Tōru Takemitsu: Complete Works & Transcriptions for Solo Guitar
One of the reference musical figures of the second half of the twentieth century, Tòru Takemitsu (1930 -1996) was certainly the most universally recognized composer that Japan has ever had. He has dedicated important works to the guitar, treated both as a soloist or in chamber and orchestral ...
Composer: Tōru Takemitsu
Genre: Guitar
Subgenre: Classical Guitar
Alexander Tchaikovsky: Orchestral Music, Vol. 1 (Live)
The Muscovite Alexander Tchaikovsky (b. 1946) – nephew of Boris Tchaikovsky but no relative to Pyotr Ilich – is one of the most highly respected composers at work in contemporary Russia, and yet his music has had little exposure to western audiences. His symphonic style owes something to that of his uncle: ...
Composer: Alexander Tchaikovsky (1946)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Orchestral
Paderewski: Symphony in B Minor, Op. 24 "Polonia"
For almost 130 years, the output of Ignacy Jan Paderewski has been identified with the composer's great love for his homeland and patriotism resulting from it. Ignacy Jan Paderewski demonstrated an interest in both composition and virtuoso activity at an early stage of his artistic ...
Composer: Ignaz Paderewski (1860-1941)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Orchestral
Simon Bainbridge: Chamber Music
The composing career of Simon Bainbridge (born in London in 1952) is spanned by the four chamber works in this album, all of them cast as single narrative spans. The First String Quartet, written when its composer was not yet twenty, blends lyricism and pointillism, rather as if it were recasting ...
Composer: Simon Bainbridge
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
Mahler: Symphony No. 10 in F-Sharp Major "Unfinished" (Completed by D. Cooke)
Left unfinished at the death of the composer, Gustav Mahler's Tenth Symphony has exerted an enormous fascination on musicologists as well as musicians – a kind of Holy Grail of 20th-century music. Recognized as an intensely personal work, it was initially consigned to respectful ...
Composer: Gustav Mahler (1860 – 1911)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Orchestral
Cello Music from Proust's Salons
With this programme of music for cello and piano, Steven Isserlis and Connie Shih transport us to the world immortalized in Marcel Proust’s À la recherche du temps perdu – the Parisian high society and its glittering salons. For the composers of the time these provided a perfect ...
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
"Riding on the Tide of Love" will feature eight brand new songs and is billed as the lockdown-recorded companion to the 2020-released City of Love. Ricky Ross had this to say, "After City of Love was finished, I looked through songs which might have been on the album. ...
Genre: Pop
Subgenre: Pop Rock
Gangi: Complete Music for 2 Guitars
Mario Gangi (1923-2010) was one of the most important protagonists of the guitar in 20th century Italy. A performer of world rank he also did extensive scholarly work to promote the publication and performances of contemporary guitar works. ...
Composer: Mario Gangi (1923-2010)
Genre: Guitar
Subgenre:
Bach: Violin Concerto, BWV 1042 - Tchaikovsky: Violin Concerto, Op. 35
Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Concertos
Grieg: Suite No. 1 from Peer Gynt, Two Elegiac Melodies & Symphonic Dances (Remastered)
Composer: Edvard Grieg
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Orchestral
In its review of pianist Shai Maestro’s ECM leader debut The Dream Thief, All About Jazz spoke of “a searching lyrical atmosphere, emotional eloquence and communal virtuosity that serves the music.” All of which also applies to Human, where Maestro’s outgoing, ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Contemporary Jazz
OK Human is the fourteenth studio album by Weezer. For anyone keeping score at home: 2020 was going to be the year of Van Weezer — the big riffs rock album Weezer made as an homage to the metal bands they loved growing up — until, thanks to ...
Genre: Rock
Subgenre: Adult Alternative
The debut album of Joe Lovano’s Trio Tapestry was one of 2019’s most talked-about releases. The trio’s musical concept – the Boston Globe spoke of “utterances of hushed assurance, lyricism and suspense” - is taken to the next level on its second album, Garden of ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Contemporary Jazz
Rachmaninoff: Symphony 1 + Symphonic Dances
The Philadelphia Orchestra & Yannick Nezet-Seguin are embarking on another project of Rachmaninoff's works, presenting his 3 Symphonies & other orchestral works. This album entails the composer's Symphony No. 1 with the Symphonic Dances, thereby combining one of ...
Composer: Sergej Rachmaninoff (1873-1943)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Orchestral
Beethoven's World - Beethoven, Wranitzky, Reicha, Vorisek: Concertos
Composer: Ludwig van Beethoven
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Concertos
Like his friend and contemporary Rachmaninoff, Nikolai Medtner enjoyed a privileged and affluent upbringing, and was also exiled from Russia following the revolution in 1917. Unlike Rachmaninoff, Medtner could point to an ancestry that was part German, ...
Composer: Nikolai Medtner (1880–1951)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre:
Villa-Lobos: Choral Transcriptions
Choral music holds a central position in Villa-Lobos’s catalogue of works, but among these famous pieces is a series of little-known transcriptions for a cappella choir taken from the standard classical repertoire. They were intended for a teachers’ chorus and for use in ...
Composer: Heitor Villa-Lobos (1887-1959)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Choral
