Mozart: Sonatas for Piano Four Hands, K. 521 & 497
In a unique collaboration, Kirill Gerstein teams up with his mentor and inspiration, the great Hungarian pianist Ferenc Rados, for an album of four-hand duets by Mozart. An icon for generations of musicians but one who has mostly avoided making recordings, this fascinating ...
Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756–1791)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Instrumental
Goro Ito, a composer, arranger , guitarist and producer, has been active as a solo artist “MOOSE HILL” and also as member of a bossa-nova duo “naomi & goro”. Along with releasing his own albums and performing at home and abroad, he has written music for movies etc. ...
Composer: Goro Ito
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Crossover Jazz
Schubert: Symphony No. 5 - Haydn: Symphony No. 99
Concentus Musicus Wien continues its exploration of works of the Classical and Romantic periods as envisioned by Nikolaus Harnoncourt. On this second recording on the Aparté label, Stefan Gottfried conducts Schubert's Symphony no. 5, written in 1816 at the age of 19, ...
Composer: Franz Joseph Haydn (1732-1809), Franz Schubert (1797-1828)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Orchestral
Das "Chansonnier de Bayeux" ist ein luxuriös gestaltetes Manuskript vom Beginn des 16. Jahrhunderts, das heute in der Französischen Nationalbibliothek aufbewahrt wird. Das Liederbuch enthält 300 schmissige Weisen und ist eine von nur zwei Sammlungen monofoner Stücke um 1500. ...
Composer: Mathieu Gascongne, Heinrich Isaac, Antoine de Févin, Guillaume Dufay, Alexander Agricola, Jean Mouton
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
Beethoven: String Quartet No. 13, Op. 130 & Grosse Fuge, Op. 133
Like many musical projects planned for 2020, the plans of the Ehnes Quartet to record Beethoven’s late quartets underwent a drastic revision. Rather than cancel the project, some ingenious technology was employed. James Ehnes takes up the story "Our quartet was greatly looking forward to a week ...
Composer: Ludwig van Beethoven (1770–1827)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
Esther Birringer has chosen three great Russian ballets for her recital album. All three have great stories – drama, love and tragedy in the case of Petrushka and Romeo & Juliet, and fantasy in The Nutcracker, which is based on a tale by ETA Hoffman. ...
Composer: Peter Iljitsch Tschaikowsky (1840-1893), Serge Prokofieff (1891-1953), Igor Strawinsky (1882-1971)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Instrumental
Assoluta: a term that was given to prima donnas of the nineteenth century, those who sang the parts of the great tragic heroines of that time, their voices characterised by a dark timbre, with a rich, strong low register and the high notes of a soprano, a voice that has now almost disappeared. ...
Composer: Francesco Cilea, Giacomo Puccini, Pietro Mascagni, Umberto Giordano, Amilcare Ponchielli, Vincenzo Bellini, Giuseppe Verdi
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Vocal
Orgues de Sicile (Organs of the World, Vol. 1)
More than fifty years after the revelation of Historical Organs of Europe, which had greatly contributed to harmonia mundi’s fame, Arnaud De Pasquale has taken up the torch and invites us to hear instruments that have been preserved as close as possible to their original state ...
Composer: Marco Antonio Cavazzoni, Pietro Vinci, Antonio Valente, Giovanni de Macque, Antonio Il Verso, Rocco Rodio, Sigismondo D'India, Bernardo Storace, Sebastián Raval, Bartolomeo Montalbano, Ercole Pasquini, Giovanni de Macque, Giovanni Maria Trabaci, Luca Marenzio, Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, Vincenzo Gallo, Girolamo Frescobaldi, Gregorio Strozzi
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
Handel: Violin Sonata in D, HWV 371
Composer: George Frideric Handel (1685–1759)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre:
Franz Liszt: Inspirations (Bonus Track Version)
As well as being the promoter of the piano recital and creator of the symphonic poem, Franz Liszt was also a prodigious innovator in the organ repertory. Olivier Latry - resident organist on the great organ of Notre-Dame-de-Paris for more than thirty-five years - has recorded five ...
Composer: Franz Liszt (1811-1886)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Instrumental
With Live in Love, trumpeter-composer-arranger Philip Lassiter mixes socio-political messaging ("Make America Love Again") with humorous, earthy storytelling ("Poof," "Suga Coat Me," "Root Chakra") and some forays into old school funk (the James Brown-inspired "Repent" and the P-Funk-ish "Love Story"). ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Vocal
Brunetti: Compete Oboe Sextets
Opposing the deprecatory view of a backward and isolated Spain that has prevailed until recently, Brunetti's music shows that what was composed in the rest of Europe was widely and intensely welcomed in Madrid. Cayetano Brunetti was born around 1744 in Fano, a city located on the Adriatic coast. ...
Composer: Cayetano Brunetti (1744-1798)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
This 1971 album from the Jazz great. Vibes player Cal Tjader was one of the leading figures in Latin Jazz. Based in California, he recorded for Fantasy throughout the '50s before moving on to Verve, where he achieved international success with his album Soul Sauce, with it's dance floor-friendly title track. ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Latin Jazz
In her most recent project, an exhaustive exploration of the voice as an instrument of texture and expression, Sofía Rei breaks away from the established continuity of her work, creating a daring new soundscape that blends South American folk with pop, electronic music and improvisation. ...
Genre: Latin
Subgenre: Pop Latino
Mark Collie presents the adventures of the Rockabilly Hitman in - “Book Of My Blues”, a ground-breaking multi-media Graphic Album. This smokey fifteen song project chronicles the tale of Jessie Wayne Har- din aka the “Rockabilly Hit-man”. The audience joins this journey of misadventure as Hardin balances ...
Genre: Country
Subgenre: Alternative Country
“For my project, “The Mozart Nyman Concert”, I chose two tremendous and highly esteemed composers: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Michael Nyman. Both have accompanied and fascinated me since my youth. Mozart’s piano compositions occupy a large and important place ...
Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791), Michael Nyman (1944)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Instrumental
All recordings featured on this album are live studio recordings made in 1971 and 1972 for radio broadcast in Holland. Written for the great cellist Rostropovich and considered one of the most difficult cello concertos, Prokofievs Cello Concerto, Op. 58 is not often recorded and thus this FHR album is a welcome issue ...
Composer: Sergei Prokofiev (1891–1953)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Concertos
Hope Amid Tears - Beethoven: Cello Sonatas
Yo-Yo Ma and long-time musical partner Emanuel Ax will release Hope Amid Tears on Sony Classical. The album features Beethoven’s complete works for cello and piano. By presenting all five of Beethoven’s cello sonatas in the order in which they were composed, followed by his three sets of variations, ...
Composer: Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
Critically acclaimed jazz vocalist JUDY WEXLER is known for her soulful, heartfelt vocals and her ability to find under-exposed gems and imbue them with warmth and wit. JazzTimes Magazine says, "Judy Wexler has carved out a jewel-like niche as a gracefully swinging singer who brings penetrating insight ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Vocal
