Trumpeter Donald Byrd and baritone saxophonist Pepper Adams had a formidable partnership throughout the early 1960s, making a series of highly regarded hard bop albums. Yet somehow this masterful quintet session from April 1961 (which also features Herbie Hancock, sounding exceptionally fine ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Hard Bop
As Julian Lage set out to record his leader debut for Blue Note Records, the virtuoso guitarist reflected on the label’s storied history and the way his own music connected with it. The result is “Squint”, a striking new album that weds incisive, expressive songwriting with the profound interplay Lage has honed ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Jazz Blues
This is America! (Bonus Track Version)
he minimalist movement, which first appeared in the United States in the mid-1960s, was for a long time closely associated with the avant-garde but over the years it has gained a much wider audience and established itself as a major milestone in contemporary music. ...
Composer: Meredith Monk (1943), Leonard Bernstein (1918-1990), Philip Glass (1937), John Adams (1947)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Instrumental
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
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
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
In celebration of the Queen's 95th Birthday! Debbie Wiseman OBE pays tribute to The Queen on her 95th birthday with 'The Music of Kings & Queens', the soundtrack album for the Royal birthday celebrations featuring narrations from Dame Helen Mirren and Damian Lewis OBE. The album tells the story of the making of the United Kingdom through ...
Composer: Debbie Wiseman (1963)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Modern Composition
Vivaldi: Concerti per violino IX "Le nuove vie"
Boris Begelman, the highly acclaimed leader of Concerto Italiano, frequently takes on the role of soloist in the many concerts that Rinaldo Alessandrini’s celebrated orchestra devotes to the music of Vivaldi and his contemporaries. High time then for Begelman to take centre stage ...
Composer: Antonio Vivaldi (1678-1741)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Concertos
Mahler: Symphony No. 8 in E Flat Major "Symphony of a Thousand"
Gustavo Dudamel and the Los Angeles Philharmonic’s revelatory interpretation of Gustav Mahler’s Symphony No. 8, recorded live at Walt Disney Concert Hall (30/31 May & 2 June 2019) will be released in June 2021. Their new album documents a landmark performance that brought the LA Philharmonic’s centennial season to a triumphant conclusion in 2019. ...
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Orchestral
Schubert: Symphony No. 7 "Unfinished" & Franz Schuberts Begräbniß-Feyer, Roland Moser: Echoraum
All previously published recordings of the symphonies and other orchestral works by Franz Schubert with the Basel Chamber Orchestra under the Swiss oboist, composer and conductor Heinz Holliger received brilliant reviews. Heinz Holliger conceived the last recording of his Schubert cycle 'as a Schubert life portrait ...
Composer: Franz Schubert (1797-1828)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Orchestral
Dorothee Oberlinger has chosen a congenial partner with the lutenist Edin Karamazov for her new album with music by Johann Sebastian Bach. Karamazov became world famous and known to a wide audience through his album with the pop singer Sting, and on the new album he can also prove his talent as an arranger. ...
Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
20th 21st Century Works for Trumpet and Piano
The trumpet has a curious fate. On the one hand, it is one of the oldest instruments created by humankind, and, with its many variants (in shape, matter, size and sound) it is found in most cultures through time and space. On the other hand, its standing as a solo instrument ...
Composer: Théo Charlier, Oskar Böhme, George Enescu, Joseph Jongen, Vladimir Peskin, Vyacheslav Schelokov, Arthur Honegger, Raymond Gallois Montbrun, Jacques Ibert, Eugène Bozza, Carlos Alberto Cárdenas Gonzalez
Genre: Classic
Subgenre: Instrumental
Acclaimed pianist Inna Faliks breaks new ground with REIMAGINED on Navona Records, an homage to Beethoven and Ravel which manages to do the impossible: be breathtakingly innovative while remaining respectful to the source material. ...
Composer: Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827), Maurice Ravel (1875-1937)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Instrumental
In the programming of this album, the artist specifically pays attention to finding the way to the musical language of the composers. For years, Seung-Yeun Huh has dedicated herself to the music of Mozart, Liszt and Schubert in order to connect the human beings and the lives of the composers ...
Composer: Robert Schumann (1810-1856)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Instrumental
12 Mighty Orphans (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
12 MIGHTY ORPHANS tells the true story of the Mighty Mites, the football team of a Fort Worth orphanage who, during the Great Depression, went from playing without shoes—or even a football—to playing for the Texas state championships. Over the course of their winning season ...
Composer: Mark Orton
Genre: Soundtrack
Subgenre: Film
SURVIVORS GUILT: THE MIXTAPE//
KennyHoopla is the latest US artist rising in the alternative/pop punk wave that’s towering over our heads this year. His breakthrough song, ‘Estella’ has been making the rounds on every nostalgic pop punk playlist since its release with its flowing abundance of youthful energy and guitar-driven pop/rock. ...
Genre: Alternative
Subgenre: Indie Rock
Praises To The War Machine (2021 Extended Edition)
In 2018 one of metal's most defining and revolutionary vocalists, Warrel Dane, celebrated his highly anticipated inaugural solo effort, "Praises To The War Machine", which saw him further honing his craft to perfection. Dane, who first shattered the boundaries of conventionality with the legendary Sanctuary and Nevermore, ...
Genre: Rock
Subgenre: Metal
This selection of pieces for mandolin and guitar represents the rich variety of music from Israel. Styles range from the diaspora of Babylonian Jewry through European klezmer traditions, and Balkan Ladino songs, to contemporary influences from America. ...
Composer: Marc Lavry (1903-1967), Paul Ben-Haim (1897-1984), Jan Freidlin (1944), Yehezkel Braun (1922-2014), Josef Bardanashvili (1948), Oren Lok (1988), Ittai Rosenbaum (1966)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
Finally a Single is released of the SWR Big Band together with the artist in residence – Magnus Lindgren. The song is called “Penny Blue”, composed and arranged by Magnus and features the bassist Decebal Badila on the flute next to him and drummer Guido Jöris. The complete album entitled “Transitions” will be released in June, ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Big Band
