This year marks 25 years since Oasis’ two iconic record breaking live concerts at Knebworth Park in Hertfordshire on the 10th and 11th August 1996. The shows were both the pinnacle of the band’s success and a landmark gathering for a generation of young people. The landmark concerts sold out in under a day with over 2% of the UK population attempting to buy tickets. ...
Genre: Rock
Subgenre: Adult Alternative
Shostakovich & Arensky: Piano Trios
The two Russian composers featured on this album lived through turning points in their country’s history. Arensky died in 1906, the same year Shostakovich was born, and their output charts the trajectory of Russian and Soviet political and artistic history during those years. Arensky’s ardent Piano Trio No. 1 was written ...
Composer: Anton Stepanovich Arensky (1861–1906), Dmitri Shostakovich (1906-1975)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
The Tree - Hill, Nethsingha, Robinson
Andrew Nethsingha and The Choir of St John’s, Cambridge present a tribute album to two former directors, Christopher Robinson and David Hill, who celebrate their 85th and 65th birthdays respectively. Taking the idea of new growth as a starting point, the album develops from the seed of a single treble line, ...
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
Kinfolk 2: See the Birds is the highly anticipated follow up to the 2017 Grammy-nominated album Kinfolk: Postcards From Everywhere. Featuring the diverse and all-star talents of Brittany Howard, Amma Whatt, Joel Ross, Kokayi, Michael Mayo, Regina Carter, Stokley and Vernon Reid, Kinfolk 2: See the Birds is the inspired and emphatic album ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Hard Bop
Riverside 20 - The Shorts & The Longs (Remastered)
Riverside 20 will feature two special digital “best of” compilations to be released through InsideOut Music on November 19. Featuring all especially remastered material and some deep cuts, Riverside 20 - Vol.1, The Shorts will include 19 tracks and Riverside 20 - Vol.2, The Longs will include 14 songs. ...
Genre: Rock
Subgenre: Modern Rock
During the pandemic, Cecilia paused her busy schedule and took time to go back through her archives. She is now releasing this never-before-heard album ‘Unreleased’, a celebration of the most famous concert arias from Mozart, Beethoven & Haydn. Recorded with the ...
Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791), Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827), Josef Myslivecek (1737-1781)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Vocal
On her second PENTATONE album Maria & Maddalena, star soprano Francesca Aspromonte explores the Two Marys in oratorios by Lulier, Bononcini, Leopoldo I d’Asburgo, Caldara, Perti, Handel and Scarlatti, partly in new editions, documenting the extremely bloom of the genre in the years around 1700. ...
Composer: Giovanni Lorenzo Lulier (1662-1700), Giovanni Battista Bononcini (1670-1747), Leopold I. (1640-1705), Antonio Caldara (1671-1736), Giacomo Antonio Perti (1661-1756), Georg Friedrich Händel (1685-1759), Alessandro Scarlatti (1660-1725)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Vocal
The four works that this album brings together are among the most beautiful of the French repertoire for violin. In the last decades of the 19th century, a new kind of music emerged in France that revisited French culture and tradition. ...
Composer: Cesar Franck (1822-1890), Gabriel Fauré (1945-1924), Eugène Ysaÿe (1858-1931), Maurice Ravel (1875–1937)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
On AND NOTHING REMAINS THE SAME from Eight Strings & a Whistle and Navona Records, the flute-viola-cello trio explores the constant cycle of transformation that defines human existence. Since 1998, Eight Strings & a Whistle have earned a reputation for championing Baroque, Classical, and Romantic ...
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
The Art of Arrangement: Mozart & Beethoven Quartets for Piano & Strings
Both of these quartets are transcriptions of quintets for winds and piano by their respective composers but the links that bind them go much deeper. In the year after Mozart’s death, Beethoven began the draft of a work for the unusual instrumental ensemble of four wind instruments and piano. ...
Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
Johannes Brahms: Symphony No. 1, Op. 68, Violin Concerto, Op. 77
Der junge, hochbegabte Johannes Brahms veröffentlichte sein Opus 1, eine Klaviersonate, mit 20 Jahren. Im sinfonischen Bereich war er jedoch ein Spätentwickler, weil er sich immer im Schatten des großen Vorbilds Beethoven wähnte. ..
Composer: Johannes Brahms (1833-1897)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Concertos
ver since the premiere at the Royal Chapel in Stockholm, November 2016, Infinite Bach has been living in the back of my head. Thinking what the best step would be to spread this absolutely ravishing music by J S Bach and Johan Ullén. For you who don't know - ReBach is the four J S Bach violin concertos recomposed by the ...
Composer: Johan Ullen (1972), Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Concertos
Bruckner: Symphonies, Vol. 2 (Arr. E. Horn for Organ)
This series marks the 200th anniversary of the birth of Anton Bruckner, which falls in 2024. It’s dedicated to Bruckner’s symphonies, all recorded in new transcriptions for organ by Hansjörg Albrecht. The third recording was made on the impressive organ of London’s Westminster Cathedral. ...
Composer: Anton Bruckner (1824–1896), David Matthews (1943)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
On her debut album, which is being released in November on the label ES DUR, this young French harpist would like to present her instrument to listeners as an “unique example of compositional innovation and transition”, far from any excessive romanticism or lavish harmonies. ...
Composer: Andre Caplet (1878-1925), Benjamin Britten (1913-1976), Paul Hindemith (1895-1963), Heinz Holliger (1939)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Instrumental
Schubert’s last two quartets, composed during the final years of his life, reveal the impressive mastery he achieved, despite the knowledge that he was dying. The four movements of the ‘Death and the Maiden’ quartet, all in minor keys, and the tumultuous, quasi-orchestral ...
Composer: Franz Schubert (1797-1828)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
Sonoko Miriam Welde: Bruch, Vaughan Williams & Barber
When you ask people which superpower they would choose if they could have only one, many answer that they would want the power of flight. Although I personally would prefer invisibility, I also think there is something enviable about the freedom of being able to fly, to soar through the sky, above all the stress and troubles of life down on ...
Composer: Samuel Barber (1910–1981), Max Bruch (1838–1920), Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872–1958)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Concertos
Clarinetist Barnaby Robson performs a rich program of 20th-century and contemporary music for clarinet and piano, including world-premiere recordings. The release opens with Barnaby Robson’s collaboration with BAFTA-winning sound designer Martin Cantwell: a recording of Steve Reich’s intricate New York Counterpoint, ...
Composer: Steve Reich (1936), Herbert Howells (1892-1983), Graham Fitkin (1963), Francis Poulenc (1899-1963), Claude Debussy (1862-1918)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
Winner of the 18th International Fryderyk Chopin Piano Competition Warsaw 2021 (Live)
Deutsche Grammophon is set to release recordings made live during the various stages of the 18th International Chopin Piano Competition by Bruce Liu, the newly crowned winner of the world’s most prestigious competition for classical musicians. The jury awarded the top prize to the 24-year-old Canadian pianist last night, ...
Composer: Frédéric Chopin (1810-1849)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Instrumental
Saint-Saëns: Symphony No. 3 "avec orgue" & Piano Concerto No. 4 (Remastered Edition)
Les Siècles is one of France's finest early music ensembles, and its work in repertoire from the Baroque era to the Romantic period is fascinating for its precision, attention to historical details, and most of all, commitment to original instrumentation. ...
Composer: Charles Camille Saint-Saëns (1835-1921)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Concertos
It"s hard to believe: in her mid-20s, Andrea Motis is already a jazz superstar inSpain and far beyond. In 2011, Quincy Jones became enthusiastic about the young lady on trumpet and vocals. Andrea's mentor was bassist, tenor saxophonist and celebrated pedagogue Joan Chamorro, the head of the Catalan talent factory. ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Latin Jazz
