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
Exactly one hundred years after the birth of Julius Watkins (Detroit, October 10, 1921 – Short Hills, April 4, 1977), Julius Rides Again is the title of the new recording project by Giovanni Hoffer and Pau Moltó Biosca, with the intention of paying due homage to the man who is considered to all intents and purposes the “father” of the jazz ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Mainstream Jazz
Iconic pianist/composer Fred Hersch was an early adopter of new technologies and new ways forward when the pandemic hit in early 2020. But he's also been among the most eager to return to live performance and collaboration now that life has begun to resume some semblance of normality. In August 2021 he returned to the studio to record one ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Contemporary Jazz
"Clover" is a new project, resulting from a long friendship, an intense collective experience and also a desire to play pure, refined music. After 20 years of close artistic and personal collaboration already put into action by the creation of the Yolk Label and a number of other joint projects, the three friends Alban Darche, Sebastien Boisseau and ....
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Contemporary Jazz
Mozart & Strauss: Oboe Concertos
“I couldn’t have imagined a better constellation for my first album!” says Cristina Gómez Godoy about her first recording. She has chosen this repertoire because these pieces made her fall in love with the instrument and music. As a musician in Daniel Barenboim’s Berlin-based orchestra, ...
Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Concertos
Jessica de Boer "Grow - my first album. In a way, the release of this album is the fulfillment of the things I sing about, heralding a new season. I'm looking back, ahead and at the world around me. So it's not just about me, it's about all of us. An album about emerging, growing (up), trusting and longing. Longing for something that's certainly coming." ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Vocal
In Praise of Escape: There’s a special vibe of freedom tinged with regret running through Maxence Cyrin’s new album, Melancholy Island. The title draws its inspiration from two works – “Éloge de la fuite” (In praise of Escape) by Henri Laborit and “La Possibilité d’un île” (The Possibility of an Island) by Michel Houellebecq ...
Composer: Maxence Cyrin
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Instrumental
