Tchaikovsky: Symphonies Nos. 2 & 4
Principal Conductor and Music Director of the Tonhalle-Orchester Zürich since October 2019, Paavo Järvi continues his complete cycle of Tchaikovsky’s symphonies, following a first volume devoted to Symphony no.5 and the symphonic poem Francesca da Rimini. This second volume features Symphonies nos. 2 and 4....
Composer: Peter Iljitsch Tschaikowsky (1840-1893)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Orchestral
The violinist Thomas Albertus Irnberger, the cellist David Geringas and the pianist Barbara Moser play piano trios by female composers of the 19th and 20th centuries. Amy Marcy Beach artfully combines French modernity with late romantic and American folklore elements in her trio from 1938, ...
Composer: Louise Farrenc (1804-1875), Mélanie Hélène Bonis (1858-1937), Amy Marcy Beach (1867-1944), Sonja Eckhardt-Gramatté (1899-1974), Julia Frances Smith (1905-1989)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
Exzellentes Album zum 450. Geburtstag von Michael Praetorius: In seiner Werksammlung »Terpsichore«, benannt nach der Muse des Tanzes in der griechischen Mythologie, sammelte der deutsche Komponist Michael Praetorius (1571–1621) alle gängigen Tanz-Hits seiner Zeit und arrangierte ...
Composer: Michael Praetorius (1571-1621), Pierre Guedron (1565-1621), Claude Le Jeune (1528-1600), Thoinot Arbeau (1519-1595), Jehan Chardavoine (1537-1580), Adrian Le Roy (1520-1598), Clement Janequin (1472-1559)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
UK singer-songwriter veteran Joan Armatrading is releasing her 22nd studio album in June. The record label describes Armatrading's new album in a press release as an "intrinsically intimate" look at "love in it's many guises," something we hear in the invigorating-yet-vulnerable single "Already There. ...
Genre: Songwriter
Subgenre: Contemporary
The Utrecht based record label TRPTK – well known for its high quality releases – announces that the CD release ‘Canto Interno’ will take place on June 18, 2021. Great news for lovers of classical music! ‘Double bassist Luis Cabrera (Spain, 1985) plays with many well-known European orchestras ...
Composer: Serge Koussevitzky (1874-1951), César Franck (1822-1890), Giovanni Bottesini (1821-1889)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
BLKBOK is a neo-classical piano prodigy from Detroit who uses his dexterous arrangements and melodic scores to audibly illustrate experience, that of his own, and his community’s across pivotal moments in American history to the larger human condition. ... BLKBOK is a neo-classical piano prodigy from Detroit who uses his dexterous arrangements and melodic scores to audibly illustrate experience, that of his own, and his community’s across pivotal moments in American history to the larger human condition. ...
Genre: Instrumental
Subgenre: Piano
A post-classical coming of agency album inspired by #BLM featuring songs of resistance and resilience for violin, voice, and electronics with five tracks. The album is comprised of original compositions and reimagined works by Charlie Parker, J.S. Bach, Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson, Childish Gambino, John Coltrane, ...
Composer: Coleridge Taylor-Perkinson, Curtis Stewart, Charlie Parker, J. Rosamond Johnson, Eugène-Auguste Ysaÿe, Meg Pickarski, Elektra Kurtis-Stewart, Johann Sebastian Bach, Ludvig Van Beethoven, Charles Mingus, John Coltrane, Stevie Wonder
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Classical Crossover
You never know what you’ve got until it’s gone. So goes the idiom describing our lack of appreciation for people and things until we lose them. And what about music? What about our experiences? Over a year into a pandemic, and I’m certainly missing live shows. ...
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
Peter and I started playing music together in grade school in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, in a blues trio called Soup, and by 1978 we found ourselves in New York playing in a new band, called the dB’s. After two records together, Stands For deciBels and Repercussion, we went our separate ways for a while—Peter continuing on with the dB’s, ...
Genre: Songwriter
Subgenre: Folk Rock
SOMM Recordings celebrates the 10th anniversary of the acclaimed piano duo Julian Jacobson and Mariko Brown with Manhattan to Montmartre, dazzling keyboard arrangements of American giants George Gershwin and Leonard Bernstein. Receiving first recordings are Jacobson’s own joyfully virtuosic transcriptions ...
