In November 2014, Sir Mark Elder was joined by a stellar cast led by Joyce El-Khoury, Michael Spyres and David Kempster, for a performance of Donizetti's Les Martyrs. It was the first performance of this masterpiece in its original form in over 150 years and was ...
Composer: Gaetano Donizetti (1797-1848)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Opera
Leoncavallo's Zazà is based on the hit play of the same name by Pierre Breton and Charles Simon. They story centers around Zazà, a Parisian music hall singer, and it traces the collapse of her relationship after she discovers her lover is married. Featuring infectious dance tunes ...
Composer: Ruggero Leoncavallo (1858-1919)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Opera
Le Duc d'Albe stars the glorious American soprano Angela Meade, making her debut recording for Opera Rara. Joining Angela, and returning to Opera Rara following his astonishing performance on the label's award-winning recording of Donizetti's Les Martyrs, is tenor ...
Composer: Gaetano Donizetti (1797-1848)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Opera
Jónsi is best known for his falsetto voice and violin bow guitar playing as a member of Icelandic post-rock band Sigur Rós. It's been twenty years since Sigur Rós' breakthrough album Ágætis byrjun (meaning 'a good beginning') and ten years since his collaborative album with Alex Somers, Riceboy Sleeps. ...
Genre: Electronic
Subgenre: Ambient
“We wanted to see if there was another way to live in this world,” says Jeff Gorman, one half of the breakout Virginia duo Illiterate Light. “We wanted to throw ourselves out into the wild and see if there was another way to tour and make music.” ...
Genre: Rock
Subgenre: Adult Alternative
Nitty Gritty Surround is Americana with a bluegrass and country flavor concert performed by 2 members of the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band with Jennifer Warnes and Laurie Lewis. Banjo, acoustic guitar, fiddle, mandolin, and some amazing vocal displays all combine to work their magic on this stunning bluegrass release. Featuring founder members of the Nitty Gritty ...
Genre: Country
Subgenre: Bluegrass
Do you remember the final scene of "The Fearless Vampire Killers"? The one with dozing Professor Abronsius in his coach, unaware of what he's bringing back with him from the east? 50 years on, KADAVAR did the exact same thing. They ventured east - and brought something with them: A gothic horror story turned doom rock. ...
Genre: Rock
Subgenre: Classic Rock
Brahms: Deutsche Volkslieder, WoO 33 (Remastered)
This is a wonderful recording with two of the best and most famous singers of the twentieth century: Elizabeth Schwarzkopf and Dietrich Fischer Dieskau. Brahms wrote the piano accompaniment for this beautiful German folk songs at the end of his life. ...
Composer: Johannes Brahms (1833-1897)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Vocal
Wolf: Goethe-Lieder (Remastered)
To mark her seventy-fifth birthday EMI have produced this formidable tribute to Elisabeth Schwarzkopf's art. Each of these albums is very generously filled and the transfers, with the few reservations expressed below, are well made. They provide an admirable conspectus of her extensive ...
Composer: Hugo Wolf (1860-1903)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Vocal
Strauss: Seven Songs - Mozart: Concert Arias (Remastered)
In 1947 a brilliant generation of Austro-German singers represented the Vienna State Opera for a short season at Covent Garden. Among those known to London audiences from before the war were Maria Cebotari and Hans Hotter; new were Anton Dermota, Erich Kunz and an array of sopranos ...
Composer: Richard Strauss (1864-1949, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Vocal
Tomba sonora is a site-specific musical project for the mausoleum in the Emanuel Vigeland Museum in Oslo. The mausoleum is in effect one huge tomb, and its reverberation time has played a key role in how this music has been conceived and composed by Kristin Bolstad; ...
Composer: Kristin Bolstad
Genre: Instrumental
Subgenre: Vocal
Live in the City of Angels (Deluxe)
"Live in the City of Angels" is an album that captures Simple Minds live on their North American autumn 2018 tour. The resulting album, "Live in the City of Angels", is a 40-song collection, spanning one of the most ...
Genre: Rock
Subgenre: Modern Rock
Slip Of The Tongue (Super Deluxe Edition, 2019 Remaster)
Whitesnake scored the band’s third consecutive platinum record with its eighth studio album, Slip of the Tongue. Originally released in November 1989, it peaked at number 10 on the U.K. and U.S. album charts thanks largely to its two Top 40 hits – “Fool For Your Loving” and “The Deeper The Love.” ...
Genre: Rock
Subgenre: Hard Rock
With this album of works by Schoenberg, Zemlinsky and Webern – key figures in Vienna’s musical life in the early 20th century – the Quatuor Arod honours the woman who became Arnold Schoenberg’s wife in 1901. Mathilde was Zemlinsky’s sister and the dedicatee of her husband’s String Quartet No 2, an ...
Composer: Anton Webern (1883-1945), Alexander von Zemlinsky (1871-1942), Arnold Schönberg (1874-1951)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
Sun on Sand (with Scott Colley & Satoshi Takeishi)
The album comprises eight compositions from a suite by composer Patrick Zimmerli. Each piece in the suite, which premiered at London’s Wigmore Hall in 2014, represents a different expression of light. Bassist Scott Colley and drummer Satoshi Takeishi perform as well. Redman previously worked with ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Crossover Jazz
Slip Of The Tongue (2019 Remaster)
Whitesnake scored the band’s third consecutive platinum record with its eighth studio album, Slip of the Tongue. Originally released in November 1989, it peaked at number 10 on the U.K. and U.S. album charts thanks largely to its two Top 40 hits – “Fool For Your Loving” and “The Deeper The ...
Genre: Rock
Subgenre: Hard Rock
Third Degree builds upon the genre-bending momentum of 2012's self-titled Flying Colors and the aural-template ascension of 2014's Second Nature. From the skittery psychedelic/classical turnaround of the lead single "More" to the Beach Boys-meet-Asia vibe of "Love Letter" to the ...
Genre: Rock
Subgenre: Modern Rock
