Rumer's 2012 sophomore effort, Boys Don't Cry, follows up her critically acclaimed 2010 solo debut, Seasons of My Soul. Much like that album, Boys Don't Cry features a '60s and '70s soft rock vibe inspired by such acts ...
Genre: Pop
Subgenre: Adult Contemporary
Tell the truth: did anybody think Green Day would still be around in 2004? Ten years ago, when they blew up into the hot summer band of 1994, they were snotty little Berkeley, California, punk kids who sounded ready to ...
Genre: Rock
Subgenre: Adult Alternative
Eivind Buene: Possible Cities / Essential Landscapes
Moving through a city is a good metaphor for listening to new music. A big city will invite you through unfamiliar streets, into dark alleyways and sudden openings of light.
Composer: Eivind Buene
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
The Biblical story of David and Bathsheba has a lot of present-day relevance. In this story, individual emotions interact with political actions and their consequences. Fundamental ethical questions are thus ...
Composer: Ståle Kleiberg
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Orchestral
Elliott Sharp s TERRAPLANE synthesizes the intersection of country and urban blues with Mississippi fife & drum bands, post-Mingus/Ayler jazz, and the rhythmic force of the groove, from the shuffle to contemporary dance music.
Composer: Elliott Sharp, Joe Mardin
Genre: Blues
Subgenre: Contemporary Blues
HOFF ENSEMBLE consists of some of Norway's finest jazz and session musicians, fronted by trumpeter Mathias Eick, of ECM renown, who plays a leading role in several of the compositions.
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Crossover Jazz
Running On Empty (2007 Remaster)
Running On Empty is a landmark album in many ways. The album was recorded while on tour, but is not merely a live album. It's an album of all new songs that gives the real feel of what it's like to be on tour.
Composer: Jackson Browne, Maurice Williams, Rev. Gary Davis, Danny Kortchmar, Danny O'Keefe [Non-Classical Composer]
Genre: Rock
Subgenre: Singer / Songwriter
Arguably the best album they ever made, America's sophomore effort is certainly the most varied. Though the overall sound is still dominated by folk-style strummed guitars, there's quite a bit of extra ...
Composer: Dewey Bunnell, Gerald Beckley
Genre: Rock
Subgenre: Adult Contemporary
While my first piano album on the 2L record label, Stone Rose (2007), was all pre-composed or outlined, I wanted this 2012 sequel to be completely spontaneous.
Composer: Ola Gjeilo
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Classical Crossover
Thomas D. A. Tellefsen: Complete Piano Works
The story of Thomas Dyke Acland Tellefsen (1823-1874) has a special place in the history of 19th century Norwegian music. In his own lifetime he earned an international ...
Genre: Classical
Subgenre:
TrondheimSolistene and 2L allocated two weeks in 2011 to record a new album. Artistic director Øyvind Gimse and his collaborator Geir Inge Lotsberg initially chose two pieces that represent, in their estimation, ...
Composer: Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840 - 1893), Carl Nielsen
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Romantic / Orchestral
Mozart: Concertos 3 & 5 Rondo / Adagio
With her new album of Mozart works, the freshly-announced winner of the ECHO Klassik Award Susanna Yoko Henkel makes a dream of hers come true: the young German-Japanese violinist has executed her very own ...
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Instrumental
Edvard Grieg (1843-1907) the national romantic and Olav Anton Thommessen (1946-) the modernist come together here in the tale of 'Haugtussa' and her life, her love and her path through the Underworld to redemption....
Composer: Edvard Grieg (1843–1907), Olav Anton Thommessen (1946-)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Romantic / Modern Composition
The Japanese term Natsukashii describes how intense memories can suddenly be triggered by something as trivial as an old shoe. Norwegian pianist Helge Lien has dedicated his latest trio-CD to these moments,...
Composer: Helge Lien Trio
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Modern Jazz
The soloist in the Cantatas is the soprano Tone Wik who specialises in music of this period. She possesses an ideal vocal timbre for these pieces.
Composer: Antonio Lucio Vivaldi (1678-1741)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Baroque / Orchestral / Vocal
The first bars of the opener „Gamut Warning“ are carried by great discipline and an absolute relevance. Together with Lien’s dynamic phrasing and the trio’s instinctively sure interplay, they make you prick up your ears immediately.
Composer: Helge Lien Trio
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Modern Jazz
The divertimento as a musical genre dates back to the nineteenth century. Divertimenti were composed for various social occasions and were intended to be light, uncomplicated and cheerful.
Composer: Benjamin Britten, Grazyna Bacewicz (1909-1969), Terje Bjørklund, Béla Bartók (1881-1945)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Orchestral
This reflective, tuneful album is a collection of beautiful piano music written and performed by Ola Gjeilo. His music is a blend of jazz, classical and popular music influences, married in a unique and passionate style.
Composer: Ola Gjeilo
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Classical Crossover
