Royal Blood’s ‘Trouble’s Coming’ was an incendiary statement of intent that signalled that the duo are primed to be bigger than ever. That anticipation was magnified when they unveiled the follow-up single ‘Typhoons’. Again premiered as Annie Mac’s Hottest Record in the World and immediately playlisted at Radio 1, ...
Genre: Rock
Subgenre: Modern Rock
My Last Song: A Tribute to Macedonia's Gypsy Queen
My Last Song is a remarkable document: it contains the final recordings of Esma Redžepova, the Macedonian Roma singer who won worldwide fame as “Queen of the Gypsies”. Here she is backed by young Macedonian band The Nune Brothers - the album was recorded at their studio in Skopje, ...
Genre: World Music
Subgenre: Worldbeat
Lovesome Thing (sings Ellington & Strayhorn feat. Emmet Cohen)
This is the extraordinary recording debut of jazz phenomenon Anaïs Reno, who made it in 2020 at the age of 16. Reno has already won accolades for her dedication to the Great American Songbook. She recently received the Julie Wilson Award, and in 2019 won the Mabel Mercer ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Vocal
Taylor Swift, the queen of surprises, is bringing out what’s pretty much a brand new album with the re-release of ‘Fearless’, adding six new songs to the remasters including a never-before-heard single called 'You All Over Me'. ...
Genre: Country
Subgenre: Country Pop
G.F Händel: Giulio Cesare in Egitto (Remastered)
Giulio Cesare, the cult-production from Munich, from the Sir Peter Jonas era. A love such as that between Cesar and Cleopatra was never so much on a knife’s edge. Literally. When Cleopatra was just about to reveal all at the end of the second act, the murderers were already on ...
Composer: Georg Friedrich Händel (1685–1759)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Opera
To the Extreme is the major label debut studio album of American rapper Vanilla Ice. The album contains Vanilla Ice's most successful singles, "Ice Ice Baby" and a cover of "Play That Funky Music". "An enormous hit in its time, with sales of over seven million copies, To the Extreme proved that a white ...
Genre: Hip-Hop
Subgenre: Rap
With a nod to the legacy of the late 1990s and 2000s choral Gospel music masters, HezHouse Entertainment today released the new EP One Sound Live from Vincent Bohanan & SOV, featuring the single “Any Day Now.” The release represents the Stellar-nominated choir’s first multi-track project for Bishop ...
Genre: R&B
Subgenre: Soul
Although finding mainstream success with the release of Sweet Oblivion, and the single Nearly Lost You from the soundtrack to Cameron Crowes’s film Singles, the Screaming Trees’ history goes back to 1985, predating many of their Grunge-era, Seattle peers. Formed in Ellensburg, Washington ...
Genre: Alternative
Subgenre: Grunge
Bach: 'Meins Lebens Licht' - Cantatas BWV 45-198 & Motet BWV 118
Nach der von der Kritik gefeierten Einspielung von Bachs Johannes-Passion im Jahr 2020 (Gramophone Editor's Choice, BBC Music Magazine Choice, Radio Classical Trophy) spüren Philippe Herreweghe und sein Collegium Vocale Gent weiterhin dem musikalischen Herzschlag des ...
Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach (1685–1750)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Vocal
Santiago de Murcia: Entre dos almas
The heterogeneous output of Santiago de Murcia, one of the key figures in the Baroque guitar repertory, includes a number of transcriptions from the op.5 of Arcangelo Corelli, the famous collection of ‘sonatas with violin and string bass or harpsichord’ published in Rome in 1700. ...
Composer: Arcangelo Corelli (1653-1713), Santiago de Murcia (1682-1735)
Genre: Guitar
Subgenre: Classical Guitar
Ysaÿe: Six Sonatas for Solo Violin
Kerson Leong recently participated in the award-winning Tribute to Ysaÿe (FUG758). Here is his first solo recital for Alpha. The young Canadian violinist s career began at the age of thirteen when he won the New Talent Award at the 2010 Menuhin Competition in Oslo. In 2018 he was named artist-in- ...
Composer: Eugène Ysaÿe
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Instrumental
Scottish soul-rock singer Maggie Bell first gained prominence singing with Stone the Crows, which released its first album in 1970 and broke up in June 1973. Bell went solo with Queen of the Night (featuring the U.S. number 97 "After Midnight") in 1974, followed by Suicide Sal, ... v Scottish soul-rock singer Maggie Bell first gained prominence singing with Stone the Crows, which released its first album in 1970 and broke up in June 1973. Bell went solo with Queen of the Night (featuring the U.S. number 97 "After Midnight") in 1974, followed by Suicide Sal, ...
Genre: Rock
Subgenre: Blues Rock
‘This programme reflects a personal journey: I am Belgian, I studied at the Royal Academy of Music in London, and now I live in France. I wanted to present composers from these three countries, taking as my cornerstone the English song repertory and the English language. ...
Composer: Frank Bridge (1879-1941), Irene Poldowski (1879-1932), Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872-1958), Roger Quilter (1877-1953), Ivor Gurney (1890-1937), Benjamin Britten (1913-1976), Darius Milhaud (1892-1974), Sir William Walton (1902-1983), Germaine Tailleferre (1892-1983), Freddy Mercury (1946-1991)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Vocal
Powerhouse vocalist, Lisa St. Lou performs material from her debut soul album, Ain’t No Good Man. Accompanied by her Grammy-nominated writing partner, Tor Hyams, the evening will be a journey of relationships and all the stuff that goes with it; from heartbreak to empowerment and everything in between. The songs will inspire women and the the ...
Genre: R&B
Subgenre: Soul
Long-celebrated for her sophisticated Latin jazz compositions and impressive vocal acrobatics, “Canada’s emerging Latin music queen” reveals new artistic dimensions with her fourth album, Espejo.
Genre: Latin
Subgenre: Latin Jazz
Brecker Plays Rovatti - Sacred Bond
There’s a saying that ‘the family that plays together, stays together.’ That old adage is put into effect on Brecker Plays Rovatti: Sacred Bond, which not only features the husband and wife team of Grammy Award-winning trumpeter and fusion pioneer Randy Brecker and saxophonist-composer Ada Rovatti ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Contemporary Jazz
Works by Tchaikovsky, Stravinsky, Prokofiev
The promise of fortune and the danger of doom are rarely as close as in gambling. In the 19th and early 20th centuries, the fascination with challenging fate with cards, dice, or other gambling devices influenced by chance was particularly widespread. ...
Composer: Igor Strawinsky (1882-1971), Peter Iljitsch Tschaikowsky (1840-1893)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Orchestral
Chopin: 4 Ballades & 4 Impromptus
The pianist Anna Vinnitskaya has built up an impressive discography since her victory at the Queen Elisabeth Competition in 2007: Bach, Brahms, Ravel, and of course the Russian composers with whom she has been familiar since her childhood in Novorossiysk, then her studies with Evgeni Koroliov. ...
Composer: Frédéric Chopin (1810-1849)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Instrumental
Astra is the third studio album by British rock band Asia, released on 30 November 1985 by Geffen Records. It was their last full-length studio album with co-founding vocalist and bassist John Wetton until Phoenix (2008), released after the original line-up reunited ...
Genre: Rock
Subgenre: Modern Rock