Composer: George Gershwin (1898-1937), Leonard Bernstein (1918-1990)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Instrumental
Eilífur (Eternal) is Icelandic contemporary composer Viktor Orri Árnason’s solo debut and first PENTATONE album, on which the prospect of living forever is contemplated. Sparked by the realisation that medical advances will soon eradicate death by natural causes, Eilífur weaves together a lucid, near-future narrative via a combination ...
Composer: Viktor Orri Árnason
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Classical Crossover
"Je m'abandonne à vous" Songs on poems by Henriette de Coligny, Comtesse de La Suze
Henriette de Coligny, Comtesse de La Suze, was more than just a woman of letters admired in her time, even by the very demanding Boileau. It was as a free woman that she married for love; after the death of her husband, a second one was forced on her, but, still a free woman, she demanded ...
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Vocal
Mozart: Violin Concertos Nos. 3 & 5, Symphony No. 29
Swiss violinist Sebastian Bohren, whose star is rapidly in the ascendant, makes his AVIE label debut with two concertos from Mozart’s “year of the violin” – Nos. 3 and 5 – paired with the composer’s youthful Symphony No. 29. Sebastian’s interpretations bring out the sparkling energy of the concertos, ...
Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756–1791)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Concertos
The Di Martinelli Manuscript: Violin Sonatas of the Late 17th Century
The so-called Di Martinelli Collection is preserved in the Catholic University of Leuven (Belgium), and contains a total of sixty-five manuscripts and thirty-two prints, including a remarkable manuscript with thirty-two late 17th-century violin sonatas from which the works on the present ...
Composer: Johann Christoph Pez (1664-1716), Giovanni Carlo Cailo (1659-1722), Henrico Albicastro (1661-1730), Johann Heinrich Schmelzer (1623-1680), Carlo Ambrogio Lonati (1645-1703), David Petersen (1650-1737)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
Fast & Furious 9: The Fast Saga (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
The star-studded musical companion to the long awaited ninth chapter in one of the most popular motion picture series of all time. It includes all brand-new songs from a truly epic line-up of rising stars and chart-topping Latin and hip-hop / R&B luminaries. Among the artists featured are Don Toliver, ...
Genre: Soundtrack
Subgenre: Film
This new album is full of melancholic and beautiful tracks. It's a reflection of the dark years we have just lived with this pandemic life but also brings hope and happiness. ...
Genre: Alternative
Subgenre: Indie Rock
With orchestral concerts on hold for the foreseeable future, the Linos Piano Trio’s Stolen Music project takes inspiration from earlier times and brings distilled versions of great orchestral works to smaller spaces. Inspiration • The combination of piano, violin and cello has, through the ages, ...
Composer: Claude Debussy (1862-1918), Paul Dukas (1865-1935), Arnold Schönberg (1874-1951), Maurice Ravel (1875-1937)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
The thirty-two polyphonic madrigals by Michelangelo Rossi, which are preserved only in manuscript in a score and a set of partbooks, have only recently become known. These pieces are unusual in a number of ways: on the one hand, for music from the second quarter of the seventeenth century, they seem “conservative”, ...
Composer: Michelangelo Rossi (1602-1656)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Vocal
One Hundred Years of British Song, Vol. 2
SOMM Recordings announces Volume 2 of its revelatory survey of One Hundred Years of British Song with tenor James Gilchrist and pianist Nathan Williamson. Volume 1 received wide acclaim, Gramophone hailing it as 'a most impressive release', adding 'Gilchrist’s contribution is past praise… [with] immaculate support throughout from Williamson'. ...
Composer: William Alwyn (1905-1985), Alan Bush (1900-1995), Alan Rawsthorne (1905-1971), Elizabeth Maconchy (1907-1994), Doreen Carwithen (1922-2003)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Vocal
Musica viva, Vol. 37: Mark Andre (Live)
The German-French composer Mark Andre (*1964) is one of the most important representatives of New Music. His twelve "Miniatures" for string quartet were composed in 2014/17 as a commission from the Arditti Quartet, Bavarian Radio's "musica viva", the Festival d'Automne à Paris and the ProQuartet-CEMC, ...
Composer: Mark Andre (1964)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
