On the great ongoing timeline of History, it can be difficult to draw precise boundaries between various eras. Historians long ago decreed that the Renaissance began with the Turks’ capture of Constantinople in 1453, a major political event to be sure. But the transition from the Middle Ages ...
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Vocal
Richard Pantcheff: African-Caribbean Elegy, Op. 70
The African-Caribbean Elegy (Opus 70) by Richard Pantcheff is a cycle of three part-songs for mixed choir written in 2009. The words are all by famous West Indian poets, reflecting on the nature of cultural and historical links between West Indian and African peoples. The work was premiered in ...
Komponist: Richard Pantcheff (1959)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Choral
Tigran Chukhajian is highly significant in the history of Armenian music: he was the first composer to combine Western and Eastern cultures, and was referred to as the Armenian Verdi amongst his contemporaries. Persecution under the repressive Ottoman Turkish regime led to his ...
Komponist: Dikran Cuhacıyan (1837-1898)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Instrumental
Janácek’s final decade saw an almost unprecedented creative renewal during which he wrote some of his greatest works. Among them were his chamber music masterpieces, the two String Quartets. The first was inspired by Tolstoy’s novella The Kreutzer Sonata, a torrid tale of adultery ...
Komponist: Leóš Janáček (1854–1928)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
Period ensemble Spiritato’s Delphian debut transports us back to a decisive juncture in the history of English music. The Taste of this Nation is a picture of the rapid arrival and astonishing success of Italian styles, genres and indeed musicians in London in the early 1700s, showing ...
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Vocal
Chopin: Preludes & Impromptus (Live)
The Aevea Piano Prize (APP) is an innovative International Piano & Chamber Music Competition, founded by the Associazione Culturale Aevea and supported by OnClassical, whose purpose is to promote selected participants through relevant performance opportunities and worldwide distribution of their hi-fi recordings. ...
Komponist: Frédéric Chopin (1810-1849)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Instrumental
Saint-Saëns: Music for Wind Ensemble
Camille Saint-Saëns schrieb nur wenige Werke für Bläser, darunter „Orient et Occident“, doch die großen biblischen Themen von „Samson et Dalila“, der patriotische „Marche héroïque“ oder der „Marche royale du Lion“ aus dem „Karneval der Tiere“ eignen sich ideal für eine Bearbeitung. ..
Komponist: Camille Saint-Saëns (1835-1921)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
Eric Craven: Pieces for Pianists, volume one
For most of his life Eric Craven has kept a very low profile, concentrating on his teaching career and quietly developing his ‘non-prescriptive’ composing method, a sort of aleatory style but which allows the performer varying degrees of freedom. His earlier cycle of short pieces, ‘SET’, ...
Komponist: Eric Craven
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Instrumental
Navona Records is proud to release TRANSIT VOICES from composer Carl Vollrath. Featuring a series of works for clarinet, the album grapples with existential questions; who were the humans of prehistory, and what defining qualities do our spirits share in common with theirs? Vollrath imagines these ...
Komponist: Carl Vollrath (1931)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
The clarinet has long been embraced by American composers for its jauntiness and jazzy flexibility (think of that slide opening Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue), qualities heard in abundance on this album. We hear Leonard Bernstein's Cuban-influenced Sonata, and the Sonatina by Budapest-born ...
Komponist: Miklós Rózsa (1907-1995), Leonard Bernstein (1918-1990), Aaron Copland (1900-1990)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
Reynaldo Hahn: Ô mon bel inconnu
Nonchalante Frivolität: Wie wäre es mit einem kleinen Ausflug zurück in die »Années Folles« des Paris der 1930er Jahre? Aber Vorsicht, der Trip ist nichts für moralinsaure Spaßbremsen! Für Reynaldo Hahn kreierte der gefeierte Schauspieler, Dramatiker und Drehbuchautor Sacha Guitry ...
Komponist: Reynaldo Hahn (1875-1947)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Vocal
“I’m riding on a booger in the sneeze of space. That’s my bio,” jokes singer/songwriter Jeremy Ivey. It’s a tongue-in-cheek—albeit oddly fitting—description of the the Nashville-based performer, who has operated in the background for years, initially performing in bands like Secret Handshake ...
Genre: Songwriter
Subgenre: Alternative Folk
The River is WITHERFALL’s fourth studio album and their most eclectic work to date. The new offering of L.A.’s finest dark and progressive melodic metal band was produced by Joseph Michael (vocals, keyboards, also in Sanctuary) and Jake Dreyer (guitar). For the recording and mix, they teamed up with Jim Morris ...
Genre: Rock
Subgenre: Metal
Haydn: Stabat Mater, Symphonies Parisiennes Nos. 84 & 86
Julien Chauvin und sein Orchester Le Concert de la Loge setzen ihren Zyklus der Pariser Sinfonien von Joseph Haydn mit den Nummern 84 und 86 fort. Das auf historischen Instrumenten musizierende Ensemble ergänzt das Programm um das heute wenig bekannte und selten zu hörende Stabat Mater des Wiener ...
Komponist: Franz Joseph Haydn (1732-1809)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
“The Painter” is a song cycle about art, artists, love and life. The title cut is also for the theme song of a motion picture script of the same name, about Vincent van Gogh coming back in 2022 to see his despised work now revered worldwide. ...
Genre: Songwriter
Subgenre: Folk Rock
