Even when music is notated relatively precisely, as in music, a performer must make many decisions because the notation does not specify all elements of the music. The process of deciding how to perform music that has been previously composed and notated is called "interpretation". Interpretations of the same piece of music by different ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Contemporary Jazz
It all started with Mozart. In fact, the day I was born - like Wolfgang Amadeus - on 27 January. When I was four years old, we were living in Rome at the time, I heard this melody in the stairwell that I couldn't get out of my head and therefore kept whistling to myself: it was from Mozart's Flute Concerto No. 1. I asked our neighbour, whose flat the ...
Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Instrumental
Named after the Japanese word for chameleon, Susan Wong’s twelfth album Kamereon highlights the Hong Kong-born singer’s unerring ability to bring a fresh, new complexion to a wide range of songs taken from different musical genres. Aided by her producer, the Osaka-born saxophonist Hisatsugu Suzuki, and his band, Wong has created a stylish jazz album brimming ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Vocal
Respighi: Pines of Rome, P. 141
Ottorino Respighi was fascinated with the music of Italy’s distant past; his hallmark was over-the-top orchestral color. He combines both in Pines of Rome, using “nature as a point of departure, in order to recall memories and vision. ...
Composer: Ottorino Respighi (1879-1936)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Orchestral
MOTHER – a word that evokes associations – memories – emotions. Which mother do you think of? A loving mother with a newborn baby in her arms. Intimacy. A despairing mother in deep grief over a lost life. Emptiness. Through words and music our lives are woven together with Mary's life and perhaps we sense that a mother's pain ...
Composer: Domenico Scarlatti (1685-1757), Petra Bjørkhaug (1964)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Vocal
The album is a collection of gems that consist only of award-winning works of Professional Music Recording Award of Japan ‒ the most prestigious professional musical recording award in Japan ‒ and is a portfolio released by UNAMAS, the music label which has been releasing high quality works since 2007. ...
Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750), Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791), Dmitri Shostakovich (1906-1975)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
What's Love Got to Do with It (30th Anniversary 2023 Remaster)
Originally released on June 15, 1993, What’s Love Got To Do With It was a commercial and critical success. The album was the soundtrack for the Tina Turner biographical film of the same name and reached No.1 in the UK, also making the top 10 in Switzerland, Germany, Austria, and Canada, and the top 20 in the US. The album went on to be a ...
Genre: Pop
Subgenre: Pop Rock
John Adams: Girls of the Golden West
Nonesuch releases the first recording of John Adams’ 2017 opera, Girls of the Golden West, on April 26, 2024. Longtime Adams collaborator Peter Sellars created the opera’s libretto, drawing from original sources, and also directs this performance. The composer leads the LA Phil in this live recording from Disney Hall. Girls of the Golden West also features the Los Angeles Master Chorale, conducted by Grant Gershon, and a cast led by Julia Bullock, Davóne Tines, Paul Appleby, Hye Jung Lee, Elliot Madore, Daniela Mack, and Ryan McKinny. ...
Composer: John Adams (1947)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Opera
Gluck: Orfeo ed Euridice, Wq. 30
Orfeo in Gluck’s opera Orfeo & Euridice has become a signature role for Jakub Józef Orliński on stages around the world. Now the countertenor embodies the mythical Greek bard in a recording that for him is the realisation of a dream. Made in his native Warsaw, it is conducted by the dynamic Stefan Plewniak and the instrumentalists ...
Composer: Christoph Willibald Gluck (1714-1787)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Vocal
Scrap the old-school idea of a rock band. Then enter the world of MOON SHOT where insight and experience replace youthful chaos as the thing that leads to great Rock’n’Roll. This is timeless music that sits right at home in the times we live in. Honest-to-rock melodies go big and themes strike deep. ...
Genre: Rock
Subgenre: Hard Rock
Premiered at New York’s Metropolitan Opera in 2022 with Joyce DiDonato, Renée Fleming and Kelli O’Hara as its stars, Kevin Puts’s The Hours was praised by The New York Times as “sincere and persuasive … fervent … and soaringly lyrical”. ...
