Thomas Adès’ Dante—a ballet score in three parts based on Dante Alighieri’s La Divina Commedia—was recorded by the Los Angeles Philharmonic conducted by Music & Artistic Director Gustavo Dudamel at a concert performance last spring at Walt Disney Concert Hall. Nonesuch Records releases the album, the work’s premiere audio recording, on April 21, 2023. ...
Composer: Thomas Adès (1971)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Orchestral
Four years after the world-wide released and critically acclaimed album Nucleus in 2019 (a re-recording of their classic hits with English lyrics), leading Japanese Heavy Metal band, Anthem have used the pandemic downtime wisely and are now ready to unleash their studio album called Crimson & Jet Black. All songs are once ...
Genre: Rock
Subgenre: Metal
With Contra-Tenor, Michael Spyres challenges perceptions of the tenor in the Baroque era, often seen as the age of the castrato. In the company of Il Pomo d’Oro and conductor Francesco Corti, he explores the period from the late 17th century to the 1770s, tracing the course of opera in both the French and Italian styles. The 15 arias range ....
Composer: Jean-Baptiste Lully (1632-1687), Georg Friedrich Händel (1685-1759), Antonio Vivaldi (1678-1741), Leonardo Vinci (1690-1730), Nicola Antonio Porpora (1686-1768), Domenico Sarro (1679-1744), Baldassare Galuppi (1706-1785), Gaetano Latilla (1711-1788), Johann Adolph Hasse (1699-1783), Jean Philippe Rameau (1683-1764), Antonio Mazzoni (1717-1785), Christoph Willibald Gluck (1714-1787)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Vocal
Goth 'n' Roll pioneers THE 69 EYES have been haunting stages all over the world for 33 years and seem to be a truly immortal part of the dark rock/metal scene. Widely known as the Helsinki Vampires, the quintet gained several platinum albums with "Blessed Be" and "Paris Kills" and not only reached #1 of the single and album charts in their home ...
Genre: Rock
Subgenre: Hard Rock
An eclectic album, produced by Merchant, it features two duets sung with vocalist Abena Koomson-Davis (Resistance Revival Chorus), contributions from the Celtic folk group Lúnasa and Syrian virtuoso clarinetist Kinan Azmeh, and horn arrangements by jazz trombonist Steve Davis. There are lush orchestrations throughout by seven composers including: Gabriel Kahane, Stephen Barber, Colin Jacobson, ...
Genre: Songwriter
Subgenre: New Acoustic
The Tasmanian brothers, Nick and Tom Wolfe, wrote the songs during the pandemic over many Zoom writing sessions with writers all over the world. Nick Wolfe took on production duties, working alongside veteran Australian record producer and musician Rod McCormack, along with multi-award winning producer Matt Fell. ...
Genre: Country
Subgenre: Contemporary Country
"Thrive was composed throughout the last couple of years, during a period of uncertainty and fear. I have always been convinced that it is in times of adversity that we remember what is essential to us," says pianist and composer Jean-Philippe Rio-Py, known professionally as Riopy.
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Classical Crossover
Mythologies is Thomas Bangalter’s first independent orchestral work. Initially commissioned by the choreographer Angelin Preljocaj for the ballet of the same name and premiered by the Orchestre National Bordeaux Aquitaine under the direction of Romain Dumas, Mythologies sees the co-founder of Daft Punk reinventing his approach to ...
Composer: Thomas Bangalter (1975)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Orchestral
Beethoven: Piano Concertos Nos 3 & 4
Elisabeth Leonskaja’s recordings of Beethoven’s Piano Concertos Nos 3 and 4, with the Orchestre National du Capitole de Toulouse under its former music director Tugan Sokhiev, have their origins in the 2017-18 concert season in Toulouse. At the time, Bachtrack designated Leonskaja as a ‘guiding spirit’ for music-making in the city. In Autumn 2022 the ...
