"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
A piano duo album by jazz great Chick Corea, who passed away suddenly on February 9, 2021, and Makoto Ozone, who continues to be active on the world stage. Chick Corea and Makoto Ozone first met in 1982, when Ozone was still a student at Berklee College of Music. Chick Corea and Makoto Ozone first met in 1982, when Ozone was still a student at Berklee College of Music, ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Contemporary Jazz
Pauline Buet and David Violi are fascinated by the poetic universe that emanates from the color blue: the blue note, the blues of the soul... The color evokes yearning, spleen, but also gentle melancholy and happy nostalgia. When the Yves Saint Laurent Museum asked them to make this recording at the Villa Majorelle in Marrakesh, the ...
Composer: Frederic Chopin (1810-1849), Francis Poulenc (1899-1963), Barbara Strozzi (1619–1677)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
The singer, composer and music copyist John Baldwin (c.1560—1615) trained as a choirboy in the royal court chapel in England between 1580 and 1590 and was taught music theory and ensemble playing in conjunction with viol playing. Armed with this practical education, he performed a broad repertoire, encompassing church music, ...
Composer: John Baldwin (1560-1615), William Byrd (1543-1623), John Bedyngham (1422-1460), Nathaniel Giles (1558-1633), Christopher Tye (1498-1573), Elway Bevin (1555-1638), Alfonso "Il Padre" Ferrabosco (1543-1588), John Taverner (1490-1545), Luca Marenzio (1553-1599)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
Pergolesi’s Stabat Mater has enjoyed enormous fame ever since the eighteenth century – Rousseau called its first movement ‘the most perfect and touching that has ever come from the pen of any composer’. There were many arrangements of the work, by Bach or Hiller among others. ...
Composer: Giovanni Battista Pergolesi (1710-1736)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre:
British composer Sir Lennox Berkeley still needs to be more widely appreciated, and this recording puts his music into a wider context of the environment that shaped him. France played a vital part in Berkeley’s development: apart from being a Francophile, circumstances brought him into contact with Nadia Boulanger, ...
Composer: Lennox Berkeley (1903-1989), Francis Poulenc (1899-1963), Lili Boulanger (1893-1918)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Instrumental
From Dennis Brain's Library: A Programme of English, French & German Music
This captivating album was originally conceived by horn players Stephen Stirling and Tony Halstead (the latter a superb pianist), who had located Dennis Brain’s personal collection of music (now owned and curated by lawyer and horn player Mark Andrews.) During his all too short life, Dennis Brain accumulated a unique and ...
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Concertos
Sibelius: Symphony No. 2, Violin Concerto (Remastered)
The Second Symphony of Sibelius (1902) combines the composer’s love for Italy as much as his innate sense of Northern climes, given the often “stern” objectivity and distance of his muscular themes. The Jascha Horenstein (1898-1973) legacy now embraces this often soaring work—still perhaps best captured in ...
Composer: Jean Sibelius (1865-1957)
Genre: Classic
Subgenre: Concertos
Geshem is a supergroup made of three of the busiest musicians in the Israeli scene: Drummer Aviv “Sol Monk” Cohen is a virtuoso drummer and a spacey beat maker, Shuzin is a cross-genre shapeshifting producer, and Yonatan Albalak is one of the busiest guitar and bass players in Israel. ...
Genre: Rock
Subgenre: Modern Rock
I Promised You Light follows on from Clarke’s 2021 LP, A Small Unknowable Thing, an emotionally charged album bubbling with courage and defiance. If A Small Unknowable Thing were a sentence, I Promised You Light is the full stop at the end, or “the light at the end of that particular tunnel,” as she puts it. ...
Genre: Songwriter
Subgenre: Contemporary
Unforgettable...With Love (Remastered)
Unforgettable... with Love, also known as simply Unforgettable, is a 1991 album by American singer Natalie Cole. Released on June 11, 1991, the album includes covers of standards previously performed by her father, Nat King Cole. "A major change of direction for Natalie Cole, Unforgettable found the singer abandoning the type of R&B/pop she'd been ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Vocal
2022 release from the seminal British Heavy Metal heroes hailing from Barnsley, UK. Ten titanic tracks bristling with steel-clad riffery and proud intent, Carpe Diem is the statement which reminds heavy metal fans worldwide who the true masters of British Metal are, drawing on a variety of ingredients from their career to forge what is Saxon's most ...
Genre: Rock
Subgenre: Metal
Icy Skies – Das neue Album von FINALLY GEORGE ist da Nach fast zwei Jahren der kollektiven Vereinzelung und des allein vor sich Hinwurschtelns könnte man glatt vergessen, welche kreative Kraft sich entfesseln lässt, wenn man Dinge gemeinsam tut. Der Hamburger Produzent und Multiinstrumentalist FINALLY GEORGE ...
Genre: Rock
Subgenre: Modern Rock
