Juno-winning saxophonist Chet Doxas is a guiding voice in the world of creative improvised music. Doxas, co-leader of Riverside with trumpeter Dave Douglas and a respected collaborator of Carla Bley and Paul Bley, joins Whirlwind for ‘You Can’t Take It With You’, his ninth album as a leader and first at the head of a trio. ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Contemporary Jazz
CHROME, das neueste Projekt des Amadeus Preisträgers Ulrich Drechsler vereint Ideen aus Neoklassizismus und Filmmusik. Ein neuer Klang, der aus absoluter Stille entsteht, sich in feinen Linien und Rhythmen allmählich zu einem anmutigen Ganzen zusammensetzt, in dem jeder einzelne Ton von grundlegender Bedeutung ist. ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Crossover Jazz
One of the top emerging artists across all genres of music, Billy Strings has made his most ambitious album to date with Renewal, a 16-song collection that effortlessly positions him as a singular talent—one who reveres the history of the acoustic music that inspired him, while pushing it forward into new spaces and audiences through his ...
Genre: Country
Subgenre: Bluegrass
Shades of Ray: The Songs of Ray Charles
Ray Charles’ long-lost duet “Curiosity” with jazz singer Steve Tyrell has been released over 30 years after the track was recorded. The song features on Tyrell’s new covers album Shades of Ray. “Ray Charles sits on a permanent pedestal in my life. He’s been there since I was in high school, singing in a band with my buddies, trying to sound just a fraction as soulful ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Vocal
A Russian rural scenery narrated by a bard, characters present in traditional Hungarian songs, folk tunes from Bucovina whose enigmatic titles and melodic evanescence nevertheless leave a lasting impression - this summarizes the musical journey on which Lukas Geniušas takes us. ...
Komponist: Béla Bartók (1881-1945), Leonid Desyatnikov (1955), Peter Tchaikovsky (1840-1893)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Instrumental
Vielen erscheint Istanbul als ein von Mythen und Traditionen umrankter Sehnsuchtsort, andere betrachten es als Symbol für wirtschaftlichen Fortschritt. Seit den Gezi Park-Protesten 2013 sieht Westeuropa in der pittoresken Metropole am Bosporus mehr als die Hagia Sofia und andere Kulturdenkmäler. ...
Genre: Guitar
Subgenre: Jazz
Besondere Raritäten sind auch hier die Spezialität von Reinhard Goebel. Das Violinkonzert KV 268, bisher nur eingespielt von Yehudi Menuhin und Mayumi Fujikawa, stammt wohl in der Hauptsache von Johann Friedrich Eck. Und die Bearbeitung der Gran Partita vom Münchner Hofkomponisten Franz Gleißner ist gar eine Weltersteinspielung. ...
Komponist: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Concertos
Bartók: Hungarian Folksongs from Csík & Romanian Folk Dances (Arr. Székely for Clarinet and Piano)
Our beautiful Bartók physical boxset is out on September 17th! Among the numerous recordings by specialist Dezső Ránki, it includes pieces performed along with clarinetist Kálmán Berkes, the most praised player in Hungary, soloist of the most prestigious local orchestras. This short album contains two set of pieces, originally for ...
Komponist: Béla Bartók (1881–1945)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
Endlich ist es soweit – eine der vielversprechendsten britischen Indie-Rock Bands unsere Zeit. The Lathums sind so englisch, wie Harry Potter und Monty Python. Und mit ihrem verschmitzen britischen Humor scheinen sie in der Heimat perfekt den Nerv der Zeit zu treffen. Der Hype ist auf jeden Fall bis hier zu spüren und wäre bestimmt noch ...
Genre: Rock
Subgenre: Adult Alternative
Following the model of Josef Suk and Julius Katchen, whose recording they regard as the benchmark, Amaury Coeytaux and Geoffroy Couteau offer a version of these masterpieces notable for its plenitude of sonority, at once intense and reserved in its expression. ...
Komponist: Johannes Brahms (1833-1897)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Instrumental
On their 3rd full-length album, The Beautiful Liar, the multi-platinum-selling alt-rock band X Ambassadors pay homage to beloved fictions of their childhood, sharing songs that tell the tale of a blind teenage girl discovering her long-dormant superpowers. It's the latest and most ambitious outcome of the band's hyper- ...
