The new album by Luca Mannutza, "The Uneven Shorter", a tribute to one of the most beloved artists of jazz, Wayne Shorter, will be released on November 19. It will be released by Birdbox Records, the new record label that has already distinguished itself for its particular dynamism in the long and difficult months of the pandemic, succeeding with the Jazz Just Like This ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Contemporary Jazz
James Jordan writes: “I think when life challenges us, our common human tendency is to look toward the stars for wisdom and answers, for the abundances and peace that sometimes one’s focus toward the heavens brings to us. Looking toward the stars and the heavens often clears ...
Genre: Vocal
Subgenre: Choral
Orchestra of the Swan’s last album Timelapse was recorded in January 2020 on the cusp of the Covid-19 pandemic and subsequent lockdowns; Labyrinths, by contrast, was conceived and recorded at a moment when we could finally see some light at the end of the tunnel. ...
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Orchestral
GRAMMY®-nominated conductor and composer Benedict Sheehan leads The Saint Tikhon Choir in his new setting of Eastern Orthodox Vespers in English. Inspired by the great All-Night Vigil setting by Rachmaninoff, Sheehan’s composition expands the genre with full settings of Psalms. Each verse is treated ...
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Choral
So funktioniert musikalische Frustbewältigung a la Corona! ›Sense and Sensibility‹ - das vierte Album von Lisa Wulff - unterscheidet sich deutlich den drei Vorgängern. Zum Beispiel, weil Wulff darauf nicht nur als virtuose Bassistin und charismatische Bandleaderin in Erscheinung tritt, ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Vocal
David Stern and Opera Fuoco have recorded Giovanni Simone Mayr’s L’amor conjugale in April 2021. This is the first recording of the full critical version of Mayr’s one act opera. The story of Leonora, taken from the French novel by Jean-Nicolas Bouilly, is familiar to us through Beethoven's only opera. A daring wife disguises herself in order to be hired ...
Komponist: Giovanni Simone Mayr
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Opera
"Tempest Revisited" ist Mollestads dritte Veröffentlichung innerhalb von 18 Monaten, die als Nachfolger ihres gefeierten Solodebüts Ekhidna aus dem Jahr 2020 fungiert, für das sie einen Spellemannpris (norwegischer Grammy) gewann. Außerdem veröffentlichte sie "Ding Dong. You're Dead" mit dem Hedvig Mollestad Trio Anfang des Jahres. ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Fusion
Buzz Brass erweckt Träume mit diesem neuen Werk, Christmas. Das Quintett entführt den Zuhörer mit seinen majestätischen, eleganten und raffinierten Arrangements aus dem Gewohnten, um die Weihnachtszeit zu unterstreichen. Das Männergesangsquartett Quartom tritt als Gastkünstler in Noël canadien und The 12 days of Christmas auf. ...
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Vocal
"Marvin Gaye has been my favorite artist as his 70s LPs are unmatched as singular bodies of work," says ReMi. "It was an honor to be able to look at the What's Going On LP and to be able to create a remix suite to sit next to it. This is a dream come true. LoveLiveMPG." ...
Genre: R&B
Subgenre: Soul
Prokofiev Piano Sonatas (Vol. I)
For his latest ATMA Classique recording project, pianist David Jalbert tackles the complete cycle of Prokofiev's piano sonata; this ambitious undertaking will be released in three separate volumes starting in September 2021. The first volume features four piano sonatas from Prokofiev's Russian period, which ...
Komponist: Sergei Prokofiev (1891–1953)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Instrumental
"The variety of material that he performs, and his versatility gives Jones' playing a singularly engaging character." (L.A. Times) ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Contemporary Jazz
New Man, New Songs, Same Shit, Vol.2
"Behemoth-Mastermind Adam ""Nergal"" Darski hat erneut einen düsteren Pakt mit dem Teufel geschlossen und kehrt mit dem dritten Studioalbum, New Man, New Songs, Same Shit, Vol.2, des Dark Folk/Blues/Americana inspirierten Soloprojekts ME AND THAT MAN zurück. ...
Genre: Rock
Subgenre: Blues Rock
Crisis & Opportunity, Vol. 2 - Peaks
Hot on the heels of the first instalment of his much-lauded ‘Crisis & Opportunity’ record series, world-renowned drummer/composer, & producer/beatmaker, Myele Manzanza, now readies Volume 2 for release, giving an insight into his new material with brand new single ‘Quinnies For The Boys’. ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Nu Jazz
Puccini: Madama Butterfly, SC 74
After having recorded La Fanciulla del West, conductor Lawrence Foster now expands his Puccini discography on PENTATONE with Madama Butterfly, together with the Coro & Orquestra Gulbenkian, as well as Elisabeth Kulman (Suzuki), Stefano Secco (Pinkerton), Lester Lynch (Sharpless) and Melody Moore (Cio-Cio-San) in the title role. ...
Komponist: Giacomo Puccini (1858-1924)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Opera
Another Day sees Liebing once again collaborating with an eclectic mix of artists, including several who were involved with Burn Slow. Miles Cooper Seaton, in one of his last performances following his sad and untimely passing earlier this year, and Polly Scattergood lend vocals to a track each, while Ralf Hildenbeutel returns to produce. ...
Genre: Electronic
Subgenre: Electronica
Everything is alright now. Alex Brown Church — the man behind the dark folk, indie rock band Sea Wolf — wants you to know that from the start. Really. Sea Wolf’s eagerly anticipated fifth album and proves it in 11 textured, sometimes-acoustic, sometimes-electronic, ...
Genre: Rock
Subgenre: Adult Alternative
Das lang erwartete neue Album von Converge geht neue Wege. Die Musiker kamen Ende 2019 in Ballous God City Studios in Salem, Massachusetts, um an Material zu arbeiten. Für 2020 waren zukünftige Sessions geplant, aber dann schlug die Pandemie ein. Der Rest von Bloodmoon I wurde aus der Ferne aufgenommen, ...
Genre: Rock
Subgenre: Metal
All This Is is the keenly-awaited debut album from Kaya Usher – some thirty years in the making. Kaya Usher is finally seeing her late husband Gord Downie's long-held dream come into fruition with All This Is — her debut album with the Family Band, which is set to arrive on November 17 via Arts & Crafts. Today, she's shared the first single entitled "Heart Clicks." ...
Genre: New Age
Subgenre:
In Moscow, Markevitch accompanies Galina Vishnevskaya at her peak, then makes sacred the Symphony of Psalms of a Stravinsky nevertheless banished for 'cosmopolitism'. This, after having obtained from the Berlin Philharmonic painting as rich as Ravel's forthright clarity in the famous Pictures at an Exhibition, the non-operatic ...
Komponist: Modest Mussorgsky (1839-1881), Igor Stravinsky (1882–1971)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Vocal
Antonín Dvorák: String Quartet No. 11 & Cypresses Quartet (Remastered)
Whether he was writing in imitation of Beethoven, Schubert, Wagner, and Brahms, Dvorák always winds up sounding like himself. In the String Quartet in C major, with its enormous structures and rigorous developments, Dvorák is at his most Beethovenian. Inevitably, however, the turn of the melodies, the progress of the harmonies, ...
Komponist: Antonín Dvorák (1841-1904)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
