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
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
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
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
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
The Matthews Baartmans Conspiracy
Singer songwriter Iain Matthews and guitarist / singer songwriter / producer BJ Baartmans met in 2003, shortly after the former had relocated to the south of Holland. BJ was accompanying touring American singer songwriter, Eugene Ruffolo, in a local music cafe and the two were introduced after the show. ...
Genre: Songwriter
Subgenre: New Acoustic
Fondo Barocco: Baroque Cello Sonatas
Starting in Italy in the middle of the 17th century, the cello enjoyed increasing popularity throughout Europe. The instrument experienced its first heyday in the first half of the 18th century. At that time it had just established itself as a solo instrument, and consequently music was enthusiastically written for it. ...
Composer: Antonio Caldara (1670–1736), Giuseppe Sammartini (1695–1750), Wenceslaus Spourni (1700–1754), Giovanni Bononcini (1670–1747)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
In this humanistic ode to nature, French cellist Christian-Pierre La Marca presents a packed programme on the theme of saving the planet. He has invited a host of artists from all over the international music scene to add their voices to that of his own eloquent instrument, in a unique and unprecedented project of solidarity. ...
Composer: Gabriel Fauré (1845–1924), Harold Arlen (1905-1986), Michel Portal, Richard Strauss (1864–1949), Kurt Weill (1900-1950), Frank Loesser (1910-1969), George Gershwin (1898-1937), Philip Glass (b. 1937), Fazıl Say (1970), Thomas Enhco, Antonín Dvořák (1841-1904)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
Monteverdi: Daylight. Stories of Songs, Dances and Loves
This new recording is like an insert between the books of madrigals that mark the course of Rinaldo Alessandrini’s discography, in his long-term progress towards a complete recorded edition. Daylight is a continuation of Night, which appeared on the occasion of the 350th Anniversary of the composer’s birth. ...
Composer: Claudio Monteverdi (1567-1643)
Genre: Classic
Subgenre: Chamber Music
Valentina Lisitsa juxtaposes two great works written in 1908, in whose interpretation she demonstrates both the depth and virtuosity of her playing: Maurice Ravel's "Gaspard de la Nuit" and the Piano Sonata No. 1 by Sergei Rachmaninoff. ...
Composer: Maurice Ravel (1875-1937), Sergej Rachmaninoff (1873-1943)
Genre: Classic
Subgenre: Instrumental
