Elgar & Bridge: Cello Concertos
These two masterpieces are shadowed by the events of the First World War. Elgar’s Cello Concerto, an intensely poignant, reflective and individual musical statement, has enjoyed unflagging popularity among musicians and listeners for over 100 years. ...
Composer: Frank Bridge (1879-1941), Sir Edward William Elgar (1857–1934)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Concertos
Is this really a Christmas album? The Oddgeir Berg Trio are still playing the same familiar melodies that have accompanied us throughout the years. But this time, they're performing them with a dedicated, trance-inducing slowness wilfully out of tune with the typical cheeriness of Christmas eve. ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Contemporary Jazz
Coming through as a producer in the early 2000's, nothing much seemed normal. The whirlwind of 90s dance music innovation had given way to a lack of focus, with increasingly innovative and accessible technology making the sounds heard on dancefloors more eclectic but at the same time the parties had started to feel less inspired, ...
Genre: Dance
Subgenre: Techno
A Time for Love: The Oscar Peterson Quartet Live in Helsinki, 1987 (Remastered)
In 1987, jazz immortal Oscar Peterson led his quartet featuring Joe Pass, Dave Young and Martin Drew, through the final engagement of their 14-concert European fall tour at Helsinki’s famed Kulttuuritalo. A Time For Love captures Peterson’s focus on performing original compositions on the bandstand alongside timeless ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Hard Bop
A Mouthful of Air (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
John Gürtler is a multiple award-winning film composer currently based in Berlin. He has written over 40 film scores and produces electronic music, songs and orchestral work and has won several awards, including ‘Best Song in a Film’ at the 2014 German Film Music Awards for ‘What Love Is’, the ‘German Documentary Award ...
Composer: John Gürtler (1981), Jan Miserre (1981)
Genre: Soundtrack
Subgenre: Music
All Of Us features singer and composer Petra Magoni and lutenist Ilaria Fantin. Together they perform 11 popular songs including Both Sides Now, Perfect Day, Cigarettes and Coffee, Feeling Good and All Of Me. On this album, emotions of passage, like clouds, emerge through the songs of Sinéad O’Connor, Fabrizio De ...
Genre: Songwriter
Subgenre: Contemporary
In early 2020, the world was struck by the COVID-19 pandemic. During this time, NZTrio began its new era with the appointment of pianist Somi Kim and violinist Amalia Hall joining cellist Ashley Brown in continuing the 19-year legacy of commissioning works from NZ composers, bringing lesser-known works to ...
Composer: Christos Hatzis (1953), Salina Fisher (1993), Josef Suk (1874–1935), Erich Wolfgang Korngold (1897-1957)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
"An excellent master of his craft" (M. Harras). For four decades, bass-baritone Klaus Mertens has been acclaimed by critics in concerts and nearly 200 album recordings as "unearthly radiant" (klassik.com), "wonderfully slender, clearly delineating" (mdr Figaro) and "unchanged fresh and immensely homogeneous" (klassik.com) ...
Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach (1685–1750)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Vocal
When guitarist Tom Hamilton and pianist Holly Bowling get together to improvise, they don’t talk about the music. That conversation happens with their instruments once they start playing. Indeed, on Lacuna, their first duo recording together, Hamilton and Bowling explore the outer limits of improvisation ...
Genre: Ambient
Subgenre:
Cevanne Horrocks-Hopayian’s multifaceted creative output ignores the boundaries between art forms and cultures. She writes for wide-ranging ensembles, acoustic and electronic, eastern and western – all of which is encapsulated in Welcome Party, a new album for sinfonia, choir and electronics. ...
Composer: Cevanne Horrocks-Hopayian (b. 1986)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Vocal
Nuno Côrte-Real (b. 1971) has been working as a composer and conductor for more than twenty years and is one of the most important figures of Portuguese contemporary music. From the beginning, he showed great independence, ignoring the prevailing musical currents and established opinions. ...
Composer: Nuno Côrte-Real (b. 1971)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Vocal
The Stars Beneath My Feet (2004 - 2021)
James Blunt’s greatest hits album, 'The Stars Beneath My Feet (2004-2021)’ is out November 19th and celebrates songs spanning a stellar 17-year career that has spawned over 23 million album sales, a global smash hit with ‘You’re Beautiful’, two Brit Awards and two Ivor Novello Awards, as well as receiving five Grammy Award ...
Genre: Pop
Subgenre: Pop Rock
Amid the swirling sounds and scenes intersected by Los Angeles’ sprawling freeways, John Carroll Kirby is somewhere at the centre of it all, shirt open, hair slicked back. He circles the city’s buzzing jazz movement with his soul-dappled instrumentals and is a keysman, composer and producer who’s been enlisted by some of ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Contemporary Jazz
Jools Holland is proud to announce his new album Pianola.Piano & Friends. A loving tribute to the black and white keys, it celebrates the community and conviviality that the piano inspires and the spark of Jools' deep love for music. The album showcases the vibrant versatility and virtuosity of Jools Holland and his lifelong friend, along with a truly unique ...
Genre: Blues
Subgenre: Electric Blues
Raise The Roof (Deluxe Edition)
Reunited after some fourteen years, following the historic success of their first collaboration Raising Sand (2007), which reached number 2 on the UK album chart, generated multi-platinum sales, and earned six Grammy Awards including Album and Record of the Year. Like its predecessor, Raise The Roof was produced ...
Genre: Rock
Subgenre: Modern Rock
Brings together themes from popular soundtracks and TV series! Meet the Berthollet sisters, two extraordinarily gifted musical siblings from the idyllic Rhône-Alpes region in France. Camille (17) plays violin and cello and Julie (19) violin and viola. They became celebrities in France when the then 15-year- ...
Composer: Lalo Schifrin (1932), Justin Hurwitz (1985), Henry Mancini (1924-1994), Ludovico Einaudi (1955), John Barry (1933-2011), Max Richter (1966), Danny Elfman (1953)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Compilations
Josquin Desprez: In memoria mea
Rebecca Stewart together with the vocal ensemble Seconda Pract!ca explores the music of Josquin Desprez and his contemporaries Brumel and Willaert, commemorating the 500th anniversary of his death. The central piece of this recording is the famous Missa Mater patris by Josquin. Founded in 2012 by international musicians gathered in The Netherlands ...
Composer: Josquin Desprez (1450-1521), Antoine Brumel (1450-1520)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
