Quietude and Joy As Envisioned by Russian Painters
This piano suite was commissioned by The Manege exhibition center, Saint Petersburg, for the project Quietude and Joy. Music being played in exhibition halls is not a novelty. If you google for exhibition background music you will find collections of music ‘suitable’ for all sorts of exhibitions. ...
Composer: Anton Batagov
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Instrumental
The seeds of the collaboration were planted in 2017 when Anderson .Paak and Bruno Mars toured together on the European leg of his 24K Magic World Tour. One late-night jam session on the road unlocked immediate chemistry. Just before the world slipped into quarantine, Bruno called Anderson: “Remember ...
Genre: R&B
Subgenre: Soul
Marina Baranova knows a thing or two about conjuring fantastical worlds. Since her childhood when she’d sit with her fairy tale books open in front of the piano translating the pictures she saw into sound worlds up to her last album, where she envisioned a darker side to Debussy, the Ukrainian composer and pianist’s imagination ...
Composer: Marina Baranova (1981)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Instrumental
Anthony McGill, principal clarinet of the New York Philharmonic, and pianist Gloria Chien, a frequent performer with the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, make their commercial recording debut as a duo on Here With You, an album (mostly) of early and late German Romantic masterworks they’ve treasured throughout their 15 years of mutual ...
Composer: Johannes Brahms (1833-1897), Jessie Montgomery (b. 1981), Carl Maria von Weber (1786-1826)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
On the occasion of Charlie Parker's 100th birthday in 2020, “Bird Lives” opens, produces and records a new, orchestral view of his music. Played by one of the best big bands in Europe, arranged by Magnus Lindgren and John Beasley and with a squad of top-class guests, some of whom have received Grammy Awards, such as Joe Lovano, Chris ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Big Band
Acclaimed soul artist Allen Stone will release APART, a new album featuring stripped-down arrangements of fan favorite songs from across his catalog, November 12 on ATO Records. Stone has won praise from critics and fans alike for his throwback R&B sound and his dazzling vocals, as evidenced across albums including 2019’s Building Balance, ...
Genre: R&B
Subgenre: Soul
Telemann, Platti, Vivaldi & Geminiani: Concerti all'arrabbiata
Seventeenth Century Italy not only consumed great quantities of chili peppers, it was also the birthplace of virtuoso, explosive baroque music. The concertos of Platti, Vivaldi and Geminiani, with their furiously buzzing strings and fleet woodwinds, are perfect examples. ...
Composer: Georg Philipp Telemann (1681-1767), Antonio Vivaldi (1678-1741), Giovanni Benedetto Platti (1697-1763), Francesco Geminiani (1687-1762)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Orchestral
Mit seinem neuen Album "Christmas" gestaltet Trompeter Till Brönner im Trio mit Pianist Frank Chastenier und Bassist Christian von Kaphengst ein puristisches Album voll kammermusikalischer Intensität und erfrischender Weite. Songs aus unterschiedlichen Jahrzenten und Genres wie "Jesus to Child", "Ich steh an deiner Krippe ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Mainstream Jazz
Brighton-based performer and composer Poppy Ackroyd returns this with her fourth full-length album 'Pause'. Written during the pandemic and shortly after the birth of her first child, the title refers to the feeling of normal life being temporarily put on hold. ...
Composer: Poppy Ackroyd (b. 1982)
Genre: Instrumental
Subgenre: Piano
Navona Records presents DASHING VOL. 2, a festive assortment of new classical and jazz arrangements and compositions inspired by staples of the holiday season. Unwrap this gift from Sarah Wallin Huff, Joseph Turrin, Kristina Marinova, Jordan VanHemert, David W. Solomons, Elizabeth J. Start, Alan Rinehart, and Joseph T. ...
