Nach seinem erfolgreichen Händel-Album veröffentlicht Martin Stadtfeld mit "Piano Songbook" sein erstes Album ganz mit eigenen Bearbeitungen von Themen bekannter Klassikwerke sowie mit 10 eigenen kurzen "Piano Songs". Das Album enthält zum einen 20 kurze Stücke, ...
Composer: Martin Stadtfeld
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Instrumental
Voices 2, the second album in the pioneering audio-visual Voices project, co-created with his artistic partner Yulia Mahr, on 9 April 2021. Voices was inspired by, and features text adapted from, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Voices 2 follows directly from the first part, embodying the ...
Composer: Max Richter (1966)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Modern Composition
JMJ created the music to the vision of Sebastiao Salgado. Jean-Michel Jarre has composed and recorded a 52 minute musical score for "Amazônia", a new project by award winning photographer and filmmaker Sebastião Salgado, for the Philharmonic Paris. ...
Genre: Electronic
Subgenre:
Navona Records presents A NATIVE HILL from Philadelphia’s professional chamber choir, The Crossing. This monumental unaccompanied work is the result of a collaboration with composer Gavin Bryars, whose previous work for The Crossing won them their first of two recent Grammy awards. ...
Composer: Gavin Bryars (1943)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Choral
2020 was a spring-clean year. Locked-away within our own homes, armed with a broom and bin bags, many of us finally got the time for those long overdue house-chores; tidying up the closet, fixing that wobbly shelf, tending to the garden and discarding all kinds of accumulated stuff. ...
Composer: Clemens Christian Poetzsch (1985)
Genre: Instrumental
Subgenre: Piano
Jacky describes the project: “The great thing about this commission was that it enabled me to put together a new ensemble, featuring some of my favourite musicians: Tom Syson (Trumpet), Alex Hitchcock (Tenor), Harry Maund (Trombone) Will Sach (Double Bass) and Luca Caruso (Drums). ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Contemporary Jazz
Ravel & La Tombelle: String Quartets
The Mandelring Quartett’s new, two-part recording project is dedicated to French repertoire. Part 1 presents Maurice Ravel’s string quartet, a stroke of genius by its 27-year-old composer marking a new chapter in French chamber music, as well as Fernand de La Tombelle’s almost contemporaneous refined ...
Composer: Maurice Ravel (1875–1937), Fernand de La Tombelle (1854-1928)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
The Nascentia Suite and several other pieces on this recording came to me during the world-wide pandemic and with that, offered me time to envision something in music like a re-birth. The song 'Nascentia' was the first to come on March 30th 2020, with the world in lockdown, and the rest followed. ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Contemporary Jazz
A fresh and open music, delicate and space-conscious, is shaped as drummer Thomas Strønen and Ayumi Tanaka, previously heard in the ensemble Time Is A Blind Guide on Lucus, resurface in a new trio with clarinettist/singer/percussionist Marthe Lea. The group first came together at Oslo’s Royal ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Contemporary Jazz
This album of orchestral showpieces features four of the five members of the Mighty Handful, a group of Russian composers who, during the second half of the 19th century, collaborated to create a distinct national style. The recorded works illustrate different aspects of their endeavors – both in terms ...
Composer: Modest Mussorgsky (1839-1881), Mily Balakirev (1837-1910), Alexander Borodin (1833-1887)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Orchestral
Beethoven: Violin Sonatas Nos. 5-7
2020 saw the release of the first installment in this three-album traversal of Beethoven’s violin sonatas – a disc which has garnered distinctions such as Choc de Classica and Cum Laude (Luister), with performances that ‘wed classical verve to a profoundly Romantic spirit’ (Gramophone) in ‘recordings ...
Composer: Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
On her third PENTATONE album Bach Unbuttoned, Ana de la Vega brings together a group of exciting young soloists and the Württembergisches Kammerorchester Heilbronn to present a lively and fresh perspective on Bach as man and composer. The programme contains Brandenburg concertos Nos. 2, 4 & 5, a unique ...
Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
Live With Wonderland Orchestra
Sunrise Avenue will release a new double live album with the Wonderland Orchestra. In 2015, Sunrise Avenue thrilled their fans in Hannover with an exclusive orchestra show, which was completely sold out. Countless requests followed for the band to play more orchestra shows. ...
Genre: Pop
Subgenre: Pop Rock
Chopin: Piano Sonata No. 2 in B-Flat Minor, Op. 35, B. 128 & Other Works
The Aevea Piano Prize (APP) is an innovative International Piano & Chamber Music Competition, founded by the Associazione Culturale Aevea and supported by OnClassical. The purpose of the competition is to promote selected participants through relevant performance opportunities and worldwide distribution of ...
Composer: Frederic Chopin (1810-1849)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Instrumental
Jazz guitarist and educator, Alvin Dyers was born in Harfield Village (Cape Town) in 1953. He started playing guitar from the age of seven. He formed his first band called Sacred Legion with his equally talented brother, Errol Dyers. He also formed part of the group musicians that played ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Free Jazz
The City Light Symphony Orchestra, founded in Lucerne in 2018, presents its debut album with the 100-minute program "Spotlight on John Williams“. For the project acclaimed soloists such as Valentine Michaud, Reinhold Friedrich and Paul Meyer could be assigned. ...
Composer: John Williams (1932)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Concertos
Audax Records and Ensemble Diderot pride themselves on their pioneering forays into unknown and neglected repertoire. The concept of building compelling and insightful programmes around major works and audience favourites and not shying away from presenting recital albums has been one of the building blocks of the label. ...
Composer: François Couperin (1668-1733)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
Bach: Violin Partita No. 2, BWV 1004
Audax Records and Ensemble Diderot pride themselves on their pioneering forays into unknown and neglected repertoire. The concept of building compelling and insightful programmes around major works and audience favourites and not shying away from presenting recital albums has been ...
Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
Maridalen follow up their Jazzland debut, "Blir det regn i dag, tru?" with "På gjensyn", displaying more of their unique contrapuntal style, with its so-simple-it's-complex feel and sonic origami, this time underpinned with swagger and swing. ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Contemporary Jazz
Wranitzky: Orchestral Works, Vol. 1
Czech-born Paul Wranitzky, a contemporary of Mozart, was the most important symphonist in Vienna at the turn of the 18th century. To mark the ascension to the throne of Franz II in 1792, Wranitzky wrote the grand Symphony in C major, a work of regal quality and festive exuberance. Wranitzky’s mature symphonic ...
Composer: Paul Wranitzky (1776-1808)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Orchestral
