Tchaikovsky & Parfenov: Orchestral Works
Dance and Drama: Tchaikovsky stayed in Aachen for six weeks in 1887, during which time he orchestrated his Mozartiana. He also left behind 16 bars of music from his diary, and the Aachener Walzer is André Parfenov’s completion of this otherwise unknown mini-waltz. Further works by Parfenov include a Violin Concerto on the subject of war, ...
Composer: André Parfenov (b. 1972), Pjotr Iljitsch Tschaikowski (1840-1893)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Concertos
Berlioz: Symphonie fantastique, Op. 14, H. 48 (Rehearsal Excerpts)
Mariss Jansons conducts two revolutionary masterpieces from two french composers: Hector Berlioz' passionate and excessive "Symphonie fantastique" and Edgard Varèses "Ionisation" - the first independent piece for percussion ensemble. After the Beethoven-Box where classical music was already combined with ...
Composer: Hector Berlioz (1803-1869)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Orchestral
Pierné: Ramuntcho & Cydalise et le chèvre-pied Suites
Composer, conductor and organist Gabriel Pierné wrote in a wide variety of genres, from operas to pieces for solo piano. His orchestral music for the stage shows the utmost refinement and clarity as well as wit and charm in the finest French tradition. His colourful and evocative score for Ramuntcho is rich in Basque ...
Composer: Gabriel Pierné (1863-1937)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Orchestral
Batucada: South American Guitar Music
This recital offers a kaleidoscopic array of styles unified by South America’s national instrument, the guitar. Titans of Latin American music such as Piazzolla and Barrios Mangoré are represented, but so too are distinctive composers less well known outside of their own countries. Genres such as milonga, Venezuelan waltz and choro are ...
Composer: Fernando Bustamante (1915-1979), Cacho Tirao (1941-2007), Edu Lobo (b. 1943), Isaias Alvarado, Antonio Carrillo (1892-1962), Agustín Barrios Mangoré (1885-1944), Isaías Sávio (1900-1977), Dilermando Reis (1916-1977), Carlos Guastavino (1912-2000), Ástor Piazzolla (1921-1992), Pablo Escobar (1900-1970), Pedro Laurenz (1902-1972), Juan Buscaglia (1893-1958)
Genre: Guitar
Subgenre: Classical Guitar
20th Century Music for Flute & Guitar
This album of 20th-century masterpieces for flute and guitar features works composed especially for this combination of instruments plus arrangements of works by Bartók and Ravi Shankar. Castelnuovo-Tedesco’s Sonatine for Flute and Guitar is considered to be one of the finest compositions for this combination ...
Composer: Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco (1895-1968), Toru Takemitsu (1930-1996), Bela Bartok (1881-1945), Ravi Shankar (1920-2012), Astor Piazzolla (1921-1992)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Instrumental
„Only Avenues“ ist ein Beispiel für die komplexen Kompositionen, die uns auf „How The Ash Felt“ erwarten, und eine Meditation voll von so kryptischer wie persönlicher Poesie, die von einem Buchladen in einem Ort namens Waverly über einen leeren Zug bis zu einer Hochbahn führt, nur um am Ende einzusehen: „We’re only avenues halfway down the high line.“ ...
Genre: Folk
Subgenre: Folk Rock
This album explores music for viola da Gamba and organ from 17th-century Austria, played by Viktor Toepelmann and organist Daniela Niedhammer on original instruments from that time. The recording took place in a small village church in Austria, which houses an original church organ from 1662. The viola da gamba used for this recording
Composer: Heinrich Ignaz Biber (1644-1704), August Kühnel (1645-1700), Johann Caspar Kerll (1627-1693), Ignazio Albertini (1644-1685), Georg Muffat (1653-1704), Johann Heinrich Schmelzer (1623-1680), Johannes Schenck (1656-1712)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
Cellist Fernando Arias and pianist Noelia Rodiles team up for this recording, portraying 30 years of Slavic masterpieces for this combination: From the still neglected Dohnányi’s Sonata, op.8 to one of 20th Century’s chamber music masterpieces: Shostakovich’s Cello Sonata op. 40. Intense and brilliant performances in this album ...
