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Viola virtuosa

"Die Position des Instruments zwischen Violine und Cello bietet uns Bratschisten viele Möglichkeiten, Elemente aus beiden Klangwelten zu kombinieren und so etwas Eigenständiges und Neues zu schaffen. Auf diesem Album finden sich eine Reihe von Transkriptionen -nicht aus dem Wunsch heraus, etwas von jemand anderem zu ...

Composer: Max Reger (1873-1916), Johann Sebastian Bach (1685–1750), Eugène Ysaÿe (1858-1931), Gaspar Cassadó (1897-1966), Heinrich Ignaz Franz Biber (1644-1704)

Genre: Classical

Subgenre: Instrumental

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Ķeniņš: Symphonies Nos. 5 & 8 and Aria per corde

This third album release in the first complete Tālivaldis Ķeniņš (1919–2008) symphony cycle includes the composer’s final symphonic creation, Symphony No. 8, with a remarkable organ solo part performed by the award-winning organist Iveta Apkalna, alongside the composer’s dramatic and concise 5th Symphony, both conducted by Andris Poga ...

Composer: Talivaldis Kenins (1919-2008)

Genre: Classical

Subgenre: Orchestral

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Ramon Lazkano: Diptyque Jabès

Following his fascinating Odradek debut with 'Chalk Factory', Basque composer Ramon Lazkano returns with an album of world-premiere recordings featuring intimate original works for voices and ensemble. The album is unified by the enigmatic, elusive poetry of Edmond Jabes, a French writer of Egyptian origin. Lazkano ...

Composer: Ramon Lazkano (b. 1968)

Genre: Classical

Subgenre: Vocal

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Les Six: Merci et Adieu, Claude

„In the 19th and 20th centuries, French music achieved a unique profile and was widely acknowledged on the international scene. This success was due, last not least, to symbolic figures such as Camille Saint-Saëns, Claude Debussy, and the “Groupe des Six,” in spite of their divergent aesthetic tendencies.…

Composer: Camille Saint-Saëns (1835-1921), Claude Debussy (1862-1918), Arthur Honegger (1892-1955), Darius Milhaud (1892-1974), Francis Poulenc (1899-1963), Jean Françaix (1912-1997)

Genre: Classical

Subgenre: Chamber Music

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Locked Down?

A well thought-out concept album was to be their first recorded release, the musicians of Percussion Under Construction had already decided before Corona. The forced break in the first lockdown in March 2020 strengthened them in this decision: Newly created works in this exceptional situation were to enter into ...

Composer: Martin Hennecke, Nebojša Jovan Živković (b. 1962), Frank Zappa (1940-1993), Tan Dun (b. 1957), Herman Rarebell (b. 1949), Klaus Meine (b. 1948), Rudolf Schenker (b. 1948)

Genre: Classical

Subgenre: Instrumental

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Beethoven & Lachenmann: Piano Works

The hours I spent learning Beethoven‘s last three sonatas were among the most cherished of my life. They were filled with the exhilaration of being in the presence of something magnificent, something truly meaningful. Over the years, these sonatas have become my intimate companions ...

Composer: Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827), Helmut Lachenmann (1935)

Genre: Classical

Subgenre: Instrumental

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Bacewicz: Piano Works

This album is pianist Peter Jablonski’s third solo album for the Ondine label. In this album Jablonski represents Grazyna Bacewicz’s (1909–1969) dazzling piano etudes and piano sonatas which are hardly known outside of her native Poland. Jablonski’s piano albums have received an enthusiastic ...

Composer: Grazyna Bacewicz (1909-1969)

Genre: Classical

Subgenre: Instrumental

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it's fine

The disjointed space between personal happiness and global sorrow is where Smrtdeath's new album it's fine makes it's home. Written and recorded during the pandemic, one of the most dramatically isolating experiences of our lives, the album finds Smrtdeath's Mike Skwark in a surprisingly contented state, newly coupled up and living in bliss. ...

Genre: Rock

Subgenre: Adult Alternative

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Look Alive

Now, three years after their lauded fifth effort, the Austin-by-way-of-Toronto duo Black Pistol Fire-KEVIN MCKEOWN (guitar/lead vocals) and ERIC OWEN (drums/bass synth)-are back with LOOK ALIVE, an album that sees them refining their singular two-man approach, outfitting their explosive, impassioned rock 'n' roll with a soundscape that is more expansive, ethereal and cinematic. ...

Genre: Rock

Subgenre: Adult Alternative

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Edition Ruhr Piano Festival, Vol. 40: Debuts and a World Premiere for Alfred Brendel (Live Recording 2021)

Also the concert season 2021 was suffering under the pandemic restrictions. Again and again the festival management tried, with great help of their very flexible agenda, to fix new dates. And that made it possible to record some of the evenings, programmed in the Vol. 40. ...

