A Vision in a Dream - Concertos by Edward Gregson
An award-winning English composer of international standing, and one of the leading composers of his generation, whose music has been performed, recorded, and broadcast in many countries, Edward Gregson celebrates his eightieth birthday in 2025. He continues to compose and perform as actively as ever. ...
Composer: Edward Gregson (1945)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Concertos
To love! And to life! "Ina Müller 6.0," the new album, is here, and it's no coincidence that it comes with a vibrant red cover. It's an album about love. While Ina Müller's songs have never been lacking in stories about relationships—sometimes funny, sometimes tragic—this one is different. ...
Genre: Pop
Subgenre: Pop Rock
Zee Zee was a prizewinner of the Gina Bachauer International Artists Piano Competition and the 2013 Queen Elizabeth Competition, and is a frequent performer around the world’s greatest concert halls. Her previous album with Deutsche Grammophon Ravel & Liszt with Paavo Järvi and ...
Composer: Franz Liszt (1811-1886)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Concertos
Johann Samuel Schroeter: Three Harp Concertos - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Harp Concerto K 107
According to an old tradition, it is perfectly legitimate to transpose works from one instrument to another, provided that this does not detract from the substance of the work. This is what the young Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart told himself when, in his early years, he transformed three piano ...
Composer: Johann Samuel Schröter (1753-1788)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Concertos
Legendary singer Ronnie Romero is excited to release his new solo album, “Backbone”. Ronnie commented: “I actually have to thank my dear friend Russ Ballard!! Before I started writing the songs, I had this idea to make a song together, to link somehow the Rainbow connection we have. He immediately said yes and sent a ...
Genre: Rock
Subgenre: Hard Rock
Inspired by the music of Duke Ellington and taking many of Ellington’s most revered compositions, such as Satin Doll, Mood Indigo, Take The A Train, It Don’t Mean A Thing and Creole Love Call, I've deconstructed and arranged these melodies into a set of new music, rich in orchestration and very different from the originals, but hopefully ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Contemporary Jazz
Between the Mountain and the Moon
Luka Bloom's sixth album, Between the Mountain and the Moon, is his first collection of new, original material since Salty Heaven, released in the U.S. in 1999. Not that Luka has left his fans wanting. In between, he managed to put together Keeper of the Flame, a highly personal homage to his favorite classic ...
Genre: Songwriter
Subgenre: New Acoustic
Living Being IV (Time Reflections)
Yesterday, 2011: Vincent, Yoann, Tony, Julien... and one more. A group of pals, each one having left Nice independently and ended up in Paris. They adopt Émile, also from Southern France, but from further west. Today: natural affinities, a leader who calls the shots, and they use jazz to embrace a wide musical ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Contemporary Jazz
Alexandre Desplat is one of the most sought-after composers in the movie business today. He has generated a diverse, enduring cult fanbase of movie-music enthusiasts of all ages, and increasingly is bringing the art form to live audiences beyond the realm of cinema, dedicating more time to performing ...
Composer: Alexandre Desplat (1961)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Orchestral
With Songs of Passion, a collection of vocal and instrumental music by John Dowland and Henry Purcell – English composers born nearly a century apart – mezzo-soprano Lea Desandre, lutenist Thomas Dunford and Ensemble Jupiter have created a companion to their previous albums, Eternal Heaven, Idylle and Amazone. Making guest appearances on Songs of ...
Composer: Henry Purcell (1659-1695), John Dowland (1562-1626)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Vocal
Following his recent heroic Met debut as Hermann in Tchaikovsky’s The Queen of Spades, Arsen Soghomonyan makes his solo recording debut for Delos. A fast-rising figure in the dramatic repertoire, the Armenian tenor has enjoyed success at major opera houses such as Bayerische Staatsoper, Teatro di San Carlo, Bolshoi Theatre and Staatsoper Wien. ...
