Chamber music from another world: Willeitner, Breinschmid and Jenner open up new paths for the string instruments: a celebration of musical freedom and curiosity, full of technique, tempo and thematic variety! With his first album on ACT, we witness a first culmination of these endeavours: a trio project with Florian Willeitner and two similarly ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Crossover Jazz
Tartini: Violin Concertos D80, 96 & 125, Violin Sonata "Devil's Thrill"
Musical anniversary celebrations have inevitably been curtailed in 2020, and overshadowed by Beethoven, but Giuseppe Tartini was renowned throughout Europe as the pre-eminent genius of the violin – not only as a performer but as a composer of works which demonstrated his extraordinary gifts, ...
Composer: Giuseppe Tartini (1692-1770)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Concertos
Hiroko Murakami (Hiroco.M) began to play classical piano when she was 3 years old and continued until today. In University she studied musical composition and piano meanwhile she performed in music salons every night in Ginza, and sometimes on cruises ship. ...
Composer: Hiroko Murakami
Genre: Instrumental
Subgenre: Piano
Sean Sroka, the Toronto-based songwriter behind the contemporary folk project Ten Kills The Pack, has made his mark in recent years by blending together literate, poetic observances and incisive musings on the human condition with cunningly composed and hard-hitting songcraft and instrumentation. ...
Genre: Songwriter
Subgenre: Contemporary
Kein Geringerer, als der legendäre Weltklassecellist Mstislaw Rostropowitsch kreierte dieses wunderbare und treffende Zitat während unserer Zusammenarbeit für ein internationales Konzertprojekt im Juni 2005. ...
Composer: Johannes Brahms (1833-1897), Gabriel Faure (1845-1924), Robert Schumann (1810-1856), Clara Schumann (1819-1896), George Gershwin (1898-1937), Sergej Rachmaninoff (1873-1943)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
Ian Munsick is releasing a soundtrack for the modern Western lifestyle with his new album, Coyote Cry, due out Feb. 26. He celebrates the album’s announcement today with the release of the rollicking new track “Humble.” ...
Genre: Country
Subgenre: Country Pop
Mozart: Piano Concertos Nos. 9 & 17 (Arr. I. Lachner for Piano & String Quintet)
Mozart himself had arranged four of his earlier concertos for the ensemble of piano, string quartet and bass, to enable his works to be performed domestically. Numerous subsequent transcriptions followed during the course of the 19th century, prominently those of the conductor and composer Ignaz Lachner. ...
Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756 –1791)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Concertos
Bartók: The Miraculous Mandarin, Suite No. 2 & Hungarian Peasant Songs
Bartók’s ‘The Miraculous Mandarin’ (published as ‘A Pantomime in One Act’) was composed at a time of violent unrest in Hungary. The Soviet Hungarian Republic had collapsed in 1919 and was replaced by an ultra-nationalist regime which persecuted communists, Jews and leftists and left ...
Composer: Béla Bartók (1881-1945)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Orchestral
Beethoven: Trios à cordes, Op. 9
The “best of my works,” as Beethoven described his String Trios Op.9 when they were published in July 1798. Indeed, the young composer surpassed himself throughout a triptych of works combining beauty of sound, formal originality and a high degree of instrumental virtuosity. ...
Composer: Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
Alexander Campkin: Choral Works
Alexander Campkin is renowned as a leading young choral composer who has been commissioned by some of the most prestigious musical organizations in Britain. True Light reveals the energy and majestic sound world that he commands, as well as qualities of reflective intimacy. ...
Composer: Alexander Campkin (1984)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Choral
The story of DJ and producer Robin Schulz reads like one in a million. Originally from the German city of Osnabrück, he is now a high-flying frequent traveller bringing his music to loyal followers across the globe and the epitome of a ‘pop phenomenon’: It’s been only four years since Robin Schulz first topped the worldwide ...
Genre: Electronic
Subgenre: Electronica
Why arrange Boccherini concertos? To bring out the colours, rhythms, dances, melodies and countermelodies. To reinvent our roles or to exchange them like a game, from one page to another. To make us feel as if we’re on a tightrope. To take advantage of the space of freedom provided by the cadenza to imagine little ...
Composer: Georg Friedrich Händel (1685-1759), György Kurtag (1926), Igor Strawinsky (1882-1971), Michael Riesman, Eric Dolphy (1928-1964), Luigi Boccherini (1743-1805)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
Montgeroult, Viotti, Weber & Mendelssohn: Violin Sonatas
Hélène de Montgeroult war eine der einflussreichsten Pianistinnen und Komponistinnen des frühen 19. Jahrhunderts – keine geringe Leistung in einer Zeit, in der Figuren wie Dussek (ihr Lehrer), Hummel, Field, Kalkbrenner, Moscheles und nicht zuletzt Beethoven das Feld dominierten. Ihre 114 Études de ...
Composer: Helene de Montgeroult (1764-1836)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
Santiago de Murcia: Entre dos almas
The heterogeneous output of Santiago de Murcia, one of the key figures in the Baroque guitar repertory, includes a number of transcriptions from the op.5 of Arcangelo Corelli, the famous collection of ‘sonatas with violin and string bass or harpsichord’ published in Rome in 1700. ...
Composer: Arcangelo Corelli (1653-1713), Santiago de Murcia (1682-1735)
Genre: Guitar
Subgenre: Classical Guitar
Ottorino Respighi was in the vanguard of the 20th-century rebirth of Italian symphonic music. Famed for his Roman Trilogy, Respighi was also prominent in the synthesis of pre-Classical melodic styles and late-Romantic harmonies and textures. These are the elements that make the Ancient Airs ...
Composer: Ottorino Respighi (1879-1936)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Orchestral
The Art of the Modern Trumpet, Vol. 2
The second volume of this series (Volume 1 is on 8.573995) visits 20th-century France, where the combination of trumpet and piano inspired music of ravishing beauty, intimacy and wit. Through the bluesy retrospection of Jean Hubeau's Sonata, the voluptuous rhapsody of Florent Schmitt's Suite ...
Composer: Jacques Ibert (1890-1962), Raymond Gallois Montbrun (1918-1994), Pierre Sancan (1916-2008), Florent Schmitt (1870-1958):, Jeanine Rueff (1922-1999), Antoine Tisne (1932), Andre Jolivet (1905-1974)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
The alt-folk trio of Woodlock - brothers Zech Walters (guitar/vocals), Eze Walters (guitar/vocals), and Bowen Purcell (drums) – share the official music video for “Feel It Coming” from their full-length debut album The Future Of An End (out February 26 via Nettwerk Records). ...
Genre: Alternative
Subgenre: Indie Rock
This album features composers whose music speaks deeply to me – music in which I have found a refuge and a wellspring of goodness. Music that is sometimes imbued with a finesse, even a purity, fragility, and meditative tenderness that affords an emotional introspection. ...
Composer: Valentin Hadjadj, Armand Amar, Uno Helmersson, Ólafur Arnalds, Dario Marianelli, Ludovico Einaudi, Michael Nyman, Philip Glass, Remo Anzovino, Jonny Greenwood, Steve Reich
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
