Ruf Records’ Blues Caravan is unstoppable. Fifteen years after Europe’s most respected label put on its first showcase tour, the founding concept is instantly familiar to blues fans: every night, on club stages across the US and Europe, three rising talents will burn down the house ...
Genre: Blues
Subgenre: Electric Blues
Bach: Well-Tempered Clavier, Book 2 (Excerpts)
Piotr Anderszewski takes a characteristically creative approach to Bach’s Das Wohltemperierte Klavier (The Well-tempered Clavier). Rather than recording all 48 of its prelude-and-fugue pairings, he has focused on 12 pairings from Book Two. “I decided to put the pieces together ...
Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach (1685–1750)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Instrumental
Love, Death & Dancing (Vol. 6: Live At Unwound Studios)
“I wrote this album as someone – and for anyone – who likes dancing but doesn’t necessarily want to go out on a Saturday. It’s dance music for people who don’t want to go out! And that’s the music that I love: music that doesn’t care if you’re standing ...
Genre: Alternative
Subgenre: Indie Rock
‘Under A Mediterranean Sky’ is the first new acoustic solo album from legendary guitarist Steve Hackett, since 2008’s ‘Tribute’ – a record that saw him tackling some of the beautiful classical pieces that his guitar idols had also put their hand to. ...
Genre: Rock
Subgenre:
Grainger: Shepherd's Hey, Mock Morris, Molly on the Shore & Londonderry Air
Composer: Percy Grainger
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Orchestral
Caprices & Laments: Clarinet Concertos by Nielsen, Copland & MacMillan
The benevolent shadow of Mozart meets a strain of emotional turbulence in Carl Nielsen’s unforgettable, at times inscrutable Clarinet Concerto – his last major orchestral work, completed three years before his death in 1931. ...
Composer: James MacMillan, Carl Nielsen, Aaron Copland
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Concertos
KAGAHI: Orchestral Works of Yūji Takahashi
A generous and carefully crafted two-albums set of world-premiere recordings of music by the trailblazing Japanese composer-pianist Yuji Takahashi (b. 1938), compiled and directed by fellow composer and renowned conductor Yoichi Sugiyama, ...
Composer: Yūji Takahashi
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Orchestral
Violins of Hope presents instruments that were owned by Jewish musicians before and during the Holocaust, representing strength and optimism for the future during mankind’s darkest hour. They have been refurbished by luthiers Amnon and Avshalom Weinstein, ...
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
Stanford: Songs of Faith, Love and Nonsense
SOMM RECORDINGS announces a major new recording of songs by Charles Villiers Stanford including the first complete recording of Songs of Faith and 12 first recordings of other distinctively vital songs. Songs of Love, Faith and Nonsense continues SOMMs widely acclaimed commitment to Stanfords music with baritone Roderick Williams, ...
Composer: Charles Villiers Stanford (1852-1924)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Vocal
SOMM RECORDINGS "Belle Époque 1886" celebrates a golden age of French chamber music, uniquely coupling Cello Sonatas by César Franck and Benjamin Godard. Francks A major and Godards D minor Sonatas were both composed in 1886 when French composers ...
Composer: Benjamin Godard (1849-1895), César Franck (1822-1890)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
"A technically perfect duo with a personal style." (Classica) Spanish music is the focus of Tapeo, a new recording by cellist Cameron Crozman and pianist Philip Chiu. Works by Gaspar Cassadó, Manuel de Falla, Joaquin Turina are performed on “El Tiburon," ...
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
“Occurrence is the third, and at least for now the last, in a hugely illuminating series devoted to works by contemporary Icelandic composers, as performed by Iceland’s 70-year-old national orchestra. Speaking for myself – and surely for many others, as well ...
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Orchestral
Why did you choose Wagner's music for your inaugural concert at the head of the Orchestre national d'Île-de-France and to start your musical adventure with the musicians? – Although I have many repertoire interests, Wagner is one of the composers closest to my heart. ...
Composer: Richard Wagner
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Orchestral
Not Afraid to Say Goodbye (Stripped)
Nashville singer-songwriter is back with a stellar new release in her new EP Not Afraid To Say Goodbye. She affirms that she is the fearless voice of pop and that is evident on this EP. The EP consists of four tracks, each very unique and authentic. ...
Genre: Pop
Subgenre: Pop Rock
Beethoven, Voříšek, Archduke & Rudolph of Austria: Sonatas for Violin and Piano
For its Audax debut, the Duo Bruggen-Plank explores Beethovens last violin sonata in its historical context. Beethovens serene work of ethereal beauty contrasts with a sonata by the 18-year-old Jan Hugo Vorisek in which Mozarts influence is unmistakable. ...
Composer: Ludwig van Beethoven (1770–1827), Erzherzog Rudolph von Österreich (1788-1831), Jan Vaclav Hugo Vorisek (1791-1825)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
Prokofiev: Visions fugitives, Piano Sonata No. 8, Romeo & Juliet
Nicholas Angelich’s new album is dedicated to Prokofiev, the so-called unclassifiable artist– considered revolutionary by some, neo-classical by others. Coming to public attention as a virtuoso pianist, Sergei Prokofiev left a fascinating ...
Composer: Sergei Prokofiev
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Instrumental
Destiny Street was the follow-up album to one of the greatest punk albums of all time, 1977’s Blank Generation. The album was originally recorded in 1981 and released in 1982, but not to Richard Hell’s satisfaction. As he says in his new liner notes to Destiny Street Remixed, ...
Genre: Rock
Subgenre: Adult Alternative
