Erased Tapes announce Bell Orchestre’s House Music — an immersive ecosystem of an album to be released on March 19, and the first full-length work released by the acclaimed Montreal-based outfit in over a decade. House Music unfolds as one long piece, a recorded-then-sculpted improvisation that vastly expands their work, ...
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Modern Composition
The return of the Memphis soul/funk/jazz trio The City Champs. Members, Al Gamble (St. Paul & The Broken Bones), George Sluppick (Chris Robinson Brotherhood) and Joe Restivo (Don Bryant) have been secretly concocting these tasty, solar expansing nuggets since their last output in 2010. ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Mainstream Jazz
HK Gruber: Percussion Concertos
Colin Currie presents the first concerto album on his own label, a pairing of works by the innovative composer, conductor and chansonnier HK Gruber. “To write one masterpiece for solo percussion and orchestra may be regarded as an adventure; to write two combines for a colossus. Such is the case for the dual works on ...
Composer: HK Gruber
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Concertos
The Binelli-Ferman Duo and oboist Leanne Nicholls join City Chamber Orchestra of Hong Kong conducted by Germán Augusto Gutiérrez in this exhilarating compilation of tango arrangements by Daniel Binelli. Each work on this album holds a chapter in the evolution of the tango, from its waterfront roots in ...
Composer: Gerardo Hernan Matos Rodriguez (1897-1948), Anselmo Aieta (1896-1964), Julian Plaza (1928-2003), Angela Troilo (1914-1975), Horacio Salgan (1916-2016), Daniel Binelli (1946), Astor Piazzolla (1921-1992), Mariano Mores (1918-2016), Angel Gregorio Villoldo (1861-1919)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
Chopin: Preludes, Op. 28 & Other Works (Live)
The Aevea Piano Prize (APP) is an innovative International Piano & Chamber Music Competition, founded by the Associazione Culturale Aevea and supported by OnClassical. The purpose of the competition is to promote selected participants through relevant performance opportunities and worldwide distribution of ...
Composer: Frédéric Chopin (1810-1849)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Instrumental
Sonate a Quattro are the brilliant compositions from Italian composer Gioachino Rossini, written during the summer of 1804 at the young age of 12. These works, at the time, were commonly performed by wind quartet and it wasn’t until 1954 when the original manuscripts were discovered in the Library of Congress in ...
Composer: Gioachino Rossini (1792-1868)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
Volume 4 of Peter Donohoe’s acclaimed survey of Mozart’s Piano Sonatas on SOMM Recordings focuses on the composer’s adoption of the newly emerging pianoforte and his bold exploitation of its more sophisticated voicing. ...
Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756–1791)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Instrumental
Right from the start of “Cosmic Blue” the opening track “Helia” marks its territory. You can hear Jonathan E. Blakes roots in electronic music, very much influenced by Jean-Michel Jarre. The cover artwork fits the mood of the music perfectly: vast, chilly and yet an emotional shelter. ...
Genre: Electronic
Subgenre: Ambient
Franck: Chorals et pièces pour grand orgue
Still in his twenties, Pétur Sakari studied in his native Finland and in Paris and made his recording début at the age of 18. On his previous disc for BIS, he performed works by five French composers, receiving international acclaim with top marks in Diapason as well as on the Klassik- ...
Composer: César Auguste Franck (1822-1890)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
Königsberg in Ostpreussen war während des Dreißigjährigen Krieges aufgrund seiner geografischen Lage eine Oase des Friedens. Viele Menschen, unter anderem auch Künstler und Musiker, flüchteten vor den Grauen des Krieges und der Pest dorthin. Heinrich Albert, Schüler seines Cousins Schütz und von ...
Composer: Samuel Scheidt, Heinrich Schütz, Johann Hildebrand, Heinrich Albert, Johann Sebastian Bach, Andreas Hammerschmidt, Johann Nauwach, Michael Jakobi, Johann Hermann Schein
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Vocal
Tchaikovsky: The Sleeping Beauty, Op. 66 (Remastered)
Composer: Piotr Ilych Tchaikovsky
Genre: Classical
Subgenre:
Graun, Telemann & J.S. Bach: Wer ist der, so von Edom kömmt
The conductor György Vashegyi and his ensembles, the Orfeo Orchestra and the Purcell Choir, are fluent in various fields of baroque and classical music, with a particular predilection for French baroque opera. But one of their favourite lines of work is Lutheran sacred music, and a good example ...
Composer: Georg Philipp Telemann (1681-1767), Carl Heinrich Graun (1703-1759), Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Vocal
SOMM Recordings is pleased to announce Dreams Melting, a revealing survey of British songs from the early 20th century by tenor James Geer and pianist Ronald Woodley. At the recital’s heart are two substantial cycles. Setting seven poems by Thomas Hardy, Gerald Finzi’s Till Earth Outwears provides an intimate and movingly melancholic ...
Composer: Rebecca Clarke (1886-1979), Howard Ferguson (1908–1999), Gerald Finzi (1901-1956), Phyllis Tate (1911-1985), Elizabeth Maconchy (1907-1994)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Vocal
Echoes of Autumn and Light: New Chamber Music from Luxembourg
These five pieces – all written by Luxembourgeois composers within the past decade – draw on the flexible forces of Kammerata Luxembourg to generate a kaleidoscopic range of colours and textures. Though the music is unapologetically modernist in style, it is presented in instrumental combinations remarkable ...
Composer: Marcel Reuter (1973), Markus Brönnimann (1968), Georges Lentz (1965), Camille Kerger (1957)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
Robert HP Platz: Più di un sogno & Other Works
Robert HP Platz, composer and conductor, was born in Baden-Baden in 1951. He studied composition with Wolfgang Fortner and Karlheinz Stockhausen. Robert HP Platz sees his entire work as a global architecture in constant evolution. He has composed for music theater, orchestral works, ensemble ...
Composer: Robert HP Platz (1951)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
Horn player Louis-Philippe Marsolais devotes an entire album to chamber music for horn by German composer Paul Hindemith (1895-1963). He is joined by pianist David Jalbert, Pentaedre wind ensemble, and horn players from the National Arts Centre Orchestra in Ottawa. One of the key figures ...
Composer: Paul Hindemith (1895-1963)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
Rodrigo Ruiz: Behold the Stars
Signum’s first album with Rodrigo Ruiz highlights the Mexican composer’s musical and literary passions, in performances by world-class soloists Kerenza Peacock, Huw Watkins and Laura van der Heijden. Born in Tijuana, Mexico, Ruiz has attracted commissions from a number of leading artists, ...
Composer: Rodrigo Ruiz (1988)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
Wife of Robert Schumann, Clara Wieck Schumann was a great piano virtuoso. She also was a wonderful composer of piano works. Korean-born pianist Junghwa Lee brings these works to life with vital performances. Junghwa Lee performs actively in solo recitals, chamber concerts and lecture recitals, ...
Composer: Clara Schumann (1819-1896)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Instrumental
This new studio recording contains three works for piano and orchestra that virtuoso pianist Orion Weiss and conductor Leon Botstein first performed in concert at the Bard Music Festival. Together, the three works span almost a century of musical Romanticism and are as different from one another as the ...
Composer: Erich Wolfgang Korngold (1897-1957), Frederic Chopin (1810-1849), Nikolai Rimsky-Korssakoff (1844-1908)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Concertos
One of Rachmaninoff’s most popular pieces, the Second Symphony is an indulgently melancholic and sentimental work: a magic box of the late-Romantic orchestra. Dramatic sections played by the full orchestra contrast heart-breaking swells that only this composer could have written. ...
Composer: Sergei Rachmaninoff
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Orchestral
