“Since I was a little girl, Mozart has always been by my side. His music is my happy place, whether I’m listening to it, playing it, or whistling it. And since the start of the pandemic, Mozart has been a permanent fixture in my home. His joyful, melodic music has given me a way to escape all the worry and ...
Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
Rediscovered: British Clarinet Concertos by Dolmetsch, Maconchy, Spain-dunk & Wishart
Peter Cigleris performs with the BBC National Orchestra of Wales in a programme of four ‘rediscovered’ clarinet concertante works of the first half of the 20th Century. Composed between 1930 and 1947, the works span a time of change in the musical landscape of Great ...
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Concertos
Liszt: Complete Piano Music, Vol. 57
It was natural for virtuoso performer Franz Liszt to expand his repertoire by transcribing his songs for solo piano. The human voice is the purest of musical instruments, and composers have always been inspired by its warmth, expression and emotional power. Liszt’s masterful command of the piano and his ability to ...
Composer: Franz Liszt (1811–1886)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Instrumental
History of the Russian Piano Trio, Vol. 3
Nikolay Rimsky-Korsakov's influence as composer and teacher was profound in Russia and beyond, yet his chamber music has been overshadowed by his operas and orchestral works. The unfinished Piano Trio in C minor was completed by his son-in-law Maximilian Steinberg to reveal a substantial ...
Composer: Alexander Borodin (1833-1887), Cesar Cui (1835-1918), Nikolai Rimsky-Korssakoff (1844-1908)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
Judith Bingham: Heaven and Earth & Other Works
Judith Bingham is established as one of the foremost British composers writing for the organ. The powerfully atmospheric and evocative music in this recording richly demonstrates her gift for creating compelling works which draw inspiration from a broad range of historical, ...
Composer: Judith Bingham (1952)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
Trombone Travels, Vol. 2: Songs of Travel
This second volume of Trombone Travels (Volume 1 is on 8574093) continues with Matthew Gee’s exploration of three great cycles of early 20th-century British song. Elgar’s Sea Pictures evoke lullaby and turbulence alike, Vaughan Williams’s Songs of Travel chart a wanderer’s lonely ...
Composer: Edward William Elgar (1857-1934), Charles Villiers Stanford (1852-1924), Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872-1958)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
Beethoven: Piano Sonatas Nos. 7, 23 & 28
Jean-Nicolas Diatkine stammt aus einer Familie anerkannter Ärzte und betrachtet das Engagement für Andere als Grundlage seines Berufs. Es schien ihm unmöglich, auf diese Grundhaltung bei seiner Berufsausübung zu verzichten, weshalb er seine künstlerische Entwicklung stets ...
Composer: Ludwig van Beethoven (1770–1827)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Instrumental
Petrassi, Dallapiccola: Complete Piano Works
An unusual perspective on two luminaries of the Italian avant-garde, full of high spirits and neoclassical elegance. The strident conviction of Goffredo Petrassi (1904-2003) his seven postwar Concertos for Orchestra could hardly be anticipated from the fluent pastiche of his piano Partita, ...
Composer: Goffedro Petrassi (1904–2003), Luigi Dallapiccola (1904-1975)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Instrumental
The industrious Simone Stella has produced critically acclaimed complete sets of keyboard music by Buxtehude, Bohm, Reincken, Walther, Froberger and Pachelbel. Now he ventures further off the beaten track with the complete surviving organ music of Friedrich Wilhelm Zachow (1663-1712), a Leipzig- ... The industrious Simone Stella has produced critically acclaimed complete sets of keyboard music by Buxtehude, Bohm, Reincken, Walther, Froberger and Pachelbel. Now he ventures further off the beaten track with the complete surviving organ music of Friedrich Wilhelm Zachow (1663-1712), a Leipzig- ...
Composer: Friedrich Wilhelm Zachow (1663-1712)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
Lucifer Drowning in a Sea of Light
The driving pulse of a modular synthesizer, crystal clear guitar runs and the melancholic sound of a baroque cello - an exceptionally orchestrated album, recorded in a high-quality live production. Without editing, in the now, in the flow. With "Lucifer Drowning in a Sea of Light” guitarist Max Clouth makes the renowned Bauer ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Crossover Jazz
Young organist John Challenger in his debut solo recording presents a selection of virtuoso transcriptions for organ of some of the best-loved orchestral works of Elgar, played on the organ of Salisbury Cathedral. ...
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
With a nod to the legacy of the late 1990s and 2000s choral Gospel music masters, HezHouse Entertainment today released the new EP One Sound Live from Vincent Bohanan & SOV, featuring the single “Any Day Now.” The release represents the Stellar-nominated choir’s first multi-track project for Bishop ...
Genre: R&B
Subgenre: Soul
These manipulated pieces become absolutely new works. From pieces of the audio montage I had, with new pieces and placing everything all over again, this work has lasted a year and a half, I have achive this original and new sonoritys. Fourth part of Collage collection, where all the pieces have more of a dreamlike character. ...
Genre: World Music
Subgenre: Worldbeat
Aziola Cry sind Jason Blake an der Warr Guitar, Mike Milaniak an der Gitarre und Tommy Murray am Schlagzeug. Das Trio veröffentlichte 2005 sein Debütalbum Ellipsis, gefolgt von Ghost Conversations im Jahr 2007. Die Gruppe trat unter anderem mit Bands wie Behold ... The Arctopus, Don Caballero, Tiles, ...
Genre: Rock
Subgenre: Adult Alternative
Michael Praetorius: Ein feste Burg ist unser Gott
Anlässlich des 400. Todestages von Michael Praetorius hat das Ensemble La Protezione della Musica eine Auswahl von Vokal- und Orgelkompositionen zusammengestellt, die für Praetorius’ Schaffen recht repräsentativ ist. ...
Composer: Michael Praetorius (1571-1621)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Vocal
"Bre" has taken three years to create, and features contributions from some of Norway's finest musicians, including three of his idols: Arve Henriksen, Eivind Aarset and Erland Dahlen. "Bre" is composed of ambient experimental music heavily inspired by nature, and takes the listener on an emotional journey. ...
Genre: Electronic
Subgenre: Ambient
From House of Bedlam's release Enclosure, get up close with Stephanie Tress's cello in Occhi io cissi di voi #2 - Larry Goves' arrange of Claudia Sessa's tune. Alternative takes of a saxophone are superimposed on themselves accompanied by low alto flute and cello playing on the tension of playing together and play apart. ...
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
In early 1997, I set out for the first time for Buenos Aires to search for the sounds, tones and noises of this city. [After my return to Munich, I published my acoustic travel diary "¡Tango Vivo!"]. The first encounter with the music of pianist Andrés Linetzky took place in the legendary tango club ...
Genre: Latin
Subgenre: Latin Jazz
Dai Fujikura: Akiko's Piano - Works from Hiroshima Symphony Orchestra 2020 (Music for Peace) Concert
Dai Fujikura’s fourth piano concerto, Akiko’s Piano, emerged from an extraordinary story that began before the atomic bomb was dropped over Hiroshima in 1945. Akiko Kawamoto was a young girl in Hiroshima who enjoyed playing her piano. She survived the atomic bomb but succumbed a day later to complications ...
Composer: Dai Fujikura (1977)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Vocal
"About Time" is the eighth solo studio album by Steve Winwood, released in 2003. It was his first album since 1997 and it featured a return to a musical style more in line with his earlier work with Traffic. That basic style is emphasized in the three piece set of the band: Hammond Organ, guitar and drums/percussion, ...
Genre: Rock
Subgenre: Modern Rock
