Teach Me! (The Students of Nadia Boulanger)
Nadia Boulanger, or: Teaching as a Relationship. “I was accustomed to say that the composer must look far ahead into the future of his music. This seems to me to be the male train of thought: thinking at once of the whole ...
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
Three-time Grammy-winning violinist Hilary Hahn’s upcoming release on DG. The new album Paris features Poème for Violin and Orchestra by Parisian-born composer Chausson; Prokofiev’s Violin Concerto No.1, first performed in Paris; and the world premiere ...
Composer: Ernest Chausson (1855-1899), Serge Prokofieff (1891-1953), Einojuhani Rautavaara (1928-2016)
Genre: Classical
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You're Welcome is the seventh studio album by American rock band A Day to Remember. It was released on March 5, 2021, and is the band's first release under major label Fueled by Ramen after spending six years as an independent band (with assistance from Epitaph ...
Genre: Rock
Subgenre: Adult Alternative
Amongst all the machine-linked metaphors used in the history of large groups in jazz, that of Alban Darche’s Gros Cube (literally “Big Bike”) is unusual, but absolutely perfect for describing this brand new band. It can purr, snore, or roar in turn; it can even gleam and ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Big Band
From well-loved arias to personal discoveries, this recording journeys through over a century of opera, with transcriptions for cello and orchestra stretching from Mozart to Puccini and including Verdi, Tchaikovsky, and Offenbach. ...
Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Vincenzo Bellini, Gioachino Rossini , Giacomo Donizetti, Giuseppe Verdi, Giacomo Puccini, Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Richard Wagner, Jacques Offenbach, Antonin Dvorak, Moisés Simons
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
And the Sun Darkened: Music for Passiontide
Founded in 2006, New York Polyphony occupies a place as one of the foremost vocal chamber ensembles active today. Throughout their tenure together, the singers have demonstrated a commitment to innovative programming, giving vibrant voice to repertoire ...
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Vocal
Only 20 years old, Johan Dalene has already been hailed as ‘a musician of special sensibilities’ (Gramophone) in possession of ‘a rare fire’ (Diapason), and his début disc, with the concertos of Tchaikovsky and Barber, was described as ...
Composer: Edvard Hagerup Grieg (1843–1907), Carl August Nielsen (1865-1931), Einojuhani Rautavaara (1928-2016), Jean Sibelius (1865-1957)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre:
Sven Regener, Richard Pappik und Ekki Busch, alle drei bekannt und verbunden durch die Band ELEMENT OF CRIME, haben ein Jazz-Album aufgenommen. Sie spielen mit Trompete, Schlagzeug und Klavier zwölf Klassiker des Jazz, vorwiegend aus den 40er und 50er Jahren: ...
Genre: Jazz
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Composer, multi-instrumentalist and twenty time GRAMMY-winner Pat Metheny will release Road To The Sun, his debut for BMG Modern Recordings and the latest chapter in an endlessly innovative career that spans nearly five decades. ...
Composer: Arvo Pärt, Pat Metheny
Genre: Guitar
Subgenre: Classical Guitar
Reciting mantras is a form of teaching — leaning into the repetition, retraining your brain, learning new realities. For Jilian Medford, it was a way to fight through her anxieties. And here, on Show Me How You Disappear, through a haze of tangled, ...
Genre: Alternative
Subgenre: Indie Rock
On his new album, Nils Mönkemeyer devotes himself to Italian composers Antonio Vivaldi (1678-1741), Niccolò Paganini (1782-1840), Giuseppe Tartini (1692-1770) and Alessandro Rolla (1757-1841). With the Early Music ensemble l'arte del mondo conducted by Werner Ehrhardt, Mönkemeyer has selected Vivaldi's Bassoon Concerto in G minor, ...
Composer: Antonio Vivaldi, Giuseppe Tartini, Niccolò Paganini, Alessandro Rolla, Salvatore Sciarrino
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Concertos
Anna Lucia Richter returns to PENTATONE after her acclaimed Schubert album Heimweh with Il delirio della passione; a recording full of Monteverdi treasures, from heart-wrenching opera scenes (Lamento d’Arianna, ‘Pur ti miro’ from Poppea and the Prologue of L’orfeo) ...
Composer: Claudio Monteverdi (1567-1643)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Vocal
Michael Jarrell: Orchestral Works
The music of Michael Jarrell has been said to “examine states of dream and unreality, searching for a moment of truth” – a truth which is often found in the lowest sonorities and slowest tempi, a place where time stands still. ...
Composer: Michael Jarrell (1958)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Concertos
We can joke that this year Easter fell in… October, as it was then that due to the pandemic the Ludwig van Beethoven Easter Festival, scheduled for April, was held. Traditionally it included a concert dedicated to forgotten opera works, ...
Composer: Luigi Cherubini (1760-1842)
Genre: Classical
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Schubert: Die schöne Müllerin, Op. 25, D. 795
Schubert’s song cycle Die schöne Müllerin, written almost two hundred years ago, is one of the supreme tests of the lieder singer’s art. The duo brings to life the story of a young miller who wanders the countryside in search of work and sees his carefree world transformed ...
Composer: Franz Peter Schubert (1797–1828)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Vocal
“In Portuguese, flor means flower. The title represents a blossoming, an opening, an offering, and a return.” says Gretchen. “Flor is the nostalgia of something familiar and the breath of something new. It’s detail, it’s listening; it’s rooted, yet ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Crossover Jazz
’Hand Picked’ is a specially selected set of music by the upright bassist Kaisa Mäensivu. Kaisa croons soulfully on a few American jazz standards with cleverly adapted Finnish lyrics. She leads the musicians with her booming basslines, always keeping the tunes, ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Contemporary Jazz
Mareille Merck was born in 1996 in Stralsund (D) and lives in Zurich, Switzerland. She studied jazz guitar in Weimar (D), Lucerne (CH) and Zurich (CH) with Prof. Frank Möbus, Kalle Kalima, Lionel Loueke, Wolfgang Muthspiel, Roberto Bossard and others. ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Contemporary Jazz
