Mahler was a great symphonist and a great songwriter. In his “song-symphony” Das Lied von der Erde (“The Song of the Earth”), these two strands of his genius are intertwined. Here Mahler summons all his orchestral and vocal imagination, taking us to the heart of ancient ...
Composer: Gustav Mahler (1860-1911)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Vocal
Beethoven: Leonore Overture No. 3 - Symphony No. 7
Michael Tilson Thomas and the San Francisco Symphony release live recordings of Beethoven’s Leonore Overture No. 3 and Symphony No. 7 on their acclaimed SFS Media label. ...
Composer: Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Orchestral
P.I.Tschaikovsky op - 70 Souvenir de Florence
Orchestras often play this piece, but Tchaikovsky did not want it ending up to be perceived as a compact version of symphonic orchestration. This UNAMAS recording literally respects the composer’s intention allocating 6 solo voices ...
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
The Brahms Project - The Complete Piano Quartets
Four of the foremost Spanish musicians of their generation join forces in exploring three of German Romanticism’s highest peaks. Brahms’s piano quartets are cornerstones of the chamber music repertoire and works of symphonic scope, and the Brahms Project offer the listener a very personal ...
Composer: Johannes Brahms (1833-1897)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
Schumann: Cello Concerto - Bloch: Schelomo (Remastered)
In March 2017, Warner Classics marks the 10th anniversary of Mstislav Rostropovich’s death and 90 years since his birth with the deluxe collectors’ box set Cellist of the Century, comprising of selected remastered recordings. ...
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Concertos
“Recalling my elementary school days, as I started listening to jazz music, the first thing that entirely attracted me was gospel and blues. It is the core concept of the album this time. Gospel and blues are ...
Genre: Instrumental
Subgenre: Piano
The English composer Gustav Holst is known to many music lovers for just one symphonic work: The Planets. This orchestral suite, first performed in its entirety in 1920, was certainly his greatest ...
Composer: Gustav Holst (1874-1934)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
MarV+ stands for the Michiel Adriaenszoon de Ruyter quintet (V) and percussion (+). This is the brass quintet of the Marine Band of the Royal Netherlands Navy. From 2007 onwards the quintet bears ...
Composer: Paul Dukas, Jack Gallagher (1947-), Rogier van Otterloo, Joseph Horovitz (1926-), Georg Philipp Telemann (1681 - 1767), Johann Sebastian Bach (1685–1750), Pat Metheny, Leonard Bernstein (1918–1990), Ira Gershwin, George Gershwin (1989-1937), Vincent Youmans, Cole Porter
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Orchestral
Kenneth Leighton: Complete Organ Works
Resonus Classics is proud to present a major new recording of the complete organ works of the British twentieth-century composer Kenneth Leighton (1929–1988). With vivid interpretations, acclaimed organ ...
Composer: Kenneth Leighton (1929-1988)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
Keyboardist Craig Taborn’s Daylight Ghosts is the Minneapolis-bred New Yorker’s third ECM release as a leader, a quartet album following the solo Avenging Angel and trio disc Chants. ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Modern Jazz
American violist Melia Watras's new recording, 26, is a collaboration that centers around world class violists performing and sharing their own compositions with each ...
Composer: Atar Arad (1945), Melia Watras, Garth Knox, Richard Karpen
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
Beyond being a vocalist of rare purity and daring, Theo Bleckmann is a sound painter who creates what JazzTimes has described aptly as “luminous webs” in music. The German-born New Yorker – ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Modern Jazz
Point and Line - Debussy & Hosokawa
Born in Osaka, educated at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Paris, Momo Kodama is well-placed to approach music from both Eastern and Western vantage points, as she does in this album which ...
Composer: Claude Debussy (1862-1918), Toshio Hosokawa (1955)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Instrumental
Early in his career, Yoakam might have come off as modern-day Buck Owens (a tag he certainly did nothing to discourage), practicing a contemporary variant on the Bakersfield sound. ...
Genre: Country
Subgenre: Contemporary Country
The Colin Vallon Trio has found its own space in the crowded world of the piano trio by quietly challenging its conventions. On its third ECM album Vallon again leads the group ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Modern Jazz
Mieczysław Weinberg: Chamber Symphonies, Piano Quintet
This double album, recorded in Vienna and in Riga in June 2015, includes all four of the chamber symphonies written in the last decade of Polish-born Soviet composer Mieczysław Weinberg’s ...
Composer: Mieczyslaw Weinberg (1919-1996)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
The trio with Spanish bassist Antonio Miguel and Canadian drummer Owen Howard has been an „Invariant“ in the life of Berlin-based pianist Benedikt Jahnel. ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Contempoary Jazz
