Ella van Poucke. Winner of the prestigious Premio Chigiana 2017 and recently awarded the Grachtenfestival Prize, the 27 year old Dutch cellist belongs to the top rank of today's generation of cellists. She is the first prize winner of the International Isang Yun cello competition 2015, the Leopoldinum ...
Komponist: Robert Schumann (1810-1856)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Concertos
Brahms: Liebeslieder, Op. 52 & 65
Johannes Brahms’ Liebeslieder–Walzer (1869 & 1875), Op. 52 and Op. 65, are a cheerful, short, witty set of songs full of anger, joy and rejection. These part-songs are accompanied by one piano, with four hands and any number of voices can perform any selection. ...
Komponist: Johannes Brahms (1833-1897)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Vocal
Saxophonist Joe Lovano and trumpeter Dave Douglas debuted their extraordinary Sound Prints quintet on Blue Note Records in 2013, the year of Wayne Shorter’s 80th birthday, and from the outset the group had a joyful but somewhat imposing mandate: to lift up Shorter’s legacy through the writing and performance of new music ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Contemporary Jazz
Borrowing from the title of Proust’s great novel, the latest recital by Imogen Cooper features a collection of pieces that she learnt as a teenager in Paris, or in her twenties working with Alfred Brendel in Vienna, but none of which she has performed on the concert platform, or really played at all in the intervening years. ...
Komponist: Maurice Ravel (1875–1937), Gabriel Fauré (1945-1924), Franz Liszt (1811-1886), Ottorino Respighi (1879-1936)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Instrumental
Das 17. Studioalbum von Iron Maiden mit den klangvollen Namen „Senjutsu“ ist da! Aufgenommen wurde es in Paris mit dem langjährigen Produzenten Kevin Shirley und mitproduziert von Steve Harris. Dem voraus ging am Donnerstag, den 15. Juli, das bereits vielfach gefeierte animierte Video zur ersten Single “The Writing On ...
Genre: Rock
Subgenre: Metal
Craig Armstrong ist seit Jahrzehnten einer der weltweit wichtigsten Film-Komponisten. Mit seinen Kompositionen für Filme wie "The Great Gatsby", "Moulin Rouge" oder "Romeo & Juliett" verzauberte er ein Millionenpublikum und wurde dafür mit allen wichtigen Preisen ausgezeichnet. Parallel dazu veröffentlichte er mehrere Soloalben. ...
Komponist: Craig Armstrong (b. 1959)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Instrumental
Bruckner: Symphony No. 6 in A Major, WAB 106
Start of the most comprehensive Bruckner Symphonies Edition including all available 19 versions. Bruckner burst out of the confines of the cathedral using that most secular of musical forms: the symphony. It is with reflexive reoccurrence in music history that supposed performance traditions burn themselves into a score as if they ...
Komponist: Anton Bruckner (1824-1896)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Orchestral
Saint-Saëns: Symphonies, Vol. 2
The present album is the second of two recorded by the Orchestre Philharmonique Royal de Liège and Jean-Jacques Kantorow to commemorate the centenary of the death of Camille Saint-Saëns. On the first instalment the team offered us ‘deeply impressive performances in stunning sound’ (theclassicreview.com) of the composer’s first and ...
Komponist: Camille Saint-Saëns (1835-1921)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
On Remembering, the Danish cellist Jakob Kullberg continues his collaborations with two of the foremost Nordic composers: Per Nørgård and Kaija Saariaho. Praised internationally for his performances of the modern cello concerto, Kullberg regards the concerto form as the encounter of an individual soloist ...
Komponist: Per Nørgård, Kaija Saariaho
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Concertos
Satellite (Expanded Edition - 2021 Remaster)
0th Anniversary Edition: "Satellite" is the fourth studio album and the second major label release by the American Christian nu metal band P.O.D. The album was released on September 11, 2001—the same day as the terrorist attacks on the United States—debuting at No. 6 on the Billboard 200 chart with over 133,000 copies sold. ...
