After a powerful first season exploring a wide range of issues facing women and girls around the globe in March 2017, cellist Amanda Gookin returns for an all–new season featuring all–new works. As a 2018-2019 National Sawdust Project-in-Residence, the Forward Music Project 2.0, in this skin, will focus on the first-person perspectives of women. ...
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
This is the second album from Lorenzo Nardocci Trio: awesome! It includes six new compositions developed during the last year through great interplay with Andreas and Terje. Themes are based on life´s everyday moments and on important people in my life: This is, in fact, the essence of the album title Secondo Me (According to me). ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Contemporary Jazz
Cellist Catherine Little is on a mission to build a bridge to classical music with her debut release, Taking Five. The pieces she chose to record have relatable melodies, harmonies and emotional language that is sure to resonate with audiences; they have hooks, are ‘singable', and an inviting warmth. ...
Composer: Sergei Rachmaninoff (1873-1943), Gabriel Fauré (1945-1924), Nicolai Rimsky-Korsakov (1844-1908), Antonin Dvořák (1841-1904), Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy (1809-1847)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
Paul Kelly’s first Christmas album is an extraordinary 22-song double collection that travels across the centuries, from a Latin hymn to well-known carols, from a traditional Irish folk ballad to new Kelly music written for Christmas poems. ...
Genre: Songwriter
Subgenre: Contemporary
Principal players of the London Symphony Orchestra display their virtuosic talents on this album of concertos for wind instruments by Mozart, recorded in concert with conductor Jaime Martín in the excellent acoustic of the Jerwood Hall, LSO St Luke's. ...
Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756–1791)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Concertos
A collection of much-loved Brian Wilson and Beach Boys hits performed by Brian on solo piano. “We had an upright piano in our living room and from the time I was 12 years old, I played it each and every day. I never had a lesson, I was completely self-taught. ...
Genre: Instrumental
Subgenre: Piano
Donizettis dreiaktige tragische Oper Belisario war zu ihrer Zeit ein durchschlagender Erfolg, angetrieben von dem überragenden theatralischen Gespür des Komponisten und seiner geschickten Verflechtung von intensiver tragischer Erzählung und emotionalem Pathos. Belisario wird von seiner Frau Antonina verraten, die ihn fälschlicherweise des Hochverrats ...
Composer: Gaetano Donizetti (1797-1848)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Opera
The new album by Luca Mannutza, "The Uneven Shorter", a tribute to one of the most beloved artists of jazz, Wayne Shorter, will be released on November 19. It will be released by Birdbox Records, the new record label that has already distinguished itself for its particular dynamism in the long and difficult months of the pandemic, succeeding with the Jazz Just Like This ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Contemporary Jazz
James Jordan writes: “I think when life challenges us, our common human tendency is to look toward the stars for wisdom and answers, for the abundances and peace that sometimes one’s focus toward the heavens brings to us. Looking toward the stars and the heavens often clears ...
Genre: Vocal
Subgenre: Choral
Orchestra of the Swan’s last album Timelapse was recorded in January 2020 on the cusp of the Covid-19 pandemic and subsequent lockdowns; Labyrinths, by contrast, was conceived and recorded at a moment when we could finally see some light at the end of the tunnel. ...
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Orchestral
GRAMMY®-nominated conductor and composer Benedict Sheehan leads The Saint Tikhon Choir in his new setting of Eastern Orthodox Vespers in English. Inspired by the great All-Night Vigil setting by Rachmaninoff, Sheehan’s composition expands the genre with full settings of Psalms. Each verse is treated ...
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Choral
So funktioniert musikalische Frustbewältigung a la Corona! ›Sense and Sensibility‹ - das vierte Album von Lisa Wulff - unterscheidet sich deutlich den drei Vorgängern. Zum Beispiel, weil Wulff darauf nicht nur als virtuose Bassistin und charismatische Bandleaderin in Erscheinung tritt, sondern zudem sämtliche Gesangssparts ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Vocal
David Stern and Opera Fuoco have recorded Giovanni Simone Mayr’s L’amor conjugale in April 2021. This is the first recording of the full critical version of Mayr’s one act opera. The story of Leonora, taken from the French novel by Jean-Nicolas Bouilly, is familiar to us through Beethoven's only opera. A daring wife disguises herself in order to be hired ...
Composer: Giovanni Simone Mayr
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Opera
Hedvig Mollestad must surely be one of the hardest working musicians on the Norwegian music scene at the moment, with "Tempest Revisited" being her third album in a mere 18 months, all at a consistently high artistic level. Her first solo album, "Ekhidna" (2020), received a Spellemannpris (Norwegian Grammy), appeared on several jazz and ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Fusion
Combining tremendous talent, engaging energy and a hint of humour, this award-winning ensemble delivers a festive and moving concert that embodies the joyous magic of the season. Featuring trombone, horn, brass trombone and trumpets, Buzz Brass performs holiday favourites from Bach’s My Spirit Be Joyfuland Tchaikovsky’s Nutcracker Suite ...
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Vocal
"Marvin Gaye has been my favorite artist as his 70s LPs are unmatched as singular bodies of work," says ReMi. "It was an honor to be able to look at the What's Going On LP and to be able to create a remix suite to sit next to it. This is a dream come true. LoveLiveMPG." ...
Genre: R&B
Subgenre: Soul
Prokofiev Piano Sonatas (Vol. I)
For his latest ATMA Classique recording project, pianist David Jalbert tackles the complete cycle of Prokofiev's piano sonata; this ambitious undertaking will be released in three separate volumes starting in September 2021. The first volume features four piano sonatas from Prokofiev's Russian period, which ...
Composer: Sergei Prokofiev (1891–1953)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Instrumental
"The variety of material that he performs, and his versatility gives Jones' playing a singularly engaging character." (L.A. Times) ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Contemporary Jazz
“We wanted to do something grander than the typical four-piece Converge music,” says Converge vocalist Jacob Bannon in reference to the inspiration that eventually bloomed into Bloodmoon: I, the new collaborative album created by the legendary hardcore band alongside dark songstress Chelsea Wolfe, ...
Genre: Rock
Subgenre: Metal
New Man, New Songs, Same Shit, Vol.2
Behemoth mastermind Adam "Nergal" Darski has signed a menacing pact with the devil once again, returning with dark folk/blues/Americana influenced solo project Me and That Man's third full-length studio album, New Man, New Songs, Same Shit, Vol.2, on November 19, 2021 via Napalm Records. As a sequel to the project's previous record, New Man, New ...
Genre: Rock
Subgenre: Blues Rock
