Edward Elgar: Partsongs - From the Bavarian Highlands
Repräsentative Auswahl der Chorlieder (Partsongs) des britischen Komponisten Edward Elgar. Der Zyklus 'From the Bavarian Highlands' op. 27, der oberbayerische Gesänge und Tänze verwendet, erklingt in seiner Erstfassung von 1895 mit Klavierbegleitung. ...
Komponist: Edward Elgar (1857-1934)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Choral
Young Composers Scheme, Vol. 2
Royal Holloway composer, Nathan James Dearden, is featured in the latest album released by NMC Recordings digital label as part of his residency with the National Youth Choirs of Great Britain. ...
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Vocal
The wedding in 1568 of Renate of Lorraine to Wilhelm V, heir to the throne of the Duke of Bavaria, was a sumptuous, 18-day spectacular designed to rival those of the Italian courts. Orlande de Lassus had been the court’s maestro di cappella since 1556. ...
Komponist: Orlando di Lasso (Lassus) (1532-1594)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre:
Schubert’s Arpeggione Sonata has today become part of the cello repertoire but it was originally written for the arpeggione, a form of bowed guitar invented by the Viennese maker Johann Georg Staufer in 1823. With a unique ethereal sound, this instrument ...
Komponist: Franz Schubert (1797-1828)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
The dark melodic heavy metal juggernaut from Los Angeles are blazing new trails and weaving new tales on spectacular new album, Curse of Autumn. Although two years separate WITHERFALL's third opus from their celebrated A Prelude to Sorrow album, it feels like a long time. ...
Genre: Rock
Subgenre: Metal
Yuu: Gentleness and Melancholy
»Music for a while – shall all your cares beguile«. In dieser berühmten Melodie beschwört Purcell die Kraft der Musik herauf, um – für einen Moment – unseren Schmerz und unser Leiden zu lindern. Aber wollen wir diese Linderung wirklich? ...
Komponist: Tobias Hume, Jean de Sainte-Colombe, Antoine Forqueray, Marin Marais, Karl Friedrich Abel, Georg Philipp Telemann
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
Miles Donahue’s latest album, coming on the heels of The Bug (Whaling City Sound, 2017), Just Passing Thru is large in scope and beautiful in execution. The absurdly talented player, vibrant on both tenor and soprano saxes, trumpet, and keyboard, shows just how broad ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Contemporary Jazz
Carlo Domeniconi: Works for Mandolin & Guitar
Carlo Domeniconi is a master of guitar composition. His fusion of Western and Eastern elements is a distinctive feature of his writing, and this album presents a body of work for the unusual combination of mandolin and guitar. The large-scale Durandarte charts a medieval knights ...
Komponist: Carlo Domeniconi (1947)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Instrumental
Spendiarov: Complete Piano Works & Chamber Works with Piano
Alexander Spendiarov was a student of Rimsky-Korsakov and a close friend of Glazunov who wrote that he was a musician with an impeccable, widely versatile technique. Spendiarovs music combines Russian and Armenian elements and is saturated in folkloric influence and he vitally ...
Komponist: Alexander Spendiarov (1871–1928)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
Bach's cantatas form an inexhaustibly rich corpus of the highest musical inspiration, embracing all the compositional tendencies of his time and thus of his own music. The two masterpieces coupled here invite us to measure his evolution over a decade. ...
Komponist: Johann Sebastian Bach (1685–1750)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre:
The silver age of Russian culture at the turn of the 20th century is a time when the tendencies in Russian art, which had been growing for a century, reached their peak, placing it in a gap between its fascination with the Western culture and being rooted in the Slavic ...
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Instrumental
Alrich, Jenkins & Rorem: Mallet Concertos
This compilation of concertos for mallet instruments features triple GRAMMY Award-winning percussion virtuoso Dame Evelyn Glennie and City Chamber Orchestra of Hong Kong. Alexis Alrich’s Marimba Concerto, a rich amalgam of bold rhythms and exuberance, also explores ...
Komponist: Ned Rorem (1923), Karl Jenkins (1944), Alexis Alrich (1955)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
John Adams: My Father Knew Charles Ives & Harmonielehre
John Adams (1947): My Father Knew Charles Ives / Harmonielehre (Nashville Symphony, Guerrero) Pulitzer and Erasmus Prize-winning composer John Adams occupies a unique position in the world of American music. His works stand out among contemporary classical compositions for their depth ...
Komponist: John Adams (1947)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Orchestral
Beethoven: Piano Sonata No. 29 in B-Flat Major, Op. 106 "Hammerklavier"
This organ is one that is little known in France. Built by Puget this thrilling instrument produces a magnificent sound in its ample acoustics with stunning performances of works by Guilmant, Franck and Vierne. ....
Komponist: Ludwig van Beethoven (1770–1827)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Instrumental
“As a teenage member of Powell Peralta’s legendary Bones Brigade, San Francisco’s Tommy Guerrero had a massive part in defining street skating as we know it… pioneer[ing] fast, smooth stylish skateboarding... While all this was happening, Tommy was playing guitar ...
Genre: Alternative
Subgenre: Indie Rock
Synchronic (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
When New Orleans paramedics and longtime best friends Steve (Anthony Mackie) and Dennis (Jamie Dornan) are called to a series of bizarre, gruesome accidents, they chalk it up to the mysterious new party drug found at the scene. But after Dennis’s oldest daughter suddenly ...
Genre: Soundtracks
Subgenre: Film
