“Everything works to illuminate the music," wrote The Times of Love and Death, Martin James Bartlett’s debut recital on Warner Classics. The young British pianist has now recorded two celebrated rhapsodies for piano and orchestra, both from the ‘art deco’ period of the 20th century: Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue and Rachmaninoff’s Rhapsody on a Theme of ...
Composer: George Gershwin (1898–1937), Sergey Rachmaninov (1873–1943), Earl Wild (1915–2010)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Concertos
Singer/songwriter Cécile McLorin Salvant makes her Nonesuch Records debut with today's release of Ghost Song. The new album features a diverse mix of seven originals and five interpretations on the themes of ghosts, nostalgia, and yearning. Salvant says, “It’s unlike anything I’ve done before—it’s getting closer to reflecting my personality as an eclectic curator.
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Vocal
Beautifully melancholic: musical expeditions, graceful, flowing and deeply emotionally moving, are bundled by Jacob Karlzon on his new album "Wanderlust". The beauties of his piano melodies and harmonies are like psalms, like vocal lines that draw from rich compositional history, yet turn entirely to the now. "Wanderlust" breathes hope and
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Contemporary Jazz
ALL THAT OUR MOTHERS HAVE FOUGHT is a collection of contemporary, Norwegian choral works portraying strong women. The music illustrate some of the many storms that women have had to – and still have to – weather. They tell stories about the women’s suffrage movement, about a Syrian student risking her life to complete ...
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Choral
On her new album FOR YOU, the multi-award-winning Olivia Trummer shows all her virtuosity as a composer and interpreter. Her rich musical imagination, her feeling for improvisation and harmonies and her expressive voice - everything fits together here. Not to forget the top-class musician colleagues playing along. A remarkable jazz album. ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Contemporary Jazz
Taking influence from an assortment of arenas panning from post-punk, darkwave, goth rock and punk rock, Leeds-based KLAMMER embrace all things dark, loud, angular and melodic. The popular quartet have meticulously crafted a hugely distinctive sound that is crammed with integrity, loaded with dark pop sensibilities, and ...
Genre: Rock
Subgenre: Hard Rock
Echo & The Bunnymen formed in Liverpool back in 1978, with Ian McCulloch on vocals, Will Sergeant on guitar, bassist Les Pattinson with Pete De Freitas on drums. Their first release came in the form of the single The Pictures On My Wall, with the B-side Read It In Books. Both tracks would appear on their debut album Crocodiles, ...
Genre: Pop
Subgenre: Pop Rock
Songs to Learn & Sing (Remastered)
Songs to Learn & Sing is a compilation album by Echo & the Bunnymen which was released on 11 November 1985 and featured all of the singles the band had released up to that point. ECHO & THE BUNNYMEN were formed in Liverpool in 1978 with Ian McCulloch on vocals and rhythm guitar, ...
Genre: Pop
Subgenre: Pop Rock
Originally released in May 1984, Ocean Rain itself, features the original album which includes the singles 'The Killing Moon', 'Silver' and 'Seven Seas'. The second LP contains eight bonus tracks, The band wrote most of the songs for Ocean Rain in 1983. Then in early 1984 they started sessions for the album in Les Studio des Dames and Studio ...
Genre: Pop
Subgenre: Pop Rock
Newly remastered (2021) Echo & The Bunnymen first released the single The Back Of Love in 1982, nearly nine months before the album’s release in 1983. It became the band’s first UK top 20 single as well as charting in Ireland. It led to the release of Porcupine in 1983, with Ian Broudie, who would later form The Lightning Seeds, returning to production duties ...
Genre: Pop
Subgenre: Pop Rock
Today, eight-time GRAMMY Award-nominated multi-platinum singer, songwriter, designer, and philanthropist Avril Lavigne has announced her new album. Love Sux, due out February 25, 2022 – Available for pre-order HERE, via Travis Barker‘s DTA Records. The 12-track album is Avril‘s seventh studio album and marks the first new music to be ...
Genre: Rock
Subgenre: Adult Alternative
Younger At Most Everything, coming to Team Love Records February 25th, 2022, is a collection of deeply personal songs that reads like a map of Morgan’s spiritual evolution. From child of evangelical Christianity to existentially paralyzed adolescent, drunken romantic to neurotic but industrious artist, Younger takes listeners on a bumpy journey ...
Genre: Songwriter
Subgenre: Contemporary
EDEN is an invitation to return to our roots.It is an overture to engage with the sheer perfection of the world around us,to consider if we are connecting as profoundly as we can to the pure essence of our being.It is a clarion call to contemplate if our collective suffering isn’t perhaps linked to the aching separation from something primal within and ...
Composer: Charles Ives (1874-1954), Rachel Portman (1960), Gustav Gustav Mahler (1860-1911), Biagio Marini (1597-1665), Josef Myslivecek (1737-1781), Aaron Copland (1900-1990), Giovanni Valentini (1582-1649), Pietro Francesco Cavalli (1602-1676), Christoph Willibald Gluck (1714-1787), Georg Friedrich Händel (1685-1759)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Vocal
After her celebrated band Purson played its final gig in late 2016, singer/songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Rosalie branched out into a successful solo career. Her self-titled debut album issued in 2019 was acclaimed by both critics and fans. Alongside her debut album, Rosalie’s live performances confirmed that she was a highly creative force and this is confirmed still ...
Genre: Songwriter
Subgenre: Contemporary
Johnny Marr started his career with The Smiths, beginning an amazing history as one of the most influential songwriters and guitarists in British independent music. His subsequent creative journey has seen him at the heart of The The, Electronic, Modest Mouse and The Cribs, as well as working with such names as The Pretenders, Talking Heads, ...
Genre: Rock
Subgenre: Adult Alternative
"Standstill" is a collection of more reflective works portraying a personal navigation through the COVID-19 pandemic. After the world came to a sudden standstill, these 5 tracks vaguely follow a timeline of the changing climate surrounding the journey, attempting to gauge the general feeling in the air from the constraints of lockdown. ...
Composer: Danny Keane
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Nu Jazz
Charlie is the most senior member of the legendary New Orleans Jazz ensemble, Preservation Hall Jazz Band. Charlie’s first professional gig dates to 1943, sitting in for his father in New Orleans’ Eureka Brass Band. As a teenager living in Detroit, Charlie played with Lionel Hampton, whose band just then also included a young ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Trad. Jazz
Mozart: Complete Piano Sonatas
Elisabeth Leonskaja is one of the most celebrated pianists of our time, remaining true to herself and to her music, and in doing so, is following in the footsteps of the great Russian musicians of the Soviet era, such as Sviatoslav Richter and Emil Gilels."A kaleidoscopic Mozart with a lifetime's wisdom and experience behind it" according to ...
Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Instrumental
The Beauty Seems Close, But Is So Far Away (Deluxe)
Jean Lucas is a young rising piano player from the Netherlands. He has been writing neoclassical piano pieces for a number of years and took a deep dive to carefully record all his ideas. After playing in numerous acts for several years, I restarted composing my own neo-classical pieces in the winter of 2018. Getting inspired by everyday things ...
Composer: Jean Lucas
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Instrumental