Composer: Kevin Puts (1972)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Opera
The album "Nonetheless" will be released on 26.04.2024 and is the duo's first album to be produced with James Ford. Ford is known for his work with artists such as Arctic Monkeys, Depeche Mode, Blur, Gorillaz and Simian Mobile Disco. "Nonetheless" contains 10 brand new tracks that were recorded and mixed in London last year, ...
Genre: Electronic
Subgenre: Electro-Pop
Rachmaninoff Live – The Piano Concertos & The Paganini Rhapsody (Live)
Im Oktober 2023 präsentierten Mikhail Pletnev und das neu gegründete Rachmaninoff International Orchestra (RIO) unter der Leitung von Kent Nagano eine außergewöhnliche Aufführung aller vier Klavierkonzerte von Rachmaninoff sowie die Rhapsodie über ein Thema von Paganini. Das Jahr 2023 markierte den 150. Geburtstag des Komponisten Sergei Rachmaninoff, dessen Werke aufgrund ...
Mikhail Pletnev and the newly formed Rachmaninoff International Orchestra (RIO) performed under the baton of Kent Nagano all four Rachmaninoff piano concertos and the Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini in October 2023.
2023 marked the 150th anniversary of the birth of twentieth-century composer Sergei Rachmaninoff, whose work is beloved for its breathtaking drama, absolute passion and the extraordinary technical sophistication. In the piano repertoire there might be no more challenging task than performing Rachmaninoff’s complete piano concertos ...
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Concertos
Simon Kearney releases his next album, L'Île, due on 26 April. He also presents his first single, L'île d'Orléans, which arrives with a surprising tone for the Quebec City pop-rocker, who delivers a delicate acoustic guitar piece that showcases his voice and lyrics. L'intime chanson is an ode to the island on the outskirts of ...
Genre: Songwriter
Subgenre: Contemporary
Composed in 1915, Jean Sibelius’s Fifth Symphony was commissioned by the Finnish government to celebrate the composer’s 50th birthday, which was declared a national holiday. When he returned home a year earlier from a recent successful trip to America, he heard the news of the assassination at Sarajevo of the heir ...
Composer: Jean Sibelius (1865-1957)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Orchestral
There is something truly captivating about JUNO Award nominee and the ECMA 2023 Songwriter and Fan’s Choice Entertainer of the Year Kellie Loder. Their lyrical brilliance is honest and vulnerable in ways that make the music feel deeply personal lending to their unmatched songwriting prowess, and distinctive blend of ...
Genre: Songwriter
Subgenre: Folk Rock
Out of New Jersey comes Southpaw with a savory mix of country music simmered in rock, pop and R&B influences. Lead singer Christine Radlmann (2022 Josie Music Awards Female Country Vocalist of the Year) and multi-instrumentalists, Sean Garnhart and Colin McConnell, serve up hooky lyrics, soul-power vocal ...
Genre: Country
Subgenre: Country-Pop
Residence/Centricity Music's cinematic, alternative-pop duo Apollo LTD will release their first album in over three years, Hello Human, on April 19. The duo's third album and follow-up to 2021's Nothing is Ordinary, Everything is Beautiful features hit radio singles "Redemption Song," Soul Worth Saving," and their newest single, "Future's Calling." ...
Genre: Songwriter
Subgenre: Contemporary
Assembling an essential collection of generational anthems, LINKIN PARK will present their first-ever career-spanning greatest hits album entitled Papercuts (Singles Collection 2000-2023). The fan enthusiasm and fervor for both Hybrid Theory (20TH Anniversary Edition) in 2020 and Meteora (20TH ...
Genre: Rock
Subgenre: Adult Alternative
Observations In Time: The Johnny Brantley/Vidalia Productions (Remastered)
The early recordings from the Funk and Soul Powerhouse that would bring “Fire” and “Love Rollercoaster” to the world • All 24 tracks from 1967–1968 collected together for the first time • Packaging contains new liner notes from Tim Dillinger-Curenton Formed in 1964 as The Players, and eventually The Ohio Players, the group was “doing Chicago and Blood, Sweat & Tears-type stuff long before they were. Our crowds at home were so big by 8:30 you ...
Genre: R&B
Subgenre: Soul
