“An alter ego (second or different self) is both a close companion to the individual as well as an additional personality. David Orlowsky and David Bergmüller are companions, however, they could hardly be more different. They hail from different musical traditions and the combination of these two instruments have no historical references. ...
Composer: Henry Purcell (1659-1695), Thomas Preston, John Dowland (1562-1626), Giovanni Kapsberger (1580-1651)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
The American Clavé Recordings (Remastered)
Nonesuch Records will release a three-album-set of albums from the great Argentine composer, bandleader, and bandoneón player Astor Piazzolla—originally released by American Clavé Records in the 1980s and reissued by Nonesuch more than two decades ago. Astor Piazzolla: The American Clavé Recordings, marks the first time this ...
Composer: Astor Piazzolla (1921-1992)
Genre: World Music
Subgenre:
For his debut on Warner Classics, the 17-year-old pianist Yoav Levanon has chosen a demanding programme of works by Liszt, Chopin, Mendelssohn and Schumann. Liszt’s mighty Sonata in B minor forms the centrepiece of A Monument for Beethoven, an album honouring the four composers’ contribution to fundraising for a ...
Composer: Franz Liszt (1811-1886), Frederic Chopin (1810-1849), Robert Schumann (1810-1856), Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy (1809-1847)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Instrumental
This gorgeous instrumental album, Aum Akua, is the latest from Grammy-winning slack-key and 40-year “Weird” Al Yankovic lead-guitarist Jim “Kimo” West and Billboard New Age Chart-topper Joss Jaffe. The album presents a never-heard combination of unique instrumentation, including Indian tablas, Hawaiian percussion, African Ngoni (harp), custom and rare guitars, and ambient soundscapes. ...
Genre: Easy Listening
Subgenre: Soundscapes
With Farewells, Warsaw-born countertenor Jakub Józef Orliński, partnered by pianist Michał Biel, offers a panorama of Polish song. Often nostalgic in spirit, the programme of the album spans 150 frequently turbulent years. “Michał and I started exploring the Polish art song repertoire when we were at the Juilliard School in ...
Composer: Henryk Czyz (1923-2003), Tadeusz Baird (1928-1981), Karol Szymanowski (1882-1937), Pawel Lukaszewski (1968), Mieczyslaw Karlowicz (1876-1909), Stanislaw Moniuszko (1819-1872)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Vocal
Future Shine represents Flor's most collaborative body of work to date. Feeling uninspired to write while alone during quarantine, Grace gathered his bandmates - Dylan Bauld [bass], McKinley Kitts [guitar], and Kyle Hill [drums] - at Bauld's Los Angeles studio for a series of writing sessions as soon as it became safe to do so. ...
Genre: Alternative
Subgenre: Indie Rock
Back From The Dead quickly evolved from songwriting exercises into a matter of survival for the band, taking the listener through ‘a journey of navigating mental health, debauchery, survival, redemption, and rediscovery, while still maintaining faith in humanity’ says frontwoman Lzzy Hale. The album features the title track which earned the band their ...
Genre: Rock
Subgenre: Hard Rock
Whitesnake's Greatest Hits is a compilation of Whitesnake's biggest hits from the 1980s. It features hit singles from their albums Slide It In, Whitesnake and Slip of the Tongue. Multi-platinum, legendary rock ‘n’ roll band Whitesnake, founded by singer and former DEEP PURPLE member David Coverdale, is embarking on a Farewell Tour to cap off a successful career spanning more than 40 years. ...
Genre: Rock
Subgenre: Hard Rock
Pianist and composer Tigran Hamasyan’s StandArt—his first album of American standards—is out now on Nonesuch Records. StandArt includes songs from the 1920s through the 1950s, by Richard Rodgers, Charlie Parker, Jerome Kern, David Raksin, and others; it also includes a piece Hamasyan improvised with his bandmates—bassist Matt Brewer and drummer Justin Brown—and trumpeter Ambrose ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Contemporary Jazz
Nils Wülker has advanced to become one of the most successful jazz trumpeters and composers in Europe over the past twenty years. In September 2021, Nils Wülker will produce his orchestral album CONTINUUM with new compositions of his own with the BR Munich Radio Orchestra, which will be released on Warner Musik in April 2022, as the twelfth album under his own name. ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Contemporary Jazz
Jade Warrior (2022 Remastered Edition)
Jade Warrior is the debut self-titled and self-produced album by Jade Warrior, released in 1971 as part of the progressive rock movement. The album sets the scene for what the majority of the band's albums were to sound like, mixing various ethnic sounds with a progressive and otherworldly sound, ...
