Shaped by pianist Andrew von Oeyen’s experience of lockdown, this solo recital comprises Bach’s eight-movement Overture in the French Style BWV 831, Beethoven’s Piano Sonatas No 13 in E flat and No 23 in F minor, ‘Appassionata’, and arrangements by Wilhelm Kempff of two movements that Bach wrote ...
Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach, Ludwig van Beethoven
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Instrumental
Brandon’s music feels like a lot of different things—often all at once. In some ways, it’s like your childhood best friend disclosing an important truth by the glow of a beach bonfire. In other ways, it’s like the moment you stop worrying about what other people think and can laugh and smile anywhere without apology. ...
Genre: Songwriter
Subgenre: New Acoustic
I'm Only Dancing (The Soul Tour 74 Live) (Remastered)
"I'm Only Dancing (The Soul Tour 74)" is a live album by English musician David Bowie. It was recorded on the second half of the Diamond Dogs Tour in 1974, which is known as "the Soul Tour" due to the influence of the then-unreleased material Bowie had begun recording for Young Americans (1975). ...
Genre: Pop
Subgenre: Pop Rock
“This is our seventh record, the significant numerology of which affected the DNA of its content: the seven virtues, the seven sorrows, and the seven deadly sins,” says the band’s iconic frontwoman Shirley Manson of the album and its twists and turns from capitalism and lust to loss and grief. ...
Genre: Rock
Subgenre: Adult Alternative
Virginia-based indie pop/rock duo Vacation Manor —Nathan Towles and Cole Young—share new single “Parachute” from their upcoming self-titled debut album, out June 11th. On Vacation Manor, the duo stitch together shared and personal experiences in a patchwork of vibrant and vivid alternative anthems ...
Genre: Alternative
Subgenre: Indie Rock
Van Dyke Parks orchestrates Verónica Valerio: Only in America
A collaboration album between recording artist and arranger Van Dyke Parks and harpist and poet Verónica Valerio. This record is a Chamber-music Suite of Songs of the Yucatan, featuring the poetry of Verónica Valerio and orchestrated by Van Dyke Parks. Starting with a new arrangement of Agustin Lara’s classic "Veracruz," ...
Composer: Agustín Lara, Van Dyke Parks, Verónica Valerio
Genre: Latin
Subgenre: Latin Jazz
Trio Mediæval’s collection of hymns and lullabies - intimate songs as old as time and as new as tomorrow: this is music with no boundaries, celebrating our common humanity. We’ll never know the first song or the first singer, and we’ll never know what they sang about. But if time could unwind and we could hear it, ...
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Mediaeval
Written and recorded over the course of 2020, YEAR OF LOVE sees the Wilmington, NC-based duo – Benjamin “Ben” Mabry and Brent Holloman – taking a moment to breathe in life’s simplest inspiration and, ultimately, urging everyone else to do the same. The album collects songs first featured on Beta Radio’s ...
Genre: Songwriter
Subgenre: Contemporary
New remaster! "Sabotage" is the sixth studio album by English rock band Black Sabbath, released in July 1975. It was recorded in the midst of litigation with their former manager Patrick Meehan. The stress that resulted from the band's ongoing legal woes infiltrated the recording process, ...
Genre: Rock
Subgenre: Metal
Variations on a Melancholy Theme
Brad Mehldau’s Variations on a Melancholy Theme will be released June 11, 2021, on Nonesuch Records. The recording features the pianist/composer and Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, which commissioned this orchestral version of the work, which comprises a theme and eleven variations plus a cadenza and postlude; ...
Composer: Brad Mehldau
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Crossover Jazz
Classical Piano Essentials (Chopin, Schumann, Mozart, Satie, Bach, Beethoven)
Ron Adelaar is a Dutch-based pianist and composer of neoclassical, meditative piano compositions. Besides that he is A&R manager at Andante Piano, sublabel of Disruptive Records run by his son Ivo Adelaar. Ron had an early introduction to piano music, as he started his career at the age of 13 ...
Composer: Frédéric Chopin, Robert Schumann, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Erik Satie, Johann Sebastian Bach, Ludwig van Beethoven
Genre: Instrumental
Subgenre: Piano
“For my project, “The Mozart Nyman Concert”, I chose two tremendous and highly esteemed composers: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Michael Nyman. Both have accompanied and fascinated me since my youth. Mozart’s piano compositions occupy a large and important place ...
Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791), Michael Nyman (1944)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Instrumental
Little Girl Blue (2021 - Stereo Remaster)
Little Girl Blue, released in 1957, was Nina Simone's first recording, originally issued on the Bethlehem label. Backed by bassist Jimmy Bond and Albert "Tootie" Heath, it showcases her ballad voice as one of mystery and sensuality and showcases her up-tempo jazz style with authority and an enigmatic down-home feel ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Vocal
Mandolinist, singer, and songwriter Chris Thile’s Laysongs will be released on Nonesuch Records on June 4, 2021. The album is his first truly solo album: just Thile, his voice, and his mandolin, on new recordings of six original songs and three covers, all of which contextualize ...
Genre: Songwriter
Subgenre: Contemporary
Los Angeles based alt-pop act “Royal & the Serpent” is pure thrill and worthy of addiction. With boundary-pushing lyrics and palpable energy, her onstage spirit is infectious. The duality she expresses makes her both relatable and captivating, as she unapologetically shares a full spectrum of experience – from royal soul to luring serpent. ...
Genre: Rock
Subgenre: Adult Alternative
22-year-old singer, songwriter, and guitarist Quinn Sullivan is set to release WIDE AWAKE, his new studio album, via Mascot Label Group. A rare artist who's always sounded older than his years, Sullivan has been touring the world since he ...
Genre: Blues
Subgenre: Bluesy Rock
For The Culture is the name of the new album from musician, producer, and dub master Alborosie. The double A side feature, Never Let Me Down is Alborosie's latest nod to "420" and the global celebrations (each April 20th) around the legalization and use of marijuana. A lyric video dubbed a ‘visual-i-Jah’ ...
Genre: World Music
Subgenre: Worldbeat
Our Meanings and Our Feelings (Remastered)
France reedman Michel Portal has the unique position of being one of the architects of modern European jazz and having a hand in some of the most significant shifts in modern classical music. Portal, along with pianist Francois Tusques, trumpeter Bernard Vitet, drummer Charles Saudrais and tenorman Barney Wilen, ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Contemporary Jazz
