”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
This recording brings together works that were originally written for one or two pianos, and which ""show how the composer […] in an approach similar to that of Chopin writing his waltzes, polonaises, mazurkas… started with rhythms that were subtly harmonised and, above all, firmly stereotyped, before being to profoundly distort ...
Composer: George Gershwin (1898-1937)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Classical Crossover
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky: Souvenir de Florence - Antonín Dvořák: String Sextet (Remastered)
The string sextet genre was introduced at the end of the 18th century by Boccherini but did not fully blossom until Brahms, Tchaikovsky, before Schönberg, Reger, Martinu and Richard Strauss. Antonín Dvořák composed his sextet, his only work in that genre, in just two weeks in May 1878. His reputation as a composer was beginning to escalate, ...
Composer: Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840-1893), Antonin Dvorák (1841-1904)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
Mieczysław Weinberg: Cello Sonatas Nos. 1 & 2, Solo Cello Sonata No. 1 & String Trio (Remastered)
Little known in the West and victim of anti-Semitic ostracism in the former USSR, the name of Mieczysław Weinberg, the third great “Russian” composer of the 20th century, after Prokofiev and Shostakovich, seems to be slowly emerging from the shadow of the latter, his protector and friend. Far from being an epigone, he is rather, by his ...
Composer: Mieczyslaw Weinberg (1919-1996)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
Antonín Dvorák: Piano Quintets Nos. 1 & 2 (Remastered)
“The Op. 81 Quintet is the more popular of these two A major quintets, but the Op. 5, written in 1872, has much to recommend it as well. Like its later sibling, there’s an immediately gripping melody sung by the cello and a piano part (in the first two movements) that’s full of Schubertian grace, idiomatically played here by Ivan ...
Composer: Antonín Dvorák (1841-1904)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
The nine-member Intercontinental Ensemble, which consists of four strings and five wind instruments, has previously made the enthusiastically received productions 'Traveling Light' (TTK 0021) and 'In Motu' (TTK 0071) for the adventurous TRPTK label. Besides playing original nonet repertoire, the musicians focus on their own arrangements ...
Composer: Bianca Bongers (b. 1987), Clara Schumann (1819-1896), Aregnaz Martirosyan (b. 1993), Sarah Neutkens (b. 1998), Louise Farrenc (1804-1875)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
Brahms / Schumann: Ein Menschliches Requiem
Johannes Brahms is an icon. Say Johannes, and you know you are talking about Brahms. The successor to Beethoven, the sober man who valued seriousness, the champion of classical traditions, a close friend of the Schumanns. But how well do we really know Brahms? How close does he let us get to him in his music? ...
Composer: Johannes Brahms (1833-1897), Robert Schumann (1810-1856)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Vocal
This recording provides an opportunity to discover a forgotten Baroque operatic treasure, a zarzuela, the key dramatic and musical genre of the Spanish Golden Age. Sumptuous choruses, poignant arias and folksongs blend in a rich and spectacular narrative, whose music was falsely attributed to Antonio Literes before ...
Composer: Juan Bautista Cabanilles (1644-1712), Sebastián Durón (1660-1716)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Vocal
Two renowned tenor greats go on a special voyage of discovery: René Kollo and Jay Alexander sing evening songs by Schubert, Brahms, Mendelssohn and Schumann. The famous songs from the Romantic era have all been newly arranged for string orchestra and lavishly produced in this form for the first time in the studio. ...
Composer: Franz Schubert (1797-1828), Robert Schumann (1810-1856), Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy (1809-1847), Johann Abraham Peter Schulz (1747-1800), Edward Elgar (1857-1934), Jules Massenet (1842-1912)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Vocal
This album explores the experience of foreigners in France. I see myself as belonging to a long genealogy of American artists who moved to Paris to escape the USA, a country that does not support its creators. Unlike my illustrious predecessors, I arrived in France during a pandemic that paralyzed the Parisian ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Contemporary Jazz
"Pourquoi" is a composition by Philip Catherine lending its name to the second studio encounter with his guitar confrere Paul Morello and Sven Faller on bass. A "Pourquoi" which - yes, you read this right - is doing quite well without the question mark - a word- and title play through which the jazz guitar doyen Philip Catherine (b. 1942 is outing himself ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Contemporary Jazz
"On Early Music", pianist Francesco Tristano's third release with Sony Classical will be out February 4, 2022. Interspersed with his original compositions are works by some of early music’s greatest English composers and organists – Orlando Gibbons, John Bull, and Peter Philips – and one of Tristano’s greatest inspirations, ...
Composer: Francesco Tristano (b. 1981), Peter Philips (1560-1628), John Bull (1562-1628), Girolamo Frescobaldi (1583-1643), Orlando Gibbons (1583-1625)
Genre: Instrumental
Subgenre: Piano
Multifaceted singer-songwriter and instrumentalist Dan Andriano is thrilled to announce the debut album from his new project Dan Andriano & The Bygones. The album features Bay Area musicians Randy and Dylan Moore and Nick Kenrick. Looking at Dan Andriano's catalog, one might assume that making new music is old hat for the veteran vocalist, ...
Genre: Rock
Subgenre: Adult Alternative
BACH: The Art of Life (Encore Edition)
Bach: The Art of Life presents music by Johann Sebastian Bach and four of his sons, as well as two pieces that were Bach family favourites. Here he performs the album’s monumental centrepiece – Johann Sebastian’s late masterpiece The Art of Fugue, whose fourteen fugues and four canons explore different contrapuntal ...
Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750), Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791), Wilhelm Friedemann Bach (1710-1784), Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach (1714-1788), Johann Christian Bach (1735-1782)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Instrumental
