Iconic pianist/composer Fred Hersch was an early adopter of new technologies and new ways forward when the pandemic hit in early 2020. But he's also been among the most eager to return to live performance and collaboration now that life has begun to resume some semblance of normality. In August 2021 he returned to the studio to record one ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Contemporary Jazz
"Clover" is a new project, resulting from a long friendship, an intense collective experience and also a desire to play pure, refined music. After 20 years of close artistic and personal collaboration already put into action by the creation of the Yolk Label and a number of other joint projects, the three friends Alban Darche, Sebastien Boisseau and ....
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Contemporary Jazz
Mozart & Strauss: Oboe Concertos
“I couldn’t have imagined a better constellation for my first album!” says Cristina Gómez Godoy about her first recording. She has chosen this repertoire because these pieces made her fall in love with the instrument and music. As a musician in Daniel Barenboim’s Berlin-based orchestra, ...
Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Concertos
"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
Jessica de Boer "Grow - my first album. In a way, the release of this album is the fulfillment of the things I sing about, heralding a new season. I'm looking back, ahead and at the world around me. So it's not just about me, it's about all of us. An album about emerging, growing (up), trusting and longing. Longing for something that's certainly coming." ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Vocal
In Praise of Escape: There’s a special vibe of freedom tinged with regret running through Maxence Cyrin’s new album, Melancholy Island. The title draws its inspiration from two works – “Éloge de la fuite” (In praise of Escape) by Henri Laborit and “La Possibilité d’un île” (The Possibility of an Island) by Michel Houellebecq ...
Composer: Maxence Cyrin
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Instrumental
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
