Psalms and Motets from Renaissance Switzerland
In the middle of the 16th century, the Geneva Psalter infected the whole of Reformed Europe – Switzerland included – with a true psalm fever. The first complete collection of all 150 psalms, promoted by the Genevan reformer Jean Calvin, was published in 1562. The psalm verses were translated ...
Composer: Claude Goudimel (1514-1572)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Vocal
MIMS is delighted to premiere “Come Inside”, the second single lifted from Italian pianist, composer and producer, Nicola Guida’s forthcoming ‘Speleology’ album, due for release early next year on Inner Circle Music, the prestigious US label headed by sax legend Greg Osby. ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Mainstream Jazz
Irish Alternative Pop group Picture This release their 3rd full length album: Life In Colour. Picture This comment on the forthcoming album, “Our fans have been amazingly patient with us over the last two years and allowed us to get a body of work together that we feel is really worth the wait for them and we’re excited ...
Genre: Pop
Subgenre: Pop Rock
Grateful Dead (Skull & Roses) Live (Remaster 2021)
The Grateful Dead's self-titled 1971 live album is getting a remastered expanded edition for its 50th anniversary. Known by fans as Skull & Roses due to its iconic cover art (and as Skull Fuck, the band's proposed title, which was promptly rejected by the record company), ...
Genre: Rock
Subgenre: Classic Rock
Piazzolla: Aconcagua & Las Cuatro Estaciones Porteñas
The accordion is an instrument that is deeply rooted in Lithuanian folk music. Today, the accordion is also recognized as a versatile instrument of classical music, a change in perception that has largely been promoted by Martynas Levickis, one of the most internationally ...
Composer: Astor Piazzolla (1921-1992)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Concertos
When the world prevents you from going outside there’s no other choice but to lean inward. The old adage “It starts from within” takes on a whole new meaning during a global pandemic, a poignant theme that threads through Vancouver indie rock band Mother Mother’s eighth full-length ...
Genre: Alternative
Subgenre: Grunge
Multi-GRAMMY® Award winner Jennifer Nettles will expand her musical versatility with a much-anticipated genre defying new album of American Songbook classics, titled Always Like New from Concord Records. For this project, Nettles teamed up with GRAMMY® and Tony® Award-winning orchestrator ...
Genre: Pop
Subgenre: Pop Rock
There’s a story etched into the walls of the Grand Canyon. It’s a story of one disaster after another. Layer upon layer of landslides, mudslides, volcanos, droughts and floods. Yet, at the bottom of that valley, the Colorado River snakes its way through ...
Genre: World Music
Subgenre: Gospel
"Francisco Tárrega. How did the Romantic music in" Spanish Guitar "change through the work of guitarists who were active at the same time as him, who is called the father of modern guitar playing, such as Ferrer, Bosch, Manhon, and Mrs. Platten? I will look at it. ...
Composer: Manuel de Falla, José Ferrer, Sidney Pratten, Francisco Tárrega, Ángel Barrios, Francisco Calleja, José Brocá, Luis Soria, Trinidad Huerta, Julián Arcas, Jacques Bosch, Antonio Jimenez Manjón
Genre: Guitar
Subgenre: Classical Guitar
For the first time on HIGHRESAUDIO – of the Smithsonian Institution’s 1981 recording of Victor Herbert’s Naughty Marietta, starring Judith Blazer and Leslie Harrington and conducted by James R. Morris. s greatest achievement and a classic American operetta, ...
Composer: Victor Herbert
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Opera
In 2018, the Styriarte Festival in Graz launched, in collaboration with Zefiro, a project to rediscover the operatic output of the Styrian composer Johann Joseph Fux (1660-1741), Kapellmeister at the imperial court in Vienna for forty years, with the aim of restaging six of his nineteen ...
Composer: Johann Joseph Fux (1660-1741)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Vocal
The extreme social trauma that followed The Great War of 1914--18 engulfed Europe. In this context, English composer Frank Bridge is an intriguing figure: his musical language transformed to embrace a radically new harmonic style. ...
Composer: Maurice Ravel (1875-1937), Benjamin Britten (1913-1976), Alban Berg (1885-1935), Frank Bridge (1879-1941)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Instrumental
Asi de Simple (Live at Studio de l'Hermitage)
In this album he takes with him an exceptional cast: Pierre de Bethmann on the piano, Felipe Cabrera on the double bass, Lukmil Pérez on drums or the flautist Naïssam Jalal, the singer Aminata Doumbia, the trumpet player Nicolas Folmer and the guitarist Sandro Zerafa. ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Latin Jazz
This Valette is one of the most stupendous geniuses we have and his music is stupendous too. This is how the famed Sebastian de Brossard introduces his contemporary composer Joseph Valette de Montigny. Though acknowledged for its qualities, Montigny’s music has very ...
Composer: Joseph Valette de Montigny (1665-1736)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Vocal
The City of Tomorrow releases Blow, a collection of three works for wind quintet, anchored by the premiere of a multi-movement work written for them by Hannah Lash. Guided by their virtuosity and commitment to polished interpretation, the album is an exploration of finely crafted compositions that ...
Composer: Esa-Pekka Salonen (1958-), Franco Donatoni (1927-2000), Hannah Lash
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
Széchényi: Waltzes & Hungarian Marches
Count Imre Széchényi of Sárvár-Felsővidék was a highly regarded Austro-Hungarian diplomat and politician who counted Johann Strauss as a lifelong friend, and whose dances were popular and much in demand in his day. Széchényi composed waltzes throughout his creative period, but only a few of these ...
Composer: Imre Széchényi (1825–1898)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Instrumental
From yin and yang to public debate, much in the world revolves around opposing forces. POLARITIES VOL. 2, an album of new presentations in classical music, documents the intricacies of these forces, expressing the emotions, sensations, and scenes associated with the extreme ends of conversation and change. ...
Composer: Margaret Brandman, Beth Mehocic, Larry Wallach, Kamala Sankaram, Mel Mobley, Brian Latchem
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Orchestra
Giardini: 6 Sonatas for Flute & Harpsichord
New to the catalogue, delightful chamber music by an Italian celebrity of 18th-century London. Almost completely unknown now, the six Sonatas for transverse flute and basso continuo by Felice Giardini (1716-1796), published in London late in 1751, were the first works of their ...
Composer: Felice Giardini (1716-1796)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
Each one of Bohuslav Martinů’s (1890-1959) three cello sonatas belongs to a significant period or event in his life. Composed in May 1939, the first seems indelibly marked by the tension and anxiety which gripped Europe in the months before war broke out, though the composer was also going ...
Composer: Bohuslav Martinu (1890-1959)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
Picchi: Complete Harpsichord Music and Other Venetian Gems
The only complete survey available of the keyboard music written by a forward-looking contemporary of Monteverdi. Giovanni Picchi (1572-1643) flourished in Venice, notably as the organist at the Scuola di San Rocco. He became renowned as a composer of both secular and sacred music, attested by his presence ...
Composer: Giovanni Picchi (1572-1643)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
