1813 stellte für den 21-jährigen Gioacchino Rossini ein ausgesprochen fruchtbares und erfolgreiches Jahr dar, in dem gleich vier Meisterwerke uraufgeführt wurden: Tancredi, Il Signor Bruschino, L'Italiana in Algeri und Aureliano in Palmira. Letztere gehört nicht nur innerhalb dieser ...
Komponist: Gioacchino Antonio Rossini (1792-1868)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Opera
Habits of the Soul: If one assumes rhetoric (i.e., persuasion) as the foundation of the Baroque musical edifice, irrespective of country—and in particular of the secular music this recording documents—one might then place atop it the columns and arches of dance and song-based instrumental fantasy, onto which ...
Komponist: Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750), Henry Purcell (1659-1695), Georg Philipp Telemann (1681-1767), Antonio Vivaldi (1678-1741)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
Hundsnes: Clavinatas Nos. 1-7, Piano Sonata No. 1 & Downtoned Beats
Svein Hundsnes is one of Norway’s most important living composers. He has written a wide-ranging body of music encompassing several vivid styles, moving seamlessly from tonal and non-tonal music to include jazz, rock and even funk. Hundsnes’ sequence of Clavinatas – one-movement free-standing ...
Komponist: Svein Hundsnes (1951)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Instrumental
In einer überaus üppigen Besetzung hat das Boston Early Music Festval Georg Friedrich Händels allererste Opernkomposition „Almira, Königin von Castilien“ aufgenommen. Für frühere barocke Opern-Einspielungen erhielt das erfolgreiche Ensemble bereits etliche Preise wie den GRAMMY, den ...
Komponist: George Frideric Handel (1685-1759)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Vocal
Caviar and Chitlins (Remastered)
Formed in Queens, NY in the early 1960s, The Exciters were a dynamic R&B; quartet consisting of lead singer Brenda Reid and her producer/writer husband Herb Rooney, plus vocalists Carolyn Johnson and Lillian Walker. The group rose to prominence in 1962, when their hit single ‘Tell Him’ rose to #4 on the U.S. pop chart. ...
Genre: R&B
Subgenre: Soul
Pasquini: Sonate per Gravecembalo
This exciting release presents recently discovered works from the baroque composer Bernardo Pasquini. Brought to you by early music specialist Roberto Lorregian (Albinoni: 12 Cantatas for Soprano and Contralto Op.4, BC95600), the works in this set come from the Landsberg 215 manuscript, written ...
Komponist: Bernardo Pasquini (1637-1710)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
For many professional musicians, often a moment in time or an influential person that sets the path for one to take a leap into the long desire and urge to take their craft as serious as need to be to become that musician they so desire. For Croatian pianist Matija Dedic, that moment, that person was his father ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Contemporary Jazz
How do we become who we are? Those who go before us, what do they pass on to us? Do we inherit something? What does a role model, an early source of inspiration, mean? In the title track on her new album Queen on the Hillside, dedicated to her grandmothers and to those ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Vocal
Pop-Queen meldet sich zurück mit dem „Herz Kraft Werke - Live" Album. Sarah Connor veröffentlichte am 31. Mai 2019 ihr neues Album „Herz Kraft Werke“! Vier Jahre nach dem fünffach Platin ausgezeichneten Erfolgswerk „Muttersprache“ meldete sich die Pop-Queen mit „Vincent“, ...
Genre: Pop
Subgenre: Pop Rock
Joplin, Hayden & Others: Piano Works
It is difficult not to be won over by the rhythm and unmistakable thematic creativity of Scott Joplin's compositions. Born in 1867 or ’68 (the exact date is not known), and gifted with a natural talent, Joplin began to play as a self-taught pianist in the wealthy homes at which his ...
Komponist: Scott Joplin, Joseph Haydn
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Instrumental
Powerful Vintage-Sound – völlig unverfälscht: Krokus erfüllen sich 2017 einen Traum. Mit »Big Rocks« haben sie ihr persönliches Lieblingsliederalbum aufgenommen – eine Hommage an einige der Künstler und Songs, die die Schweizer Hardrockpioniere in ihrer über 40-jährigen Karriere begleitet und beeinflusst ...
Genre: Rock
Subgenre: Hard Rock
“I’m grateful for the abundance of good that there is in the world and I feel privileged to experience it every day.” These words, from the liner notes of Ernesto Cervini’s new Turboprop album, Abundance, describe the feeling and purpose behind the Canadian drummer’s new release. ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Contemporary Jazz
Innovative and electrifying, Toronto jazz drummer Ernesto Cervini has energy to burn, whether radiating it from behind his kit or working on any number of musical and educational projects. Turboprop features Cervini’s regular quartet with Joel Frahm on Tenor Saxophone, Adrean Farrugia on Piano, Dan Loomis on ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Contemporary Jazz
Howells: Hymnus Paradisi (Remastered)
With The Bach Choir, Sir David Willcocks gave the first performances in Italy of Benjamin Britten's War Requiem at Perugia, Milan, La Scala and Venice in 1963 and later introduced the work in Japan, Hong Kong, Portugal and the Netherlands. From 1974 to 1984 he was Director of the Royal College of Music in ...
Komponist: Herbert Howells (1892-1983)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Vocal
World Premiere recordings of British music for String Orchestra performed at the Royal Palaces. We are very pleased to announce a new recording from MPR of music for string orchestra entitled 'Palace Premieres', with the Countess of Wessex's String Orchestra. ...
Komponist: Peter Thorne, Thomas Dunhill, Alicia Scott, Roger Quilter, Allan Macbeth, Alec Rowley (1892–1958), Peter Wilson, Frederic Curzon, Bertram Walton O'Donnell, William Henry Speer, Ernest Markham Lee, Giles Farnaby
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Orchestral
Rossi: La lyra d'Orfeo & Arpa Davidica
The latest album from Christina Pluhar and her instrumental ensemble L’Arpeggiata sheds new light on the chamber cantatas of 17th century Italian composer, Luigi Rossi. He wrote more than 300 of these works and Christina Pluhar’s new double album includes an impressive number of 21 world premiere ...
Komponist: Giovanni Felice Sances (1600-1679), Luigi Rossi (1597-1653), Marco Marazzoli (1605-1662)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Vocal
Believers Never Die (Volume Two)
Fall Out Boy veröffentlichen am Freitag ihr Best-Of Album “Greatest Hits: Believers Never Die – Volume Two”. Teil 2 hat etwas auf sich warten lassen und folgt dem bereits 10 Jahre zuvor herausgegebenen ersten Greatest Hits Album “Greatest Hits: Believers Never Die”. Das neue Album ...
Genre: Rock
Subgenre: Adult Alternative
Michael Auger, Jamie Lambert, Matthew Pagan and Thomas J Redgave - are the world’s most successful musical theatre group. Having met for their first rehearsal in a pub at London Bridge in 2014, they auditioned for Britain’s Got Talent a month later and received a full ...
Genre: Pop
Subgenre: Pop Rock
With American romantic thriller film directed by Melina Matsoukas, Queen & Slim which features Queen & Slim stars Daniel Kaluuya and Jodie Turner-Smith as a black couple on their first date forced to go on the run after killing an Ohio police officer in self-defense will hit the screens ...
Genre: Soundtrack
Subgenre: Film
Peter White’s journey began as a member of Al Stewart’s band as a keyboardist. In addition to opening for artists like Linda Ronstadt, Billy Joel and Queen, White worked with Stewart in the studio in the making of Year of the Cat, which became a huge hit for Stewart in 1976. The tour and the album marked the beginning of a twenty-year ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Smooth Jazz