Composer: Ruggero Leoncavallo (1857-1919), Pietro Mascagni (1863-1945), Giuseppe Verdi (1813-1901), Giacomo Puccini (1858-1924), Francesco Cilea (1866-1950)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Vocal
Like something from the best days of 2000s indie rock, the lights of a Brit club are reflected on a frayed glitter curtain. Only it's not The Black Keys, Arctic Monkeys, or Stereophonics spinning on the DJ's turntable, but Mojo August's debut album, "Love and Other Substances." ...
Genre: Pop
Subgenre: Pop Rock
Chart-topping Matt Bianco is back with album #17 “Masquerader”. Front-man Mark Reilly’s smooth vocals set the tone, the beats blend organic Lounge and Club sounds with the Caribbean and South America. Matt Bianco, the chart-topping group that ignited the British Jazz-Pop fires in the 1980s with Top 10-hits like “Yeh Yeh”, “Get Out Of Your Lazy ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Vocal
Crown Jewels, the new greatest hits album from the legendary Queen Of The Blues, Koko Taylor. The album collects 12 of Taylor's most powerful, dynamic and impactful performances, all newly remastered. From the iconic Wang Dang Doodle to the revelatory I'm A Woman to the raucous Hey Bartender to the heart-melting live rendition of I'd ...
Genre: Blues
Subgenre: Contemporary Blues
Though Belgium in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries was known above all for it's "school" of violin-playing, represented by figures such as Henry Vieuxtemps and Eugene Ysaye, it was also home to a flourishing piano "school". After independence in 1830, the new nation's conservatoires opened numerous classes, method-books and anthologies ...
Composer: Joseph Jongen (1873-1953), Cesar Franck (1822-1890), Arthur De Greef (1862-1940), Michel Lysight (1958), Guillaume Lekeu (1870-1894), Theo Ysaye (1865-1918), Frederik van Rossum (1939), Leon Jongen (1884-1969)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Instrumental
The Hives Forever Forever The Hives
International rock sensation The Hives, the best live band in the world and still your new favorite band, has once again, faster than expected, created a new album the likes of which you've never heard before and probably never will again. Their seventh album, "The Hives Forever Forever The Hives," will be released on August 29th on the venerable Play ...
Genre: Rock
Subgenre: Adult Alternative
Tipped as 2025's rock-band-to-watch! Return to Dust, a 4-piece outfit based out of Los Angeles, embraces the past and brings the sound of grunge to the future. Inspired by bands like Alice in Chains and Queens of the Stone Age, the band has found an audience of a new generation who connects with them and grew up with the same inspirations that they did. ...
Genre: Rock
Subgenre: Adult Alternative
Purcell: Dido and Aeneas, Z. 626
Love and betrayal at its finest: The encounter between the Carthaginian queen Dido and the Trojan refugee Aeneas is one of the most famous love stories of all time, and no one has set it to music as poignantly as the English composer Henry Purcell in his opera "Dido and Aeneas." For many years, Joyce DiDonato has included "When I am laid in earth," the ...
Composer: Henry Purcell (1659-1695)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Opera
London circa 1760: J.C. Bach, C.F. Abel & friends
London, 1760. Handel had just died and George III acceded to the throne. During the reign of this monarch and his queen Charlotte, both discerning musicians, musical life in the British capital was to enjoy an exceptional revival. Virtuosos and composers from all over Europe flocked there, vying with each other in originality and modernity. ...
Composer: Carl Friedrich Abel (1723-1787), Johann Christian Bach (1735-1782), Francesco Geminiani (1687-1762), Thomas "Fiddler Tam" Erskine (1732-1781), Rudolf Straube (1717-1785)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Concertos
The reign of Queen Elizabeth I (1558-1603) and her successor James I (1603-1625) was a golden age of English lute music. This enchanting compilation of the album Consort of two by the Icelandic harpist and singer Sólveig Thoroddsen Jónsdóttir and the Costa Rican lutenist Sergio Coto Blanco dates from this ...
Composer: Anthony Holborne (1545-1602), John Dowland (1562-1626), Pedro Blanco (1750-1811)
Genre: Folk
Subgenre: Instrumental