Composer: Ludwig van Beethoven (1770–1827)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Concertos
In their first Warner Classics release of symphonic repertoire, the players of the Lucerne Symphony Orchestra and their Chief Conductor Michael Sanderling perform the four Brahms Symphonies and Schoenberg’s orchestration of Brahms’ Piano Quartet in G minor. Founded in 1805, the Lucerne Symphony Orchestra (Luzerner Sinfonieorchester) is ...
Composer: Johannes Brahms (1833-1897)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Orchestral
Brand new album from Seattle rock pioneers Mudhoney. Since their 1988 debut - the rip-roaring Sub Pop single "Touch Me, I'm Sick" - Mudhoney have consistently delivered the caustic fusion of punk, hard rock, and psychedelia the world needs and deserves, and Plastic Eternity is a new height in their vast discography. ...
Genre: Rock
Subgenre: Adult Alternative
Michel Petrucciani: The Montreux Years (Live)
Zweifellos hatte auch der französische Jazzpianist Michel Petrucciani etliche Auftritte beim Montreux Jazz Festival, so dass aktuell eine Sammlung seiner denkbar besten Auftritte aus den Jahren 1990 bis 1998 in der beliebten Reihe „The Montreux Years“ erscheint. ... The brand-new release in The Montreux Years series is a collection of Michel Petrucciani’s most memorable performances at the Montreux Jazz Festival from 1990 - 1998. The Montreux Jazz Festival is without doubt one of the most iconic music festivals on the global festival scene. Originally created by Claude Nobs and held annually in Montreux, Switzerland across ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Contemporary Jazz
The last album in our Gabriel Pierné retrospective focuses on choral music. Discover the very rare Ronde de fées (Fairy’s Round) for female choir and piano after a charming poem by Jean Lorrain, performed by the Ensemble vocal Jean-Paul Kreder in the premiere recording. It is coupled with other French choral pieces, both sacred and profane. ...
Composer: Claude Achille Debussy (1862-1918), Gabriel Urbain Fauré 1845-1924), Henri Constant Gabriel Pierné (1863-1937), Francis Poulenc (1899-1963), Albert Roussel (1869-1937)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Choral
World's favorite hard rock monsters, LORDI, are gearing up for the next chapter of their spooky history: After the release of their 7-album box-set "Lordiversity", the famous Finnish group around mastermind Mr. Lordi has fully seized the time at home during the pandemic to record their new album "Screem writers guild" - a truly spooktacular ...
Genre: Rock
Subgenre: Hard Rock
For 30 years now, Adriana Calcanhotto has been at the forefront of a new generation of female Brazilian singer-songwriters who are equally accomplished as composers, instrumentalists, and poets. The Corona lockdown in Brazil forced Adriana to record her latest album Só ("Alone") under unusual circumstances. ...
Genre: Latin
Subgenre: Contemporary Latin
Nature Whisper The Air of Lake
Lake Nozori, located in Agatsuma-gun, Gunma Prefecture and belonging to Joshin-etsu Kogen National Park, is an artificial dam lake that is designated as the 22nd of Japan's Top 100 Dam Lakes and is also the trailhead to the mountains on the border of Joshin-etsu. If you go north from Kusatsu hot springs on National Route 405 and cross Nozori Pass, you can see ...
Genre: New Age
Subgenre: Nature
Charlie Cunningham returns with new album Frame. With his jaw-dropping guitar performances alongside influences from jazz and electronic music, Charlie has also honed the piano to create an eclectic and truly beautiful album. Vocal harmonies and unconventional structures make this a completely original indie-folk ...
Genre: Songwriter
Subgenre: Contemporary
Remaster of the 2013 album from the legendary Rock chameleon, his first studio album in ten years and his 30th studio recording. The album was produced by long-term collaborator Tony Visconti and was recorded in New York. In recent years, radio silence has been broken only by endless ...
Genre: Rock
Subgenre: Modern Rock
The Next Day Extra contains various album outtakes and remixes from David Bowie’s The Next Day album: “Atomica,” “The Informer,” “Like A Rocket Man,” and “Born In A UFO”. Two remixes, “Love Is Lost” (Hello Steve Reich Mix by James Murphy for the DFA), ...
Genre: Rock
Subgenre: Modern Rock
