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Frühling: Piano Quintet in F-Sharp Minor, Op. 30 & Piano Quartet in D Major, Op. 35

It is frankly little short of a miracle that the name of Carl Fruhling is stilI remembered today, since we know next to nothing about him. Scant biographical notes provide a few reference points rather than an orderly resume of his life, and a mere handful of the hundred or more works he is thought to have composed is extant today. ... It is frankly little short of a miracle that the name of Carl Fruhling is stilI remembered today, since we know next to nothing about him. Scant biographical notes provide a few reference points rather than an orderly resume of his life, and a mere handful of the hundred or more works he is thought to have composed is extant today. ..

Composer: Carl Frühling (1868-1937)

Genre: Classical

Subgenre: Chamber Music

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The Opening, Or Closing Of A Door

Out of chaos, the universe emerged, and from chaos a person can emerge, too. Kristine Leschper isn’t being hyperbolic when she describes a sensation of “being born” when a culmination of events, both personal and global, catalyzed in her “an understanding of how to relinquish control in a big way, and from that, a new sense of ...

Genre: Pop

Subgenre: Pop Rock

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Kodály & Ligeti: Choral Works

"For most of the 20th century, the two giants of Hungarian music were Bartok and Kodaly. Following his explosion on the international scene in the mid-60s, Gyorgi Ligeti, a student of Kodaly, was added to that list. Kodaly was one of the most significant early figures in the field of ethnomusicology. ...

Composer: Zoltan Kodaly (1882-1967), Gyorgy Ligeti (1923-2006)

Genre: Classical

Subgenre: Choral

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Transcriptions from Truro

David Briggs ist ein international anerkannter Organist, dessen Darbietungen für ihre Musikalität, Virtuosität und die Fähigkeit, ein Publikum aller Altersgruppen zu begeistern und zu fesseln, gefeiert werden. David Briggs ist derzeit Artist-in-Residence an der Kathedrale von St. John the Divine in New York City. Er ist nicht nur als Interpret, sondern auch als Arrangeur von Orchesterwerken für die Orgel ...

Composer: Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872-1958)

Genre: Classical

Subgenre: Chamber Music

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Mortua dulce cano. A Florilegium of Late Renaissance Lute Music

Dum vixi tacui; mortua dulce cano: “While I lived I was silent; dead, I sing sweetly.” Found in the portrait of the sixteenth-century lute maker Gaspar Tieffenbrucker, these words, spoken by the imaginary tone wood used for centuries in the manufacture of string instruments, fittingly depict its double life. ...

Composer: Giulio Cesare Barbetta (1540-1603), Vincenzo Galilei (1520-1591), Lorenzino Tracetti (1552-1590), Simone Molinaro (1565-1615), Giovanni Battista Domenicho (16 Jh.), Kasper Sielicki (16 Jh.), Jacob Reys dit Le Polonois (1550-1605), Diomedes Cato (1560-1627), Valentin Bákfark (1526-1576), Nicolas de Rans (16Jh.), Matthias Reymann (1526-1625), Johannes Spalkaiber (16 Jh.):, Benedictus de Drusina (1556-1573), John Hoskins (16 Jh.), Barick Bulman (16 Jh.), Alfonso Ferrabosco I (1543-1588), Robert Askue (16 Jh.), John Whitfield (1588-1620)

Genre: Classical

Subgenre: Chamber Music

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In questa reggia

Splendid interpretations and superb singing make this album of opera arias a special treat. Oksana Dyka’s dramatic and dazzling voice sparkles in this collection of favorites from treasured operas by Puccini and Verdi. A rising star of the world’s most famous opera houses, the acclaimed Ukrainian soprano has been called “nothing less than ...

Composer: Giuseppe Verdi (1813-1901), Giacomo Puccini (1858-1924)

Genre: Classical

Subgenre: Vocal

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Spirit of Hope

Songs of wisdom, peace and spirituality, presented by the Israeli singer Shira Karmon and the Viennese pianist Paul Gulda, both of whom developed this programme in 2018 on the occasion of a concert tour to Israel. Grounded also in their families and their origins, with precisely this view of the relationships and fates in German-speaking Central ...

Composer: Ferdinand Hiller (1811-1885), Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827), Salomon Sulzer (1804-1890), Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791), Eyal Bat (1966), Simon Laks (1901-1983), Arnold Mendelssohn (1855-1933), Arnold Schönberg (1874-1951), Alban Berg (1885-1935), Leonard Bernstein (1918-1990), Paul Gulda (1961), Marwan Abado (1967)

Genre: Classical

Subgenre: Vocal

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1824 - Hummel, Romberg, Rossini & Schubert

Christoph Dangel’s new album focusses on the year 1824 and brings it to life through the marvellous music of four composers (Hummel, Romberg, Rossini & Schubert) who gave the cello a special role in their compositions, and by the text which tells the story of the year 1824 based on original sources from journals, newspapers, letters, recollections, historic objects and works of art. ...

Composer: Johann Nepomuk Hummel (1778–1837), Franz Schubert (1797-1828), Gioachino Rossini (1792-1868)

Genre: Classical

Subgenre: Chamber Music

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Mendelssohn: Piano Concertos

This new release is pianist-conductor Lars Vogt’s debut album together with the Orchestre de chambre de Paris. Lars Vogt started his tenure as the new Music Director of the orchestra on 1 July 2020. This album release continues Lars Vogt’s discography of recordings of cornerstone works within the classic piano concerto literature conducting from the keyboard. ...

