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
Crisis & Opportunity, Vol. 2 - Peaks
Hot on the heels of the first instalment of his much-lauded ‘Crisis & Opportunity’ record series, world-renowned drummer/composer, & producer/beatmaker, Myele Manzanza, now readies Volume 2 for release, giving an insight into his new material with brand new single ‘Quinnies For The Boys’. ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Nu Jazz
Puccini: Madama Butterfly, SC 74
After having recorded La Fanciulla del West, conductor Lawrence Foster now expands his Puccini discography on PENTATONE with Madama Butterfly, together with the Coro & Orquestra Gulbenkian, as well as Elisabeth Kulman (Suzuki), Stefano Secco (Pinkerton), Lester Lynch (Sharpless) and Melody Moore (Cio-Cio-San) in the title role. ...
Composer: Giacomo Puccini (1858-1924)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Opera
Another Day sees Liebing once again collaborating with an eclectic mix of artists, including several who were involved with Burn Slow. Miles Cooper Seaton, in one of his last performances following his sad and untimely passing earlier this year, and Polly Scattergood lend vocals to a track each, while Ralf Hildenbeutel returns to produce. ...
Genre: Electronic
Subgenre: Electronica
Everything is alright now. Alex Brown Church — the man behind the dark folk, indie rock band Sea Wolf — wants you to know that from the start. Really. Sea Wolf’s eagerly anticipated fifth album and proves it in 11 textured, sometimes-acoustic, sometimes-electronic, ...
Genre: Rock
Subgenre: Adult Alternative
All This Is is the keenly-awaited debut album from Kaya Usher – some thirty years in the making. Kaya Usher is finally seeing her late husband Gord Downie's long-held dream come into fruition with All This Is — her debut album with the Family Band, which is set to arrive on November 17 via Arts & Crafts. Today, she's shared the first single entitled "Heart Clicks." ...
Genre: New Age
Subgenre:
In Moscow, Markevitch accompanies Galina Vishnevskaya at her peak, then makes sacred the Symphony of Psalms of a Stravinsky nevertheless banished for 'cosmopolitism'. This, after having obtained from the Berlin Philharmonic painting as rich as Ravel's forthright clarity in the famous Pictures at an Exhibition, the non-operatic ...
Composer: Modest Mussorgsky (1839-1881), Igor Stravinsky (1882–1971)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Vocal
Antonín Dvorák: String Quartet No. 11 & Cypresses Quartet (Remastered)
Whether he was writing in imitation of Beethoven, Schubert, Wagner, and Brahms, Dvorák always winds up sounding like himself. In the String Quartet in C major, with its enormous structures and rigorous developments, Dvorák is at his most Beethovenian. Inevitably, however, the turn of the melodies, the progress of the harmonies, ...
Composer: Antonín Dvorák (1841-1904)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
An anthology from Manuel de Falla’s masterpieces, in which he invented modern Spanish music and he revived authentic songs, rhythms and dances out of an Andalusia both legendary and still alive. Tribute to performers, while awaiting for their centenaries, such as Clara Haskil, Igor Markevitch or Ernest Ansermet, who made ..
Composer: Manuel de Falla (1876-1946)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Vocal
Wilhelm Furtwängler conducts three of Richard Strauss' symphonic poems in Vienna reproduced in the best possible sound, and paired with the first recording in London of the 'Vier Letzte Lieder', under the supervision of Walter Legge [Mr Schwarzkopf]. A homage to Richard Strauss for his 150th anniversary. ...
Composer: Richard Strauss (1864-1949)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Vocal
Béla Bartók: The Complete String Quartets (Remastered)
Bartók s complete string quartets, as played by the Végh Quartet back in 1954, is still the best interpretation of this fabulous musical encapsulation of the 20th century. The first Quartet (1907) glorifies Beethoven s 16th, while the sixth closes with the quarter tones of a wistful (mesto) and gradually etiolating refrain. ...
Composer: Bela Bartok (1881-1945)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy: String Octet, Piano Sextet (Remastered)
A rare coupling of two masterpieces by an adolescent of 14-15. The first was responsible for his eternal fame, along with the incidental music for A Midsummer Night’s Dream; the other, which remained overlooked, was published posthumously and now sounds like a chamber concerto, a preliminary exercise for the illustration of ...
Composer: Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy (1809-1847)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
Ludwig van Beethoven: The Three String Quartets, Op. 59 (Remastered)
"The Pražàk makes the first chord of Op. 59 No. 3 sound like one of Tchaikovsky’s melancholic musings, then perfectly conveys the music’s spontaneous eruption of joy. In the following Andante, the plucked cello line is perfectly balanced with the other instruments, avoiding the “guitar” effect of the Alban Berg’s performance. ...
Composer: Ludwig van Beethoven (1770–1827)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
