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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Mozart: Minore - Piano Concertos No. 20 & 24, Adagio K. 540
The Neue Zürcher Zeitung described the Swiss pianist See Siang Wong as a "subtle sound painter". For his atmospheric album "Minore - Piano Concertos No. 20 & No. 24, Adagio K. 540" he has chosen very special works by Mozart. They are the only works composed in minor keys, thus differing greatly from Mozart's major ...
Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756–1791)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Concertos
Move - The Trumpet as Movie Star
"MOVE" the name of this album – is also the title of a concerto written by Baptiste Trotignon and here receiving its recording premiere; the work pays tribute to major composers of film music, whose iconic scores form the backdrop in this “audiofilm” starring the trumpet of Romain Leleu. ...
Composer: Nino Rota (1911-1979), Michel Legrand (1932-2019), Miles Davis (1926-1991), Georges Delerue (1925-1992), Ennio Morricone (1928-2020), Ibrahim Maalouf (1980), Jerry Goldsmith (1929-2004), Irving Berlin (1888-1989), Henry Mancini (1924-1994), Michel Colombier (1939-2004)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Classical Crossover
Constantly in search of eclectic and meaningful programmes, the soprano Anna Prohaska here celebrates ‘life in death’. An ambitious programme, conceived with Robin Peter Müller and his ensemble La Folia, which takes us on a journey across the centuries and through many different countries, with French chansons of the ...
Composer: Luigi Rossi (1598-1653), Francesco Cavalli (1602-1676), Barbara Strozzi (1619-1677), Christoph Graupner (1683-1760), Dietrich Buxtehude (1637-1707), Franz Tunder (1614-1667), Oswald von Wolkenstein, Henry Purcell (1659–1695), Guillaume de Machaut (1300-1377), Henry Purcell (1659-1695), Paul McCartney, John Lennon
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Vocal
Sophia Jani: Music as a Mirror
The music of contemporary composer Sophia Jani is characterised by its great independence from structures and conventions as well as by its musical poetry within a minimalist approach: Her debut album “Music as a Mirror” presents works for woodwind quintet, string quartet and piano: In the largely male environment with this album ...
Composer: Sophia Jani
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
It’s a foreboding time to make pop music. But like a sunbeam peering through a haze of wildfire smoke, Early Eyes have somehow persevered through dashed dreams, fractured relationships, historic social justice uprisings in their own hometown, and a society tearing apart at the seams to make an album that is both responsive to the chaos and wearily ...
Genre: Alternative
Subgenre: Indie Rock
