Ai Kuwabara produces her original music in collaboration with bassist Yusuke Morita for this piano trio project. While her music calls to mind a striking resemblance to that of two of her most loved and admired jazz pianists, Michel Petrucciani and Esbjörn Svensson ...
Genre: Instrumental
Subgenre: Piano
Two music worlds clash to produce a piece that is well-balanced and beautifully haunting. The duo had international music webs (such as Stereogum) sing odes to them soon after they released their first material. The British music site Velvet Independent wrote that their debut track Similar Familiar ...
Genre: Electronic
Subgenre: Electro-Pop
Resonance disappearing in harmonic reminiscence of time immemorial where pure energy travels on sound waves. Abstract sequences, soothing rhythms, floating music. Created to accompany a series of talks on consciousness as background environment. ...
Genre: Electronic
Subgenre: Ambient
Resonance disappearing in harmonic reminiscence of time immemorial where pure energy travels on sound waves. Abstract sequences, soothing rhythms, floating music. Created to accompany a series of talks on consciousness as background environment. ...
Genre: Electronic
Subgenre: Ambient
Xelo Giner is one of the great exponents of contemporary saxophone music, and her programme binds together each piece in a logical progression that also reflects the turbulence and vicissitudes of the European avant-garde. Kurtág's miniatures, in arrangements ...
Composer: György Kurtag (1926), Karlheinz Stockhausen (1928-2007), Hector Parra (1976), Simon Steen-Andersen (1976), Calos David Perales (1979)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Modern Composition
"On his debut solo album the Russian pianist Alexey Pudinov (*1988) plays a very diverse program, which can only escape the impression of a hodgepodge if the interpretations are continuously exciting. In the interpretation of the second Brahms sonata Pudinov shows immediately ....
Composer: Johannes Brahms (1833-1897), Sergej Rachmaninoff (1873-1943), George Gershwin (1898-1937), Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Instrumental
Flags of Hope (Remixed & Remastered 2021)
“For the title song Flag Of Hope, we invited our good friends, singers, who are all somehow connected to SIGNUM REGIS. Göran Edman was the lead singer of the band in the early days and recorded with us the 1st and the 2nd album. Mayo Petranin (Castaway, Symphonity) was our lead singer in 2014-2018, ...
Genre: Rock
Subgenre: Hard Rock
The imaginative musician that is harpsichordist Ignacio Prego directs a new selection of the concerti grossi by Charles Avison drawing inspiration from keyboard sonatas by Domenico Scarlatti. The Madrid-born Prego is alive to the variety of musical ideas embedded in these concertos ...
Composer: Charles Avison (1709-1770)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
An album on the occasion of the 100th birthday of Astor Piazzolla. The arde Trio offers two world premieres on its debut release: Fresh and new arrangements by Omar Massa, which are congenially embodied by the unusual instrumentation of the arde Trio, allow not only the great "classics" of Tango Nuevo music to resound ....
Composer: Astor Piazzolla (1921–1992)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
Ennio Morricone’s film music provides an infinite treasure trove of creative thinking, associated with the most varied of images. It is also extremely versatile, just waiting to be delved into, reworked and rediscovered – his compositions would still be ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Contemporary Jazz
Balsys: Violin Concerto No. 1, Reflections of the Sea & Dramatic Frescoes
This new album introduces to international audience the music of Eduardas Balsys (1919–1984), a key figure in Lithuania’s music from the 1950s until his death in 1984. This album release by the Lithuanian National Symphony Orchestra conducted by Modestas Pitrėnas includes three works ...
Composer: Eduardas Balsys (1919-1984)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Concertos
Jenny Lin commands a vast repertoire, from the most obscure modern music to the most tried and true of romantic warhorses. An inveterate collector of sheet music, the score to Simple Music for Piano by Giya Kancheli sat on her shelf for a decade… until she had the brainstorm to invite accordion avatar Guy ...
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Instrumental
A Bad Think’s album The Tragic End of a Dreamer is an eclectic collection of masterfully crafted modern alternative music that is a glimpse inside the mind of singer-songwriter and sole member Michael Marquart. The seven tracks on the album are a culmination of life, love, hope and loss, ...
Genre: Rock
Subgenre: Modern Rock
Pfleger: The Life and Passion of the Christ
Pfleger is unquestionably one of the most fascinating baroque masters of Northern Europe of the seventeenth-century. Embodiying the transition between Schütz and the heritage of Monteverdi on one side, and the music of Buxtehude and later Bach on the other, Pfleger’s music testifies to the ...
Composer: Augustin Pfleger (1635-1686)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Vocal
Rising star Kim André Arnesen is already one of the most performed living choral composers in the world. His music is rooted in his home of Trondheim, Norway, but has been performed all over the world, including for former President Barack Obama ...
Composer: Kim Andre Arnesen (1980)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Choral
Beethoven - Bartók - Dvorák: String Quartets
Seit seiner Gründung im Jahr 1946 gehört das Juilliard String Quartet zu den geachtetsten und maßstabsetzenden Streichquartettformationen weltweit. Ihre Aufnahmegeschichte ist entsprechend lang. Auf dem ersten Album in der aktuellen Besetzung mit der seit 2018 agierenden Primaria ...
Composer: Bela Bartok (1881-1945), Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827), Antonin Dvorak (1841-1904)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
Few twentieth-century creators have been as inventive as Berio in their relationship with the history of music, with popular and ancestral traditions, drawing material, as he did, from both Beatles hits and the soundscapes of street and market. Here Geoffroy Jourdain paints the portrait ...
Composer: Luciano Berio (1925-2003)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Vocal
Following his extremely successful Beethoven symphony cycle for Ondine, Robert Trevino's second release on Ondine is also his first alongside the Basque National Orchestra. Trevino has been Music Director of the Basque National Orchestra since 2017 and, appropriately enough, ...
Composer: Maurice Ravel (1875-1937)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Orchestral
