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
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
Lowell Liebermann: Frankenstein, Op. 130 (Live)
Frankenstein was recorded during live ballet performances at War Memorial Opera House, San Francisco by RR’s engineering team, comprised of GRAMMY®-winning engineer and Technical Director Keith O. Johnson, and multi GRAMMY®-nominated engineer Sean Martin. ...
Composer: Lowell Liebermann (1961)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Orchestral
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
Warsaw-based cellist/composer Resina (Karolina Rec) returns with a first standalone album in three years, taking a big step forward on a bold and brilliantly expansive record that explores ideas about language, the voice and the unpredictability of nature. Recorded by Resina and Michał Kupicz, with striking additional mixing & production ...
Genre: Electronic
Subgenre: Experimental
Delivering a hit of contemporary, blues-inspired rock‘n’roll, ‘Running With The Wolves’ is a galloping, flag-flying anthem with an infectious stadium-sized chorus sprinkled with a dose of modern Nashville-meets-cutting-edge-pop flavour; a sonic cocktail that has seen the band dubbed “the Brummie Kings Of Leon”, inspired by the likes of Rival Sons, Kaleo and Alabama Shakes. ...
Genre: Rock
Subgenre: Modern Rock
Dvořák & Caplet: Cello Concertos
On this new release, Nadège Rochat performs Antonín Dvorák's Cello Concerto in B minor, op. 104, and André Caplet's mystically spiritualized Épiphanie, op. 22, together with the Royal Scottish National Orchestra under Benjamin Levy. Nadège Rochat is a distinguished expressive voice among young cellists. ...
Composer: Antonin Dvorák (1841-1904), André Caplet (1878-1925)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Concertos
Russia’s rich tradition of art song was rooted in the genteel drawing-room and salon culture of the early 19th century. Gradually these modest lyrical “romances” set their sights higher to embrace dramatic and philosophical themes, but never lost their intimacy and their ties to the treasured lines of favourite poets. ...
Composer: Boris Tchaikovsky (1925-1996), Alexander Borodin (1833-1887), Dmitri Shostakovich (1906-1975), Nikolai Myaskovsky (1881-1950), Elena Firsova (1950)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Vocal
"SOMM Recordings is pleased to announce the fourth volume in Leon McCawley’s much praised series of Franz Joseph Haydn’s Piano Sonatas. Six Sonatas spanning the years 1766-80 are featured: the earliest the miniature First Sonata in G major, the latest the E flat major Sonata No.51, while ...
Composer: Joseph Haydn (1732-1809)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Instrumental
Jason Treuting: Nine Numbers (Excerpts) #4
Sō Percussion co-founder Jason Treuting flexes his compositional chops with Nine Numbers — a sprawling work that taps into the mysteries of sudoku, the Japanese puzzle game, as a source for rhythmic exploration. Relying on percussive uses of voice, electronic and acoustic instruments, and various blocks ...
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Instrumental
