Hiyoli Togawa’s new album “Songs of Solitude” was recorded for the label BIS. Songs of Solitude was conceived by the violist Hiyoli Togawa at a time when a virus was forcing people across the world into isolation and she herself needed ...
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Instrumental
Elgar: Violin Concerto & Violin Sonata
Elgar’s violin concerto – distinctively passionate and nostalgic – is one of the great late-Romantic concertos. “It is a huge piece,” says Renaud Capuçon “both in terms of its length and its romantic and noble nature.” This is Capuçon’s first recording ...
Composer: Edward Elgar (1857-1934)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Concertos
‘The dreamer! That double of our existence, that chiaroscuro of the thinking being’, wrote Gaston Bachelard in 1961. ‘The old is dying, the new cannot be born, and in that chiaroscuro, monsters appear’, adds Antonio Gramsci. ...
Composer: Alexander Von Zemlinsky, Richard Strauss, Alban Berg
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Vocal
In the early 1980s, the folk groups in Kaustinen (the folk music center of Finland) were still very male-dominated. Fed up by this, violinist Kreeta-Maria Kentala asked her friends to join a female folk music group, the first of its kind. ...
Genre: Folk
Subgenre:
Recorded at the height of the international Covid lockdown, Oliver Davis’s sixth album for Signum is a feat of both technological as well as artistic achievement. Following from draws together artists from across the globe for a selection of moving works ...
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
Curse Of Autumn (Bonus Track Edition)
“Curse Of Autumn” is WITHERFALL’s third studio album and their most eclectic work to date. The new offering of L.A.’s finest dark and progressive melodic metal band was produced by Jon Schaffer (Iced Earth, Demons & Wizards), Joseph Michael (vocals, keyboards, ...
Genre: Rock
Subgenre: Metal
Justin Time Records is very pleased and excited to announce the signing of renowned pianist Jean-Michel Pilc. Praised for his improvisations, pianist and composer Jean-Michel Pilc has performed with numerous jazz giants. He worked with Harry Belafonte as his ...
Genre: Instrumental
Subgenre: Piano
John Mayer & Jonathan Mayer: Orchestral Works
The first true cross-cultural fusion of Indian and western music was back in 1957 with John Mayer’s Raga Music for Solo Clarinet and through the sixties, seventies, eighties and nineties his musical output reflected his Indian roots. ...
Composer: Jonathan Mayer
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Concertos
Weinberg: Complete Violin Sonatas, Vol. 3
If Mieczysław Weinberg had lived for another decade or so after his death in 1996, he would have seen his status change from poorly known outlier to general acceptance as one of the major twentieth-century composers. His violin works have likewise ...
Composer: Mieczyslaw Weinberg (1919–1996)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Instrumental
Domenico Scarlatti (1685-1757) is one of the most original italian composers of the first half of the eighteenth century. Born in Naples the same year as two other icons, Johann Sebastian Bach and George Frideric Handel, Scarlatti's enormous output includes 555 ...
Composer: Domenico Scarlatti (1685-1757)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Instrumental
Recorded at the height of the international Covid lockdown, Oliver Davis’s sixth album for Signum is a feat of both technological as well as artistic achievement. Following from draws together artists from across the globe for a selection of moving works for a variety of forces ...
Composer: Oliver Davis (1972)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Orchestral
Giuliani-Guglielmi: Complete Guitar Works
The project of the musicologist Nicoletta Confalone and of the guitarist Federica Artuso is aimed at the discovery of Emilia Giuliani, illegitimate daughter of the famous Mauro Giuliani that, with his guitar and his compositions, conquered Vienna, ...
Composer: Giuliani-Guglielmi (1813-1850)
Genre: Guitar
Subgenre: Classical Guitar
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 ...
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Instrumental
Acclaimed Japanese pianist Yu Kosuge unveils Wind, the third in her series of four Orchid Classics albums related to the four elements (Water, Fire, Wind, Earth). Kosuges inspiration for these releases stems from her relationship with the music of Beethoven, ...
Composer: Louis-Claude Daquin (1694-1772), Francois Couperin (1668-1733), Jean Philippe Rameau (1683-1764), Akira Nishimura (1953), Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827), Claude Debussy (1862-1918), Leos Janacek (1854-1928)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Instrumental
Maria Kannegaard presents "Sand i en vik", a rapid follow-up to the album "Nådeslås". Where that latter album was an experimental and expressive affair, the former sees her return to more familiar musical pastures, although with a different viewpoint and attitude. ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Crossover Jazz
A cloud arises out of thin air, shimmers and floats freely in the room. It talks and calls for attention. A sort of séance ensues, where handheld ”palm readers” trace the audience’s state of mind and send the information back to the cloud, which eagerly responds ...
Composer: Leif Jordansson
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Classical Crossover
The armonia ensemble, made from the ranks of the Gewandhaus Orchestra and the MDR Symphony Orchestra wind sections, dishes up a veritable explosion of sound on their new GENUIN CD. At the heart of their exploration of Harmoniemusik, music for an ensemble ...
Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756–1791), Antonio Salieri (1750–1825)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
J.S. Bach: St. Matthew Passion, BWV 244
In its choreographed version of the St. Matthew Passion, the Internationale Bachakademie Stuttgart offers new dimensions to Bach‘s musical drama. And, for the one hundred schoolchildren who delved into Bach‘s monumental work and learned to dance as ...
Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Vocal
After the critical success of her last two solo albums, Célimène Daudet comes back with her most personal project. "Haïti my love" is a passionate declaration to her Caribbean origins through the prism of her music and her little-known classical composers. ...
Composer: Ludovic Lamothe, Justin Élie, Edmond Saintonge, Frederic Chopin
Genre: Classical
Subgenre:
Karnavičius: String Quartets Nos. 1 & 2
This new release by the Vilnius String Quartet presents two exciting gems in 20th century chamber music: the first two String Quartets by Lithuanian composer Jurgis Karnavičius (1884–1941) as world premiere recordings. ...
Composer: Jurgis Karnavičius (1957)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
