On Jeff Beck’s first album in six years, the legendary guitarist combines fluid fretwork with topical lyrics to make a powerful statement about everything from the love of power, to the power of love.
Composer: Carmen Vandenberg, Jeff Beck, Rosie O.
Genre: Rock
Subgenre: Blues-Rock
American hard rockers return with 2016 album once again produced by Joe Barresi (Queens of the Stone Age, Tool, Coheed & Cambria).
Genre: Rock
Subgenre: Adult Alternative
Serpent & Fire: Arias for Dido & Cleopatra
The German soprano Anna Prohaska joins Alpha Classics for several recording projects. Her first recital brings together two superb African queens - Dido & Cleopatra - and follows them all over Europe during the first century of opera, from
Composer: Henry Purcell (1659-1695), Christoph Graupner (1683-1760), Antonio Sartorio (1620-1681), Matthew Locke (1622-1677), Daniele da Castrovillari (1613-1678), Georg Friedrich Händel (1685-1759), Johann Adolph Hasse (1699-1783), Francesco Cavalli (1602-1676)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Vocal
The fateful life of the Mary, Queen of Scots1542 – 1687) has inspired many works of literature, music, and visual arts. Her life masterly appertained as tragedy material due to the wealth of spectacular events. In the German-speaking area,
Composer: Johann Zumsteeg (1760-1802), Carl Loewe (1796-1869), Joseph Joachim Raff (1822-1882), Robert Schumann (1810-1856), Edward Elgar (1857-1934), Horatio William Parker (1863-1919), Richard Wagner (1813-1883)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Vocal
In a heartfelt personal letter penned by Seth Avett, Grammy Award®-nominated alternative folk collective THE AVETT BROTHERS revealed today that they will be releasing their new album, True Sadness [American/Republic Records], on
Composer: Timothy Seth Avett, Scott Yancey Avett, Robert William Crawford, Jr. Wendell Tilley
Genre: Rock
Subgenre: Adult Alternative
Dvorak: Piano Trios, Op. 65 & 90 'Dumky'
This young trio that takes its name from the legendary violinist Adolf Busch (1891-1952) has already made its name on the international scene as one of the most talented of the new generation, picking up on its travels enthusiastic
Composer: Antonin Dvorak (1841-1904)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
Girls, Vol. 3 (Music From The HBO Original Series)
The album features a selection of songs from the show by artists including Ellie Goulding, Bleachers and Grimes, St. Vincent, BØRNS, Lucy Rose, Casey Veggies, Matrimony, Christine and the Queens & more. Also included are two
Genre: Soundtrack
Subgenre: TV
The trumpeter Alison Balsom has a rich Warner Classics catalogue, but this is her first recording recital with piano - here played by her long-standing recital partner, Tom Poster. Balsom describes the progamme as embracing 'the most
Composer: Leonard Bernstein (1918-1990), Peter Maxwell Davies (1934-2016), George Enescu (1881-1955), Jean Françaix (1912-1997), Alexander Fyodorovich Goedicke (1877-1957), George Gershwin (1898-1937), Paul Hindemith (1895-1963), Jerome Kern (1885-1945), Bohuslav Martinů
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Instrumental
Apologies to the Queen Mary (Deluxe Edition)
The Wolf Parade - Apologies to the Queen Mary (Deluxe Edition) reissue features the original album, now as a double set, along with the band’s pre-Sub Pop, self-titled EPs (released in 2003 and 2004), both of which are making their
Genre: Rock
Subgenre: Adult Alternative
Cyndi Lauper's celebrated musical journey takes an unexpected southern turn on 'Detour,' her 11th studio album, and one which finds the Grammy, Emmy and Tony-winning singer-songwriter putting her signature spin on a dozen
Composer: Charles McCoy, L.E. White, Hank Cochran, C. Hall, P. Montana, Harlan Howard, Lola Jean Dillon, Kent Westberry, Marty Robbins, Paul Westmoreland, Willie Nelson/Walt Breeland/Paul Burskirk, Arthur Kent, Sylvia Dee, Alan Block, Don Hecht, Bob Montgomery
Genre: Country
Subgenre: Country Pop
Our beautiful recording for Arcana of Alessandro Stradella's oratorio 'Santa Editta“. With this third installment of the Stradella Project, Andrea De Carlo and Ensemble Mare Nostrum continue the exploration of the oratorio output,
Composer: Alessandro Stradella (1642-1682)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
French-American singer Rosemary Standley is the vocalist in the Parisian alt-folk band Moriarty, whose recent fourth release Epitaph was acclaimed in the Guardian as “classy, eclectic Americana”. She also sings in Birds On A Wire, a duo
Composer: William Saroyan, Billy Foster, Carlos D'Alessio, Peter Seeger, Henry Purcell (1659-1695), Allan Roberts, Rose Fred, Bud Cooper, Oscar Hammerstein II [Non-Classical Composer], Peggy Leen, Maurice Carême, Moriarty, Ned Washington, José-Luis Perales, Kurt Weill, Francis Poulenc (1899-1963), Paul McCartney, Jefferson McConnaughey
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Mainstream Jazz
Tchaikovsky & Grieg: Piano Concertos
This new PENTATONE release of Edvard Grieg’s Piano Concerto in A minor, Op. 16 and Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky’s Piano Concerto No. 1 in B-flat minor, Op. 23 marks the start of the musical collaboration between the label and the young
Composer: Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840-1893), Edvard Grieg (1843-1907)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Concertos
Her Heavenly Harmony: Profane Music from the Royal Court
Following on from their acclaimed debut album (Music of the Realm – RES10146), a capella vocal sextet The Queen’s Six return with a captivating exploration of secular jewels by the same six composers associated with the Tudor and Jacobean
Composer: Thomas Morley (1557-1602), Thomas Tomkins (1572-1656), Thomas Tallis (1505-1585), Thomas Weelkes (1575-1623), William Byrd (1540-1623), Orlando Gibbons (1583-1625)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Vocal
Lalo: Concertante Works for Violin, Cello & Piano
Édouard Lalo made his mark on French music with his opera Le Roi d’Ys, but his instrumental output also has considerable historical importance, with its resolutely innovative aims for its time. More specifically, his concertante music rewards the
Composer: Edouard Lalo (1823-1892)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
L’Escadron Volant de la Reine, “the Queen's Flying Squadron” was created by Antoine Touche, l'Escadron Volant de la Reine gathers together young professional musicians, fond of Baroque music. All former students from European superior
Composer: Cristofaro Caresana (1640-1709), Alessandro Scarlatti (1660-1725), Gaetano Veneziano (1665-1716)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
„This is another of Belafonte's attempts to musically circumnavigate the globe, performing songs from a variety of world cultures. Songs from the West Indies, once a major portion of his repertoire, were reduced to one on this album.
Composer: Cowan, Frank Paterson, Jester Hairston, Fred Hellerman, Frances Minkoff, Woody Guthrie, Paul Gonsalves, Miriam Makeba, J. Hadar, Moshe Dor
Genre: Vocal
Subgenre: Vocal Jazz