Genre: Rock
Subgenre: Classic Rock
Last Autumn's Dream (2022 Remastered Edition)
Last Autumn's Dream is the third studio album by British band Jade Warrior. The album, released in 1972, yielded two singles, "A Winter's Tale" and "The Demon Trucker". Formed in 1970, Jade Warrior were one of the most original British bands to emerge during the Progressive Rock era. The first incarnation of Jade Warrior featured Tony Duhig (guitars) and Jon Field (flutes, percussion), ...
Genre: Rock
Subgenre: Classic Rock
The six-piece Finnish metal band Gladenfold creates an inherently Nordic-sounding blend of metal music rooted in the aggression and energy of melodic death metal while borrowing from the majesty of power metal and symphonic metal. On the third studio album "Nemesis" (2022), Gladenfold's music has evolved towards darker and more atmospheric landscapes, ...
Genre: Rock
Subgenre: Metal
Sangare' is renowned worldwide for her vibrant and powerful music, which often features revolutionary messages about women’s rights, tradition and poverty. In her 30 year career she has won numerous awards, counts among her many notable fans Alicia Keys and Beyoncé (who sampled the classic ‘Diaraby Nene’ for her 2019 Lion King ...
Genre: World Music
Subgenre: Worldbeat
here is a calm, serene spirituality about Ann Wilson in 2022 which instantly draws you to her. She feels like a warm, wise someone who has seen enough bullshit to know how to avoid it calmly, and someone who is at peace with whatever she needs to be at peace with. Perhaps that is why the soul (and, indeed title) of her latest album, Fierce Bliss ...
Genre: Rock
Subgenre: Modern Rock
Celebrated singer / songwriter, recording artist and entertainer Chris Janson announced earlier this year that his fourth studio album was due in the coming months. Today he reveals that All In will hit shelves and streaming services on Friday, April 29. The fully loaded, 16-track album features collaborations with Eric Church and Travis Tritt, as well as co-writes ...
Genre: Country
Subgenre: Alternative Country
Nearly sixty years after they first played together, Ry Cooder and Taj Mahal, longtime friends and collaborators, reunite with an album of music from two Piedmont blues masters who have inspired them all their lives: GET ON BOARD: THE SONGS OF SONNY TERRY & BROWNIE MCGHEE, out April 22, 2022 on Nonesuch Records. ...
Genre: Blues
Subgenre: Acoustic Blues
Just Like That ... is the first album in more than six years from the Rock And Roll Hall of Famer Bonnie Raitt. On her new album, Raitt continues to draw on all the influences that have shaped her legendary career, while at the same time creating something that articulates the circumstances and challenges that of these unprecedented times. ...
Genre: Blues
Subgenre: Electric Blues
Une nouvelle fête baroque (Live)
In November 2021, Emmanuelle Haïm led two celebratory charity concerts – one in Berlin, the other in her home city of Paris – to mark 20 years of her ensemble Le Concert d’Astrée. The music, mostly from operas, was by Handel, Rameau, Purcell, Vivaldi and Campra, and the spectacular line-up of vocal soloists included sopranos Natalie Dessay, Sabine ...
Composer: Jean Philippe Rameau (1683-1764), Andre Campra (1660-1744), Henry Purcell (1659-1695), Georg Friedrich Händel (1685-1759), Antonio Vivaldi (1678-1741)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Vocal
Janáček: Glagolitic Mass, Sinfonietta
Two life-affirming works from Leoš Janáček’s prodigious final years are performed by the Orchestre Philharmonique de Strasbourg under Marko Letonja, its Music Director from 2012 to 2021: the Glagolitic Mass, both monumental and exuberant, and the colourful, multi-faceted Sinfonietta. The vocal soloists are Malin Byström, Jennifer Johnston, ...
Composer: Leos Janacek (1854-1928)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Vocal
