Cities and Deserts started as fragments of songs written by Gabriel Zucker primarily in New York City during 2018 and 2019. It became a completed suite of music in 2020, in the New Mexico desert, at the height of the Covid 19 pandemic. The album features pianist Gabriel Zucker and percussionist Attila Gyarfas. Attila Gyárfás and Gabriel Zucker have been making music since they met in 2017 in New York. ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Contemporary Jazz
Isolation, nostalgia, a sense of not belonging, and living in the in-between are themes that have long resided in Roxana Amed’s songs. The Argentinean singer/songwriter’s latest full-length, Ontology, released by Sony Music Latin, is the culmination of a six-year journey filled with similar ruminations, leading Amed to reaffirm a musical ....
Genre: Latin
Subgenre: Latin Jazz
Beethoven: Symphony No. 7 in A Major, Op. 92
Their recording of Beethoven’s Symphony No. 7 is the long-awaited sister-recording to Teodor Currentzis’ and musicAeterna’s Beethoven Symphony No. 5 album. Recorded at the Vienna Konzerthaus in August 2018, both albums are the Russia-based musicians’ seminal ...
Composer: Ludwig van Beethoven
Genre: Classical
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Meridian 71 is a cross-cultural music project created and led by Giuseppe since 2012. The project name comes from Boston's longitude: the 71st meridian that passes precisely through the eastern part of the city. Their third album features original compositions by Giuseppe who performs with an eclectic and multicultural ensemble of well- ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Contemporary Jazz
The Human Condition (Deluxe Edition)
As the world plummeted into the COVID-19 pandemic, the four members of Black Stone Cherry were nestled deep in the woods of Kentucky, scrambling to complete their 7th album. There, they could feel the disease closing in as they watched the news daily, and it became apparent the album they were finishing featured lyrics that were eerily prescient. ...
Genre: Rock
Subgenre: Blues Rock
James leads a cast of London’s finest improvisers: pianist Bruno Heinen (Denys Baptiste); bassist Tom McCredie (Elliot Galvin); and drummer Shane Forbes (Empirical). They play James' compositions which draw influences from the variety of musical worlds he traverses; from jazz, to chamber music, to contemporary folk. ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Mainstream Jazz
For this program, Duo Diversitas has selected or created sophisticated arrangements that embody virtuosity and musical expression. In focusing on great composers of the 18th and 19th centuries, Marisa Minder and Evgeniya Spalinger explore the artistic refinement, lyrical grace and technical sophistication of the guitar and flute. The one original work for this combination is Hans Haug's ...
Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750), Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791), Franz Schubert (1797-1828), Gioacchino Rossini (1792-1868), Franz Liszt (1811-1886), Peter Iljitsch Tschaikowsky (1840-1893), Fritz Kreisler (1875-1962), Hans Haug (1900-1967)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Instrumental
Arnold, Schönberger & Gipps: Horn Concertos
This recording not only celebrates multiple centenaries of Malcolm Arnold, Ruth Gipps and Dennis Brain (the dedicatee of the Arnold concerto) who were all born in 1921 - but also three composers whose musical language and worlds bear striking similarities. Both Arnold and Gipps were writing at a time when the grain of musical fashion was going against them. ...
Composer: Malcolm Arnold (1921-2006), Ruth Gipps (1921-1999), Arnold Schönberger (1874-1951)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Concertos
For years, the sounds of our instruments – piano and harp – have intermingled every Wednesday in the music school where we teach. We only had one hallway to cross to form a duo … And it was done in 2016 during the teachers’ concert. Thus was born the Duo Emaho (meaning wonder in Tibetan). ...
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Instrumental
After releasing their vibrant fifth studio album,Viridian in 2020, TEMPERANCE – maestros of modern melodic/symphonic metal delight their devotees with the persuasivnew offering Diamanti, to be released on November 19, 2021 via Napalm Records. With Diamanti, the exceptionally skilled Italian outfit once again showcases their ...
