The third volume of the Danish String Quartet’s ongoing Prism series, which shows how the radiance of Bach’s fugues is refracted through Beethoven’s quartets to illuminate the work of later composers. “Beethoven had taken a fundamentally linear development from Bach,” the Danes note, ...
Composer: Ludwig van Beethoven (1770–1827), Johann Sebastian Bach (1685–1750), Béla Bartók (1881-1945)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
Anton Bruckner & Michael Haydn: Motets
The MDR Leipzig Radio Choir and its chief conductor Philipp Ahmann present motets by Anton Bruckner and Michael Haydn. While Bruckner’s Locus iste, Christus factus est and Ave Maria enjoy great popularity and can be heard frequently in concerts, Michael Haydn’s contributions to the same genre ...
Composer: Anton Bruckner (1824-1896), Johann Michael Haydn (1737-1806)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Choral
Schubert: Trios Op. 99 & Op. 100
As with many episodes in Franz Schubert’s life, uncertainty surrounds the origins of his two trios for piano, violin and cello. We know that they were played to a Viennese audience, one on 26 December 1827 and the other on 26 March 1828, but not in which order. ...
Composer: Franz Schubert
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
Selig-Sänger Jan Plewka ist eigentlich ein ziemlich friedliebender Mensch. Ein Hippie im Herzen, ein Menschenfreund. Aber irgendwann ist halt auch mal Schluss, deswegen findet er in der neuen Single der Hamburger Rockband ziemlich deutliche Worte. „Wenn alles so bleibt, dann haben wir verloren“, singt er in „Alles ist so“, ...
Genre: Rock
Subgenre: Adult Alternative
This project showcases contemporary reworks of the music of the two revolutionary French composers, Debussy and Rameau, that Ólafsson released earlier this year. Ólafsson says: “I wanted to explore certain works from fresh perspectives, to reimagine them and invite other composers to rework elements of these ...
Composer: Claude Debussy (1862-1918), Jean-Philippe Rameau (1683-1764)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Instrumental
In music, a glissando (abbreviated gliss.) is a glide from one pitch to another. Sonic is used to describe things related to sound. Glissonic is a completely new wind instrument family, invented by Dániel Váczi, developing with Tóbiás Terebessy since 2016. ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Contemporary Jazz
This is Pino Palladino’s first record of original music. All album material co-written and produced by Blake Mills. The album has no single sound – showcases various styles of playing with a strong emphasis on ambitious composition and listeners can trace homages to J Dilla, Fela Kuti, Roy Hargrove throughout. ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Contemporary Jazz
Recorded during the first Corona lockdown, Sonya Yoncheva's project emerged from silence with an urge for a "rebirth that our world desperately needs at present, something that it achieves by drawing on the very deepest recesses of the human psyche and on its origins in music and the ...
Composer: Alessandro Stradella (1642-1682), Claudio Monteverdi (1567-1643), Pier Francesco Cavalli (1602-1676), Orlando Gibbons (1583-1625), Jose Marin (1619-1699), Barbara Strozzi (1619-1677), John Dowland (1562-1626), Alfonso Ferrabosco II (1578-1628), Tomas de Torrejon y Velasco (1644-1728)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Vocal
Barthold Heinrich Brockes wrote a libretto on the Passion of Christ – based on the account in Matthew’s Gospel – which was set to music by many composers of his time, including Reinhard Keiser, Georg Philip Telemann and George Frideric Handel. ...
Composer: Friedrich Handel (1685-1759)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Vocal
Johann Sebastian Bach’s first instrument was the violin. He studied it with his father, a violinist and violist, who in so doing introduced him to music. The harpsichord came next, then the organ. At eighteen years of age, he had mastered these instruments to perfection, and he composed. For the harpsichord and organ at first, ...
Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach (1685–1750)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Instrumental
Janusz Wawrowski’s album Phoenix pairs two life-affirming violin concertos written during difficult periods in their composers’ lives: Tchaikovsky was recovering from his disastrous marriage and Ludomir Różycki was enduring the Warsaw Uprising of 1944. ...
Composer: Peter Tchaikovsky (1840-1893), Ludomir Rozycki (1884-1953)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Concertos
Khachaturian: 7 Recitatives & Fugues & Children's Albums Nos. 1 & 2
Aram Il’yich Khachaturian was considered the ‘mouthpiece of the entire Soviet Orient’ and remains the most renowned of 20th-century Armenian composers. His unmistakable style came with an urge to invent new forms that reconciled Western practice with Eastern idiom. His ‘apprentice’ Fugues ...
Composer: Aram Khachaturian (1903-1978)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Instrumental
Grammy Award-winning Third Coast Percussion, celebrated Brazilian guitarist Sérgio Assad, and his daughter, the vibrant vocalist, composer, and multi-instrumentalist Clarice Assad, “a veritable musical dynamo” (San Francisco Classical Voice), join forces for a collaboratively ... Grammy Award-winning Third Coast Percussion, celebrated Brazilian guitarist Sérgio Assad, and his daughter, the vibrant vocalist, composer, and multi-instrumentalist Clarice Assad, “a veritable musical dynamo” (San Francisco Classical Voice), join forces for a collaboratively ...
Composer: Clarice Assad (1978), Sérgio Assad
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Modern Composition
This carefully selected programme by the multi award-winning Mare Duo presents some of the best original music written for mandolin and guitar, showing both instruments as equal chamber music partners in works both challenging and beautiful. The Duo's surprising range and variety ...
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Instrumental
Shostakovich: Symphony No. 11 in G Minor, Op. 103 "The Year 1905"
This is the first release from the recently formed SWR Symphonieorchester Stuttgart, and there was good reason for it to be a performance of a Shostakovich symphony. This live recording under the experienced baton of Eliahu Inbal shows the extraordinary level at which this orchestra is ...
Composer: Dmitri Shostakovich (1906–1975)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Orchestral
Still only 29 years old when composing and recording this album, Kjetil Mulelid is one of the brightest talents in Norwegian jazz, and these days that really says something. Kjetil was sceptical when we first suggested a solo piano record back in early 2018, fully aware that solo piano in jazz is considered the ...
Genre: Instrumental
Subgenre: Piano
Hotel Costes Presents…hardcore Lounge
The “Hôtel Costes Presents” series returns this March with ‘Hardcore Lounge’, the new album by Greek duo Glacial, comprise of eight original tracks and a special collaboration with the well-know star singer Giorgos Mazonakis who features on the hit single “Den Ime ego”. ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Nu Jazz
Sáinz-Villegas Plays Santaolalla (EP)
“Sharing my music with people, whether a small or large audience continues to infuse my drive. People I play for and meet around the world constantly inspire me to give the best of myself and to push my own boundaries in creating the best possible experience. I hope to inspire them through ...
Genre: Guitar
Subgenre: Classical Guitar
Peter Breiner: A Journey – Calm Romantic Piano Music, Vol. 2
Slovak-born Peter Breiner is one of the world’s most versatile musicians. He is an acclaimed pianist, arranger and conductor with compositions that are universally admired, and whose Beatles Go Baroque album (8.555010) has to date sold a quarter of a million copies. ...
Composer: Peter Breiner (1957)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Instrumental
