A long-admired figure on the New York scene, cellist Michael Nicolas enjoys a diverse career as soloist, chamber musician, recording artist, and improvisor. His eclectic tastes and willingness to try just about anything have led him to forge a
Composer: Mario Davidovsky (1934), Steve Reich (1936), David Fulmer, Annie Gosfield (1960), Anna Thorvaldsdottir (1977), Jaime E. Oliver La Rosa (1979)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
What can come about when a professional guitarist records an album containing his favorite tunes? A touching and soothing journey through the night that ranges from folky songwriter-tunes to cineastic chamber
Composer: Mark O. Everett, Marit Larsen/Tofer Brown, Neil Young, Bugge Wesseltoft/Sidsel Endresen, Sandy Denny, Beth Sorrentino, Ola Gjeilo, Hannah Reid, Elfriede Ellidge/Robert Wyatt, Michael Wollny/Eva Svensson, Andrew York
Genre: Songwriter
Subgenre: New Acoustic
TRAVELOGUE is a Jazz group from Switzerland, founded by guitarist Werner Tian Fischer. The ensemble includes saxophonist Jürg Wickihalder, pianist Roberto Domeniconi, drummer Gabriel Schiltknecht, and New York-based bassist
Composer: Werner Tina Fischer, Coco Rouzier
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Mainstream Jazz
Maja S.K. Ratkje: And sing ...
This album interleaves the composer's own voice as a performer with the ensemble sound of CIKADA and Oslo Sinfonietta. In "And sing while thou on pressed flowers dost sleep" the voice is pre-recorded, and the sound files are
Composer: Maja S.K. Ratkje
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Classical Crossover
The organ music on this album is written by three composers with different musical backgrounds and development who nevertheless have something of the same close feeling for the instrument, almost an organic oneness with it. Trygve Madsen
Composer: Kjell Mørk Karlsen (1947), Trygve Madsen (1940), Kjell Flem (1943)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Instrumental
Composers reflect their contemporary world, and today’s performers mirror our time. The three works on this album all have a high degree of intensity and a strong personal character, as tributes, visions, fantasies, interpretations.
Composer: Benjamin Britten (1913–1976), Igor Stravinsky (1882–1971), Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872–1958)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
First prizewinner of the prestigious Parkening International Guitar Competition, Petrit Çeku is regarded as one of the greatest guitarists of his generation and his exquisite sensibility and expressiveness have attracted and engaged
Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Instrumental
Mozart: Violin Concertos (MQA Remix 2016)
This album was declared a "Record to Die For" by Stereophile Magazine and won the Spellemann-prize as Best Classical Album when it was first released in 2006. In only a decade this recording with Marianne Thorsen and TrondheimSolistene
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Orchestral
Diamond Eyes (Deluxe Version - Remastered)
„A long four years separate Diamond Eyes from Saturday Night Wrist, four years that were sadly packed with peril for Deftones. Bassist Chi Cheng suffered injuries so severe in a November 2008 auto accident the band took a hiatus,
Composer: Deftones, Nina Persson, Peter Svensson, David Sylvian, Drive Like Jehu
Genre: Rock
Subgenre: Adult Alternative
JUNO nominated Canadian bass player Paul Novotny and JUNO winning pianist Robi Botos, also the winner of the TD Grand Jazz Award at the 2012 Montreal International Jazz Festival, have come together to record their album Look
Composer: Paul Novotny, Robi Botos
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Contemporary Jazz
Recorded in a single day at London’s fabled Abbey Road studios, Parallax is a brilliantly realised piece of music-making. It has all the standout features of the trio’s work. Rhythmic drive. Constant shifts in mood and texture.
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Contemporary Jazz
With youthful jauntiness, the nineteen-year old Indian guitar player with the programmatic name Rhythm Shaw dances along the strings of his steelstring as if there were no musical limits.
Composer: Rhythm Shaw
Genre: Guitar
Subgenre: Fingerstyle
The new album by singer-songwriter Markus Rohmann is called “Heaven on Earth”, and one could easily imagine it’s a heaven that stretches between “Paris and Texas”. This image does quickly make Rohmann’s beloved slide guitar appear.
Genre: Songwriter
Subgenre: New Acoustic
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
