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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

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Nuovo Futuro

Music is an innate sense that taps into our very core. It exists on a prism, and the range is infinite, for anyone to think they’ve heard everything would be imprudent. Inspiration strikes in a myriad of waves, acting as a cascading waterfall in which each idea is a droplet converging into one stream. Music doesn’t know the rigid constraints of exclusivity. ...

Genre: Jazz

Subgenre: Contemporary Jazz

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Farjot: Lovescapes

Lovescapes: Johan Farjot’s music prolongs the inner resonances of David Tepfer’s beautiful poems, dealing with the frissons and sorrows of love. On the road to the eighty-eight temples of the Japanese island of Shikoku, the piano of Johan Farjot or David Kadouch, with the complicity of Geneviève Laurenceau on violin, ...

Composer: Johan Farjot (1975)

Genre: Classical

Subgenre: Vocal

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Beethoven, Mozart, Seabourne & Holloway: Horn Quintets

Mozart’s famous horn quintet, one of the fruits of his collaboration with Ignaz Leutgeb, is complemented by three premiere recordings. Beethoven’s Horn Sonata was arranged for string quintet during his lifetime by Carl Khym and this forms the basis of a delightful rescoring by Sebastian Comberti which reinstates the horn. ...

Composer: Ludwig van Beethoven (1770–1827), Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756 –1791), Peter Seabourne (b.1960), Robin Holloway (b.1943)

Genre: Classical

Subgenre: Chamber Music

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Handel: Enchantresses

Handel is one of Sandrine Piau’s cult composers, and everyone has vivid memories of her magnificent Alcina on DVD (ALPHA715): ‘Where once I portrayed light-hearted, pirouetting heroines, this new album offers a portrait of powerful, often wounded women.’. . . ‘Queens, sorceresses, sirens . . . we were attracted by the musical ...

Composer: George Frideric Handel (1685-1759)

Genre: Classical

Subgenre: Vocal

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Sun Cutter

The eponymous Sun Cutter debut album, released via Bronzerat Records (Gemma Ray, Jon Spencer Blues Explosion, The Still). Sun Cutter, real name Kevin Pearce, hails from Colchester. Three years ago, Kevin suffered a heart attack (on a golf course). As well as having to redress some lifestyle habits, his rehabilitation involved writing and recording the ...

Genre: Songwriter

Subgenre: Folk Rock

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Qvid est Veritas

This album contains a collection of works from the Seicento, most of them well known and recorded several times, although it also includes a composition (Cazzati’s La Verità sprezzata) that is little or not very often heard. It is a repertoire to which we have usually devoted ourselves. ...

Composer: Benedetto Ferrari (1603-1681), Maurizio Cazzati (1620-1677), Claudio Monteverdi (1567-1643), Tarquinio Merula (1590-1665), Giovanni Felice Sances (1600-1679)

Genre: Classical

Subgenre: Chamber Music

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Liszt: Songs of Sorrow and Consolation

The purpose of this compilation cannot be much more than giving an insight into the subversive world that Liszt’s last works represent. As we listen to these works, we must look inwards continuously; their transcendental nature is only revealed if we let ourselves be surrounded by this almost otherworldly silence. ...

Composer: Franz Liszt (1811–1886)

Genre: Classical

Subgenre: Instrumental

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Bachiana: A Solo Cello Fantasy

Ana Topalovic is a visual synaesthete. For her, music has colors and shapes. This phenomenon opens up a new dimension of sound perfection for Ana, and with this ability she is able to search for concealed connections. For this album, Ana has selected five contemporary female composers who ...

Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach (1685–1750), Johanna Doderer (1969), Gabriele Proy, Doina Rotaru (1951), Kaija Saariaho (1952)

Genre: Classical

Subgenre: Chamber Music

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Seasons & Serenades: Works for String Orchestra

This album presents works for string orchestra by Lithuanian composer Algirdas Martinaitis (b. 1950) from his early breakthrough work Birds of Eden (1981) to a recent Valse triste (2020), giving a very broad vision of this composer. This programme is performed by Lithuanian musicians of the St. Christopher ...

