LORDI are successfully continuing to give us the creeps in their unique way that is as eerily bizarre as it is catchy. As evinced during the past decades, Mr. Lordi has made a name as director for the band's very own horror cinema ever since. Founded in 1992 by singer, songwriter and designer Mr. Lordi, the band achieved ...
Genre: Rock
Subgenre: Hard Rock
Verdi: Simon Boccanegra (1857 Version)
The original version of Simon Boccanegra, first performed in 1857, is a masterpiece of concision and vocal delivery, with many important differences from the later 1881 version, including one of Verdi’s most innovative central finales. Sir Mark Elder leads a star cast including Eri Nakimura as Amelia, Iván Ayón-Rivas as her lover Gabriele, William Thomas as Fiesco and the young Argentinian baritone Germán Enrique Alcántara in the title role. ...
Composer: Giuseppe Verdi (1813-1901)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Opera
David Schmoll created a series of Neoclassical music. Here's is latest EP. In the realm of classical music, the Neoclassical era emerged as a fascinating period that witnessed a revival of classical forms and aesthetics. Neoclassicism sought to recapture the spirit of the Classical era, particularly in the realms of literature, art, and music. This article focuses on the enchanting ...
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Classical Crossover
Geneva 1980 (Live in Geneva 1980)
A new live album from Jazz saxophonist Art Pepper featuring over two hours of previously unissued live performances. At the time of this recording in 1980, Art Pepper had been a mainstay in the world of jazz for nearly four decades. Starting out as a young player in his teens, he accompanied acclaimed artists Benny Carter and Stan Kenton. From there, his ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Cool
Mozart: Piano Sonatas K. 333, 457, 545 & 576
A living legend from the Spanish piano scene, Josep Colom presents Mozart’s music in a radical way: with Colom’s own interludes between movements that play with motifs or anticipate ideas, new ornamentation, transformations, all in all evoking the art of improvisation from the time of Mozart, this album brings four piano sonatas from the Austrian ...
Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756–1791)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Instrumental
For its first recording project, ‘Cuando el fuego abrasa’ (When the fire burns), the Ensemble Bayona presents the hallmarks of the group’s identity: the fruitful and close Spanish-Swiss collaboration and the promotion and dissemination of music from the early 20th century. That is why the works of contemporary composers Francisco ...
Composer: Joseph Lauber (1864-1952), Francisco Coll (1985), Christoph Blum (1990), Manuel de Falla (1876-1946)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
For their debut album, the Yugen Trio presents what is arguably the cornerstone of the Piano Trio repertoire: Maurice Ravel’s trio, in a vital and highly expressive performance. Ravel’s masterpiece is preceded by the usually claimed ‘father of the piano trio’, Haydn, with his trio in A major, Hob.XV:35, and by one of Shubert’s ...
Composer: Franz Joseph Haydn (1732-1809), Franz Schubert (1797-1828), Maurice Ravel (1875-1937)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
A marvelous voyage through four apparently unrelated worlds, each of them cultivated a new musical landscape in a new century: from Lisztian-Wagnerian Berg’s Sonata op. 1 to Mompou’s Variations on a Theme of Chopin, going through folk-inspired Falla’s Fantasía Baetica and Bartók’s Sonata, Javier Laso gives spellbinding ...
Composer: Frederic Mompou (1893-1987), Alban Berg (1885-1935), Manuel de Falla (1876-1946), Bella Bartók (1881-1945)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Instrumental
Schubert, Padovec, Ponce: Moments Musicaux
One of the greatest guitarists of his generation, Petrit Çeku guides us on this wonderful journey through Schubert’s inner world. There are many myths surrounding the great composer’s relationship with the guitar, most of them of spurious origin. Whatever the full truth about Schubert and the guitar, it is easy to understand why some guitarists and composers ...
Composer: Franz Schubert (1797-1828), Manuel Maria Ponce (1882-1948), Ivan Eugen Padovec (1800-1873)
Genre: Guitar
Subgenre: Classical Guitar
Noelia Rodiles has been described as “one of the true rising stars of Spanish and international piano playing”. For her new recording project, ‘1823’, she has paired Schubert’s Moments Musicaux D. 780 with the first recording of Martín Sánchez Allú’s first Piano Sonata. ...
