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
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
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
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
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
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
The Bridge showcases Sting’s prolific and diverse songwriting prowess, with this new set of songs representing styles and genres explored throughout his unrivalled career. ...
Genre: Songwriter
Subgenre: Contemporary
Celebrating its 45 anniversary: Destroyer was originally released in 1976 and is considered to be one of the quintessential KISS albums. It is the band's first album to sell one million copies in its first year and holds the title of being their all-time best selling studio album....
Genre: Rock
Subgenre: Hard Rock
Elvis Back in Nashville (Remastered)
Are they still alive? While musicians will always live on through their recordings, it's a question worth asking these days about an increasing number of supernatural performers who continue to release albums long after they're dead. ...
Genre: Pop
Subgenre: Pop Rock
McCraven comes to this project having remixed Gil Scott-Heron’s final album, 2010’s I’m New Here, into an equally emotive LP titled We’re New Again that reimagined the poet’s wrestling with loss, daily existence and regret. Though Scott-Heron’s distinctive baritone remained the focal point, McCraven ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Modern Jazz
The double album features the great guitarist live at the Leverkusen Jazztage on November 9, 2010, 13 years after his triumphant performance at the 1997 Jazztage. For this performance, Holdsworth was joined by acclaimed drummer and longtime collaborator Chad Wackerman ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Fusion
The music of Bach is at the heart of Pentaedre's new recording devoted to transcriptions of toccatas, fugues, sonatas, partitas and chorales for wind quintet. The album also includes the Quintet No. 3 by American composer David Maslanka (1943-2017), a chamber work inspired by Bach. ...
Composer: David Maslanka (1943-2017), Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
Rachmaninoff: Cello Sonata in G Minor, Op. 19
Yuja Wang joins her close friend and collaborator Gautier Capuçon to present a new recording of Rachmaninoff’s monumental Sonata for Piano and Cello. In four movements the sonata is filled with the character so typical of Russia’s Romantic era. Few composers before Rachmaninoff could have so deeply explored the cello’s capacity for expressive tenderness and intensity. ...
Composer: Sergei Rachmaninoff (1873-1934)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