Composer: Sarah Wallin Huff, Franz Xaver Gruber (1787-1863), Vince Guaraldi (1928-1976), David Warin Solomons (b. 1953), Elizabeth Start, Hugh Martin (1914 - 2011), Mykola Leontovych (1877-1921), Francis Cutting (1550-1603), Michel Corrette (1707-1795), Agustín Barrios Mangoré (1885-1944), Johann Sebastian Bach (1685–1750)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Compilations
Groundbreaker's new album, "Soul To Soul" is once again centered around the fantastic vocal talents of Steve Overland (FM) with stunning production by Alessandro Del Vecchio. While the self-titled debut was a collaboration with Robert Sall (Work of Art, W.E.T), on the songwriting side, joining Steve and Alessandro this time are Stefano Lionetti ...
Genre: Rock
Subgenre: Hard Rock
In 2019 trombonist Joe Fiedler released Open Sesame, packed with inventive jazz readings of material drawn from his longstanding “day job” as an EMMY-nominated music director and staff arranger for the famed children’s show Sesame Street. The effort was equally beloved by lay listeners and the jazz world alike. ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Contemporary Jazz
Sarah recorded her first solo album earlier this year, Tulip or Turnip. It is a collection of unlikely standards, and surprising interpretations that illustrate/ draw from her experience living in New York City — memories bejeweled with flowers, song and dance, before and during the 2020 pandemic. ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Vocal
Long running hard rockers L.A. Guns have announced the release of their new studio album, "Checkered Past". Written and recorded while the world was still in the grips of the coronavirus pandemic, the new studio album sees Tracii Guns, Phil Lewis, and company continuing with the darker lyrical tone of the preceding studio albums, ...
Genre: Rock
Subgenre: Hard Rock
This recording is a tribute to the chromatic harp, which, with its rich colours and theatrical effects, was perfectly tuned to the impressionist and art nouveau atmosphere of the turn of the 20th century. Geoffrey Gordon's Jeux de Création is inspired by music from the 1920s, using both traditional and extended techniques, ....
Composer: Maurice Ravel (1875-1937), Gabriel Faure (1845-1924), E.T.A. Hoffmann (1776-1822), Geoffrey Gordon (1968), Claude Debussy (1862-1918), Andre Caplet (1878-1925)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
Liszt: Harmonies poétiques et religieuses III, S. 173
After two song albums together with Ian Bostridge, pianist Saskia Giorgini returns to PENTATONE with a solo recording of Franz Liszt’s Harmonies poétiques et religieuses. Liszt is often seen as a showman, but much of his music reveals his introspective, searching nature. This is demonstrated above all in Harmonies poétiques et ...
Composer: Franz Liszt (1811-1886)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Instrumental
Edward Cowie is one of the most individual and notable voices in contemporary music and considered by many to be the greatest living composer directly inspired by the natural world. He has worked for over 40 years writing music in response to landscapes and the voices of creatures. ...
Composer: Edward Cowie (1943)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Instrumental
Fiorini: In the Midst of Things – Piano & Chamber Music
Maltese composer Karl Fiorini is a European without frontiers – the compositions in this album reflect his early detachment from a Mediterranean identity towards a more varied and intense sound world. Trio Lamina features elements of Bartók’s ‘night music’ in its complex sub-sections, whereas Fiorini’s two piano studies, ...
Composer: Karl Fiorini (1979)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
Earl Kim & Isang Yun: Complete Works for Solo Violin
On EARL KIM & ISANG YUN, violinist Chi Young Song presents complete works for solo violin by the titular composers, each of whom are of Korean heritage. Blurring the lines between Western musical heritage and traditional Korean music, each piece exhibits the crosscultural and borderless qualities of music. ...
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Instrumental
"Visions Of Your Other" is the third album by Adam O'Farrill's Stranger Days, one that takes the band back to its roots in original compositions after their Mexican folk music-inspired release, El Maquech. Adam and two of his bandmates, Walter Stinson on bass and Zack O'Farrill on drums, return along with the arrival of Xavier Del Castillo ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Modern Jazz
