Drop the needle anywhere on Motorheart and be instantly transported from this moaning and weeping vale of tears to Elysian fields of rock where all hands are raised, the drinks – just as in the Club Tropicana of yore – are free, and everyone wears a pleasingly salacious grin. Does it rock? Is the sun hot? Has your partner’s touch ...
Genre: Rock
Subgenre: Hard Rock
The “Jason Max Ferdinand Singers” is a project that I have thought about since 2001. I had the sound of the ensemble in my head, and had plans to make a debut the summer of 2020, but COVID19 forced a hiatus. In January of 2021, a creative opportunity was asked of me, and after some hesitation and contemplation, ...
Genre: Vocal
Subgenre:
The Helsinki Police Orchestra releases a wonderful Christmas album! The orchestra conducted by Sami Ruusuvuori with the brilliant soloists Helena Juntunen and Mika Pohjonen create a holiday atmosphere with their beautiful versions of both Finnish traditional Yuletide songs and internationally known pieces. ...
Composer: Pjotr Iljitsch Tschaikowski (1840-1893), Giulio Caccini (1551-1618), Jean Sibelius (1865-1957), Otto Kotilainen (1868-1636), Karl Collan (1828-1871), Konsta Jylhä (1910-1984), Heino Kaski (1885-1957), Gösta Sundqvist (1957-2003), Randol Alan Bass (b. 1953), Joni Mitchell (b. 1943), Hugh Martin (1914-2011), Adolphe Adam (1803-1856)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Orchestral
"SOMM Recordings announces the perfect escape from Lockdown Blues with a collection of appealing piano miniatures compiled and performed by Peter Dickinson to chase all your cares away. Lockdown Blues includes soothing masterpieces by Erik Satie (Trois Gnossiennes, Trois Gymnopédies), Francis Poulenc (Bal fantôme, Pastourelle) and ...
Composer: Edward MacDowell (1860-1908), Peter Dickinson (1934), Michel Lambert, Francis Poulenc (1899-1963), Samuel Barber (1910-1981), Michael Berkeley (1948), George Gershwin (1898-1937), Erik Satie (1866-1925), Eugène Goossens
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Instrumental
This album contains three works by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, two of which can be considered among the most popular in the history of music. The version of the Sinfonia concertante in E-flat Major KV 364/320d with the participation of the cello, presented on the album ...
Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756 –1791)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Concertos
The Mental Traveller (Tritorität Session)
A modern day love story might go as follows: Lukas and Jonathan, two brothers running Berlin-based label Kommerz Records, started connecting with their favorite new jazz combo Triorität via IG without any business in mind, just to find out that they grew up in the same place – often overlooked, but damn cute city of Darmstadt. ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Modern Jazz
The 2nd album by Ludwig-Nabatov-Arends, known as Fearless Trio. Sax, piano and drums interplay and improvise like it really matters, creating tension and friction on the one hand, release and beauty on the other. ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Contemporary Jazz
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
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
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
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
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
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
