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
On the occasion of its 35th anniversary [10 years of JMT from 1985 to 1995 and (since 1996) 25 years of WINTER & WINTER] WINTER & WINTER releases a series called "My Choice". Producers Mariko Takahashi and Stefan Winter ask the core musicians to create a "director's cut" of their work. ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Vocal
Seit 44 Jahren bereichert die "Grande Dame des Akkordeons" mit ihren Konzerten und Alben die deutsche Musiklandschaft, häufig gemeinsam mit großen Namen der Szene - von Hannes Wader über Stefan Stoppok bis Reinhard Mey. Das neue Album Air de Décembre ist ein Konzeptalbum zum Thema Winter. ...
Genre: World Music
Subgenre: Worldbeat
For many years, Adelhard Roidinger has been involved in developing new sounds based on micro-tonality. With his 7-string tenor bass and state-of-the-art electronics, he has created an exciting and wide-ranging musical dialogue in partnership with pianist Andy Lumpp, ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Contemporary Jazz
Licht der Welt (A Christmas Promenade)
In a follow-up to her acclaimed album of Mahler songs, Christiane Karg takes us on a Christmas tour, in the select company of fellow music-makers. Revisiting holiday memories through the eyes of a child, but with the benefit of her superb artistry as a lieder specialist, the German soprano shines a light on some enchanting ...
Composer: Engelbert Humperdinck (1854-1921), Peter Cornelius (1824-1874), Jean Sibelius (1865-1957), Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy (1809-1847), Gabriel Faure (1845-1924), Eduard Toldra (1895-1962), Robert Schumann (1810-1856), Edvard Grieg (1843-1907), Gioacchino Rossini (1792-1868), Camille Saint-Saens (1835-1921), Jules Massenet (1842-1912)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Vocal
A pianist with a unique style, "Tristan Pfaff has already established himself as one of the greatest keyboard masters of his generation" (Improvisation so piano, Kean-Pierre Thiollet, Neva Editions 2017). His discography, regularly praised in the musical press, now includes five other albums; "Live at Auvers-sur-Oise", "Franz Liszt", "Franz ...
Composer: Aram Khachaturian (1903-1978), Sergei Lyapunov (1859-1924), Peter Iljitsch Tschaikowsky (1840-1893), Sergej Rachmaninoff (1873-1943), Camille Saint-Saens (1835-1921), Jules Massenet (1842-1912), Ferenc Vecsey (1893-1935), Franz Liszt (1811-1886), Komitas (1869-1935)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Instrumental
Aili Järvelä, widely known as an authentic and soulful performer, and Sointi Jazz Orchestra, one of Finland’s most interesting new jazz groups, joined forces to release a Finnish-language album titled Unituulia. Unituulia is a moving and atmospheric collection of new Finnish-language chansons written ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Big Band
2021 marks 25 years of the Real Filharmonia de Galicia, which celebrates its silver jubilee with 'Atlantic Waters', an album of world-premiere recordings showcasing the cream of contemporary Galician musical talent. The orchestra is conducted on this recording by Paul Daniel, ....
Composer: Fernando Buide del Real (b. 1980), Juan Durán (b. 1960), Octavio Vázquez (b.1972), Eduardo Soutullo (b. 1968)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Vocal
Jorge Grundman: Piano & Cello Concertos
This is the second monographic album dedicated to Jorge Grundman on the prestigious Sony Classical label. It contains the first three world premiere recordings of three orchestral works by the composer. The Orquesta Sinfónica de Navarra under the ...
Composer: Jorge Grundman (b. 1961)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Concertos
Cook Craig returns with Pipe-eye release number four, Dream Themes. The record is adventurous and playful, crafting stories without needing words, in the tradition of the greatest soundtracks and Library Music, but with his own twist. Gimmie chatted with Cook in-depth for an hour about Pipe-eye’s beginnings, ...
Genre: Alternative
Subgenre: Indie Rock
Four in One - 35 Years of Brisk
This album is a hand numbered limited edition of 1000 copies containing five world premiere recordings by Robert Zuidam, Calliope Tsoupaki, Celia Swart and Juan Felipe Waller. Four musicians sharing their musical worlds as equals: that is an intimate and refined art which ...
Composer: Cipriano de Rore (1516-1565), Guillaume Dufay (1397-1474), Grimace, Calliope Tsoupaki (b. 1963), Juan Felipe Waller (b. 1971), Jacob Obrecht (1457-1505), Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina (1525-1594), Celia Swart (b. 1994), Jacobus Clemens non Papa (1510-1555), Robert Zuidam (b. 1964), Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750), Guus Janssen (b. 1951), Alexander Scriabin (1872-1915), Pyotr Illyich Tchaikovsky (1840-1893), Johannes Brahms (1833-1897)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
The Pied Piper of Hamelin and other Melodramas
The melodrama, a genre combining recitation with music, flourished with particular vigour at the dawn of the 20th century. By that time, it had outgrown its original 18th-century form: no longer simply alternating between music and speech, late 19th-century melodramas (and their descendants) mainly consisted of texts declaimed ...
Composer: Claude Debussy (1862-1918)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Instrumental
Diese mutigen und freien Klangkaskadenkönnen dem einen oder anderen Freejazz-Fan ein anerkennendes Nicken entlocken! Eine Schwalbe macht noch keinen Sommer, aber zwei exzellente Instrumentalisten machen mitunter durchaus ein hervorragendes Album: Die Mannheimer Saxophonistin Alexandra Lehmler hat nach diversen Trio-, ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Free Jazz