Composer: Ernö Dohnányi (1877-1960), Dmitri Shostakovich (1906–1975), Leos Janacek (1854-1928)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
Raw Demoon Alchemy (A Lone Operation)
Raw Demoon Alchemy (A Lone Operation) harnesses the gamut of raw, unadulterated emotions — suppressed feelings that we’ve all been allowed to “feel” again in the wake of a global pandemic. Born out of a live performance in fall 2019, during the last stop of his tour in Portland, OR, saxophonist Darius Jones ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Contemporary Jazz
Dionne Bennett is a British/West-Indian singer-songwriter, producer, and radio personality. She started singing and performing live at age 14 and released her first soul single by the time she was 15. Dionne is internationally known for her unique and diverse vocal style that covers all Afro-culture influenced genres from blues, jazz to rhythm & blues, soul, reggae, ...
Genre: R&B
Subgenre: Funk
Great sorrow and great joy, expressed in in sacred and secular arias and cantatas, are the themes of Sabine Devieilhe’s album of Bach and Handel. Recorded with the Pygmalion ensemble and conductor Raphaël Pichon, it features appearances by baritone Stéphane Degout and lutenist Thomas Dunford and includes Bach’s cantatas ...
Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach (1685–1750), George Frideric Handel (1685–1759)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Vocal
Bedřich Smetana: Piano Trio - Josef Suk: Piano Trio & Elegy - Luboš Fišer: Piano Trio
Composer: Bedrich Smetana (1824-1884), Josef Suk (1874–1935), Luboš Fišer
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
Mozart: Mitridate, rè di Ponto
Mozart was just 14 years old when he composed Mitridate, re di Ponto for performance in Milan. An opera seria set in ancient times, it boasts a sequence of spectacular arias for its cast of strongly contrasting characters. At the centre of the action is Mitridate himself – the historical Mithridatus, King of Pontus, ...
Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756 –1791)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Opera
Shani Diluka releases a great project dedicated to Marcel Proust and composers he loved, to celebrate the 150-year anniversary of his birth in 2021 and the 100-year anniversary of his death in 2022. It features Reynaldo Hahn's rarely played Piano Concerto and works by Fauré, Gluck, Massenet, R. Strauss, and Debussy. ...
Composer: Reynaldo Hahn (1875-1947), Claude Debussy (1862-1918), Christoph Willibald Gluck (1714-1787), Gabriel Fauré (1845-1924), César Franck (1822-1890), Eugène Ysaÿe (1858-1931), Richard Wagner (1813-1883), Richard Strauss (1864-1949), Jules Massenet (1842-1912)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Vocal
Franz Schubert: Piano Trios Nos. 1 & 2
Composer: Franz Schubert (1797-1828)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
"FIRST NOEL" is a Christmas album including 25 of the greatest classics as well as three exclusive new tracks Ibrahim composed especially for the very first Christmas of his son, and in honor of his grandma Odette's last one, past year. The Christmas memories he has are full of wonderful moments, so he insisted on recording this album ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Mainstream Jazz
An opera of adventurous and lavish scope, Rameau’s magical Achante et Céphise receives its world premiere recording – 270 years after its staged premiere at the Académie royale de musique in celebration of the birth of Louis XV’s grandson. The first French opera to feature clarinets, it offers a rich sequence of ...
Composer: Jean-Philippe Rameau (1683-1764)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Vocal
Rendez-Vous With Martha Argerich, Vol. 2
After the tremendously successful first Rendez-Vous with Martha Argerich, this second volume will certainly thrill music lovers from all around the world again. For this new edition, Martha Argerich partners with high-profile musical friends such as Sylvain Cambreling, Renaud Capuçon, Charles Dutoit, Gabriela Montero, Edgar Moreau, Akane ...
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Compilations
Anima Aeterna, an adventurous album of sacred arias and motets from the 18th century, follows in the vein of Anima Sacra, which in 2018 decisively announced Jakub Józef Orlinski's arrival as a recording artist. It's programme - music by Zelenka, Handel, Fux, and the little-known Gennaro Manna, Francisco António de Almeida, Bartolomeo Nucci ...
Composer: Jan Dismas Zelenka (1679-1745), Johann Joseph Fux (1660-1741), Francisco António de Almeida (1702-1755), Bartolomeo Nucci (1717-1749), Gennaro Manna (1715-1759), Georg Friedrich Händel (1685-1759)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Vocal