Composer: Felix Mendelssohn (1809-1847)

Genre: Classical

Subgenre: Concertos

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Weinberg

Few composers can be said to be ‘citizens of nowhere’ and yet, exactly this moniker is appropriate for Mieczysław Weinberg. He was born and raised in Poland to a Jewish family, but for complex reasons spent the majority of his life in Soviet Russia. He had a prolific output(over 150 opus-numbered works, and more besides), but never reached ...

Composer: Mieczysław Weinberg (1919-1996)

Genre: Classical

Subgenre: Chamber Music

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Purcell: Odes & Welcome Songs

There are 24 Odes and Welcome Songs composed by Purcell between 1680 and 1695: 4 celebrate St Cecilia, 6 are to welcome royalty, 3 celebrate King James II’s birthday and 6 celebrate that of Queen Mary (from 1684 to 1694). The others were written for specific events – royal wedding, Yorkshire festival, Duke of Gloucester’s birthday, hundredth anniversary of ...

Composer: Henry Purcell (1659-1695)

Genre: Classical

Subgenre: Chamber Music

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Easy Listening for Jerks, Pt. 1

The Dead South probe new environs: Carter Family meets Addams Family in Easy Listening for Jerks, two new covers EPs by gold-certified prairie pickers The Dead South. The source material for the EP two-pack sees The Dead South trace very different musical lineages: one a beloved folk songbook and the other a set of volatile ...

Genre: Country

Subgenre: Bluegrass

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Appassionalto

Violist Marc Sabbah and pianist Eliane Reyes explore the beauty of the viola and piano repertoire together and have recorded their first album together, "AppassionAlto". The theme is "The Romantic Era of the Viola". ...

Composer: Robert Schumann (1810-1856), Henri Vieuxtemps (1820-1881), Frank Bridge (1879-1941), Manuel de Falla (1876-1946)

Genre: Classical

Subgenre: Chamber Music

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Matters of the Heart: Robert Schumann, Richard Strauss

Matters of the heart: a journey through A Woman's Love and Life Op. 42 (Adelbert von Chamisso) by Robert Schumann (1810 – 1856), juxtaposed with lieder by Richard Strauss (1864 – 1949) and works for piano by Schumann and Strauss. On the content of the album, excerpts from a conversation with the artists: With the album title matters ...

Composer: Richard Strauss (1864–1949), Robert Schumann (1810-1856)

Genre: Classical

Subgenre: Vocal

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Jeux D'Air

With our recording «Jeux d’Air» we present french piano music in a whole new way, arranged and transformed especially for our Reed Quintet: oboe, clarinet, saxophone, bass clarinet and bassoon. Chamber music is our passion and we are devoted to the combination of sound colors of each instrument. ...

Composer: Gabriel Faure (1845-1924), Reynaldo Hahn (1875-1947), Claude Debussy (1862-1918), Maurice Ravel (1875-1937), Erik Satie (1866-1925), Francis Poulenc (1899-1963)

Genre: Classical

Subgenre: Chamber Music

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Mozart: Piano Concertos Nos. 12 & 14

Selim Mazari has found in Paul Meyer and the Mannheim Chamber Orchestra the ideal partners for this new recording devoted to Mozart. Together, through three carefully selected concertante works, they sketch the portrait of a composer still in the early stages of his artistic and humanistic development and whose genius, palpable for the first ...

Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)

Genre: Classical

Subgenre: Concertos

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Before And Now Seems Infinite

Following two stunning EP’s earlier this year, Federico Albanese now releases his debut album on MercuryKX. Featuring collaborations with Marika Hackman and Ghostpoet, the project centres itself around memory: “We have the power to change the way we recollect moments of our lives. I like the idea of being able to craft my own memory the way I wanted to ...

Composer: Federico Albanese

Genre: Classical

Subgenre: Classical Crossover

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Chorus Jazz

Steffen Brix is considered one of Denmark's finest Jazz and Blues guitarists and is the frontman of the Steffen Brix Blues Band. There is rarely a musical experience more interesting than when this band goes on stage. This dazzling group focuses their repertoire on the most essential and unforgettable pieces of such ...

Genre: Jazz

Subgenre: Fusion

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Healing Hands

In 2020, guitar virtuoso Marcus Deml was sitting at home and had a lot of free time (we all know why!). So much for the initial situation that led to the creation of his new album "Healing Hands", the first solo album in his long career. The result is an instrumental album that captivates the listener melodiously through its exuberant, stylistic diversity. ...

Genre: Blues

Subgenre: Electric Blues

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Romance

The French oboist Gabriel Pidoux, voted ‘Instrumental Soloist of the Year’ at the Victoires de la Musique Classique in 2020, has made a name for himself in both early and modern repertories. He now records his first solo album, accompanied by the pianist Jorge González Buajasan. It presents the works of two female and three male composers, ...

Composer: Robert Schumann (1810-1856), Edward Elgar (1857-1934), Leopold Wallner (1847-1913), Marina Dranishnikova (1929-1994), Clara Schumann (1819-1896)

Genre: Classical

Subgenre: Chamber Music

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