Johann Sebastian Bach never composed a concerto or solo piece for the Waldhorn. Here and there, it is true, he wrote some wonderful passages for the valveless horn of his day – in the Brandenburg Concerto no.1, the Mass in B minor and just a few of his cantatas. ...
Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Concertos
Clifford Crawley: Moods & Miniatures
Canadian composer Clifford Crawley (1929-2016) is known for his command of a wide range of styles and the way he used them for both serious and playful purposes. He often said that he wrote for performers and audiences, hoping to move them, to reach them not just intellectually but as feelingful ...
Composer: Clifford Crawley (1929-2016)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
Jazz trumpeter Willie Bradley is a GRAMMY-nominated artist and has been a featured instrumentalist with some of the mot influential jazz musicians of all-time, including Dizzy Gillespie, Clark Terry, Frank Foster, Max Roach, Betty Carter, Gerald Albright, Walter Beasley, ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Smooth Jazz
J.S. Bach: Concertos for Violin & Flute
How would have Bach composed if he had had access to modern instrumentarium: a violin with Tourte’s bow that produces a higher volume of sound, a trumpet with an entire chromatic scale or a contemporary grand piano? Would he be inspired by the art of virtuosos of today, ...
Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Concertos
Pioneers of Percussion, Vol. 1
The new recording from percussionist Joby Burgess includes ambient electronics fused with mellow vibraphone, explosive cinematic drumming and the delicate muted sounds of 1960’s New York. ..
Composer: Linda Buckley (1979), Morton Feldman (1926–1987), Iannis Xenakis (1922–2001)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Instrumental
U.S.-based Polish pianist Elzbieta Bilicka has been praised for organic combination of thought and emotion. This can be keenly felt in this evocative program Lights & Shadows. Elzbieta Bilicka was born in Slupsk (Poland). In 2011 she finished the music school in her hometown and passed her ...
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Instrumental
Nir Popliker is a guitarist and composer. He plays in Israel with major artists such as Korin Allal and Eric Berman. Popliker is an educator and holds a senior teaching position in the distinguished Campus Arison For The Preforming Arts in Tel-Aviv, Conducting and arranging for large jazz ensembles as well as teaching guitar, music theory and ...
Genre: Songwriter
Subgenre: New Acoustic
With her second album SODA, Belia Winnewisser continues on the path she has been following for quite some time. Few share the Swiss artist’s knack for combining a sensibility to the enthusiastic potential of pop with an interest in niche references of experimental sound design. In recent years, her feel for this fusion brought Winnewisser ...
Genre: Electronic
Subgenre: Electro-Pop
A journey through music of different eras performed with great sensitivity by violist Krzysztof Komendarek-Tymendorf. The album title, 'Quantum of Silence' implies a sound in which there is silence or a vacuum to be filled, alludes to his focus on creating music not only via ...
Composer: Heinrich Ignaz Franz Biber, Aram Ilich Khachaturian, Tadeusz Dixa, Maciej Zimka, Kamil Cieślik, Magdalena Kurdziel, Marek Czerniewicz, Krzysztof Penderecki, Anna Rocławska-Musiałczyk
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
The world of music has raved for more than a decade over Klaus Paier, an accordionist from Austria, and Asja Valcic, a cellist from Croatia. The German trade periodical “Jazzthing” praised “how timelessly and genre-transcending the duo makes music while taking jazz as its basis. Listening to one another, ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Crossover Jazz
Mit seinem neuen Album "Der Teufel nimmt nur Bares" taucht Micha Schlüter in unterschiedliche Klangwelten ein. Dabei verbindet er Elemente verschiedener Genres miteinander. Garage-punkige Folksongs treffen auf düstere Barmusik am Klavier. ...
Genre: Songwriter
Subgenre: Folk Rock
Glint, a solo project, founded by musician and producer Martin Stehl, is focussing on creating original tunes in the genre of Deep House, Chillout & Ambient. Always fond of well-made songs, his earliest interest lay in creating and producing songs in the Pop music genre for over a decade while becoming more relevant ...
Genre: Electronic
Subgenre: Electro-Pop
Awakening is the title of tenor Robert Pohlers' solo debut album on GENUIN. Together with his pianist Friedrich Praetorius, he brings to life a unique compilation of lieder by Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy: Songs of Nature, Life, and Love, sung mainly from the new edition of the Saxon Academy ...
Composer: Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy (1809-1847)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Vocal
Mahler: Symphony No. 3 in D Minor (Live)
Gustav Mahler's Third Symphony still ranks today as one of the greatest and most powerful creations of the Late Romantic period. The huge symphony, longer and more monumental than the others and containing texts from the collection of poems by Clemens Brentano and Achim von Arnim entitled ...
Composer: Gustav Mahler (1860 – 1911)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Orchestral
Recorded in Feburary 2020 at the Philharmonie de Paris / La Seine Musicale. Gautier Capuçon says: “In music, in life, communication is the essence of everything and of anything... You share something.” ...
Composer: Christophe, Sergei Prokofiev, Arvo Pärt, David Popper, Justin Hurwiz
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Concertos
Castelnuovo-Tedesco: Guitar Chamber Music
A monograph on the chamber music for guitar by Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco is not a new operation, nor is it particularly original: the numbers of works that the Maestro be-queathed to the six strings significantly occupy the entire last season of the Florentine composer’s life and work. ...
Composer: Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco (1895-1968)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
Con arte e maestria: Virtuoso violin ornamentation from the Italian Baroque
"The decades around 1600 bore witness to the flourishing of a remarkable musical tradition: the art of diminution, in which simple melodies were given exquisitely virtuosic embellishments, effectively creating new works. One such creation, Francesco Rognoni’s ornamentation ...
Composer: Giovanni Bassano (1557-1617), Cipriano de Rore (1516-1565), Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina (1525-1594), Ascanio Mayone (1570-1627), Biagio Marini (1597-1665), Thomas Crecquillon (1505-1557), Orlando di Lasso (1532-1594), Giovanni Gabrieli (1557-1612)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
Nicola Sani: Tempestate & Other Works
The dramaturgy of the perception of the work in time and space, with a clearly evident attention to the instrumental emission. Sani does not come back. He does not sterilize art music in a smug, celibate stylistic game with the risk of marginalizing it, in the context of global reception, ...
Composer: Nicola Sani (1961)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Orchestral
Using custom re-fretted guitars, Mak Grgic revolutionizes the standard repertoire with Renaissance & Baroque historical tunings, and premiering newly commissioned works that explore notes that have, quite simply, never been heard on the guitar before. ...
Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750), Mak Grgić
Genre: Guitar
Subgenre: Classical Guitar
All of the works gathered on this album have - as different as they may be - one thing in common: they can be heard in the popular and idealized folk tone popular in the Romantic period. Whether Schumann's Fantasiestücke or Schubert's Arpeggione Sonata, ...
Composer: Robert Schumann (1810–1856), Paul Juon (1872–1940), Franz Schubert (1797–1828):, Edvard Grieg (1843–1907)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