Genre: Rock
Subgenre: Metal
Genesis of Genius: The Contemporary Recordings (Remastered)
Continuing Contemporary Records’ 70th anniversary celebration, Craft Recordings is proud to announce the release of the double album, "Ornette Coleman – Genesis of Genius: The Contemporary". Largely avoided by his colleagues on the L.A. jazz scene in the late 1950s, Coleman (March 9, 1930 – June 11, 2015) found an open door at Contemporary Records, where the label’s founder Lester Koenig was intrigued by his melodic sensibility and ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Avantgarde Jazz
The sixth album Konstantin Gropper mulls over the words carefully as he contemplates the imminent release of AMEN, his latest full-length release as GET WELL SOON. “It’s the pandemic album, of course!” His isn’t the first, and it won’t be the last, but AMEN – much of it written and recorded since the world was forced to shut down in his private basement and an isolated holiday ...
Genre: Alternative
Subgenre: Indie Rock
Following her triumphs on the stages of the Salzburg and Bayreuth festivals and at Covent Garden, Asmik Grigorian now belongs to the world’s vocal elite. She joins Alpha Classics for several projects and presents here her very first recital, devoted to one of her favourite composers, Sergei Rachmaninov. ...
Composer: Sergey Rachmaninov (1873–1943)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Vocal
Vanessa Wagner continues her exploration of the minimalist repertoire by introducing her audience to pieces, many rare or unpublished, by acclaimed composers, young pianists, and genre-bending personalities from the ambient and electronic scenes. In France or even Europe, Vanessa Wagner is practically the only classical pianist to tackle ...
Composer: Suzanne Ciani (b.1946), Harold Budd (b.1936), Bryce Dessner (b.1976), David Lang (b.1957), Roger Eno (b.1959), Brian Eno (b.1948), Philip Glass (b.1937), Julia Wolfe (b.1958), Caroline Shaw (b.1982), Moondog (1916-1999), Timo Andres (b.1985), Peter Garland (b.1952), Nico Muhly (b.1981), Ezio Bosso (1971-2020), Melaine Dalibert (b.1979)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Minimalism
These young musicians from Egypt, Turkey, Portugal and Italy bridge the distance between the shores and sonic worlds of a rapidly changing region. Their first album, recorded in Paris, blends both timbres and backgrounds in a unique artistic collaboration with Festival d’Aix-en-Provence, supported by Abu Dhabi Festival ....
Genre: Jazz
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Born in 1994, bassoonist Mathis Stier not only won second prize at the 2019 ARD Competition, but was also awarded the coveted Audience Prize. Mathis Stier has a natural affinity with the music of the 18th century and the three works which he has chosen for his ALPHA debut demonstrate its principal characteristics: Baroque, ...
Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750), Johann Wilhelm Hertel (1727-1789), Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Concertos
Timothy Hopkins, born in 1995, is a German/American cellist living in Germany. A special interest for him lies in performing arrangements and transcriptions of pieces from other instrument’s literatures to the cello. Examples are his own arrangement of the Chaconne from the second violin Partita by ...
Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750), Camille Saint-Saens (1835-1921), Niccolo Paganini (1782-1840), Cesar Franck (1822-1890)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
Sibelius: Symphony No. 2 in D Major, Op. 43, Symphony No. 4 in A Minor, Op. 63
Sibelius’s 2nd symphony of 1902 represents a big step forward in his development as a symphonist. The presence of Tchaikovsky in the 1st symphony has receded, and the big themes, though present, are not so much big statements, but thematic fragments driven by harmonic tensions through which the composer takes the listener on an eventful journey. ...
Composer: Jean Sibelius (1865-1957)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Orchestral
After 30 years living in the US, between Las Vegas and Los Angeles, Matt Goss has decided it's time to return home to London. Goss' new solo album "The Beautiful Unknown" will launch an exciting new solo chapter in the British pop music legend's career, following a resurgence of recognition off the back of 2018's BAFTA winning documentary After The ...
Genre: Pop
Subgenre: Pop Rock
Anarchy and Unity (Bonus Track Edition)
UK rockers VEGA are back with “Anarchy and Unity,” their seventh studio album overall and the culmination of a string of releases which started in 2009 with their debut album “Kiss of Life”. The new album, while not a departure from the band’s defined and classy sound, shows a band determined, mature, and ready for the next ...
Genre: Rock
Subgenre: Hard Rock
