Mozart: Requiem in D Minor, K. 626
The Requiem is W.A.Mozart’s last composition. He died before he could finish it. In July 1771 Mozart received from a secretive messenger the commission to compose a Requiem mass. Mozart worked intensively, passionately, and with all
Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Vocal
Cellist Laura Metcalf, noted for her "gorgeous cello legatos" (Washington Post) and her “sensitive, melodic touch” (BlogCritics Magazine) enjoys an active career as a soloist, chamber musician, orchestral musician, and teacher.
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
It is common to date the beginning of the Renaissance to the mid-14th century. From the ashes of the Black Death emerged a society that was fundamentally changed, and to a large extent saw itself as re-born – formed anew. It cannot
Composer: André Danica Philidor, Anthony Holborn, Mateo Flecha, Tillman Susato, John Dowland, Mogens Pedersøn, Carlo Gesualdo von Venosa (1566-1613), Michael Pretorias, Cristóbal de Morales, Francisco Correa de Arauxo, Johann Weck, Bartolomé Ramos de Pareja, Francisco de la Torre
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Orchestral
This new solo album of world-renowned Japanese lute master Toyohiko Satoh features music by the German baroque composer and lutenist Esaias Reusner (1639-1679), who published two volumes of compositions for solo lute.
Composer: Eesaias reusner (1639-1679)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Early Music
Spaerens Vreughden-Bron, Haarlem - City of Music in the Golden Age
The glorious epithet ‘Golden Age’, describing the seventeenth century in the Netherlands, and the Northern Netherlands in particular, says much about the preceding century too. For it was in the second half of that century that the gradual
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Baroque
Contrasts - Choral Works by: Elgar, Mäntyjärvy, Biebl, Whitacre, Vermeeren, Lauridsenen Gorecki
Cantatrix is an ensemble aiming for the highest level of choral singing. In their first cd the singers present their group in a program of mainly contemporary music. The principal characteristic of the repertoire in this recording is a high
Composer: Elgar, Mäntyjärvy, Biebl, Whitacre, Vermeeren, Lauridsen, Gorecki
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Choral
Expressive and emotional Sounds mingle with quiet and fragile melody lines. A melancholic tango is followed by vigorous jazz. The saxophone sings, groans and converses with the grand piano which brings with it new melodies whilst
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Mainstream
The joined forces of music and literature can lift up both arts beyond themselves. It is this promise that impelled many composers throughout the centuries to transcend their talents in the own musical discipline to create a higher reality –
Composer: Charles Dekeyser singt Werke von, Schumann, Mozart, Strauss, Chopin, Rossini, Mahler, Purcell und Kreutzer
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Vocals
Forgotten Virtuosi gives a glimpse into the world of the extraordinary solo violinists who lived in the first half of the 17th century. The composers represented on the disc, (Schop, Baltzar, Rognoni, Castello, Nau and Marini, among
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
Every Hour of the Light and Dark
Alto Saxophonist Christian Weidner's longstanding partnership with pianist Achim Kaufmann, bassist Henning Sieverts and drummer Samuel Rohrer forges the intuitive magic that makes for inspired music as the group explores the varying
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Contemporary Jazz
Mozart Piano Trios KV 502, 542, 564
The Rautio Piano Trio make their Resonus Classics recording debut with a disc of three piano trios by Mozart – trios in B flat major, KV 502; in E major KV 542; and in G major, KV 564.
Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Concertos
Sergei Rachmaninoff: Vespers (All-Night Vigil), Op. 37
Resonus Classics is pleased to present the first in a series of six recordings from the internationally renowned Saint Thomas Choir of Men & Boys and their late and celebrated director John Scott.
Composer: Sergei Rachmaninow (1873-1943)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Choral
Signs, Games & Messages: Works for Solo Violin by Bartok and Kurtag
Renowned British violinist and pedagogue Simon Smith makes his Resonus debut with an extraordinary disc of intensely virtuosic works for unaccompanied violin by two Hungarian composers – the late Sonata for Solo Violin by Belá
Composer: Bela Bartok (1881-1945), Gyorgy Kurtag (1926)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Instrumental
Ave Maria: Music for Upper Voices
Following on from their acclaimed recording debut on ‘Nova! Nova!’ shared with the college choir of St Catharine’s College, The Saint Catharine’s Girls’ Choir, make their solo debut with a full album of recent works for upper voices, with their
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Choral
Ein Espresso, ein San Pellegrino mit Zitrone und später am Abend ein schönes Glas italienischer Rotwein. Mit ihrem neuen Album LA BOSSA entführt die aus Apulien stammende Sängerin Miriam Netti ihre Zuhörer auf eine musikalische
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Mainstream Jazz
Chemistry. You either got it or you don’t. When the five members of Royal Southern Brotherhood convened in February at Dockside Studios, Louisiana, there was magic in the air. Just seven days later, the acclaimed US soul-blues
Genre: Blues
Subgenre: Bluesy Rock
Kent Nagano and the Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra first became acquainted in 1993, when they worked together on Mahler's Third Symphony. Love was immediate and Kent Nagano conducted the Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra
Composer: Richard Strauss (1864-1949)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Orchestral
In the late '60s, many things were born. The British Folk Rock movement, as it was called, was one. Trying to decide "how it started" is actually a little silly; victory has a thousand fathers, after all. But there is no doubt that Fairport
Composer: Traditional, John Dowland, William Byrd (1543-1623)
Genre: Folk
