Pietro Mascagni (1863–1945) was one of those composers who were famous for a single work, the rest of their output remaining practically unknown. His opera Iris is based on a libretto by Luigi Illica, who also wrote the libretti for Puccini operas such as La Bohème, Tosca and Madama Butterfly. ...
Composer: Pietro Mascagni (1863-1945)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Choral
Schubert & Racine: String Quintets
I have composed this Adagio for string quintet at the request of my friend Walter Grimmer; it should be played in concert before the great string quintet in C by Schubert. What a story! What kind of hillock have I created next to the Himalaya of chamber music? Well, I have written a type ...
Composer: Franz Schubert (1797-1828)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
Proud Songsters: English Solo Song
Proud Songsters is a journey through the distinctive musical genre of English Song. This collection of 20 songs – familiar and lesser known – are performed by some of the finest former members of the Choir of King’s College, Cambridge with one of this generation’s most exceptional pianists. ...
Composer: William Denis Browne, Ralph Vaughan Williams, Gerald Finzi, Celia Harper, Roger Quilter, Frank Bridge, Eric Thiman, Jonathan Dove, Rebecca Clarke, Ivor Gurney, Herbert Howells, Benjamin Britten, Peter Warlock, Iain Bell
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Vocal
Sorte (*HANCE / LUCK / FATE / SORT (OF):) is the concept from which the musical ideas, the formal structure of the work and even the staging of the live shows have been developed. Sorte is a term that appeals to destiny, to the collectively integrated, to the revelation of a single element vs. all other possibilities, ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Contemporary Jazz
This richly rewarding album is Oksana Volkova’s first solo album on Delos, though she appeared alongside the late, great Dmitri Hvorostovsky in Delos’s GRAMMY®-nominated 2017 release of Verdi’s complete Rigoletto. Here she delivers powerful, passionate and ravishing performances of (mostly) ...
Composer: Francesco Cilea (1866-1950), Pietro Mascagni (1863-1945), Modest Mussorgsky (1839-1881), Georges Bizet (1838-1875), Jules Massenet (1842-1912), Nikolai Rimsky-Korssakoff (1844-1908), Ambroise Thomas (1811-1896), Camille Saint-Saens (1835-1921), Charles Gounod (1818-1893)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Vocal
A fascinating solo album from the Swiss pianist, composer and conceptualist, Entendre offers deeper insight into Nik Bärtsch’s musical thinking, illuminating aspects of his playing and the nature of his modular pieces. ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Contemporary Jazz
The piano brothers Lucas (27) and Arthur (24) Jussen will release their seventh album on March 19. The record is called The Russian Album and its first piece, Rachmaninov's Romance from the Suite No. 2 for two pianos. ...
Composer: Dmitri Schostakowitsch (1906-1975), Sergej Rachmaninoff (1873-1943), Igor Strawinsky (1882-1971), Anton Arensky (1861-1906)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Concertos
Following a highly personal and splendidly reviewed Brahms recording, Fabian Müller follows up with Passionato, an album centring not on a single composer, but on a “central masterwork of Western piano music”: Beethoven’s “Appassionata”. Radiating from this hub, Müller weaves a programme that shows why he is regarded as one of Germany’s ...
Composer: Robert Schumann (1810-1856), Johannes Brahms (1833-1897), Wolfgang Rihm (1952), Ludwig van Beethoven (1770–1827)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Instrumental
Guitarist Greg Skaff assembles a masterful trio with bassist Ron Carter and drummer Albert "Tootie" Health, two NEA Jazz Masters for this rewarding set. Well-known for his work with soul jazz legends and with groups based around the Hammond B-3 organ, this date is surprisingly Skaff's first ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Contemporary Jazz
Pergolesi: Stabat Mater - Rossell: Salve Regina
Here is the work of a genius who died at the age of twenty-six: Pergolesi's Stabat Mater is one of the miracles of eighteenth-century sacred music. Nourished by their experience of ‘setting in resonance’ early and contemporary repertories, Riccardo Minasi and the Hamburg musicians shed an ...
Composer: Giovanni Battista Pergolesi, Joan Rossell, Angelo Ragazzi
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Vocal
Recorder player Bolette Roed and Arte dei Suonatori present Vivaldi’s famous violin concertos, “The Four Seasons”, combined with other concertos that share a kinship with them, resulting in Vivaldi’s Seasons; a programme consisting of sixteen concertos, four for each season, including favourites ...
Composer: Antonio Vivaldi (1678-1741)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
Set for release on March 19, Justice marks the singer-songwriter’s seventh studio album and second in under two years. Taking to Twitter to make the announcement, Bieber posted a picture of a corkboard with various song titles on cards, including his recently released track “Hold On.” ...
Genre: Pop
Subgenre: Pop Rock
Bartók: Bluebeard's Castle, Op. 11, Sz. 48 (Live)
„Herzog Blaubarts Burg“ wurde 1911 komponiert und ist Béla Bartóks einzige Oper - ein radikales Meisterwerk, das sich neben den anderen innovativen Musikdramen der gleichen Zeit, von Debussys Pelléas et Mélisande bis zu Bergs Wozzeck, seinen Platz gesichert hat. Bartók plante, eine Oper ...
Composer: Bela Bartok (1881-1945)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Vocal
House Gospel Choir (HGC) is an electrifying House meets Gospel experience that never fails to get audiences clapping, dancing and singing along. HGC shows bring together a group of outstanding singers, a full house band and DJ, creating an effortless live fusion of the biggest house and gospel ...
Genre: Electronic
Subgenre: Electronica
Harry Connick, Jr., readies the release of his newest album, Alone With My Faith. Performing & tracking each of the album's vocals & musical instruments by himself in his home studio, what started as a creative outlet & an intimate retreat from the uncertainty of the pandemic quickly evolved into a vulnerably ...
Genre: Vocal
Subgenre: Vocal Pop
Chemtrails Over The Country Club
Following the success of her 2019 GRAMMY®-nominated album Norman Fucking Rockwell, Lana has announced that March 19th, 2021 is the official release date for her highly anticipated seventh studio album Chemtrails Over the Country Club. ...
Genre: Pop
Subgenre: Pop Rock
KISS co-founder & frontman, best-selling author and Rock & Roll Hall of Famer Paul Stanley has spent the last few years developing a project close to his heart. Soul Station is a band gathering some of today’s leading musicians to pay tribute to the greatest artists and songs from the R&B and soul catalog ...
Genre: Rock
Subgenre: Modern Rock
Love Goes: Live at Abbey Road Studios
Sam Smith veröffentlicht die Live-Version seine Erfolg Albums »Love Goes«, aufgenommen in den legendären Abbey Road Studios in London im Rahmen des Livestreams zum Album Release im Oktober 2020. Mit »Diamonds« enthält das Album einen Titel, der in Deutschland die Spitze der Charts erreichen ...
Genre: Pop
Subgenre: Pop Rock
Brahms: Piano Quartet No. 1, Symphony No. 3 - The Schoenberg Effect
Das junge deutsche Notos Quartett erhielt für sein erstes Album "Hungarian Treasures" mit der Weltersteinspielung des Klavierquartetts von Béla Bartok weltweit exzellente Rezensionen - und gleich den ECHO Klassik als "Nachwuchskünstler des Jahres". ...
Composer: Johannes Brahms (1833-1897)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
