One of the most versatile and prolific bassist/composers in jazz history returns with a new all-star trio of jazz heavyweights, featuring guitarist Kevin Eubanks and drummer Obed Calvaire, and a power-packed set. Another Land is the new album from the all-star trio featuring Dave Holland, Kevin Eubanks and Obed Calvaire ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Contemporary Jazz
Kateřina Kněžíková's lyric coloratura soprano has delighted audiences in numerous music centres worldwide, both at opera houses and concert venues. She has appeared with the BBC Symphony Orchestra, the Bamberger Symphoniker, Camerata Salzburg, the Czech Philharmonic, the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, ...
Composer: Bohuslav Martinů (1890-1959), Henri Duparc (1848-1933), Maurice Ravel (1875-1937), Karol Szymanowski (1882-1937)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Vocal
Dutilleux: Le Loup & Other Works
Following the success of their previous album, English Music for Strings, John Wilson and his Sinfonia of London turn their attention to the music of Henri Dutilleux. His ballet Le Loup was composed as a commission for Roland Petit’s dance company and premièred in Paris in March 1953. ...
Composer: Henri Dutilleux (1916-2013)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
The set of six sonatas and partitas for solo violin is widely regarded as one of the summits of Bach’s output as a composer, and of the entire repertoire for the violin. With this new album the Brodsky Quartet give us the opportunity to hear some of this legendary music in an entirely ...
Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach (1685–1750)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
John Jenkins - Late Chamber Music
The chamber music on this recording was likely composed during the time Jenkins was living in the homes of the Dereham and L’Estrange families. Where Lawes 'music is often edgy and bizarre in character, Jenkins' compositions from this period are clearly intended to counterbalance the uncertain and risky ...
Composer: John Jenkins (1592-1678)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
"Fire in Little Africa" is a compilation Hip Hop album that consists of 60+ artists from Oklahoma that came together to commemorate Black Wall Street. "Fire In Little Africa" is an album that aims to revitalize and embody the creative and entrepreneurial spirit that was stripped away from its citizens nearly a century ago. ...
Genre: Hip Hop
Subgenre: Rap
Point Of Know Return Live & Beyond
With a legendary career spanning nearly five decades, KANSAS has firmly established itself as one of America’s iconic classic rock bands. This "garage band" from Topeka released their debut album in 1974 after being discovered by Wally Gold, who worked for Don Kirshner, and have gone on to sell more than 30 million albums worldwide. ...
Genre: Rock
Subgenre: Classic Rock
Joseph Martin Kraus, regarded in his lifetime (1756–1792) as one of the world’s six most formidable composers, has like many other contemporaries since languished in the historical shadow of Mozart. Kraus was hailed by none other than Joseph Haydn as Mozart’s equal in terms of creativity and genius ...
Composer: Josef Martin Kraus (1756-1792)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Instrumental
Canada’s favourite shaggy rockers The Sheepdogs are back with their first new music in 3 years; the single, “Keep on Loving You“. A vintage stomp-and-sway T-Rex inspired track, “Keep on Loving You” is the first offering from the band’s forthcoming EP No Simple Thing scheduled to drop May 28 ...
Genre: Rock
Subgenre: Modern Rock
From 19-year-old Wagnerian to mature tone-poet, the voice of a Swedish Romantic as glimpsed through his piano music. Carl Stenhammar (1871-1927) trained as a pianist, and Brahms’s epic D minor Concerto held no fears for him. His writing for the instrument is accordingly bold and heroic from the outset, ...
Composer: Carl Stenhammar (1871-1927)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Instrumental
With a great name, this collective dusts off the raw sound of ’60s soul and revive the licks, groovy horns and funky beats with a distinctive personalized twist. If you’re a lover of D/troit, or American band Vintage Trouble, you’ll feel so welcome here. ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Mainstream Jazz
Seventeen compositions written during a global pandemic. Recorded remotely – thirty musicians, individually, most in their own homes. A lot happened during this year, personally, professionally, nationally, globally. This music represents my thoughts on and reactions to these events: 2020 in hindsight. ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Mainstream Jazz
It all begins with an idea. Next thing you know a needle is dropping on a piece of vinyl and beautiful sounds are emitted. The Juno-winning Canadian songwriter, artist, author and OG MuchMusic VJ has revisited and revamped his most recognizable number — a slow-burning rock shuffle originally penned in 1988 for Alannah Myles ...
Genre: Rock
Subgenre: Modern Rock
The inspirations for Richard X Bennett’s lively work evolve from a wide range of unlikely sources, from contemporary visual art to ancient metaphysics influenced by years performing in India, where he recorded a series of critically acclaimed raga-jazz albums for Times Music, ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Contemporary Jazz
This new recording of piano music marks the Centenary of Astor Piazzolla’s birth in 1921. Astor Piazzolla, Argentina’s most famous composer, was the grandson of Italian immigrants, and the melancholy for an abandoned and lost country lends a sweetly poignant note to his music. ...
Composer: Astor Piazzolla (1921-1992)
Genre: Instrumental
Subgenre: Piano
Invisible Cities: Choral & Electronic Music by Marco Galvani
Following their acclaimed debut release on Resonus Classics (The Waiting Sky, 2019), the award-winning vocal ensemble SANSARA presents an album of choral works and electronic refractions by their Associate Composer, Marco Galvani. ...
Composer: Marco Galvani (1994)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Classical Crossover
Caccini: Amarilli, Le Nuove Musiche 1601
In this expert recording, singer Roberto Balconi and group Fantasyas approach Giulio Caccini’s (1551-1618) Le Nuove Musiche with a focus on authentic performance practice as specified in great detail by the composer himself in the preface to the work. ...
Composer: Giulio Caccini (1551-1618)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Vocal
Eliodoro Sollima (1926-2000) was a Sicilian musician raised in the town of Marsala, where the concert hall is dedicated to his memory. From 1954 to 1991 he taught composition at the conservatoire in Palermo, where he was also the institution’s director for 16 years. ...
Composer: Eliodoro Sollima (1926-2000)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
A contemplative spiritual suite steeped in jazz, classical, and oriental music. You can hear echoes of Turkish clarinet modes, Japanese film soundtracks piano music and much more influences, all made one under Yom's unique musical vision. ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Mainstream Jazz
Joaquín Rodrigo, composer of the renowned Concierto de Aranjuez(Naxos 8.579053), is acknowledged as one of the great Spanish composers of the 20th century. His music extends the Romantic Impressionist tradition of Albéniz, Granados and Falla, and is inspired by the ...
Composer: Joaquín Rodrigo (1901-1999)
Genre: Guitar
Subgenre: Classical Guitar
