„The compositions on this album hark back to certain places I relate to, having passed through them or spent periods of my life there. Interestingly enough, what I mainly recall are not so much the mighty buildings of Downtown New York as the shabby corners of my Queens neighborhood; ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Crossover Jazz
Mendelssohn: Violin Concerto in E Minor, Op. 64
On this album from RCA Red Seal, we have a Swiss violinist, American conductor and English orchestra; the young Swiss violinist Sebastian Bohren is the soloist in Britten's Violin Concerto with the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra and Andrew Litton, in a programme which includes Mendelssohn's Violin Concerto in E minor Op.64. ...
Composer: Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy (1809-1847)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Concertos
On the heels of their acclaimed album 'Tikounen' – a recording The Guardian called ‘a leap forward in the modern Tuareg sound…truly radical’ – Kel Assouf return with an even more transformative collection: 'Black Tenere'. ...
Genre: World Music
Subgenre: Worldbeat
Owen Rees leads early-music consort Contrapunctus alongside The Choir of The Queen's College, Oxford in performances of John Taverner's masterwork, the Missa Gloria tibi trinitas. A virtuosic work, it has pride of place in the Forrest-Heyther partbooks (in the Bodleian ...
Composer: John Tavener (1944-2013)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Choral
19-year-old Dutch recorder superstar Lucie Horsch is taking us on a trip around Baroque Europe for her new album ‘Baroque Journey’, released on Decca Classics on 22nd February. Recorded with the Academy of Ancient Music, Lucie performs some of the most virtuosic music from her ...
Composer: Henry Purcell (1659-1695), Jacob van Eyck (1590-1657), Georg Friedrich Händel (1685-1759), Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750), Dario Castello (1600-1658), Giuseppe Sammartini (1695-1750), Marin Marais (1656-1728), Francois Couperin (1668-1733)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
Neeme Järvi and the Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra have lifted the lid on one of Norway’s best-kept musical secrets with their series devoted to the orchestral works of Johan Halvorsen. Now, in this four-album set, these fresh and revealing recordings have been brought together for the first time. ...
Composer: Johan Halvorsen (1864-1935)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
Never Let Me Down (2018 Remaster)
Newly remastered of the 1987 album. The seeds of this new reimagining of the albums were first sown in 2008 when David asked Mario McNulty to remix the track ‘Time Will Crawl’ and record new drums by longtime Bowie drummer, Sterling Campbell along with strings. ...
Genre: Rock
Subgenre: Modern Rock
An album dedicated to Handel featuring popular arias such as "Ombra mai fu", "Piangerò la sorte mia" and "Lascia ch'io pianga". Simone Kermes recorded the album for her idol Handel, whom she wrote a personal letter, outlining how Handel's and her life are intertwined and how his music accompanies ...
Composer: Georg Friedrich Händel (1685–1759)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Vocal
Dmitri Shostakovich’s long-lost Impromptu for Viola and Piano, Op. 33, recently unearthed in the Moscow State Archives, receives its world-premiere recording on Matthew Lipman’s Ascent, the acclaimed young American violist’s solo debut album, featuring, in the artist’s words, “music enraptured by flights of fantasy.” ...
Composer: York Bowen, Clarice Assad (1978), Robert Schumann (1840-1856), Garth Knox, Dmitri Shostakovich (1906–1975), Franz Waxman (1906-1967)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Concertos
TOKUNBO, the voice of internationally critically acclaimed acoustic soul jazz group Tok Tok Tok steps onto new grounds with her solo debut as 'Queen of Folk Noir' enrapturing the listener from the very start. Celebrating the marriage between her unique voice and dark guitar sounds in sparse arrangements TOKUNBO has ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Vocal
In her PENTATONE debut album, young German star soprano Anna Lucia Richter explores the heart-wrenching, timeless and universal feeling of Heimweh (homesickness) through a collection of extraordinary Schubert songs. Richter approaches the notion of Heimweh from several perspectives: ...
Composer: Franz Schubert (1797-1828)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Vocal
Trio Les Esprits: Adam Laloum & Victor Julien-Laferrière are some of the most exciting musicians from Franceright now. The three artists have won prestigious Awards: Laloum: In 2009: 1st Prize at the Clara Haskil Piano Competition, In 2013 (for his recording of works by Schumann): ‘Diapason d’Or del’Année’, the Grand Prix de ...
Composer: Franz Peter Schubert (1797-1828)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Concertos
Mezzo-soprano Eva Zaïcik, who has signed up with Alpha for several recordings, is one of the most prominent vocal artists of her generation. She was chosen as ‘Révélation lyrique’ at the Victoires de la Musique Classique 2018, and elected the same year a Laureate of the prestigious Queen Elizabeth ...
Composer: Clément Lefebvre, Louis-Nicolas Clérambault (1676-1749), Philippe Courbois
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Vocal
Look at the history of jazz, and it is all…frankly...a bit male. There have, of course, always been very prominent female jazz singers, but female instrumentalists and composers such as Jutta Hipp, Carla Bley or Geri Allen are few and far between. Today, even though men are still in the majority, female emancipation in ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Vocal
In 1999 I visited the beautiful village Ernen in the Alps of canton Wallis in Switzerland for the first time. I was selected to attend master classes by the world-renowned teacher and pianist György Sebök. He founded the master classes and an international music festival here. ...
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Classical Crossover
The regime of Queen Elizabeth I dealt harshly with supporters of the old Catholic religion. Torn between obedience and conscience, some of England’s most talented musicians - Philips, Dering and Dowland - chose a life of exile abroad. Others chose to remain in spiritual isolation in England, ...
Composer: John Dowland, William Byrd (1543–1623), Richard Dering (1580-1630), Peter Philips, Huw Watkins, Robert White
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Vocal
Chopin & Schumann: Piano Works
Chi Ho Han, among others prizewinner of the ARD Music Competition and the Queen Elizabeth International Music Competition, is one of the most promising pianists of his generation. On this recording he interprets two works by the composers Chopin and Schumann. ...
Composer: Robert Schumann (1810-1856), Frédéric François Chopin (1810-1849)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Instrumental
Handel's Last Prima Donna: Giulia Frasi in London
Händels neue Primadonna: Georg Friedrich Händel war vermutlich der erfolgreichste Komponist, den die Musikgeschichte je hatte. Sänger aus ganz Europa bemühten sich um ein Engagement bei dem Hallenser Meister, auch Giulia Frasi. Mit 19 Jahren war es dann soweit. Das Publikum liebte ihre klare Stimme ...
Composer: Philip Hayes (1738-1797), John Christopher Smith (1712-1795), Thomas Arne (1710-1778), Vincenzo Ciampi (1719-1762), Georg Friedrich Händel (1685-1759)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Vocal
Mary Queen Of Scots (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
Composer Max Richter has written a compelling and dramatic score for the historical drama, Mary Queen of Scots. Directed by Josie Rourke and starring Margot Robbie and Saoirse Ronan, the movie explores the turbulent life of the charismatic Mary Stuart and her attempt to overthrow her cousin, ...
Composer: Max Richter (1966)
Genre: Soundtrack
Subgenre: Film
My Brilliant Friend (TV Series Soundtrack)
Max Richter (The Leftovers, Taboo, Waltz with Bashir, Hostiles).has composed the original music for the upcoming HBO and RAI original series My Brilliant Friend (L’amica geniale). The show is co-written and directed by Saverio Costanzo (Private, The Solitude of Prime Numbers, Hungry Hearts) ...
Genre: Soundtrack
Subgenre: TV
