Robert Fayrfax (1464-1521): Music for Tudor Kings and Queens
In that golden age of British choral music half a millennium ago, when polyphonic voices soared in the vaulting of the great late-Gothic churches and chapels that seemed to have been built for them to fill, one composer was in especial favour with the royal family: Robert Fayrfax. ...
Composer: Robert Fayrfax (1464-1521)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Choral
Vladimir Ashkenazy has announced he will release his new recording of Bach’s English Suites 1 – 3 on a unique double album with his first Bach recording from 1965, the Concerto in D minor, on 15 October 2021. Over half a century, a remarkable 56 years, spans the two recordings marking the longest exclusive association ...
Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach (1685–1750)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Concertos
Walton & Vaughan Williams: Piano Works
This recording couples world premiere piano duet versions of two important works by William Walton with the first recording of a 'student' piece by Ralph Vaughan Williams. Walton's first Symphony was composed between 1931 and 1935. Crown Imperial was written as a march for the Coronation of King George VI and Queen Elizabeth ...
Composer: Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872–1958), William Turner Walton (1902–1983)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Instrumental
Aus dem Äther in die Existenz. Der Ausgangspunkt. Der Anfang. Der immer wiederkehrende Ursprung. Zwischen Minimalismus und malerischen Arien entstehen Licht, Zeit und alles Leben. Das aus 6 jungen Frauen bestehende Vokalensemble Sjaella widmet sich auf der CD ORIGINS den natürlichen Zyklen, die uns seit Anbeginn der Zeit umgeben. In jeder Epoche haben die ...
Composer: David Lang (1957), Henry Lawes (1596-1662), Henry Purcell (1659-1695), Robert Johnson (1582-1633), Eriks Esenvalds (1977), Paola Prestini (1975)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Vocal
Technical Ecstasy (2021 - Remaster)
In the summer of 1976, Ozzy Osbourne, Tony Iommi, Geezer Butler and Bill Ward headed to Miami to record Technical Ecstasy at the famed Criteria Studios. The band was coming off a world tour for their previous album, Sabotage, that had found their live performances ...
Genre: Rock
Subgenre: Metal
A combination of the same classic '70s rock that drives Foo Fighters or Queens Of The Stone Age and the melodic punk that inspired Nirvana, Everclear emerged on the pop culture landscape as part of the wave The Pixies and Husker Dü ushered in, a time when abrasive guitars aligned with naked emotional expression ...
Genre: Alternative
Subgenre: Grunge
Roger Taylor has had plenty of free time recently to reflect on his long, rich, extraordinary journey through life and music. With Queen + Adam Lambert's blockbuster Rhapsody European tour postponed until 2022 by the Covid-19 pandemic, Roger has made good use of his lengthy lay-off. Fired up with creative inspiration, ...
Genre: Rock
Subgenre: Modern Rock
Where Corals Lie, A Journey through Songs by Sir Edward Elgar
Working in an era before Arts Council grants, public sponsorship, recording royalties, and long-term publishing deals, Elgar had to write for the public demand as much as personal satisfaction. The effort required for his large-scale works was rarely reflected in profitable income, so writing songs could be a useful way to earn money. ...
Composer: Edward Elgar (1857-1934)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Vocal
In Senegalese society, aado stands for moral customs and values. In this album, Kadialy Kouyate’s enchanting music touches on those principles and reflects on Mandinka culture. As a musician and songwriter born into the great line of Kouyate Griot in Southern Senegal, Kadialy’s mesmerising kora playing embraces the art of storytelling, ...
Genre: World Music
Subgenre: Worldbeat
“No one is indifferent to Dowland’s Lachrimae. Hypnotic, sharp, pitiless, redeeming: with the pleasure of an almost taxonomic cataloguing Dowland leads us into the gallery of the different natures of weeping, where instead of paintings we find mirrors, exact portraits of our own individual and unique feeling. ...
Composer: John Dowland (1562-1626)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Vocal
Inseparable is the debut studio album by American singer Natalie Cole, released on May 11, 1975, by Capitol Records. The album became her first gold-certified album and spawned the number-one R&B hits "This Will Be (An Everlasting Love)" and "Inseparable". The hit album and its singles earned Cole two Grammy ...
Genre: R&B
Subgenre: Soul
"A Southern Gothic" is Adia’s 3rd album and marks the follow up to 2019’s critically acclaimed Silences, produced by Aaron Dessner. Around its release, The Songwriters Hall of Fame presented Adia with the Holly Prize which recognizes and supports a new “all-in songwriter.” She toured the U.S. and Europe on the “Dope Queen Tour” ...
Genre: Blues
Subgenre: Electric Blues
Saint-Saëns: Music for Violin & Piano, Vol. 3
Saint-Saëns composed many original works for the violin. He also took the art of arrangement to new heights of refinement, believing his transcriptions were independent of their models, following the precedent of composers such as Liszt. This album presents early or alternative duo versions of some of Saint-Saëns’s most ...
Composer: Charles Camille Saint-Saëns (1835-1921)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
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It’s a coming of age album, yes, and an album that aches with self-discovery, self-definition, and self-redefinition: “Nothing is simple just cause you wish that it is.” “I can’t believe I’ll die before becoming a frog.” “Wolfing down Doritos, lickin’ on my fingers, anger on my tongue, Doritos in my anger!” ...
Genre: Alternative
Subgenre: Indie Rock
Gurrumul was the debut solo album for singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Geoffrey Gurrumul Yunupingu (1971–2017), referred to as Dr G Yunupingu since his death. It is the best-selling Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander music album in Australian history, having been awarded triple platinum status....
Genre: World Music
Subgenre: Worldbeat
Quality is laced throughout It’s Never Too Late, the first regular studio album featuring Tommy Emmanuel completely solo without guests since 2000. A friend and follower of the late Chet Atkins – who christened Emmanuel a Certified Guitar Player, making him one of only five musicians to receive the C.G.P. distinction ...
Genre: Guitar
Subgenre: Fingerstyle
Violinist Sylvia Huang, a prizewinner at the Queen Elisabeth Competition in 2019, and Éliane Reyes, the renowned virtuoso pianist, present a new disc bubbling with elegance and femininity. Linked by a keen musical rapport and an irrepressible friendship, they declare their love for Belgian Romantic music, ...
Composer: Guillaume Lekeu (1870-1894), Eugène Ysaÿe (1858-1931)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Instrumental
This album by the Jyväskylä Sinfonia conducted by Ville Matvejeff presents three works by Éric Tanguy (b. 1968), one of the leading composers in contemporary French music with two outstanding soloists, clarinetist Pierre Génisson and violinist Júlia Pusker. ...
Composer: Eric Tanguy (1968)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Concertos
When Simon Rattle prefaced his interpretation of Mahler’s Fifth Symphony with Henry Purcell’s Funeral Music, he was seeking programmatic unity through the idea of the funeral march. Introducing this performance of the Eighth Symphony are liturgical settings from the Renaissance and Baroque, polychoral works ...
Composer: Gustav Mahler (1860 – 1911)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Vocal
Miroslav Bukovsky and Emile Viklicky Czech into the Wangaratta Jazz Festival with John Mackey; Dave Liebman revisits Miles Davis and the influence of the African diaspora via Haiti and New Orleans inspires saxophonist Godwin Lewis. ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Contemporary Jazz
