The celebration of YULE in Northern Europe harks back to a transition from ancient Pagan Germanic culture to the more formal spirituality of the newer Christian rite. Christmas, as we mostly now call it, gave us hymns, processions and chants, and in between, silence in church. Yule meant a vibrant pre-Christian secularity, with ...
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Vocal
Advent and Christmas are for many people a time for light and hope and warmth. Yet the world around us is cold and turbulent. Wars are being fought. People are fleeing from their homes. Children are dying. Thousands of people lack food and medicine. Our prayers are for peace. We sing "Beautiful is our Earth! ...
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Choral
MOTHER – a word that evokes associations – memories – emotions. Which mother do you think of? A loving mother with a newborn baby in her arms. Intimacy. A despairing mother in deep grief over a lost life. Emptiness. Through words and music our lives are woven together with Mary's life and perhaps we sense that a mother's pain ...
Composer: Domenico Scarlatti (1685-1757), Petra Bjørkhaug (1964)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Vocal
PAX is a concept in which music, lyrics and the sacred space of the cathedral energize each other in these performances of new works by Norwegian composers who all approach the theme of peace with their own individual reflections and interpretations. The music is composed specifically to be performed and ...
Composer: Martin Ødegaard, Cecilie Ore, Eyolf Dale, Stine Sørlie
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Classical Crossover
Kim André Arnesen: TUVAYHUN — Beatitudes for a Wounded World
Our world is wounded. All around us we see the cracks: the effects of environmental crisis, mass migrations, global pandemic, political polarization, growing income inequality, the rise of authoritarian regimes, unprecedented social change, and reticence or resignation on the part of many to do anything about any of it. And yet, our world is also a ...
Composer: Kim Andre Arnesen (1980)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Choral
Mountains To Climb (Still)" is this year's second album released by composer and producer Martin Krampl. Again, a concept album is all about us, not slowing down and being ready to climb new mountains. While the first album, "Things That Are Coming," was the result of cooperation between ...
Composer: Gary Husband, Martin Krampl
Genre: New Age
Subgenre:
If you’re anything like me, the title to Martin Krampl Music’s debut 13-track album “Things That Are Coming” will leave you with the desperate itch to find out the nature of the things which are coming. Is it a ubiquitous threat, or is it a promise of good things to come? ..
Composer: Miki Skuta, Martin Krampl
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Classical Crossover
The Interstellar Suite 25th Anniversary Edition
The Interstellar Suite, remixed by award-winning producer/engineer Frank Morrone, has attained cult status in both electronic and progressive rock music circles in the 25 years since its initial release.
Composer: Amin Bhatia
Genre: Soundtrack
Subgenre: Film
While my first piano album on the 2L record label, Stone Rose (2007), was all pre-composed or outlined, I wanted this 2012 sequel to be completely spontaneous.
Composer: Ola Gjeilo
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Classical Crossover
