The concept of metanoia - that, which goes beyond thought - most commonly describes a change in the way of seeing and thinking about things. With this recording, Italo Brazilian conductor Simone Menezes and her chamber orchestra "K", together with the choir "Sequenza 9.3", go on a musical journey ...
Composer: Giacomo Puccini (1858-1924), Johann Sebastian Bach (1685–1750), Heitor Villa-Lobos (1887-1959), Arvo Pärt (1935), Alexander Borodin (1833-1887)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
With one foot firmly in the American jazz tradition and the other covered in Nordic frost, Little North returns with the next step in their sonic expedition. Barely a year after the release of the critically acclaimed “Finding Seagulls” which marked them as a one-to-watch in the jazz world, the young Danish trio releases “Familiar Places” (21st Jan, April Records). ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Modern Jazz
This is Lucile Boulanger’s first solo recital. The French gambist, universally praised for her natural and moving playing – BBC Music Magazine even described her as ‘the Jacqueline du Pré of the viola da gamba’ – juxtaposes Bach with Carl Friedrich Abel, a great master of the bass viol and a close ...
Composer: Carl Friedrich Abel (1723-1787), Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
London-based Palace release their third album Shoals via Fiction. Shoals is a profound and pensive album, boldly exploring some of life’s greatest questions over its 12 mesmerising tracks. the album deftly explores three main existential dilemmas against a broader backdrop of wonder at the vastness and power of the ocean, ...
Genre: Rock
Subgenre: Adult Alternative
As a young chorister, the fourteen-year-old Franz Schubert penned his first string quartets, a genre that he would continue to explore until the last years of his life. Fifteen quartets, of remarkable originality and bewitching lyricism, entered into history, bearing at once the legacy of the Classical Era and a vision of the future. ...
Composer: Franz Schubert (1797-1828)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
Spider-Man: No Way Home (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
The soundtrack for Spider-Man: No Way Home is filled with plenty of fitting pop songs as well as iconic legacy tracks from past Spider-Man films. From the very start of the third film in the Homecoming trilogy, the music goes hand in hand with the dynamic multiversal adventure Peter Parker, Doctor Strange, and more of the Webslinger's ...
Genre: Soundtrack
Subgenre: Music
Bayreuth: Flute Sonata in A Minor
“Flute Sonata in A minor” composed by Wilhelmine von Bayreuth marks the second single of a series of releases for the album Infusion Baroque’s Virtuosa, to be released June 10, 2021. The double album recording encompasses 15 works that were either composed or performed by women, and were recorded on historical instruments. ...
Composer: Wilhelmine von Bayreuth
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
Every sound that makes up each track on this project was recorded solely with Zara's voice – one of the most unique and critically acclaimed voices in contemporary jazz. DisInteGrated project was recorded for a short dance film produced by Jacob Jonas The Company & Directed, ...
Genre: Electronic
Subgenre: Downtempo
J.S. Bach: Sonatas, Fantasias & Improvisations
This project represents a starting point in gently opening up the possibilities of incorporating an element of improvisation into the oeuvre of Bach's chamber music. Given that both Toshi and Anthony are improvising musicians, able and willing to extemporise in a variety of genres (jazz, folk music, early music, etc.), ...
Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre:
Vienna 1840: Romantic Viennese Music
The second half of the 19th century was an erawhen musicians valued the evocation of the fantastic and the expression of passion above all else. They did not hesitate to manipulate and reshape musical frameworks through a wide variety of expressive techniques such as rubato (modifying rhythms and varying pulsation), ...
Composer: Emilia Giuliani-Guglielmi (1813-1850), Johann Kaspar Mertz (1806-1856), Franz Schubert (1797-1828), Giulio Regondi (1822-1872)
Genre: Guitar
Subgenre: Classical Guitar
Lata Gouveia is bringing out his 3rd album. With his uncompromisingly American sound that is so reminiscent of Tom Petty, JJ Cale or even Bruce Springsteen, the artist is known throughout the greater region for his high intensity live shows and his radio singles. The new album «Stay the Same» is released by Timezone Records ...
Genre: Rock
Subgenre: Blues Rock
Bassani: Affetti canori, cantate et ariette, Op. 6
The Paduan composer Giovanni Battista Bassani, a contemporary of Corelli, was a fine string player and organist. An important element in his compositional output is the cantate amorose (‘love songs’). His 1684 collection Affetti canori cantate et ariette is the expressive masterpiece of his maturity ...
Composer: Giovanni Battista Bassani (1657-1716)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Vocal
Country Stuff The Album will include “Fancy Like” as well as previously released “U Gurl,” along with “AA” and 10 other tracks, including Hayes’ collaborations with Carly Pearce, Jake Owen, and Lori McKenna, and a re-imagined version of “Craig” featuring MercyMe. ...
Genre: Country
Subgenre: Country Pop
After the very difficult period of confinement and travel restrictions of 2020 and 2021, the Orchestra of the Eighteenth Century has found ways for touring and recording again. Putting in the spotlight two of the orchestras long-term soloists, Rainer Zipperling on viola da gamba and Michael Schmidt-Casdorff on flute, ...
Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach (1685–1750), Georg Philipp Telemann (1681-1767)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Concertos
Dmitri Shostakovich: Symphonies No. 5 & No. 12 "The Year 1917"
Shostakovich was genuinely trying to break new ground but had been sharply brought into line (viz. the edict issued against his opera Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk). His Fifth Symphony seems to cast doubt on the Marxist purity of the Party in power. ...
Composer: Dmitri Schostakowitsch (1906-1975)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Orchestral
Electrif Lycanthrope: Live at Ultra-Sonic Studios, 1974 (Remastered)
Nestled between the classic album releases Dixie Chicken and Feats Don’t Fail Me Now and performed for a small and intimate assembled studio audience, this recording finds Little Feat in their prime, live from Ultrasonic Studios in Hempstead, NY on September 9, 1974. Often discussed as their ‘best’ line up, ...
Genre: Rock
Subgenre: Classic Rock
An eminent ambassador of the ‘French touch’ in jazz and winner of many awards (Django-Reinhardt, Victoires du Jazz, Django d’Or, SACEM jazz awards) – Baptiste Trotignon has been composing for symphony orchestras and classical musicians for several years. The music on this album is not ‘symphonic jazz’, says Trotignon, ...
Composer: Baptiste Trotignon (1974)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Orchestral
Hypnos, God of Sleep... Simon-Pierre Bestion’s recordings are often inspired by his desire to recreate a ritual. His aim here was to recreate a Requiem service, ‘the ceremony that accompanies the passage of a human being into the hereafter, while supporting the feelings of all who witness it. Making use of all the freedom that this act ...
Composer: Pierre de Manchicourt (1510-1564), Heinrich Isaac (1450-1517), Olivier Greif (1950-2000), Ludwig Senfl (1486-1543), Giacinto Scelsi (1905-1988), Pedro de Escobar (1465-1535), Mabriano de Orto (1460-1529), Antoine de Fevin (1470-1512), Juan de Anchieta (1462-1523), John Tavener (1944-2013)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Vocal
The Long Run, Mattan’s latest project, features several his regular musicians, including Toki Stern (Rhodes), Yoni Ben Ari (bass) and Joca Perpignan (percussion), with special guest Nitzan Bar (guitar). Mattan’s music has been described by Yossi Harsonsky, Senior Music critic at Maariv, as, “flowing, bright and listener ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Contemporary Jazz