Composer: Algirdas Martinaitis (1950)

Genre: Classical

Subgenre: Orchestral

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Symphony in E Major (D 729), Overture "Fierabras"

Recently, the E major Symphony has often been counted as Schubert’s 7th symphony. Unlike his other symphonic fragments, the Symphony in E major exists in a complete draft from the first to the last bar in all four movements. More recently, the symphony became accessible to a wider public again in the completed version ...

Composer: Franz Schubert (1797-1828)

Genre: Classical

Subgenre: Orchestral

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Tchaikovsky & Glazunov: Violin Concertos

This recording features the works of Russian composers who were outstanding personalities in the musical life of their country during their lifetime: The Violin Concerto in D major, op. 35, by Tchaikovsky and the Violin Concerto in A minor, op. 82, by Glazunov. ...

Composer: Alexander Konstantinovich Glazunov (1865–1936), Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840–1893)

Genre: Classical

Subgenre: Concertos

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Manuel Cardoso: Complete Masses, Vol. 1

Manuel Cardoso (1566–1650) was one of the most important composers of the golden age of Portuguese polyphony around the turn of the seventeenth century. But history has not been kind to him: the 1755 Lisbon earthquake that ruined the Convento do Carmo, ...

Composer: Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina (1525-1594), Manuel Cardoso (1566-1650)

Genre: Classical

Subgenre: Choral

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Moritz Moszkowski: Orchestral Works, Vol. 3

Der polnische Komponist Moritz Moszkowski (1854–1925) ist vor allem durch eine Handvoll virtuoser Klavierstücke in Erinnerung geblieben, aber er schuf auch ein umfangreiches Orchesterwerk, das größtenteils über ein Jahrhundert lang nicht aufgeführt wurde. Dieser dritte Band präsentiert sein allererstes Orchesterwerk, ...

Composer: Moritz Moszkowski (1854-1925)

Genre: Classical

Subgenre: Orchestral

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Our Songs

Always curious and always looking for new challenges, Alex Riel has been an important innovator of modern drumming in Europe. He was among the very first to record a “free” solo on his debut album in 1965 and he was a founding member of the beat-group Savage Rose, while also playing with Bill Evans, Ben Webster, ...

Genre: Jazz

Subgenre: Contemporary Jazz

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Derek B. Scott: 6 Song-Cycles for Baritone & Chamber Ensemble

Derek Scott, born in Birmingham in 1950, has an international reputation as a leading historian of the British music hall and other forms of light entertainment. But he is an outstanding composer in his own right, his music treading a fine line between a very English whimsy and ...

Composer: Derek B. Scott (b.1950)

Genre: Classical

Subgenre: Chamber Music

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Romanian Flute Music

Composer: Béla Bartók (1881-1945), George Enescu (1881-1955), Petre Elinescu (1869-1947), Doina Rotaru (b.1951), Vasile Jianu (1904-1968)

Genre: Classical

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Spiritus Mundi (Bonus Tracks Edition)

After the conclusion of the successful trilogy of albums following the tales of “The Vampirate” (2015’s Courting the Widow, 2017’s The Bride Said No, and 2019’s The Regal Bastard), vocalist Nad Sylvan was considering a different approach for his next project. ...

Genre: Rock

Subgenre: Modern Rock

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The Glamour Tapes

Ritmo & Blu Records is pleased to present “The Glamor Tapes,” a new work by Aparticle. Produced by Stefano Castagna, “The Glamor Tapes” is an entirely analog reinterpretation of “The Glamor Action,” the quartet’s latest record, recorded and mixed at Studio Ritmo & Blu. Aparticle is made up by Michele Bonifati, Giulio Stermieri, Cristiano Arcelli and Ermanno Baron, an eclectic quartet ...

Genre: Jazz

Subgenre: Modern Jazz

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Judas (Deluxe)

"German genrefluid visionaries LORD OF THE LOST return with their seventh studio album, JUDAS (out July 2nd, 2021 via Napalm Records). With this sophisticated offering, conceptualized as a double record from the very beginning, the five-piece are cementing their position as exceptional artists that can’t be pigeonholed once more and have undeniably ...

Genre: Rock

Subgenre: Metal

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