A sense of timelessly good crafting? Yes, that, too. But what really describes this German combo is style and charm. Antiquariat sticks to tradition in the best meaning of the term, between gypsy swing, chanson and European folk
Genre: Songwriter
Subgenre: Contemporary
The new album from Martin Hegel is devoted to the music of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, even though the Austrian composer never wrote for the guitar. So Hegel borrowed the Mozart variations by the great Fernando Sor, plays
Genre: Guitar
Subgenre: Classical Guitar
First and foremost: fourteen own compositions, one more beautiful than the next. Ulrich Uhland Warnecke uses his steelstring guitar to sketch out melodies and sound tableaux of great lightness and touching perceptivity. Warnecke,
Genre: Guitar
Subgenre: Fingerstyle
With his album “Le Baroque,” the Russian master guitarist took on an ambitious and musically innovative project and carried it out with impressive virtuosity and top-notch musicality.
Genre: Guitar
Subgenre: Classical Guitar
Her Heavenly Harmony: Profane Music from the Royal Court
Following on from their acclaimed debut album (Music of the Realm – RES10146), a capella vocal sextet The Queen’s Six return with a captivating exploration of secular jewels by the same six composers associated with the Tudor and Jacobean
Composer: Thomas Morley (1557-1602), Thomas Tomkins (1572-1656), Thomas Tallis (1505-1585), Thomas Weelkes (1575-1623), William Byrd (1540-1623), Orlando Gibbons (1583-1625)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Vocal
In Crossing Over, Skylark shares texts and compositions that depict the dream state at the end of life. Featuring unique voices in choral composition from around the world, and including several world premiere recordings, Crossing Over
Composer: Daniel Elder, John Tavener (1944-2013), Nikolay Kedrov, Jón Leifs, Robert Vuichard, William Schuman, Anna Þorvaldsdóttir
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Choral
Russian music: „Our 'French Album' is being followed here by the 'Russian Album', which could barely be more contrasting in mood. The 'French Album' is springlike and bright, whereas the 'Russian Album' is sombre and melancholic for the most
Composer: Antonin Dvorak (1841-1904), Bedrich Smetana (1824–1884)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
It's been a long time coming. For 15 years the Norwegian Eivind Austad Trio has been an important part of the Bergen jazz scene, but only now their international debut „Moving“ hits stores.
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Modern Jazz
The Lark feat. Mads La Cour, Per Møllehøj, Tapani Toivanen & Andreas Fryland)
With a series of portraits fleshed out in melodic lines THE LARK unites personal experience and collective modern jazz exploration. The second release from pianist and composer, Søren Gemmer, presents an elaboration on the trademark
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Mainstream Jazz
Viktor is the name of trumpeter Bastian Stein's second Pirouet CD. It breaks out and into a completely new soundscape. Forgoing a harmony instrument, Stein along with saxophonist Johannes Enders, bassist Phil Donkin, and
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Contemporary Jazz
„Backbeat“: Das sechste Album der Tommy Schneller Band kommt mit Volldampf um die Ecke. Ab in den Schacht mit CD 1 des zweiteiligen Digipacks: Jens Filsers dreckige Slideguitar sägt los, nach Sekunden rollt die Blues/Soul-Lokomotive
Genre: Blues
Subgenre: Electric Blues
„Speak Low“ ist die neue Working Band der Zürcher Wahlberlinerin Lucia Cadotsch. Sie singt mit Pettter Eldh am Kontrabass und Otis Sandsjö am Tenor eine berückend schöne Sammlung von modern Traditionals, wie Gloomy
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Mainstream Jazz
Pierre-Arnaud Dablemont: Plays Bach
Pierre-Arnaud Dablemont plays Bach is the first ZeD Classics release of the young French pianist, who sees it as a return to the roots of modern keyboard music. The album features some of the most celebrated keyboard works, the toccata in E
Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
Genre: Instrumental
Subgenre: Piano
Enrique Bagaría: Plays Haydn Sonatas No. 31, 33, 47 & 59
Enrique Bagaría’s virtuosity and musicality is on display with this recording, which includes four of the most important and appealing keyboard sonatas by Franz Joseph Haydn. Bagaría’s refined, elegant and virtuosic performances bring to these
Composer: Franz Joseph Haydn (1732-1809)
Genre: Instrumental
Subgenre: Piano
Felix Mendelssohn: Piano Trios, Opp. 49 & 66
International award-winning young piano trio the Fournier Trio make their Resonus Classics debut with a fresh and exciting new recording of the late C minor (Op. 49) and D minor (Op. 66) piano trios by one of the most significant
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
Serious Business is not a funny album. More accurately, playing this album will not induce the brand of gut-busting, teary-eyed revelry that an episode of Chappelle’s Show or a YouTube clip of Anna Karkowska’s vibrato will. It is funny like
Composer: Sky Macklay, David Reminick, Franz Joseph Haydn (1732-1809), Chris Fisher-Lochhead
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
Perhaps taking a page from Rod Stewart, whose recent forays into the Great American Songbook have given Stewart a new audience niche, the Eagles' Glenn Frey goes a similar route on After Hours, applying a pop lounge approach to some
Genre: Pop
Subgenre: Adult Contemporary
Amateur Dentist: on their second PIROUET CD Dutch bass clarinetist Joris Roelofs and his trio partners bassist Matt Penman and drummer Ted Poor once again manage to surprise; with sounds that reverberate with shimmering
Composer: Joris Roelofs
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Contemporary Jazz
