ACROSS THE ISLES – a new borderless musical experience. Baroque & folk music from Ireland, Scotland and England merge with the sounds of percussion. What does baroque music sound like when written by composers who were inspired by Celtic folk music? Can folk be combined with elements of the baroque? And what happens when, ...
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
Van Holzen sind zurück. Die Alternative-Rockband aus Ulm hat die Veröffentlichung ihres neuen Albums „Regen“ für Ende April bekannt gegeben. Die erste Single „Alle meine Freunde“, mit dem zugehörigen Video, einem puren, kraftvollen Performance-Clip, der in Hamburg unter der Regie von Björn Dunne (Yassin, Audio 88, Lance Butters) ...
Genre: Rock
Subgenre: Adult Alternative
Angelique’s new album Celia pays tribute to Celia Cruz, “the Queen of Salsa,” and explores Cruz’s African roots. It is a testament to Kidjo’s lifelong adoration for the Cuban-born Cruz; Kidjo first saw Cruz perform when she was growing up in Benin. This take on “Bemba Colora,” one of Cruz’s famous hits, features British saxophonist Shabaka ...
Genre: Latin
Subgenre:
Written over a period of 18 years, Rachmaninov’s sets of Préludes are a mirror and a record of his compositional development. With so rich a variety of character, colour, texture and mood, no two préludes are fully alike, and differentiation of tempo and register ensures that each prélude’s character is clearly defined. ...
Composer: Sergej Rachmaninoff (1873-1943)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Instrumental
One of the world's biggest classical stars, Lang Lang, returns with his brand new solo album 'Piano Book' – a collection of pieces which first inspired him to play the piano and led him on his path to international stardom. The recording, his first new studio album in three years, marks his return to Universal Music Group and Deutsche Grammophon ...
Composer: Frédéric Chopin (1810-1849), Claude Debussy (1862-1918), Max Richter (1966), Felix Mendelssohn (1809-1847), Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827), Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Instrumental
The ferocious guitarist fuses his blues and rock influences in eleven original songs with special guest appearances from fellow Provogue guitarists Eric Gales and Lance Lopez, and Gary’s son Ian. ...
Genre: Blues
Subgenre: Blues Rock
Trust In The Lifeforce Of The Deep Mystery
An essay by Ben Myers (Portico Prize for Literature, Gordon Burn Prize, Roger Deakin Award a.o.) In a world narrative dominated and controlled by powerful, wealthy individuals with vested interests in skewing the truth, what trust can be placed in our governments, our leaders and our sources of information to guide us to evolve as a species? ...
Genre: Electronic
Subgenre: Experimental
The Nutcracker, Petrushka, Cinderella & The Firebird
Since winning the 2017 Franz Liszt Competition, British pianist Alexander Ullman has appeared at many of the world’s great venues and with some of the world’s major orchestras – The Philadelphia Orchestra, Norwegian Radio Orchestra, St Petersburg Philharmonic, Montreal Symphony, Netherlands Radio Philharmonic...
Composer: Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840-1893), Igor Stravinsky (1882-1971), Sergei Sergeievitch Prokofiev (1891-1953)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Instrumental
„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
