Shorter Moments - Exploring the World of Wayne
Acting upon the thoughtful advice to give out flowers to the living while they are still here to enjoy them, Posi-Tone would like to show our profound appreciation and affection for Wayne Shorter. With the release of “Shorter Moments,” we celebrate the music of this wonderful composer and present a special ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Compilations
Blood Moon Rising (Bonus Track Edition)
With a career spanning over three decades and nine major-label releases, 2021 marks the thirtieth anniversary of Canada’s remarkable rock 3-piece The Tea Party and the full-length release titled “Blood Moon Rising” is the long overdue European followup to 2014’s acclaimed “The Ocean At The End” album. ...
Genre: Rock
Subgenre: Adult Alternative
There is no need to emphasise what the music clearly projects: if Schubert wanted to write a Spring Journey rather than his famous Winterreise, this music would fit perfectly. From the very first notes the music evokes an enchanted awakening in joyous natural surroundings, shining in the traveller’s eye. ...
Composer: Franz Schubert (1797-1828)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Instrumental
Saint-Saëns: Complete Symphonies
In a release that marks the centenary of Camille Saint-Saëns’ death in December 1921, the Orchestre National de France, conducted by its music director Cristian Măcelaru, performs the composer’s five symphonies: Nos 1, 2 and 3 and two unnumbered works, the early Symphony in A major and the Symphony in F major, ...
Composer: Camille Saint-Saëns (1835-1921)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Orchestral
Christmas in 2020 was very still, with corona lockdown and a ban on singing. After that sobering experience, we had the idea to arrange traditional Christmas carols for two cellos. We are always surprised to discover that the earliest ones move our emotions because of their purity, their sheer ...
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
Tangerine Dream have been a fundamental influence on electronic music since Edgar Froese founded the band in West Berlin in 1967. Providing the groundwork for multiple electronic music genres including ambient and electronica, inspiring musicians and other art forms, with seven Grammy nominations to their credit. ...
Genre: Electronic
Subgenre:
Grammy Award Winner Charlton Singleton returns to Forte Jazz Lounge for a night of singin’ and swingin’ with his 10-piece Beehive Jazz Orchestra. Outfitted with some of the most in-demand musicians in the Southeast, they will present a set of Traditional Jazz Standards, Modern Jazz Gems, ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Big Band
Thalberg: L'Art du chant applique au piano, Op. 70, Vol. 1
The first fortepiano recording of a collection belatedly gaining recognition beyond pianophile circles as a major keyboard cycle of late Romanticism. Thalberg has a reputation as the only pianist who made Liszt feel nervous, but he also won praise from Mendelssohn for the fidelity of his approach to the letter and the spirit of a score. ...
Composer: Sigismond Thalberg (1812-1871)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Instrumental
Hölszky: grenzWELTEN / zeitENDEN
WeltenEnden für einen oder vier Blechbläser mit sich selbst. Gleichzeitig ist es eine Expansion des Hörraumes. Fünf Tonbandschichten erscheinen in vier Lautsprecherkanälen auf je eigenen Zeitachsen und räumlichen Bewegungsmuster in multiplen Verschachtelungen. ...
Composer: Adriana Hölszky (1953)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Instrumental
Ten Holt: Canto Ostinato, 2 Piano Version
A new recording of the Dutch minimalist classic made by two of its most experienced champions. Canto Ostinato is the work that defines the legacy of the composer Simeon ten Holt, who died in 2012 at the age of 89. There are 106 sections of repeating five-beat patterns whose patterned, repetitive but gradually evolving repetition ...
Composer: Simeon ten Holt (1923-2012)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Instrumental
A meticulous, focused search for sound informs the selection of pieces on this recital, a voyage through 19th-century European music, in the vehicle of the nocturne, along the route of harp transcriptions. In these works, the composers capture night as a sliver of time, evoking the intimate and introspective side ...
Composer: Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827), Carl Czerny (1791-1857), John Field (1782-1837), Frederic Chopin (1810-1849), Johannes Brahms (1833-1897), Claude Debussy (1862-1918)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Instrumental
Schubert & Smetana Piano Trios
Die Kammermusiker*innen Chul-Kyu Jung, Si-Hyun Lee und Min-Ji Kang schlossen sich 2019 mit dem gemeinsamen Ziel zusammen, einen positiven Einfluss auf die Gesellschaft auszuüben, und gründeten das Amour Piano Trio. Sie harmonieren gemeinsam unter dem Begriff „Liebe:Amour“ und suchen einen Weg, mithilfe Ihrer Konzerte mit dem Publikum kommunizieren zu können. ...
Composer: Franz Schubert (1797-1828), Bedřich Smetana (1824-1884)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
Henrik Hellstenius: Past & Presence
Henrik Hellstenius's intense yet unassuming exploration of the interacting worlds of sound and time has spanned more than three decades. That hunger for discovery is perhaps the single most unifying feature across his life and work. It was already forming rapidly in his youth, from his teenage years spent ...
Composer: Henrik Hellstenius (b. 1963)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Vocal
With this recital dedicated to German songs by Joseph Haydn, Alice Foccroulle and Pierre Gallon leave their familiar territory - that of Baroque music - and present a personal, thoroughly informed interpretation of these songs, free of the many layers of varnish that have built up over the centuries ...
Composer: Joseph Haydn (1732-1809)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Vocal
The debut album "Die Fremde" from Hannah Koob. Koob is a young Dutch-German top saxophonist who dedicates herself with immense energy to play unexplored repertoire for saxophone. Die Fremde is a musical expedition along music that has a gloomy but evermore cheerful timbre. ...
Composer: Henk Badings (1907-1987), Erwin Dressel (1909-1972), Leonard Küssner (b. 1993), Hans Kox (1930-2019)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Instrumental
Joey Landreth is on a pursuit of creative growth. By pushing the boundaries of guitar and tone, Joey Landreth has earned rave reviews from critics and fans for his brand of electric and deeply meaningful songs, amplified by Landreth’s dynamic guitar mastery and spellbinding performances. ...
Genre: Rock
Subgenre: Modern Rock
Nashville-based artist and producer, Josh Preston announces the release of his upcoming full-length album. The 13-song work, written in a time of pandemic-forced seclusion and uncertainty, dances in the convergence of existentialism and playful surrender, highlighting the most lackluster corners of humanity that unite us all. ...
Genre: Country
Subgenre: Alternative Country
"Grace" is Secret of Elements' latest ethereal composition - illuminated by a supernatural piano melody and immersive string crescendo over a giant screen of abstract electronic texture. The EP features two new releases by Secret of Elements himself and three remixes ranging from pristine bass-techno to dreamy house to catchy acid piano loops. ...
Genre: Electronic
Subgenre: Ambient
Tales of Homecoming and Longing
Die Elektronik tritt zugunsten eines diskreten Sounddesigns in den Hintergrund, der Einfluss von World, Klassik und Pop nimmt in einer akustischen Spielweise mehr Raum ein. Die Instrumentierung Cello, Perkussion und Gitarre in Ergänzung zu den verschiedenen Woodwinds und Windsynths erschafft eine reichhaltige, differenzierte und ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Contemporary Jazz
The first ever album dedicated to the music of Ernest Shand, including several first recordings. According to the guitarist Alberto La Rocca, Ernest Shand can be considered ‘one of the greatest composers for the guitar of all time’. Born into a musical family in Hull in 1868, Shand firstly learnt the rudiments of the instrument ...
Composer: Ernest Shand (1868-1924)
Genre: Guitar
Subgenre: Classical Guitar
