“Elena Pavlea’s style has instant impact and possesses an unmistakable Hellenic character that both sings and dances concurrently. She blends the ‘epic’ with the ‘intimate’ in a seamless thread and the programmatic titles to her works evoke a clear connection with Greek antiquity.” (George Richford, Producer) ...
Composer: Elena Pavlea
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
Johann Sebastian Bach: The Sonatas for Violin and Cembalo Obbligato Vol. 1
Johann Sebastian Bach developed a new style, cembalo obbligato, where the right hand of the keyboard plays as a melody instrument and is given the same importance as the violin, flute or other solo instrument. His sonatas for melody instrument and keyboard instrument include works for flute, violin, ...
Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
“Why ‘Geister Duo’? The question often came up during the concerts. The name comes from Robert Schumann’s last piano work, the Geistervariationen, whose theme Johannes Brahms, a close friend of the Schumanns, used to compose his own Variations op. 23 for piano four hands. ...
Composer: Robert Schumann (1810-1856)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Instrumental
Edgar Moreau salutes his family heritage and highlights landmarks in his artistic development with Transmission – music by Bloch, Korngold, Bruch and Ravel, recorded with the Lucerne Symphony Orchestra and its chief conductor Michael Sanderling. Moreau’s mother is of Polish-Jewish extraction and all five works on the album have a connection with ...
Composer: Ernest Bloch (1880-1959), Erich Wolfgang Korngold (1897-1957), Max Bruch (1838-1920), Maurice Ravel (1875-1937)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Concertos
Richard Carpenter’s Piano Songbook
Icon, musician, record producer, songwriter, and arranger, Richard Carpenter of the Carpenters, reinterprets a number of their biggest hits, and chosen favourites, on solo piano. Some of the most beloved melodies of all time, including 'Close to You', 'Yesterday Once More', 'Top of the World', 'We've Only Just Begun', ...
Genre: Instrumental
Subgenre: Piano
After her acclaimed "Dirty Minds" Lied recital in February 2020 which was extremely well received by audiences and the international press alike, being furthermore awarded the annual prize of the Deutsche Schallplattenkritik and still enjoying great popularity within a wide range of promoters, Olivia Vermeulen ...
Composer: Claudio Monteverdi (1567–1643), Franz Schubert (1797-1828), Gustav Mahler (1860-1911)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Vocal
Humperdinck: Hänsel und Gretel (Auszüge)
Wenn es so etwas wie eine klassische Weihnachtsoper gibt, dann ist es Hänsel und Gretel. Wie kaum einem anderen gelang es Humperdinck hier, volkstümliche Melodien mit der satztechnischen Raffinesse ausgereifter Kompositionskunst zu verbinden. Schon vor der Oper veröffentlichte er eine kürzere Fassung als Märchenspiel, das wie eine Essenz ...
Composer: Engelbert Humperdinck (1854-1921)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Vocal
Hans Leo Hassler is considered one of the most significant personalities among Late Renaissance composers in the German-speaking world. A striking number of his works have been published as printed editions early on, for instance in 1590, when he only was aged 24, the "Canzonette a quatro voci" in Nuremberg and one year ...
Composer: Hans Leo Hassler (1564-1612)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Vocal
No time of day has presumably been set to music more often than the nighttime. On this album violinist Elena Denisova and pianist Alexei Kornienko are featuring nocturnal works of the 20th and 21st century. Canto crepuscolare by Gian Francesco Malipiero, dating from 1908, is still a playful impressionist composition, ...
