Eugène Ysaÿe, a violin virtuoso admired by all his contemporaries, was an inheritor of what has justly been considered as the Belgian school of violin, whose ascendancy can be traced back to the beginning of the 19th century. His work as a composer, however, is much less well known today and ...
Composer: Eugene Ysaÿe (1858-1931), Guillaume Lekeu (1870-1894), César Auguste Franck (1822-1890), Claude Achille Debussy (1862-1918), Ernest Chausson (1855-1899)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Orchestral
When I founded Chineke! in 2015, one of the most important aims, as well as creating a top-class orchestra comprising a majority of Black and Minority Ethnic (BME) musicians, was to champion the music of BME composers, both living and from the past. Over these last three years we have given ...
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
The Rossini Project, Vol. 2: From Naples to Europe
Gratitude (1821), a pastoral cantata of the Neapolitan period of Rossini, is here available in its world premiere recording. One year after the publication of the first volume dedicated to the Rossini’s youth period (already nominated for the next ICMA), ...
Composer: Gioacchino Antonio Rossini (1792-1868)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Vocal
One of Rossini’s rarest scores, the dramma serio Aureliano in Palmira was written during his miraculous 21st year (1813), when he produced four operas in all: the other three – the comedies Il signor Bruschino and L’italiana in Algeri, plus the tragedy Tancredi – indicate not only his amazing ...
Composer: Gioacchino Antonio Rossini (1792-1868)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Opera
Habits of the Soul: If one assumes rhetoric (i.e., persuasion) as the foundation of the Baroque musical edifice, irrespective of country—and in particular of the secular music this recording documents—one might then place atop it the columns and arches of dance and song-based instrumental fantasy, onto which ...
Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750), Henry Purcell (1659-1695), Georg Philipp Telemann (1681-1767), Antonio Vivaldi (1678-1741)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
Hundsnes: Clavinatas Nos. 1-7, Piano Sonata No. 1 & Downtoned Beats
Svein Hundsnes is one of Norway’s most important living composers. He has written a wide-ranging body of music encompassing several vivid styles, moving seamlessly from tonal and non-tonal music to include jazz, rock and even funk. Hundsnes’ sequence of Clavinatas – one-movement free-standing ...
Composer: Svein Hundsnes (1951)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Instrumental
The Boston Early Music Festival has recorded George Frideric Handel’s very first opera, Almira, Queen of Castile, with a superlatively sumptuous ensemble. For its previous recordings of Baroque operas this successful ensemble has won prizes such as the Grammy, the German Record Critics Annual ...
Composer: George Frideric Handel (1685-1759)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Vocal
Caviar and Chitlins (Remastered)
Formed in Queens, NY in the early 1960s, The Exciters were a dynamic R&B; quartet consisting of lead singer Brenda Reid and her producer/writer husband Herb Rooney, plus vocalists Carolyn Johnson and Lillian Walker. The group rose to prominence in 1962, when their hit single ‘Tell Him’ rose to #4 on the U.S. pop chart. ...
Genre: R&B
Subgenre: Soul
Pasquini: Sonate per Gravecembalo
This exciting release presents recently discovered works from the baroque composer Bernardo Pasquini. Brought to you by early music specialist Roberto Lorregian (Albinoni: 12 Cantatas for Soprano and Contralto Op.4, BC95600), the works in this set come from the Landsberg 215 manuscript, written ...
Composer: Bernardo Pasquini (1637-1710)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
For many professional musicians, often a moment in time or an influential person that sets the path for one to take a leap into the long desire and urge to take their craft as serious as need to be to become that musician they so desire. For Croatian pianist Matija Dedic, that moment, that person was his father ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Contemporary Jazz
How do we become who we are? Those who go before us, what do they pass on to us? Do we inherit something? What does a role model, an early source of inspiration, mean? In the title track on her new album Queen on the Hillside, dedicated to her grandmothers and to those ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Vocal
Pop-Queen meldet sich zurück mit dem „Herz Kraft Werke - Live" Album. Sarah Connor veröffentlichte am 31. Mai 2019 ihr neues Album „Herz Kraft Werke“! Vier Jahre nach dem fünffach Platin ausgezeichneten Erfolgswerk „Muttersprache“ meldete sich die Pop-Queen mit „Vincent“, ...
Genre: Pop
Subgenre: Pop Rock
Joplin, Hayden & Others: Piano Works
It is difficult not to be won over by the rhythm and unmistakable thematic creativity of Scott Joplin's compositions. Born in 1867 or ’68 (the exact date is not known), and gifted with a natural talent, Joplin began to play as a self-taught pianist in the wealthy homes at which his ...
Composer: Scott Joplin, Joseph Haydn
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Instrumental
Swiss hard rockers get under the covers: "BIG ROCKS", the new album of Switzerland's legendary hard rock band KROKUS. On "BIG ROCKS" KROKUS pay tribute to their roots by covering classic tracks of The Rolling Stones, Queen, Led Zeppelin, Steppenwolf, The Who, Bob Dylan and many more. ...
Genre: Rock
Subgenre: Hard Rock
“I’m grateful for the abundance of good that there is in the world and I feel privileged to experience it every day.” These words, from the liner notes of Ernesto Cervini’s new Turboprop album, Abundance, describe the feeling and purpose behind the Canadian drummer’s new release. ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Contemporary Jazz
Innovative and electrifying, Toronto jazz drummer Ernesto Cervini has energy to burn, whether radiating it from behind his kit or working on any number of musical and educational projects. Turboprop features Cervini’s regular quartet with Joel Frahm on Tenor Saxophone, Adrean Farrugia on Piano, Dan Loomis on ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Contemporary Jazz
Howells: Hymnus Paradisi (Remastered)
With The Bach Choir, Sir David Willcocks gave the first performances in Italy of Benjamin Britten's War Requiem at Perugia, Milan, La Scala and Venice in 1963 and later introduced the work in Japan, Hong Kong, Portugal and the Netherlands. From 1974 to 1984 he was Director of the Royal College of Music in ...
Composer: Herbert Howells (1892-1983)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Vocal
World Premiere recordings of British music for String Orchestra performed at the Royal Palaces. We are very pleased to announce a new recording from MPR of music for string orchestra entitled 'Palace Premieres', with the Countess of Wessex's String Orchestra. ...
Composer: Peter Thorne, Thomas Dunhill, Alicia Scott, Roger Quilter, Allan Macbeth, Alec Rowley (1892–1958), Peter Wilson, Frederic Curzon, Bertram Walton O'Donnell, William Henry Speer, Ernest Markham Lee, Giles Farnaby
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Orchestral
Rossi: La lyra d'Orfeo & Arpa Davidica
The latest album from Christina Pluhar and her instrumental ensemble L’Arpeggiata sheds new light on the chamber cantatas of 17th century Italian composer, Luigi Rossi. He wrote more than 300 of these works and Christina Pluhar’s new double album includes an impressive number of 21 world premiere ...
Composer: Giovanni Felice Sances (1600-1679), Luigi Rossi (1597-1653), Marco Marazzoli (1605-1662)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Vocal
Believers Never Die (Volume Two)
Fall Out Boy have announced their second greatest hits collection titled, Greatest Hits: Believers Never Die – Volume Two, set for release on 15 November via Island Records. Included on the new collection is a new single, ‘Dear Future Self (Hands Up)’ featuring Wyclef ...
Genre: Rock
Subgenre: Adult Alternative
