It was a significant step: the decision of the French composer Erik Satie, in 1884, to write his first name henceforth with a “k”. He was born on 17 May 1866 as Eric Satie in Normandy’s Honfleur, from where England lies almost in view. His mother, born in London, had English and Scottish blood ...
Composer: Erik Satie (1866-1925)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Instrumental
“The city is an untamed beast, and we are creating it one cell at a time” (Mischa Blanos). Attuning between two music worlds, clubbing and concert halls, Mischa Blanos is set to instill his own view on the well sought-after alliance between classical and electronic music. ...
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Classical Crossover
Prokofiev: Symphony No. 6 - Myaskovsky: Symphony No. 27
The table is hereby set for the second and final recording of Vasily Petrenko and Oslo Philharmonic's releases with symphonic works of Sergei Prokofiev and Nikolai Myaskovsky. "...indecently lush string sound..." The Arts Desk on Prokofiev 5/Myaskovsky 21 Both Prokofiev and Myaskovsky, who were close friends, ...
Composer: Nicolai Yakovlevich Miaskovsky (1881–1950), Sergei Prokofiev (1891–1953)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Orchestral
Prodigiously gifted, Camille Saint-Saëns entered the Paris Conservatoire in 1848, at the age of 13. There he discovered the symphonies of the great German and Austrian composers and soon began to try his own hand at the genre. The Symphony in A major stems from this period and although ...
Composer: Camille Saint-Saens (1835-1921)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Orchestral
Following on from gentle second album ‘Feeding Sea Horses By Hand’, Billie Marten flexes her sense for adventure on third album ‘Flora Fauna’. Taking her resonant sound deeper into broody territory and switching things up ever so slightly by opting for bass-led rhythms, Billie paints vivid images of blooming landscapes and endless valleys. ...
Genre: Alternative
Subgenre: Indie Rock
Tchaikovsky (Violin Concerto & Souvenir de Florence)
On her debut album for Berlin Classics, Sarah Christian performs no less a work than Tchaikovsky’s warhorse, his Violin Concerto, ably supported by the Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen under Jéremie Rhorer. For full measure, she plays Tchaikovsky’s Sextet Souvenir de Florence. ...
Composer: Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840–1893)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Concertos
Music as soul, rhythm, and joy comes from taking one opera and jazz singing mother, adding legendary jazz influences, and laying down a base of solid spirituals as electrifying as a fiery summer revival. This is the flow of BenjaSoul. Musician, poet, and activist BenjaSoul draws ...
Genre: World Music
Subgenre: Worldbeat
Assembled by producer Atron Gregory, SOLO PIANO GROUP presents a series of relaxing recordings by world renowned pianists and composers. Gregory himself has an extensive resume as both an artist manager, tour manager and executive producer of Grammy nominated records. ...
Genre: Instrumental
Subgenre: Piano
This is a splendid fellow and musician - with this quote Robert Schumann characterized the then 26-year-old Danish composer-colleague Niels Wilhelm Gade in a letter of January 5, 1844 to his Dutch friend Johannes Verhulst. The works on this release are testimonies of three different creative periods ...
Composer: Niels Wilhelm Gade (1817-1890)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
Since Westminster Mass (2000) established Roxanna Panufnik’s firm place among today’sleading British composers, she has often been celebrated for her choral music. Her instrumental and chamber works, however, are equally striking, filled with dazzling imagination and poetic lightness of touch. ...
Composer: Roxanna Panufnik (1968)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Vocal
Ristori: Oboe concerto in E-Flat Major
Audax Records and Ensemble Diderot pride themselves on their pioneering forays into unknown and neglected repertoire. The concept of building compelling and insightful programmes around major works and audience favourites and not shying away from presenting recital albums has been one of the building blocks of the label. ...
Composer: Giovanni Alberto Ristori (1692-1753)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
In Dowland’s words: “ingenuous profession of Musicke, which from my childhood I have ever aimed at,... the better to attain so excellent a science”. Mike Fentross achieves this “divine science of musicke” by wooing his audience by “speaking harmony” on his sweet lute. ...
Composer: John Dowland (1562-1626)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Instrumental
Górecki, Messiaen & Schnyder: Chamber Works
It will not be an exaggeration to say that what holds the compositions presented on this album together is the fascination with movement. However, the sources of that interest must always besought in the way the creators perceive the world and in the place where they see music. ...
Composer: Henryk Mikolaj Gorecki (1933–2010), Olivier Eugène Prosper Charles Messiaen (1908-1992), Daniel Schnyder (1961)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
On January 23, 2021, the music world celebrated the hundredth anniversary of the death of Wladyslaw Zelenski, the founder and long-time director of the Music Conservatory in Kraków, and one of the most outstanding representatives of the Romantic era in Poland. ...
Composer: Wladyslaw Zelenski (1837-1921)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
Studying Abroad: Extended Stay
After going a little over two years without a project, Masego concluded his 2020 with a new EP, Studying Abroad. Now, the multitalented singer is preparing to hit fans with a deluxe reissue of that project. Studying Abroad: Extended Stay leads off with the EP’s original six tracks, which find Masego ...
Genre: R&B
Subgenre: Hip Hop Soul
It is a rare stroke of luck when a completely new piece of music triggers the spontaneous impression that one has known it for decades. This is undoubtedly true of Alternate Reality, the third album by the Swiss band Woodoism, based on trombonist Florian Weiss. ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Modern Jazz
The Nevers: Season 1 (Soundtrack from the HBO® Original Series)
WaterTower Music has released a soundtrack album for the HBO original series The Nevers. The album features selections of the original music from the show’s first six episodes composed by Emmy Award winner and Academy Award nominee Mark Isham ...
Composer: Mark Isham
Genre: Soundtrack
Subgenre: TV
"Have you ever wondered what an album would be like without any post-production? What would a record sound like that was just recorded and then immediately released? Imagine the musician sits down, opens a beer, sips it, hangs up, then picks up his guitar and plays. And he plays like he was born to play - because he was. ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Jazz Blues