Composer: Alexander Scriabin (1872-1915), Sergei Rachmaninoff (1873-1934), Anatoli Ljadov (1855-1914), Clara Schumann (1819-1896), Johannes Brahms (1833-1897), Kit Armstrong (b. 1992), A BU (b. 1999)

Genre: Classical

Subgenre: Instrumental

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Flower in the Desert

After 15 years of existence and more than 250 concerts, the Fabrice Tarel Trio releases its 5th album "Flower in the Desert". In this new repertoire we find all the narrative and poetic talent of the pianist's compositions in a contemporary jazz that is both inventive and profound. ...

Genre: Jazz

Subgenre: Contemporary Jazz

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Eponymous (Version 2021)

Deep Forest is the first studio album by the musical group Deep Forest, consisting of French duo Eric Mouquet and Michel Sanchez. The album mixes New Age electronics with UNESCO field recordings of music from the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the Solomon Islands, Burundi, Tibesti, and the Sahel. ...

Genre: Electronic

Subgenre: Ambient

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Déjà vu (2021 Remaster)

Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young's Déjà Vu was the most-anticipated new album in America in 1970. More than 50 years later, it's one of the most famous albums in rock history with legendary songs, including "Carry On" and "Teach Your Children," that still resonate today. This milestone album is transformed into an expansive HiResAudio collection that includes a ...

Genre: Rock

Subgenre: Classic Rock

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Feel Like Making LIVE!

In the eyes of the rap generation, an older musician's hipness is often defined by how many times he or she has been sampled for beats and breaks. That means that keyboard wizard Bob James - whose records have been sampled a staggering 1,435 times, according to the website WhoSampled.Com - is a bona fide legend and cooler than cool. ...

Genre: Jazz

Subgenre: Contemporary Jazz

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Handel: Semele

Semele is a masterpiece. For what else can one call a drama in which the perfect symbiosis of text and music conjures up such suggestive power? ‘To hold the mind, the ears and the eyes equally spellbound’: this recommendation by La Bruyère (Les Caractères: ‘Les ouvrages de l'esprit’) refers to the ‘machine plays’ so ...

Composer: Georg Friedrich Händel (1685–1759)

Genre: Classical

Subgenre: Vocal

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Smoke & Oakum

The Longest Johns, the trailblazing band at the forefront of the recent transatlantic resurgence of sea shanties – being the instigators of the TikTok phenomenon and chart hit, Wellerman – release their highly anticipated fourth album, and first with Decca Records: Smoke & Oakum.

Genre: Folk

Subgenre: Vocal

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Preludes

There is something deeply rewarding about having both old and new music on your music stand. By pretending that old music is new, it becomes easier to nd freedom from tradition and to discover fresh ideas and new meanings. By imagining that new music is old, a certain reverence set in, a trust in the composer, ...

Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach (1685–1750), Airat Ichmouratov (b. 1973), Gabriel Dharmoo, Carmen Braden (b. 1985), Nicole Lizée (b. 1973), Cris Derksen, Roy Johnstone

Genre: Classical

Subgenre: Chamber Music

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En Suite

Audrey Abela is a truly exceptional pianist who specialises in the repertoire of her native France. 'En Suite' is Audrey Abela's beautifully poised, nuanced tribute to the French suite, from its origins in the Baroque masterpieces of Couperin and Rameau, to the sensitive 20th-century tributes of Debussy and Ravel. ...

Composer: François Couperin (1668-1733), Jean-Philippe Rameau (1683-1764), Claude Debussy (1862-1918), Maurice Ravel (1875-1937)

Genre: Classical

Subgenre: Instrumental

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Variations on Buenos Aires

For the Piazzolla album "Variations on Buenos Aires", which will be released by Berlin Classics on 28 January 2022, the Dutch violinist Isabelle van Keulen has brought together two different ensembles - her own ensemble specialising in tango nuevo and the Deutsche Kammerakademie Neuss, which she artistically ....

Composer: Astor Piazzolla (1921-1992)

Genre: Classical

Subgenre: Chamber Music

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Fanny & Felix Mendelssohn

For their twentieth anniversary, the Trio Chausson offer themselves two trios by two the most famous siblings in the history of classical music, Fanny and Felix Mendelssohn. The recording opens with Fanny's work, a choice that aims to shed light on the great romantic composer's influence upon her brother's work. ...

Composer: Fanny Mendelssohn-Hensel (1805-1847)

Genre: Classical

Subgenre: Chamber Music

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