If you close your eyes, the space around you begins to pulsate. A choir of 70 people, united, yet physically separated from each other, and Martin Kohlstedt in his pulpit built of keyboard instruments. As the participants engage in a moment of contemplation, they are doing what all human beings do simply to stay alive: they breathe. ...
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Choral
Since his 2014 victory in BBC Young Musician of the Year competition, Martin James Bartlett has built a considerable international reputation. Love and Death, with its imaginatively conceived programme, gives proof of his artistic range. ...
Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach (1685–1750), Franz Liszt (1811–1886), Robert Schumann, Enrique Granados, Richard Wagner, Sergei Prokofiev (1891–1953)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Instrumental
Acclaimed Los Angeles punk rock band Bad Religion will release a new album entitled Age of Unreason on Epitaph Records on May 3. Since the group’s formative years they have steadfastly advocated for humanism, reason, and individualism. Now, when these values are in decline and ...
Genre: Rock
Subgenre: Adult Alternative
The Dream Syndicate announced the release of a new album These Times. The album, which arrives on May 3rd, is the second full length release post-reuniting in 2012. Steve Wynn wrote the lyrics to the 10 track album were written after the band finished tracking, thus the lyrics ...
Genre: Rock
Subgenre: Adult Alternative
After a two-decade-long hiatus, pop icon Corey Hart is making his return to the music scene. The Canadian Walk of Famer is known for singles such as Sunglasses at Night and Never Surrender, among many other monumental synth-pop songs that changed the course of the nation’s music in the 1980s. ...
Genre: Pop
Subgenre: Pop Rock
there is no Other (with Francesco Turrisi)
Rhiannon Giddens’ latest album there is no Other, recorded with Italian multi-instrumentalist Francesco Turrisi, is set for May 3 release on Nonesuch Records. Produced by Joe Henry and tracked over an intensely productive five-day period in Dublin, Ireland, there is no Other is ...
Genre: Folk
Subgenre: Folk Rock
There are musicians who call themselves road warriors, and then there's Anderson East. An unflinching, inimitable talent armed with a potent and husky voice, the gritty-blues and-soul-toasting singer spent two years pounding the pavement in the wake of his breakout debut album, ...
Genre: Country
Subgenre: Alternative Country
Composer Ørjan Matre has worked with Oslo Chamber Choir for over a decade. For Veneliti he has been able to profit from the choir's strong traditions in folk music in his sonic interpretations of Norwegian folk songs – fervent hymns, mystical legends and bittersweet love songs. By returning to the songs' sources and how they have ...
Composer: Ørjan Matre (1979)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Choral
George Benson gets back to Americana basics on Walking to New Orleans, the jazz guitar legend's double-barreled tribute to both piano-pounding hit machine Fats Domino and the original rock guitar hero and poet, Chuck Berry. ...
Genre: Blues
Subgenre: Electric Blues
The Cranberries are set to release ‘All Over Now’, the first song from In The End, their final studio album with Dolores O’Riordan, on 15 January. The new track is to be released to mark the first anniversary of O’Riordan’s death in 2018. ...
Genre: Rock
Subgenre: Adult Alternative
Van Holzen sind zurück. Die Alternative-Rockband aus Ulm hat die Veröffentlichung ihres neuen Albums „Regen“ für Ende April bekannt gegeben. Die erste Single „Alle meine Freunde“, mit dem zugehörigen Video, einem puren, kraftvollen Performance-Clip, der in Hamburg unter der Regie von Björn Dunne (Yassin, Audio 88, Lance Butters) ...
Genre: Rock
Subgenre: Adult Alternative
“We do whatever we want and feel totally free when it comes to composing songs,” asserted vocalist & guitarist Olof Wikstrand of Swedish metallers ENFORCER in 2015 - and he was completely right, not only musically but also touring-wise. Their 2015 album »From Beyond« - the critically-acclaimed follow-up to »Into The Night« (2008), »Diamonds« (2010), ...
Genre: Rock
Subgenre: Metal
Bruckner: Symphony No. 8 (Live)
The Münchner Philharmoniker have arguably given more performances of Anton Bruckner’s music than any other orchestra. A great number of Bruckner recordings led by the many legendary conductors that have worked for and with the Münchner Philharmoniker are stored in the historical archive of the MPHIL ...
Composer: Anton Bruckner (1824–1896)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Orchestral
Bruckner: Symphony No. 2 (Live)
The Münchner Philharmoniker have arguably given more performances of Anton Bruckner’s music than any other orchestra. A great number of Bruckner recordings led by the many legendary conductors that have worked for and with the Münchner Philharmoniker are stored in the historical archive of ...
Composer: Anton Bruckner (1824–1896)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Orchestral
Die Riff-Götter sind zurück! Etwas mehr als zwei Jahre sind seit dem großartigen »Sword Songs« vergangen, doch der Tatendrang steht bei GRAND MAGUS nie still. Entsprechend schnell machten sich die Heavy-Metal-Giganten daran, neue Songs zu erarbeiten. Sänger und Gitarrist JB weist ...
Genre: Rock
Subgenre: Metal
Orange, which features six of Shaw’s pieces for string quartet, is the first full-length album to exclusively feature works by Shaw. It is also the first release in a new partnership between the two record labels, established with the goal of enabling contemporary American composers to realize creative ambitions that might not otherwise be achievable. ...
Composer: Caroline Shaw (1982)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
