We're thrilled to announce limited edition vinyl issues of Jacob David's 2015 debut Omkuld and his upcoming record Mursejler.
Composer: Jacob David
Genre: Instrumental
Subgenre: Piano
We're thrilled to announce limited edition vinyl issues of Jacob David's 2015 debut Omkuld and his upcoming record Mursejler.
Composer: Jacob David
Genre: Instrumental
Subgenre: Piano
Domenico Maria Dreyer: Two Sonatas for Recorder
Almost nothing is known about the composer Domenico Maria Dreyer except the approximate dates of his life (ca.1680 – ca.1740). Only six oboe sonatas (which are also wonderfully suitable for the recorder) and two recorder sonatas have survived from his oeuvre. ...
Composer: Domenico Maria Dreyer
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
Chopin: 4 Ballades & 4 Impromptus
The pianist Anna Vinnitskaya has built up an impressive discography since her victory at the Queen Elisabeth Competition in 2007: Bach, Brahms, Ravel, and of course the Russian composers with whom she has been familiar since her childhood in Novorossiysk, then her studies with Evgeni Koroliov. ...
Composer: Frédéric Chopin (1810-1849)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Instrumental
Franz Schubert established the musical genre of the Moments Musicaux: small, characteristic piano pieces that attempt to capture the moment or make it eternal. These qualities of the genre fascinate the Korean pianist Yeseul Kim. On her new GENUIN release, she combines Schubert and Rachmaninoff together with ...
Composer: Sergei Rachmaninoff (1873–1943), Uzong Choe (1968), Franz Schubert (1797–1828)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Instrumental
"Einer der besten Countertenöre unserer Tage" (Fono Forum) ist zweifellos Valer Sabadus. "Was der Countertenor Valer Sabadus bis in schwindelnde Höhen an Natürlichkeit und Koloratur leistet, ist einfach überwältigend", urteilte der Spiegel über seine letzten Aufnahmen. Auf seinem neuen Album präsentiert der Countertenor ...
Composer: Georg Philipp Telemann (1681-1767), Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Vocal
"THE TWIOLINS are the siblings Marie-Luise and Christoph Dingler, specialists in the violin duo genre. Having grown up in a musical environment, they have achieved the highest degree of interplay and a unique sound identity through their shared curriculum vitae and constant playing together. ...
Composer: Astor Piazzolla (1921-1992), Antonio Vivaldi (1678-1741)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
For her fifth release on BIS Clare Hammond has constructed an adventurous programme of twentieth and twenty-first-century variations for piano. From the imposing Chaconne by Sofia Gubaidulina, to the tender grief of Paul Hindemith’s variations or Aaron Copland’s bold and uncompromising proclamation, the album ...
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Instrumental
Respighi: Transcriptions of Bach & Rachmaninoff
A great orchestrator adds new colours to music by Bach and Rachmaninov. Founded in 1960, the Liège Royal Philharmonic (OPRL), which has 97 musicians, is recognized for its strong identity in the European musical world, linked to its distinctive artistic and ...
Composer: Sergei Rachmaninoff (1873-1934), Johann Sebastian Bach (1685–1750)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Orchestral
J.S. Bach: Sonatas & Partitas, BWVV 1001-1006
Triumph des Geistes über die Materie: Es war kein Geringerer als Joseph Joachim, einer der berühmtesten Geiger seiner Zeit, der Johann Sebastian Bachs sechs Sonaten und Partiten für Violine solo BWV 1001–1006 einst treffend als »Triumph des Geistes über die Materie« bezeichnete. ...
Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
Haydn: String Quartets, Op. 76 Nos. 4-6
The String Quartets, Op. 76 are among the most renowned of Joseph Haydn's sets of quartets, and carry the stamp of their maker: No other set of eighteenth-century string quartets is so diverse, or so unconcerned with the norms of the time. In the words of Haydn’s friend and contemporary Charles ...
Composer: Joseph Haydn (1732-1809)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
Mozart Violin Concertos, Vol. I (Live)
Mozarts Violin Concertos need little introduction from No. 3 in G major featuring the 19-year-old Mozart at his elegant, witty and beguilingly changeable best, to the Sinfonia Concertante the string concerto masterpiece with its masterly mixture of noble strength and tender lyricism ...
Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
Orchestral music full of varied colours, expressive melodies and irresistible rhythms: Venturini creatively combines his own ideas with French and Italian stylistic elements in his concertos to create an elegant and virtuoso mélange. A real discovery! ...
Composer: Francesco Venturini (1675-1745)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
It is not often that one is lucky enough to directly observe the creation of unique beauty, perfect craftsmanship, absolute passion and profound dedication. I recently had the wonderful opportunity to experience these with the creation of “Lexposure”, in Cologne at the end of August 2020. ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Ragtime
Alfie Zappacosta is at the very top of his game here, as a singer, a songwriter and producer. Few recording artists deliver some of their finest work in the fifth decade of their career, but that is clearly the case with Saved, the new solo release from award-winning, platinum selling Alfie ...
Genre: Songwriter
Subgenre: Contemporary
Danny Kroha's "Detroit Blues" could be considered part two of his solo debut LP - "Angels Watching Over Me". In his own words, "It was me in a room playing acoustic instruments and doing my own arrangements of some old songs". Not so fast man! When you hear this record and dig a little deeper into the facts, you'll ...
Genre: Songwriter
Subgenre: Contemporary
Mahler: Das klagende Lied (1893 Version) [Live]
Mahler’s cantata Das klagende Lied today constitutes a veritable rarity in concert programmes - in an age that without contradiction recognizes Mahler as one oft he most eminent milestones in the music history of the late 19th and early 20th century. Based on a horror tale written by Mahler himself, ...
Composer: Gustav Gustav Mahler (1860-1911)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Vocal
Outsider is a project dedicated to the memory of Henry Darger, a self-taught artist. His most famous artwork is an illustrated story entitled The Story of the Vivian Girls, in What is known as the Realms of the Unreal, of the Glandeco-Angelinnian War Storm, ...
Genre: Alternative
Subgenre: Indie Rock
The Carlock-Combet Duo return to SOMM RECORDINGS with a trio of ravishing Romantic Violin Sonatas by Schubert, Robert Schumann and Grieg. Formed in 2014, the Philadelphia-based Carlock-Combet Duo Sandra Carlock (piano) and Guillaume Combet (violin) has quickly ...
Composer: Robert Schumann (1810-1856), Franz Schubert (1797 - 1828), Edvard Grieg (1873-1907)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
Pianist Swetlana Meermann-Muret takes us on a journey through the heights and depths of the Russian soul in her new GENUIN CD. The prizewinner of international competitions devotes herself to gems of piano literature—the rarely recorded miniatures by Anatoly Lyadov ...
Composer: Anatoly Konstantinovich Lyadov (1855–1914)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Instrumental