Composer: Gian Francesco Malipiero (1882-1974), Helmut Rogl (1960), Alfred Huber (1962), Michael Dalmau Colina (1948), Dieter Kaufmann (1941), John Cage (1912-1992), Oscar Jockel (1965)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Instrumental
Musical soulmates organist Daniel Stickan and saxophonist Uwe Steinmetz follow their German Grammy-nominated album 'Where Roots Grow' with 'Deeper Standards', in which they continue their 14-year artistic journey by exploring the language and songs of their grandparents, who spoke and sang in Plattdeutsch ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Modern Jazz
Witold Lutosławski - Opera omnia vol. 8
Lutosławski’s twenty carols are not a ‘Top Twenty’ collection; conspicuous by their absence are some of the most popular carols like Wśród nocnej ciszy (In the midst of night’s quiet), Mędrcy świata (Wise men of the world) or Pójdźmy wszyscy do stajenki (Let’s all go to the stable) while little known works are included. (…)
Composer: Witold Lutosławski (1913-1994)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Choral
Following their Grammy and Dove nominated 2018 release, Casting Crowns deliver a worshipful, deep, and thoughtful collection of original songs. Healer finds the group teaming up with some of today's top songwriters on "Scars In Heaven," "Anything But Easy," "The Power Of The Cross," "Desert Road," "Crazy People," ...
Genre: Pop
Subgenre: Pop Rock
This two-album set contains four different kinds of iterations of the Viennese spirit: Duets, Lieder, dialect literature, and Schrammelmusik, all of which stem from the vineyard that is Vienna and all of which, for all their variety and different flavor, stand for what makes Vienna, musically speaking. ...
Composer: Johann Schrammel (1850-1893)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Vocal
Beach: Complete Works for Piano Duo
Amy Beach’s Complete Oeuvre for Piano Duo: The recent release of the world premiere of Sergei Rachmaninoff: Complete Works for Piano Duo on cpo with over 150 minutes of music on two pianos and for four hands on one piano. Now the famous and successful Genova & Dimitrov Piano Duo turns to the American composer ...
Composer: Amy Beach (1867-1944)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Instrumental
The album is a collection of compositions that are adventurous and emotional. Sometimes moody and lingering, sometimes more unexpected and sudden changes are waiting for the listener. The music is often high-energy and improvisations end in climaxes to create emotional moments. ... The album is a collection of compositions that are adventurous and emotional. Sometimes moody and lingering, sometimes more unexpected and sudden changes are waiting for the listener. The music is often high-energy and improvisations end in climaxes to create emotional moments. ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Contemporary Jazz
Two of Norway’s most celebrated musicians come together to perform the music of the country’s most celebrated composer. Lise and pianist Leif Ove will be touring the repertoire around Norway, Germany, Spain, Austria and the UK. Recorded in the Arctic Circle in Bodø ...
Composer: Edvard Hagerup Grieg (1843–1907)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Vocal
Vlastimir Trajković (1947), for many years professor of composition, orchestration and Head of the Department (the Belgrade Faculty of Music) — now in retirement. Member of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts. His works for solo instruments, chamber and orchestral music are performed in Serbia and abroad both by Serbian and foreign musicians and ensembles. ...
Composer: Vlastimir Trajkovic (1947–2017)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
In the 1960s, at one of the pinnacles of jazz music’s international popularity, many American stars of the genre landed in Copenhagen to play at the legendary Jazz House Montmartre – with several of the most prominent instrumentalists settling in the Danish capital and subsequently enriching the local music scene ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Hard Bop
Glass: String Quartet No. 3 "Mishima" (Arr. P. Kuusisto for Chamber Orchestra)
Violinist Pekka Kuusisto presents a new arrangement for string orchestra of Philip Glass’s String Quartet No. 3, which Glass derived from his epic film score Mishima. Pekka Kuusisto performs this new arrangement together with the Norwegian Chamber Orchestra, of which he is Artistic Director as of 2021. ...
Composer: Philip Glass (1937)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
Mirabilia Musica. Echoes From Late Medieval Cracow
The city of Cracow, until 1596 the political, commercial and cultural capital of Poland, rose to prominence in Central Europe in the course of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries under the rule of the Jagiellon dynasty. Although repertoire both performed and composed in Cracow exists from before to that period, it is the manuscripts from the ...
Composer: Mikołaj Radomski (1400-1450), Johannes Ciconia (1370-1412), Jacobus de Clibano, Michał Gondko, Nicolaus, Petrus Wilhelmi de Grudencz (1392-1452), Zacara da Teramo (1350-1413)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
