915)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Instrumental
Aufbruchsstimmung – das oft bemühte Schlagwort steht hier nicht nur im übertragenen Sinne, sondern auch für drei unterschiedliche Lebenssituationen des jungen Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, in denen er seine nicht unbedingt geliebte Heimatstadt Salzburg verließ und anderswo zu neuen Ufern aufbrach. ...
Komponist: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Concertos
Johannes Brahms: String Sextet No. 1, Theme and Variations in D Minor (Remastered)
The string Sextet genre was introduced at the end of the 18th century by Boccherini but did not fully blossom until Brahms and Tchaikovsky, before Schönberg, Reger, Martinu and Richard Strauss. We probably owe the first Brahms Sextet (1859) to the example of Spohr. Nicknamed ‘Frühling-Sextett’ ...
Komponist: Johannes Brahms (1833-1897)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
This recording brings together works that were originally written for one or two pianos, and which ""show how the composer […] in an approach similar to that of Chopin writing his waltzes, polonaises, mazurkas… started with rhythms that were subtly harmonised and, above all, firmly stereotyped, before being to profoundly distort ...
Komponist: George Gershwin (1898-1937)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Classical Crossover
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky: Souvenir de Florence - Antonín Dvořák: String Sextet (Remastered)
The string sextet genre was introduced at the end of the 18th century by Boccherini but did not fully blossom until Brahms, Tchaikovsky, before Schönberg, Reger, Martinu and Richard Strauss. Antonín Dvořák composed his sextet, his only work in that genre, in just two weeks in May 1878. His reputation as a composer was beginning to escalate, ..
Komponist: Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840-1893), Antonin Dvorák (1841-1904)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
Mieczysław Weinberg: Cello Sonatas Nos. 1 & 2, Solo Cello Sonata No. 1 & String Trio (Remastered)
Little known in the West and victim of anti-Semitic ostracism in the former USSR, the name of Mieczysław Weinberg, the third great “Russian” composer of the 20th century, after Prokofiev and Shostakovich, seems to be slowly emerging from the shadow of the latter, his protector and friend. Far from being an epigone, he is rather, by his ...
Komponist: Mieczyslaw Weinberg (1919-1996)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
Antonín Dvorák: Piano Quintets Nos. 1 & 2 (Remastered)
“The Op. 81 Quintet is the more popular of these two A major quintets, but the Op. 5, written in 1872, has much to recommend it as well. Like its later sibling, there’s an immediately gripping melody sung by the cello and a piano part (in the first two movements) that’s full of Schubertian grace, idiomatically played here by Ivan ...
Komponist: Antonín Dvorák (1841-1904)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