Genre: Rock
Subgenre: Adult Alternative
Tinctures In Time (Community Music, Vol. 1)
Tinctures in Time is the first original music Bernstein has ever written for the MTO, which from the beginning had exclusively been a vehicle for his arrangements of other people's songs, from Count Basie to Prince. Most of the album was composed in 2019, a tough year for Bernstein: Henry Butler had recently passed, and there were serious ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Avantgarde Jazz
This strange last year has been a time of reflection and contemplation for many of us, cut off from the people and the things that we love. Pianist and composer Renee Rosnes has emerged with a reinvigorated appreciation for the many different shapes that love can take. Her breathtaking new recording, Kinds of Love, ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Vocal
Mozart: String Quartets - Dedicated to Haydn, Vol. 2
With this release, the Engegård Quartet completes its recordings of the six string quartets that Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart dedicated to his paternal friend Joseph Haydn. Written in Vienna in Mozart’s “mature” years — from age 25 until he died 36 years old in 1791 — they are a gift to a friend that hardly has its equal. ...
Komponist: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756 –1791)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
Mit großer Spannung erwartet wurde diese Einspielung von Claude Debussys Meisterwerk Pelléas et Melisande mit einer außergewöhnlichen Sängerbesetzung unter dem jungen Dirigenten Pierre Dumoussaud, der das Werk bereits in vielen Häusern erfolgreich dirigiert hat. Die »entwaffnende Aufrichtigkeit« des Pelléas ... The Covid pandemic caused the cancellation of the performances of Pelléas et Mélisande at the Opéra National de Bordeaux, which approached Alpha in order to make an audio recording of this masterpiece. So here is that unexpected but highly anticipated new version, with an exceptional cast and a young conductor, ...
Komponist: Claude Debussy (1862-1918)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Opera
Jéliote, haute-contre de Rameau
Der zweite Teil der »Haute-Contre-Trilogie« mit Reinoud Van Mechelen und seinem Ensemble A Nocte Temporis ist Rameaus Lieblingssänger Pierre Jéliote (1713–1797) gewidmet, einem der bedeutendsten Haute-Contres der Musikgeschichte. Sein oberes Register war für seine Flexibilität und seinen heroischen Charakter berühmt und ...
Komponist: Jean Philippe Rameau (1683-1764), François Colin de Blamont (1690-1790), François Rebel (1701-1775), Charles-Louis Mion (1699-1775), Jean-Marie Leclair (1697-1764), Antoine Dauvergne (1713-1797), Jean-Joseph Cassanea de Mondoville (1711-1772), Pierre-Montan Berton (1727-1780), Jean-Benjamin de La Borde (1734-1794)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Vocal
Leuchtende Klangflächen und sinnliche Orchesterfarben gelten nicht umsonst als wesentliches Merkmal der französischen Musik. Ihre Geschichte bietet große Namen, die für ihre Instrumentationskunst und feinfühlige Klangfarbengestaltung berühmt sind. Zu ihnen gehören auch die Komponisten der Cellokonzerte dieser ...
Komponist: Camille Saint-Saens (1835-1921), Gabriel Faure (1845-1924), Edouard Lalo (1823-1892), Arthur Honegger (1892-1955)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Concertos
This album by the Jyväskylä Sinfonia conducted by Ville Matvejeff presents three works by Éric Tanguy (b. 1968), one of the leading composers in contemporary French music with two outstanding soloists, clarinetist Pierre Génisson and violinist Júlia Pusker. ...
Komponist: Eric Tanguy (1968)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Concertos
Der hiesige Indie-Pop-Tüftler Marius Lauber, aka Roosevelt, veröffentlicht sein drittes Album "Polydans"! Dieses ist ein Liebesbrief an die Clubmusik als Ganzes, ein Blick zurück auf seine eigene musikalische Sozialisation und Faszination für die facettenreiche Natur des Genres aber auch ein Blick nach vorne. ...
Genre: Electronic
Subgenre: Electro-Pop
