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
Vivaldi, Cantate per soprano I
This new recording in the Edition Vivaldi series - the first of two volumes dedicated to Vivaldi’s cantate da camera for soprano - displays the energetic vitality with which a new generation of artists in their thirties is encountering the baroque repertoire. ...
Composer: Antonio Vivaldi (1678–1741)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Vocal
This new showpiece in the Collection Diotima, in which the eponymous quartet devotes itself to monographies of contemporary composers, offers here a triple line-up of some of the foremost composers of their generation: this album is a living image of serious music today, which in this 21st Century has focused on ...
Composer: Stefano Gervasoni (1962), Gerard Pesson (1958), Enno Poppe (1969)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
Salonen: Cello Concerto & Ravel: Sonata for Violin and Cello
Nicolas Altstaedt presents here his version of Esa-Pekka Salonen’s monumental Cello Concerto, originally composed for Yo-Yo Ma, and given its Finnish premiere by the Franco-German cellist under the composer’s direction. In partnership with the Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra and conductor Dima Slobodeniouk, he reveals its full expressive ...
Composer: Maurice Ravel (1875-1937), Esa-Pekka Salonen (1958)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Concertos
Meditative Baroque music: Dhrupad is the oldest and purest genre within the North Indian classical music and can trace its origins to the recitation of Sanskrit texts in Hindu temples more than two thousand years ago. Dhrupad reached the Mughal courts in Rajasthan in the 16th century, where it developed into a classical art form. ...
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
In 2017 Midnight Oil returned from a long hiatus with a sweat drenched pub gig at the legendary Sydney venue, Selina’s. In the middle of that special set, frontman Peter Garrett borrowed some famous lines, exhorting “rage, rage, against the dying of the light”. And that’s exactly what they’ve done ever since. ...
Genre: Rock
Subgenre: Modern Rock
British singer-songwriter JP Cooper announced his long-awaited sophomore album “SHE”. It is his first album in four years. JP Cooper's new album 'She' features some of his most personal, authentic and moving music yet. Including singles 'Call My Name' and 'Holy Water'. The album comprises of 24-track. ...
Genre: Pop
Subgenre: Pop Rock
Recorded over two studio sessions, As I Try Not To Fall Apart is White Lies’ most expansive record to date, taking in explosive rock, electro-pop bangers, prog-inspired invention, funk-tinged grooves and some of their most indelible hooks yet.
Genre: Rock
Subgenre: Adult Alternative
Verdi: La forza del destino (Live)
Giuseppe Verdi travelled to St Petersburg in 1862 to premiere La forza del destino, which had been commissioned by the city’s Imperial Theatre. The source material appealed to the composer’s sense of tragic intensity and the ruthlessness of destiny. The local audience was accustomed to 18th-century ...
Composer: Giuseppe Verdi (1813-1901)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Opera
In the 25 years since Bugge Wesseltoft founded Jazzland Recordings, he has engaged in numerous group projects and collaborations such as New Conception of Jazz, duos with the likes of Sidsel Endresen, Henning Kraggerud and Henrik Schwarz, one-off projects such as Trialogue, Bugge and Friends, and OKWorld! ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Nu Jazz
SCHIMMERLING sind Jeansjacke, Philosophie, Schweiß, Choupette und Tiger, Hure und Heiliger Geist, Fleetwood Mac und Talking Heads, Aroma, Liebe, Muse und Springsteen, klug und wahnsinnig. Die Band, in deren Zentrum Shimmoneq als Sänger, Gitarrist und Texter steht, ist Haltung! Sein Gesang suggeriert nämlich mit jedem Ton, den er standesgemäß ...
Genre: Rock
Subgenre: Adult Alternative
”Otilia scoops up a spell of inspiration. Developing alternative playing techniques with my harp I discover mysterious colors and new forms of sounds. I like to use the harp also as a percussion, and by adding kalimba, sandpaper, mom’s silver spoons, my own voice and a looper, I created my one-woman’s orchestra. ...
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Instrumental
Valentina Lisitsa marks her debut on the Naïve label with a release commemorating the 150th anniversary of Russian composer Alexander Scriabin’s birth. The program includes eighteen short pieces spanning his body of work, from his early anthology of 24 preludes – modeled after those of ...
Composer: Alexander Scriabin (1872-1915)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Instrumental
A sense of departure – the often-used catchword stands here not only in a figurative sense, but also for three different life situations of the young Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, in which he left his not necessarily beloved hometown of Salzburg and set out for new shores elsewhere. In 1772, at the age of only 16, he travelled ...
Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Concertos
Johannes Brahms: String Sextet No. 1, Theme and Variations in D Minor (Remastered)
The string Sextet genre was introduced at the end of the 18th century by Boccherini but did not fully blossom until Brahms and Tchaikovsky, before Schönberg, Reger, Martinu and Richard Strauss. We probably owe the first Brahms Sextet (1859) to the example of Spohr. Nicknamed ‘Frühling-Sextett’ ...
Composer: Johannes Brahms (1833-1897)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