Genre: Rock
Subgenre: Adult Alternative
Adriatic Voyage: Seventeenth-Century Music from Venice to Dalmatia
In March 1575, a party led by the Venetian diplomat Giacomo Soranzo set out on a mission to Constantinople. They sailed down the Istrian coast, along the length of present-day Croatia, and on to the Bay of Kotor. Much of the land they passed was the territory of the Serenissima – inhabited by both ...
Komponist: Francesco Usper (1561-1641), Paolo Puliti, Vinko Jelic (1596-1636), Julije Skjavetić (1530-1565), Bartolomeo Sorte (1555-1620), Ivan Lukacic (1587-1648), Tomaso Cecchino (1583-1644)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Vocal
Joey DeFrancesco has released a lot of music over the last three decades. This year, he’ll release his 39th studio album as a leader — which is simply titled More Music. The prolific multi-instrumentalist and composer — who celebrated his 50th birthday this year — returns to Mack Avenue for his third album with the record label. ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Hard Bop
HYBRID/C is a musical and cultural fusion project with a common point that is Afro-Cuban music and jazz. Jazz serves as a vehicle on this journey to the roots of Cuban music and Afro- Cuban culture from a modern musical perspective. Born in Spain to a Cuban father and French mother, Carlos Cippelletti’s compositions reflect his ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Contemporary Jazz
Remember My Name is the new album from Mickey Guyton on Capitol Nashville Records. Mickey co-wrote 15 of the 16 songs on the album. It follows her critically acclaimed Bridges EP which included, "Black Like Me" for which she received a historic GRAMMY nomination. Her performance on the GRAMMYS was the first by a black female country ...
Genre: Country
Subgenre: Country Pop
Die Geigerin Lea Birringer hat für ihr erstes Soloalbum drei Partiten für ihr Instrument ausgewählt. Beginnend mit Johann Sebastian Bachs großer Partita Nr. 3, E-Dur und endend mit Lera Auerbachs 2007 entstandenem Beispiel par. ti. ta. Die Partita von Lothar von Knorr aus dem Jahr 1946 dürfte für die meisten Hörer eine Entdeckung ...
Komponist: Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750), Max Reger (1873-1916), Eugene Ysaye (1858-1931), Lera Auerbach (1973), Ernst-Lothar Knorr (1896-1973)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Instrumental
Strauss, Françaix, Poulenc : Woodwind Chamber Music
After a critically acclaimed first album, the Ouranos Ensemble returns to the recording studio with pianist Guillaume Vincent. This mischievous album brings together masterpieces by Strauss, Poulenc and Françaix, and reveals the virtuosity of wind instruments through a thousand musical antics. ...
Komponist: Richard Strauss (1864–1949), Francis Poulenc (1899-1963), Jean Françaix (1912-1997)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
Resonance Lines, a term borrowed loosely from physics, refers to the energy emitted or absorbed by an atom as it transitions between different energy states. This is a unique and innate quality for each type of atom that can only be measured and observed under the right enabling circumstances. ...
Komponist: Thomas Kotcheff, Benjamin Britten (1913-1976), Caroline Shaw (1982), Kaija Saariaho (1952), Giuseppe Colombi (1635-1694)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
Ravel: Ma mère l'oye, M. 60 - Bartók: 44 Duos for 2 Violins, Sz. 98 (Arr. for Guitar Duo)
New York-based guitarists Jack Petruzzelli and Cameron Greider have played with a Who’s Who of rock and pop artists from Patti Smith and Chris Cornell to Joan Baez and Rufus Wainwright. As High Low Duo, they take the twangy electric guitar sounds of the fifties and sixties to some unexpected ...
Komponist: Maurice Ravel (1875-1937), Béla Bartók (1881-1945)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre:
Brahms: Piano Concerto No. 1 - Transcription for Piano Left Hand of Bach's Chaconne
Within the framework of his complete Brahms cycle, Geoffroy Couteau presents an original program focusing on the trio Brahms formed with Robert and Clara Schumann, and on their relationship with Joseph Joachim. All these personalities lie at the heart of the conception of both the Concerto in D minor and ...
Komponist: Johannes Brahms (1833-1897)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Concertos
