To mark their 50th anniversary, The King’s Singers have made it their mission to celebrate great music above all else – an aim which has driven them throughout their history. Their newly recorded triple-disc album – GOLD – completely reflects this with 60 tracks divided across three albums, ...
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Choral
Pretty Yende continues her meteoric rise through the world of opera. Her debut album A Journey received the Solo Recital Recording award at the 2017 International Opera Awards and critics were unanimous in showering praise on the beauty of Yende’s voice and the intelligence of her singing. ...
Composer: Charles Gounod, Gaetano Donizetti (1797-1848), Vincenzo Bellini (1801-1935), Giacomo Meyerbeer (1791-1864)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Vocal
For approaching a century and a half in France – across the reigns of Louis XIV, XV and XVI – the Palace of Versailles played host, both indoors and outdoors, for an extraordinary sequence of dramatic musical performances. ...
Composer: Jean-Baptiste Lully (1632-1687), Jean-Philippe Rameau (1683-1764), André Cardinal Destouches, Jean-Joseph Cassanéa de Mondonville, Michel-Richard de Lalande (1657-1726), François Colin de Blamont, Antoine Dauvergne, Jean-Marie Leclair (1697-1764), Joseph-Nicolas-Pancrace Royer (1705-1755), Pierre Danican Philidor, Bernard de Bury (1720-1785), Niccolò Piccinni, Christoph Willibald Gluck (1714-1787), François Francœur, François Rebel
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Vocal
The Queen Is Dead (2017 Master)
Newly digitally remastered in 2017 of this 1986 album from the legendary British quartet. The Queen Is Dead is The Smiths' great leap forward, taking the band to new musical and lyrical heights. Opening with the storming track, the album is harder rocking record than anything the band had attempted before. ...
Genre: Rock
Subgenre: Adult Alternative
Music for the Queen of Heaven: Contemporary Marian Motets
The Marian Consort originally made its name with the music of the Renaissance. But the group has also worked regularly with living composers for a number of years. This programme of contemporary Marian anthems - many of them commissioned by the ensemble ...
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
2017 album from the multi-talented couple dubbed "King & Queen of the banjo". Features "Don't Let It Bring You Down" & "If I Could Talk To a Younger Me". With one eye on using the banjo to showcase America’s rich heritage and the other pulling the noble instrument from its most familiar arena into new and unique realms, Béla Fleck ...
Genre: Country
Subgenre: Bluegrass
This pre-classical programme is dedicated to Anna de Amicis, the famous soprano who first created the role of Giunia in Mozart's Lucio Silla. Besides works by the young Mozart the programme comprises arias by N. Jommelli, JC Bach, C.W. Gluck and others. ...
Composer: Pasquale Cafaro, Johann Christian Bach (1735-1782), Josef Myslivecek (1737-1781), Giovanni Battista Borghi, Christoph Willibald Gluck (1714-1787), Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Nicolo Jommelli
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Vocal
Jacques Duphly was born the year of the death of Louis XIV [1715] and he died the year of the storming of the Bastille [1789]. His works consist of his four books of harpsichord pieces. Through his teacher Dagincourt he inherited the style of François Couperin, ...
Composer: Jacques Duphly (1715-1789)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Instrumental
You Make It Feel Like Christmas
Three-time GRAMMY Award-winning superstar Gwen Stefani will release her first-ever holiday album, „You Make It Feel Like Christmas“. „You Make It Feel Like Christmas“ features six originals and six classic holiday tunes. ...
Genre: Vocal
Subgenre: Vocal Pop
Lo, how a rose e'er blooming: Music for Christmas
The Queen's Six is a six-part, male voice a capella ensemble based in Windsor Castle, United Kingdom, living and working within the Castle walls. Drawn from the ranks of the Choir of St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle, they keep a busy schedule of concert ...
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Vocal
„Now“, the first studio album for Shania in nearly 15 years, releases on September 29th. The new album offered as both a 16-track deluxe and a 12-track standard album, both feature Shania s current single, Life s About To Get Good, playing on country radio now. ...
Genre: Country
Subgenre: Country Pop
Dvořák: Piano Quartets Nos. 1 & 2
Für die zweite Aufnahme mit Kammermusik von Antonin Dvorák haben Omri Epstein, Mathieu von Bellen und Ori Epstein ihren ehemaligen Lehrer von der Queen Elisabeth Music Chapel eingeladen. Gemeinsam mit dem Bratscher Miguel da Silva präsentiert das Busch Trio den zweiten Teil ...
Composer: Antonin Dvorak (1841-1904)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
Bruno Philippe has studied with David Geringas, Steven Isserliss, Gary Hoffman, Pieter Wispelwey and Clemens Hagen at the Mozarteum in Salzburg. Since October 2014, he has been studying as a young soloist at the Kronberg Academy with Frans Helmerson. ...
Composer: Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827), Franz Peter Schubert (1797-1828)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
A Paganini among pop stars, and a Jimi Hendrix among violinists, David Garrett is the “Devil’s Violinist” of our age, an international superstar who blurs the lines between Mozart and Metallica. ...
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Classical Crossover
Ladilikan, the new album by Trio Da Kali and Kronos Quartet, represents a landmark in cultural cross-fertilisation that both parties rank among the most satisfying musical experiences of their careers. David Harrington, Kronos’ artistic director and founder, enthuses ...
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Classical Crossover
For her first Sony Classical album of Mozart arias, the young Swiss soprano Regula Mühlemann received fantastic reviews all over the world. She was introduced to an audience of millions in 2016 at the ZDF Advent Concert from the Frauenkirche ...
Composer: Carl Heinrich Graun (1703-1759), Georg Friedrich Händel (1685-1759), Johann Adolph Hasse (1699-1783), Alessandro Scarlatti (1660-1725), Antonio Vivaldi (1678-1741), Mattheson (1681-1764), Antonio Sartorio (1630-1681)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Vocal
Didone abbandonata was one of the greatest successes in the rather brief operatic career of Leonardo Vinci, a musician who apparently led an adventurous life, based on what little we know about it. Written for Rome’s Teatro delle Dame, the opera was premièred ...
Composer: Leonardo Vinci (1690-1730)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Opera
Purcell: The Fairy Queen, Z. 629
With The Fairy Queen, Sébastien d’Hérin and Les Nouveaux Caractères set down on record their musical vision of one of Henry Purcell’s most compelling dramatic works. The 1692/1693 work dates from around half a century before two other Baroque scores ...
Composer: Henry Purcell (1659-1695)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Opera
