J.S. Bach: Piano Works (2021 Remastered Version)
Walter Gieseking's interpretations of Bach in the early years of his career gained him laurels for 'his control over shades of tone, especially over infinite gradations in the range between piano and pianissimo, the clear definition of his agile finger-work, and the firm ...
Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Instrumental
Ten international composers showcase their respective styles on MOTO ETERNO, the latest installment of NAVONA's successful MOTO chamber music series. Like the previous MOTO releases, MOTO ETERNO is the result of a wide-ranging Call For Scores and a scrupulous selection process. ...
Composer: Matthew Hetz, Pierre Schroeder, Timothy Kramer, John Hawkes, David T. Bridges, John G. Bilotta, Christian Paterniti, Diane Jones, Katherine Price, Michael Cohen
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
That Which Has Remained ... That Which Will Emerge ...
Music as meta-memory: In 2015, when he was the artist-in-residence at Warsaw’s POLIN Museum, the internationally renowned percussionist and composer Lukas Ligeti created a unique document in words and sounds that is being presented on this album. The history of Polish Jews, which is the POLIN museum’s ...
Composer: Lukas Ligeti (1965)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Classical Crossover
Memorias, Astor Piazzolla Memories in 6 Tableaux
Memorias I: Memorias is clair-obscur’s birthday present for Astor Piazzolla, who would have celebrated his 100th birthday in 2021. A manera de memorias is the title of Argentinean author Natalio Gorín’s anthology of interviews with Astor Piazzolla from the 1990s. ...
Composer: Astor Piazzolla (1921–1992)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Classical Crossover
Easter From King's (2021 Collection)
A collection of sacred choral music celebrating Easter performed by the Choir of King’s College, Cambridge and conductor Daniel Hyde.Included are works and arrangements by composers Pablo Casals, Edgar Bainton, Bob Chilcott, John Rutter, Maurice Duruflé and Richard Lloyd, with three hyms ...
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Choral
David Philip Hefti: Early Works, Vol. I
It is almost a quarter of a century since David Philip Hefti’s first composition appeared. Now, Prospero Classical is releasing a whole collection of his early works, as a glimpse into the compositional past of a future-oriented artist. ...
Composer: David Philip Hefti
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
A creative response to a time of chaos and change. Following its successful premiere in July, the Isolation Songbook will soon be recorded for release on Delphian Records. Originally conceived as an open call-for-scores to composers and lyricists to respond creatively to lockdown, the resulting 15 new songs are by turns witty ...
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Vocal
Described as having ‘natural genius’, John Abraham Fisher (1744–1806) was a significant figure in London during the second half of the 18th century. A virtuoso violinist, he also wrote admired stage works for the Theatre Royal, Covent Garden. His orchestral works are largely forgotten today, ...
Composer: John Abraham Fisher (1744-1806)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
Superstar Angela Gheorghiu, the most glamorous and gifted opera singer of our time, was born in the small Romanian town Adjud. From early childhood it was obvious that she will become a singer, her destiny was the music. She attended the Music School in Bucharest and graduated the National ...
Composer: Richard Stein, Florentin Delmar, Aurel Giroveanu, Claude Romano, Gherase Dendrino
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Vocal
English Guitar Music of the 20th Century, Berkeley, Britten, Scott & Walton
It’s easy to identify the classical guitar with Spanish repertoire. After all, Andrés Segovia, who revived the fortunes of the instrument in the early decades of the 20th century after long neglect, was a Spaniard. This does not do justice, however, to the major contribution made to 20th-century ...
Composer: Lennox Berkeley (1903-1989), Cyril Scott (1879-1970), Benjamin Britten (1913-1976), Sir William Walton (1902-1983)
Genre: Guitar
Subgenre: Classical Guitar
Bach: The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book I, BWV 846-869
A child prodigy on the piano, his name is already associated with the Verbier Festival, the Philharmonie de Paris and Vienna’s Konzerthaus. For his Canadian premiere, he performs Book 1 of this classic work, which Haydn and Mozart studied in great depth. ...
Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Instrumental
A string quartet by Richard Wagner or Gustav Mahler? Isn't that what the music world has always wanted? The Voyager Quartet goes on a soul-searching tour. From ""Villa Wahnfried"", sounding love letters, coded messages and secret messages are delivered, written by Richard Wagner and Gustav Mahler, ...
Composer: Richard Wagner (1813-1883), Gustav Mahler (1860 – 1911)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
Trailblazing a path for the carillon in the 21st Century, Tiffany Ng commands towers of bells that ring across great distances. On Dark Matters, Ng masterfully helms the carillon works of composer Stephen Rush. These works and Ng’s playing possess a kind of magical cacophony that ...
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
Emmanuel Despax returns to Signum with a disc of JS Bach transcriptions. The title quotes Victor Hugo’s ‘The Hunchback of Notre-Dame’ (“Breathe, Hope”), brought to Despax’s mind following the news of the fire at Notre-Dame Cathedral, where he had attended many concerts of Bach’s music as a child. ...
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Instrumental
No More War - It's Time For Love
On NO MORE WAR, composer and award-winning accordionist Semir “Sammy” Hasić shines a spotlight on the 1991 Battle of Vukovar, which plunged eastern Croatia into turmoil. Through the clever usage of dissonance, illogical harmonies, and polyrhythms, the poignant album highlights the aural terrors ...
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
If ever a moment in history called for the caustic, corrosive rantings of guitarist-composer-poet Todd Clouser and the abstract grooves of his combustible beat-skronk band Magnet Animals, it’s this one. With our collective headspaces dizzied by a nearly yearlong pandemic induced isolation ...
Genre: Rock
Subgenre: Adult Alternative
Canadian pianist Jean-Philippe Sylvestre performs works for piano by Maurice Ravel, recorded on an Erard piano built in 1854. "The concept and performance of a work are affected by the instrument one plays," says Jean-Philippe Sylvestre. "To bring out the Baroque character of two pieces, ...
Composer: Maurice Ravel (1875-1937)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Instrumental
Beethoven: Violin Sonatas Nos. 4, 5 & 7
Viktoria Mullova’s first album of Beethoven Violin Sonatas, Nos 3 & 9’Kreutzer’ with Kristian Bezuidenhout, was reviewed enthusiastically by Gramophone magazine. ‘ The sound, in these familiar pieces has a startling clarity’; it went on to say that the period instruments ‘relocate these two works in a darkly Romantic sound world’. ...
Composer: Ludwig van Beethoven (1770–1827)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Instrumental
