Bjørn Morten Christophersen: Woven Brass
This album is spun out of the musical friendship between Christophersen and Haltlia, and features whirling overtone spectra, virtuosic gestures, beautiful melodic ambiguity and quiet spaces – musical moments and extended structures – all woven together into an hour-long musical narrative. ...
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
In this recording Tina Margareta Nilssen presents three piano works, each with a wide spectrum of expression and intensity. Two of them belong to the standard repertoire, but the third, by Signe Lund, is a practically unknown work, a real gem recorded here for the very first time. ...
Composer: Edvard Grieg (1843-1907), Signe Lund (1868-1950), Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Instrumental
„So is my love“ is about love and the beloved, and this includes the sense of love awakened in us by religious faith and by nature. In works by Dyrud, Ødegaard, Havrøy, Daniel-Lesur and Stockhausen the countless facets of love are painted in music and words: we encounter passion, ...
Composer: Martin Ødegaard, Torbjørn Dyrud, Jean-Yves Daniel-Lesur, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Frank Havrøy
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
Duo à la française: The artists are young – audite’s youngest artists to date. Silvie and Bryan Cheng, sister and brother, were eigtheen and twenty-five years old respectively when this recording was made. She is a pianist, he a cellist, and
Composer: Claude Debussy (1862-1918), Gabriel Faure (1845-1924), Cesar Franck (1822-1890), Camille Saint-Saens (1835-1921)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
In this project "Bach - Inside Polyphony" Christian Grøvlen approach the composers rich and moving world from the inside, not only spiritually, but also in pure sound. He set out to color each voice intimately and through the recording process to come as close ...
Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach (1685–1750)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Instrumental
Ståle Kleiberg: Mass for Modern Man
Ståle Kleiberg's Mass for Modern Man is about the loss of existential meaning as an antithesis to faith and belief. The work commutes between these two extremes, and raises the following underlying question: Is belief possible for modern man? In this work, ...
Composer: Ståle Kleiberg
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Vocal
The present recording features both one of the longest and one of the shortest quartets in the string quartet repertoire. There is no denying that Schubert´s last string quartet is great in every sense of the word, but Beethoven´s “Quartetto Serioso”, although minor ...
Composer: Ludwig van Beethoven (1770–1827), Franz Schubert (1797–1828):
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
Edvard Grieg (1843–1907), Carl Nielsen (1865–1931) and Jean Sibelius (1865–1957) are generally recognized as the Nordic countries' most important composers. Nielsen and Sibelius were both inspired and influenced in their early years by Grieg's music. ...
Composer: Edvard Grieg (1843–1907), Carl Nielsen (1865–1931), Jean Sibelius (1865–1957)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Instrumental
INTERACTIONS: Valen - Stravinsky - Lutoslawski
In these twentieth-century sonatas, from the late Romantic and expressionistic Valen, through Stravinsky's neoclassical period, to Lutoslawski's more modernistic style, the three composers are searching for inspiration in the past – Valen in the rigours of Bach's counterpoint, ...
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Instrumental
The recording session was so enjoyable that extend a member as sextet. Tomonao his leadership is not to offer a carte blanche to the members, but specify the direction where we are heading and take its responsibility. His stance is practically something like ... The recording session was so enjoyable that extend a member as sextet. Tomonao his leadership is not to offer a carte blanche to the members, but specify the direction where we are heading and take its responsibility. His stance is practically something like ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Contemporary Jazz
Mahler was a great symphonist and a great songwriter. In his “song-symphony” Das Lied von der Erde (“The Song of the Earth”), these two strands of his genius are intertwined. Here Mahler summons all his orchestral and vocal imagination, taking us to the heart of ancient ...
Composer: Gustav Mahler (1860-1911)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Vocal
Beethoven: Leonore Overture No. 3 - Symphony No. 7
Michael Tilson Thomas and the San Francisco Symphony release live recordings of Beethoven’s Leonore Overture No. 3 and Symphony No. 7 on their acclaimed SFS Media label. ...
Composer: Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Orchestral
P.I.Tschaikovsky op - 70 Souvenir de Florence
Orchestras often play this piece, but Tchaikovsky did not want it ending up to be perceived as a compact version of symphonic orchestration. This UNAMAS recording literally respects the composer’s intention allocating 6 solo voices ...
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
The Brahms Project - The Complete Piano Quartets
Four of the foremost Spanish musicians of their generation join forces in exploring three of German Romanticism’s highest peaks. Brahms’s piano quartets are cornerstones of the chamber music repertoire and works of symphonic scope, and the Brahms Project offer the listener a very personal ...
Composer: Johannes Brahms (1833-1897)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
Schumann: Cello Concerto - Bloch: Schelomo (Remastered)
In March 2017, Warner Classics marks the 10th anniversary of Mstislav Rostropovich’s death and 90 years since his birth with the deluxe collectors’ box set Cellist of the Century, comprising of selected remastered recordings. ...
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Concertos
“Recalling my elementary school days, as I started listening to jazz music, the first thing that entirely attracted me was gospel and blues. It is the core concept of the album this time. Gospel and blues are ...
Genre: Instrumental
Subgenre: Piano
The English composer Gustav Holst is known to many music lovers for just one symphonic work: The Planets. This orchestral suite, first performed in its entirety in 1920, was certainly his greatest ...
Composer: Gustav Holst (1874-1934)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
