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
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
