Bach's Long Shadow: The Chaconne Files
Bach’s music is the clearest representation of natural beauty created by man in the Western world. Each note functions as a drop of musical paint appearing in the space/time continuum. Each drop a precise intersection across centuries between Bach’s quill, ...
Composer: Joan Valent (1964), Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
Liszt Complete Piano Music, Vol. 58: Music on National Themes
Volume 58 of the critically acclaimed Liszt Complete Piano Music edition spans Canzone napolitana and the Hungarian Folk Songs to a paraphrase of God Save the Queen. Includes numerous rarely recorded rarities. Performed by award-winning pianist Domonkos Csabay, a native of Hungary. ....
Composer: Franz Liszt (1811-1886)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Instrumental
Hear back to the future: 25 years of Winter & Winter'. In 1736 Janitsch revolutionized the music world with his weekly Friday academies (Freitagsakademien); This was the beginning of the upheaval from the courtly to the bourgeois concert scene. ...
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
She began her musical career as a singer at the age of 16. She sang with the band BigFisch from 2005 to 2008. At the same time, she visited the Commercial Secondary School for Artists and Athletes in Brig, where talented young people are free to participate in special ...
Genre: Pop
Subgenre: Pop Rock
Emerging Piano Talent Benito Gonzalez Releases his Fifth Recording of Originals: the Inspired, Moving, Dancing Sing to the World on St. Petersburg, Russia-based Rainy Days Records. With propulsive pulse and Afro-Latin percussive drive, Benito Gonzalez places rhythm ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Contemporary Jazz
Hafliði Hallgrímsson (b.1941) is widely regarded as Iceland’s pre-eminent composer, as well as a highly accomplished cellist. He studied with Enrico Mainardi and Sir Peter Maxwell Davies and was cellist with many leading chamber ensembles until devoting himself ...
Composer: Hafliði Hallgrímsson (1941)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Instrumental
History of the Russian Piano Trio, Vol. 4
Both Anton Arensky and Sergey Taneyev belong to the generation of Russian composers who came to prominence at the end of the 19th century, midway between Tchaikovsky and Rachmaninov. With its expansive themes and wonderfully elegiac mood, Arensky’s Piano Trio No. 1 ...
Composer: Anton Stepanovich Arensky (1861–1906), Sergey Ivanovich Taneyev (1856–1915)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
Rita Lee & Roberto - Classix Remix Vol. II
The album, Rita Lee & Roberto Classix Remix Vol. 1, features remixes from world-renowned DJs and is produced by João Lee (son of Rita and Roberto). Rita Lee has been a global success since the 1960s. This album is a gift to her lifelong ...
Genre: Electronic
Subgenre: Electronica
"About Time" is the debut studio album by American singer and songwriter Sabrina Claudio. It was released in October 2017. Critically acclaimed Puerto Rican/Cuban songstress Sabrina Claudio is teaming up with premium digital live platform Moment House for an eagerly awaited global ...
Genre: R&B
Subgenre: Contemporary
Ariel was inspired by the fusion of ancient and modern ways of playing music in the 70s with saxophone, ethnic instruments, effects, electric instruments and electronic filters. "... this album has in certain circles attained mythical status among prog / jazz purists. Originally appearing in 1975 it was the culmination of a musical learning curve that had ...
Genre: New Age
Subgenre: Mediation
For the album “Gjazz5”, German / NZ bassist, composer and educator Olivier Holland has lined up a (literally) once-in-a-lifetime-band of his all-time-favourite musicians Geoffrey Keezer (US), Terreon Gully (US), Denis Gaebel (GER), Roger Manins (NZ) as well as special guest Joscho Stephan (GER). ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Contemporary Jazz
Nightclubbing, Grace Jones’ fifth studio album, was released in May 1981 and with its nine tracks including club and chart smash "Pull Up To The Bumper", it was an immediate hit, with positive reviews on both sides of the Atlantic. ...
Genre: Electronic
Subgenre: Downtempo
Recorded September 29, 1978 at the Uptown Theatre in Chicago, the aptly-titled two-disc album, Chicago ’78, captures in great sound quality the second of two shows played that night in its entirety, a rarity for Zappa recordings. The concert delivers with a good blend of fan favorites, blistering guitar solos, ...
Genre: Rock
Subgenre: Modern Rock
Frank Zappa was certainly known for his eclecticism, and Sleep Dirt represents one of the least classifiable albums in his catalogue. It features some of his most extreme guitar statements, but it’s not rock; there’s acoustic bass, but it’s not jazz; there’s a lot of written material but it’s not classical. ...
Genre: Rock
Subgenre: Modern Rock
Bongo Fury (Remastered) (Live)
While not a collaboration, there’s no denying that Frank Zappa helped bring Captain Beefheart’s game-changing Trout Mask Replica to fruition. Yet while both were demanding bandleaders busy tearing up the rulebook and redefining the lexicon of rock – Zappa with his satirical deconstructions of rock’n’roll, ...
Genre: Rock
Subgenre: Modern Rock
Absolutely Free is the second studio album by American rock band the Mothers of Invention, released on May 26, 1967 by Verve Records. Much like their 1966 debut Freak Out!, the album is a display of complex musical composition with political and social satire. ...
Genre: Rock
Subgenre: Modern Rock
The Crux Of The Biscuit (Remastered)
Previously unreleased material from the Zappa Vault. 'The Crux of the Biscuit' was created in conjunction with the 40th anniversary of Frank Zappa's 1974 album Apostrophe('). As part of Zappa Records' ongoing Frank Zappa Project / Object Audio Documentary Series, it contains rare alternate mixes, live performances, ...
Genre: Rock
Subgenre: Modern Rock
Shut Up 'n Play Yer Guitar (Remastered)
100% guitar solos. The Rosetta Stone for axe players. Everyone else will be illuminated by the blindly exquisite improvised compositions, mostly culled from live performances 1979-80. Backed by a host of different bands, Zappa makes his instrument express stuff more ...
Genre: Rock
Subgenre: Modern Rock
You Are What You Is (Remastered)
You Are What You Is trades in much of Zappa's usual musical acrobatics for more polished and understated fare and increasingly political satire. Released in 1981, this album contains Zappa's takes on the smell of teen spirit, organized religion, Saturday Night Live's Coneheads, ...
Genre: Rock
Subgenre: Modern Rock