Composer: Franz Schubert (1797-1828), Martín Sánchez Allú (1823-1858)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Instrumental
Inspired by the “Sisters of the Moon” paintings by the surrealist artist Leonora Carrington, the concept behind this album revolves around the Pleiades, or Seven Sisters. According to Greek mythology, these nymphs, also known as the dancers, served the goddess Artemis. They lived a life devoted to love and rebelled against the obligation to preserve ...
Composer: Helene de Montgeroult (1764-1836), Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy (1809-1847), Amy Beach (1867-1944), Nadia Boulanger (1887-1979)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Instrumental
Still a neglected work, Julián Orbón’s Partita No. 4 for piano and orchestra is one of the most important piano and orchestra works from the Spanish repertoire, and receives here a superb performance from Noelia Rodiles and the Oviedo Filarmonía under Lucas Macías’ baton. The album is completed with the first ...
Composer: Julián Orbón (1925-1991), Manuel Martínez Burgos (1970)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Concertos
Hans Sitt: Viola and Piano Works
Hans Sitt (1850-1922), a highly neglected composer from late Romanticism, played a significant role in the transmission of the German tradition of Schumann and Brahms to the 20th Century. Born in Prague, he developed a brilliant career as a violinist and pedagogue, but was especially paramount in the development of the viola’s repertoire, for which he made ...
Composer: Hans Sitt (1850-1922)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Instrumental
Homeland is more than just a place of birth; the term connotes a deep emotional bond between an individual and their country, their culture, and their nature. It was when composers Edvard Grieg (1843-1907) and Manuel de Falla (1876-1946) began to explore the depths of their cultural homelands ...
Composer: Edward Grieg (1843-1907), Manuel de Falla (1876-1946)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Concertos
Schubert: Sonata in C Minor, D. 958, 4 Impromptus, D. 935 & Rondo, D. 951
Aimi Kobayashi, who rose to prominence as a prizewinner at the 2021 International Chopin Piano Competition, has been praised by Gramophone as a pianist who can “rivet the attention through fine-drawn line and hushed dynamics as much as through vivid gesture and brute force”. ...
Composer: Franz Schubert (1797-1828)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Instrumental
Country’s new, breakout star Warren Zeiders announces his new album Relapse, Lies, & Betrayal, coming March 14 via Warner Records. The two-part, 20-track album is an introspection of heartbreak, personal growth and emotional healing through Zeiders’ signature gritty vocals and storytelling that strikes like a musical gut-punch. ...
Genre: Country
Subgenre: Contemporary Country
Preludes and Dances from Brazil
Renowned Spanish guitarist Ricardo Gallén has embarked on a fascinating musical journey with his album, dedicated to the works of the legendary composer Heitor Villa-Lobos and to the Grammy-Award winner Sérgio Assad. Both Brazilian, this recording represents a homage and a celebration to the country’s folklore and rich cultural heritage. ...
Composer: Sérgio Assad (1952), Heitor Villa-Lobos (1887-1959)
Genre: Guitar
Subgenre: Classical Guitar
A Boy Named Goo (30th Anniversary Deluxe Edition - Remastered)
The 24-track, deluxe double album will include the original album, plus an unreleased live concert performance recorded in Las Vegas on March 10, 1996. The deluxe edition contains 34 tracks and includes the live concert, plus 4 B-sides from the era and six songs recorded semi-acoustically for the radio show Modern Rock Live in 1996. ...
Genre: Pop
Subgenre: Pop Rock
Great songs: That's what you've come to expect from Livingston Taylor. On his latest, Ink, the winsome singer-songwriter delights by paying homage to pop songwriting with a collection of richly-realized interpretations, including Don Henley's "The End of the Innocence," and Gerry Rafferty's "Baker Street." ...
Genre: Songwriter
Subgenre: New Acoustic
An exceptional and unique album of its kind, “Three Guitars”, like its title would suggest, showcases the talents of three great guitarists, John Abercrombie, Badi Assad and Larry Coryell. A harmonious journey that celebrates the guitar’s versatility, the album features highlight tracks like “After The Rain” which serves as a ground for intricate exchange ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Contemporary Jazz
