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
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
An anthology from Manuel de Falla’s masterpieces, in which he invented modern Spanish music and he revived authentic songs, rhythms and dances out of an Andalusia both legendary and still alive. Tribute to performers, while awaiting for their centenaries, such as Clara Haskil, Igor Markevitch or Ernest Ansermet, who made ...
Komponist: Manuel de Falla (1876-1946)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Vocal
Wilhelm Furtwängler conducts three of Richard Strauss' symphonic poems in Vienna reproduced in the best possible sound, and paired with the first recording in London of the 'Vier Letzte Lieder', under the supervision of Walter Legge [Mr Schwarzkopf]. A homage to Richard Strauss for his 150th anniversary. ...
Komponist: Richard Strauss (1864-1949)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Vocal
Béla Bartók: The Complete String Quartets (Remastered)
Ohne Zweifel gehört die Aufnahme des Végh Quartetts aus dem Jahr 1954 zu den überzeugensten Interpretationen der sechs Quartette Béla Bartóks. Unverständlicherweise war sie aber lange nicht erhältlich, sondern lediglich ein Stereo- »Remake« des Végh Quartetts aus dem Jahr 1972 auf dem französischen Label Astrée. ...
Komponist: Bela Bartok (1881-1945)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy: String Octet, Piano Sextet (Remastered)
A rare coupling of two masterpieces by an adolescent of 14-15. The first was responsible for his eternal fame, along with the incidental music for A Midsummer Night’s Dream; the other, which remained overlooked, was published posthumously and now sounds like a chamber concerto, a preliminary exercise for the illustration of ...
Komponist: Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy (1809-1847)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
Ludwig van Beethoven: The Three String Quartets, Op. 59 (Remastered)
"The Pražàk makes the first chord of Op. 59 No. 3 sound like one of Tchaikovsky’s melancholic musings, then perfectly conveys the music’s spontaneous eruption of joy. In the following Andante, the plucked cello line is perfectly balanced with the other instruments, avoiding the “guitar” effect of the Alban Berg’s performance. ...
Komponist: Ludwig van Beethoven (1770–1827)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
With his ensemble Amazonon and the Gandhaya project, Juliano Abramovay is looking for a synthesis of Brazilian music and Mediterranean tradition. For Amazonon, he has put together a special ensemble with lyra, bass clarinet and percussion. ...
Genre: World Music
Subgenre: Worldbeat
The collaboration between cellist Zoe Knighton and pianist Amir Farid continues with a collection of short works by Clara and Robert Schumann. Clara and Robert Schumann were the most celebrated music couple of the 19th century. ...
Komponist: Robert Schumann (1810-1856), Clara Schumann (1819-1896)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
New Repertoire for Bassoon, Vol. 1: Strange Relationship
This is the first solo album by Gueorgui Chachikov, a Bulgarian bassoonist who is active as the principal bassoonist of the Nagoya Philharmonic Orchestra and as a soloist. The album includes both standard bassoon repertoire as well as exciting contemporary music. It is the first in a series of albums exploring the ...
Komponist: Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach (1714-1788)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
In the score to Ludwig van Beethoven’s Piano Sonata No. 14 (from 1801) there is written “Sonata quasi una fantasia.” I started thinking about that phrase upon listening to Bernt Moen Trio’s The Storm. My association was not to the fact that the popular name of Beethoven’s sonata is the Moonlight Sonata, although references to nature or natural ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Modern Jazz
Joni Mitchell Archives, Vol. 2: The Reprise Years (1968-1971) (Remastered)
Joni Mitchells Meisterwerk “Blue” feierte vor wenigen Tagen seinen 50. Jahrestag. Aus diesem Anlass veröffentlicht Rhino zwei neue Sammlungen, die unterschiedliche Perspektiven auf eines der größten Alben aller Zeiten bieten und einen Einblick in die ungebremste Kreativphase geben, aus der dieses Meisterwerk hervorging. ...
Genre: Pop
Subgenre: Pop Rock
Greatest Hits 2.0 (Remastered)
021 ist es 50 Jahre her, dass War auf den Plan traten und das genaue Gegenteil verkörperten - Frieden, Liebe und eine gute Zeit. Sie haben sich immer als eine Band gesehen, die von der Straße kommt und Straßenmusik macht - das heißt zugängliche, tanzbare Songs, die den Alltag ansprechen. ...
Genre: R&B
Subgenre: Soul
