Whenever You Need Somebody (2022 Remaster)
Rick Astley, who has sold over 40 million records worldwide, is enjoying a remarkable career surgence and will celebrate the 35th anniversary of his landmark debut album Whenever You Need Somebody with a remastered and expanded edition to be released May 20 on BMG. Astley’s 1987 multi-platinum debut topped charts in 25 countries and featured ...
Genre: Pop
Subgenre: Pop Rock
Schubert: Piano Sonatas, D. 575 & 625 (Remastered)
Fourth volume of Schubert piano sonatas by Elisabeth Leonskaja, including the ninth and eleventh. The latter includes the Adagio, D. 505, thought to be meant as its slow movement, here unusually placed in third position. ...
Composer: Franz Schubert (1797-1828)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Instrumental
Hailing from Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, the Sheepdogs are a hardworking, hard-living, straightup rock ‘n’ roll band who return with Outta Sight, the grooviest, simplest, most penetrating album of their career. Recorded during the pandemic the band—Ewan Currie, Ryan Gullen, Sam Corbett, Jimmy Bowskill and Shamus Currie—were, like the rest of us, confused, ...
Genre: Rock
Subgenre: Blues Rock
In this wonderful recording, cellist Lorenzo Meseguer and pianist Mario Mora bring together four composers who have historically been undervalued: From Fanny Mendelssohn’s Fantasia to Gustav Jenner’s Sonata in D major, the album also includes Felix Mendelssohn’s Sonata op. 58, a masterpiece for this combination, and an arrangement for cello and piano ...
Composer: Fanny Mendelssohn-Hensel (1805-1847), Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy (1809-1847), Clara Schumann (1819-1896), Gustav Jenner (1865-1920)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
Sibelius: Symphony No. 5 in E-Flat Major Op. 82 & Stravinsky: The Firebird (Suite) [Live]
The Munich Philharmonic and Sergiu Celibidache share an exceptional legacy. He started his work as principal conductor in 1979 and remained in this position for as long as 17 years. Sergiu Celibidache played an integral part in making the Munich Philharmonic what it is today: an orchestra of worldwide renown. ...
Composer: Jean Sibelius (1865-1957), Igor Strawinsky (1882-1971)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Orchestral
A marvelous voyage through the aesthetic of the fragmentary, by the hand of Chopin’s 24 Preludes, op. 28 and Janáček’s first book from “On an Overgrown Path” and his Piano Sonata “1. X. 1905”. As Luca Chiantore states in the accompanying liner notes, this album “is characterised by the fleeting nature of works that speak to us of ...
Composer: Frederic Chopin (1810-1849), Leos Janacek (1854-1928)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Instrumental
Josiah melds the sounds of unheralded dropouts Blue Cheer with the nostalgic leanings of Monster Magnet and Kyuss. In fact the lead vocals echo that of Wyndorf, with some bluesy Ron Young moments thrown in. The first three songs show that the band is capable of some killer material – the hard-hitting future classic The Scarlatti Tilt, the backbeat of ...
Genre: Rock
Subgenre: Adult Alternative
Santa Cruz native Oliver Tree releases his much-anticipated sophomore album Cowboy Tears. The internet based vocalist, producer, writer, director and performance artist writes and directs all of his colourful and eccentric music videos. Oliver Tree has collaborated with Lil Yachty, Marshmello, Trippie Redd, Ski Mask The Slump God, ...
Genre: Rock
Subgenre: Adult Alternative
Schumann: Cello Concerto, Op. 129 - Saint-Saëns: Cello Concerto No. 1, Op. 33 (Remastered)
Among the revered concertante recordings of Jacqueline du Pré and her husband Daniel Barenboim, Schumann’s concerto holds a particular place in her discography as it was her favorite piece, one that she studied for years with her masters Paul Tortelier and Mstislav Rostropovich before giving this legendary version, coupled with a splendid Saint-Saëns. ...
Composer: Robert Schumann (1810-1856), Camille Saint-Saëns (1835-1921)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Concertos
Haydn & Boccherini: Cello Concertos (Remastered)
Jacqueline du Pré, performing with one of the conductors most closely associated with her career, brings characteristic exuberance, passion and colour to two cello concertos rooted in the 18th century. In his memoir A Life in Music, Daniel Barenboim wrote: “I have never encountered anyone for whom music was such a natural ...
Composer: Franz Joseph Haydn (1732-1809), Luigi Boccherini (1743-1805)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Concertos
Chopin & Franck: Cello Sonatas (Remasterd)
Jacqueline du Pré and Daniel Barenboim formed the most glamourous and successful couple of classical music in the late 60s, both on stage, in private and on record. The last studio realization by du Pré before illness prevented her from playing, this recording features both artists in romantic cello sonatas by Chopin and César Franck ...
Composer: Frederic Chopin (1810-1849), Cesar Franck (1822-1890)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Instrumental
There are few rock guitarists on this planet who have had such a lasting influence on so many renowned musicians as Michael Schenker. With his outstandingly fluid style, inexhaustible wealth of ideas and instinctive feel for hooks and melodies, Michael Schenker is a living legend who, despite his longstanding and distinguished history, still impresses with his ...
Genre: Rock
Subgenre: Metal
The dynamic Chicago rock band Wilco returns with its 12th studio album, the first of its kind. Cruel Country is the band's exploration of the genre they've often been defined by but, until now, never fully embraced. The double album features 21 Jeff Tweedy-penned tracks, made almost entirely of live takes, created with all six members ...
Genre: Country
Subgenre: Alternative Country
C’MON YOU KNOW (Deluxe Edition)
C'mon You Know is the third solo album from Liam Gallagher, who has already proven on the first two solo outings that he can easily carry himself on his own. Liam Gallagher's third solo studio album C'mon You Know looks set to be one of the biggest album events of the year. Anticipation for the album was ignited with the lead single "Everything's Electric," which powered into the ...
Genre: Rock
Subgenre: Adult Alternative
Liam Gallagher’s first two solo U.K. #1 studio albums – As You Were and Why Me? Why Not. – maximized the potential of a simple formula: team Liam’s era-defining voice up with some trusted collaborators, and add some fresh impetus to his classic ‘60s and rock ‘n’ roll ...
Genre: Rock
Subgenre: Adult Alternative
Brahms: The Two Sonatas for Cello and Piano, Op. 38 & 99 (Remastered)
Renowned as a great interpreter of Brahms, Jacqueline du Pré, here at the peak of her art and technical abilities, delivers the latest version recorded with her husband Daniel Barenboim in May-August 1968. A pillar of the cello repertoire, the Two Sonatas benefit from a new remastering in 192kHz/24-bit from original tapes by Art & Son Studio, Annecy. ...
Composer: Johannes Brahms (1833-1897)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Instrumental
The Nigerian drummer exposes the roots of Afrobeat. For fifteen years, Tony Allen drummed for Fela Kuti and invented Afrobeat with him. When Kuti died in 1997, Tony Allen did everything he could to protect and promote his musical legacy. This is especially true for the political content of ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre:
Widely regarded as a master of the cover version, Bryan Ferry’s new interpretations of four classic love songs. Recording of ‘Love Letters’ began in Nashville whilst on tour in 2019, with work on the EP continuing in London in 2020. In the US the band included Luke Bullen on drums, Chris Spedding on guitar, Neil Jasonon bass, Fonzi Thornton on backing vocals and Waddy Watchel on guitar. ...
Genre: Pop
Subgenre: Pop Rock
HOME can be seen both as an homage to and as a statement of belonging to northern Norway, with its naked landscape and its Arctic location. The title can also allude to a quest for identity, both from a personal and from an artistic perspective. All these sentiments and aspirations find expression in the music on this album. ...
Composer: Jan Gunnar Hoff
Genre: Instrumental
Subgenre: Piano
Eric Tanguy’s focus on “imagination, poetry and an interior world” has helped to make him one of the most widely performed French composers of today. Belonging in a line that leads back from his mentor Henri Dutilleux to Messiaen and Debussy, he does not identify with any specific ‘school’ of composition. His aesthetic has also been shaped by the music of Sibelius and his technique ...
Composer: Eric Tanguy (1968)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
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