"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
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
Sol3 Mio today announce their highly-anticipated third studio album, Coming Home, out November 12th via Universal Music New Zealand. The album announcement is accompanied by the release of new single and video 'E Ipo' – an awe-inspiring rendition of Prince Tui Teka’s legendary ballad. ...
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Classical Crossover
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
Advent is a time of heightened feelings: anticipation and tense expectation alternate with moments of reflection and proverbial contemplation. The Holy Night, finally, is both: a bright and radiant time, but also a darkness that invites to contemplation. Advent is also a time of contrasts: the king of the world is a child, the savior of the world ...
Composer: Michael Praetorius (1571-1621)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Vocal
Like their band name suggests, Black Veil Brides evoke transcendent visions of an impenetrable hereafter, intermingling with a steely focus on the dark passions and elusive mysteries of the here and now. A romantic fantasy first summoned in a small town by founder Andy Biersack – a creative who was fascinated with death ...
Genre: Rock
Subgenre: Hard Rock
The curiosity of the countertenor Andreas Scholl, one of the most recognized opera singers, is well known, with his taste for rare and precious musical items. We find him here with the lute player Edin Karamazov in the embodiment of an encounter between Havana and Leipzig, between contemporary Cuba and baroque Germany. ...
Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750), Leo Brouwer (1939)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Vocal
Christina Pluhar, L’Arpeggiata and eight guest singers explore the musical highways and byways of Naples, the most intoxicating and idiosyncratic of Italy’s large cities. Alla Napoletana, a double album, expresses the city’s mercurial personality in music from the 17th to the 20th centuries, embracing the operatic style of the so-called ...
Composer: Andrea Falconieri (1585-1656), Pietro Andrea Ziani (1616-1684), Francesco Provenzale (1632-1704), Rodolfo Falvo (1873-1937), Antonio Farina (1803-1888), Cristoforo Caresana (1640-1709), Pietro Antonio Giramo (1619-1650), Giovanni Legrenzi (1626-1690), Sigismondo d'India (1582-1629)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Vocal
«Early this year, a crazy idea came over me – an old longing, a somewhat hazy obsession, a dream well within my reach, yet never fulfilled: to go on a long beautiful journey. For a long time I’d been contemplating a bridge between two worlds: the music I make, improvisation – that so-called European jazz – and twentieth century ...
Composer: Luciano Berio (1925–2003), Paul Hindemith (1895-1963), Arthur Honegger (1892-1955), György Ligeti (1923–2006), Krzysztof Penderecki (1933)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
After Concerto Ostinato, Ore Diciotto in Punto, Pianosequenza, Visioni, here is a new album by the Italian composer Francesco Di Fiore. Family Album is a solo piano project inspired by a real photo album, actually belonged to his family. 'The process of composing this work has been joyous but also painful. ...
Composer: Francesco Di Fiore
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Instrumental
Eternal Spring, an album of trumpet and piano music performed by Robert Sullivan, trumpet and Yoko Yamada-Selvaggio, piano, in tribute to his late wife, Robin and to his mentor and friend Armando “Mundy” Ghitalla. After his wife's passing, Sullivan commissioned a series new works from Eric Ewazen, ...
Composer: Eric Ewazen (1954), James Stephenson (1969)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Instrumental
Luca Natali Stradivari: Chamber Works
Luca N. Stradivari (1993) is a composer and pianist of his own music. After he graduated at the University of Nottingham, he started to hold composition seminars and concerts in China since 2018. He writes: “The first part of this release is marked by the performance of The King is Dead – shipwreck for violin and piano. ...
Composer: Luca Natali Stradivari
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
The Country And The Coast Side A
Australian-born country star Morgan Evans has released his brand-new EP, The Country and the Coast: Side A, via Warner Music Nashville today amidst being announced as the headliner of Australia's biggest country festival, CMC Rocks. Evans also recently shared the official music video for the project’s lead single, “Love Is Real” ...
Genre: Country
Subgenre: Country Pop
Mastodon's anxiously-awaited ninth full-length album, Hushed & Grim, released on October 29, 2021 via Reprise Records. Over the past year, the group recorded the album in their hometown, collaborating with producer David Bottrill (Tool, Rush, Muse, Peter Gabriel) behind the board. As their most ambitious body of work ...
Genre: Rock
Subgenre: Metal
Restless Heart (25th Anniversary Edition, 2021 Remix)
Newly remastered and remixed: In the wake of Whitesnake's massive global success, the band's founder and lead singer, David Coverdale, set out to record his third solo album in 1995. However, the plan was derailed when pressure from his record label forced him to change course and release 'Restless Heart' under the David ...
Genre: Rock
Subgenre: Hard Rock
“Jewels from five centuries” aptly describes this collection, featuring small pieces of great music, that the a cappella group Octavians presents on this Genuin recording: canzones, motets, folk songs, and pop songs to which the winners of the 2017 A Cappella Contest Leipzig give their own unique coloring. ...
Composer: Juan de Anchieta (1462-1523), Giovanni Giacomo Gastoldi (1550-1622), Thomas Morley (1557-1602), Franz Schubert (1797-1828), Wilhelm Berger (1861-1911), Ivan Moody (b. 1964), Lowell Mason (1792-1872), Morten Lauridsen (b. 1943), James Taylor (b. 1948), Thomas A. Dorsey (1899-1993), Yoko Ono (b. 1933), John Lennon (1940-1980), Ed Swillms (b. 1947), Paul Simon (b. 1941), Sting (b. 1947), Reinhard Mey (b. 1942), Joseph Gabriel Rheinberger (1839-1901), Carl Ferdinand Adam (1806-1868)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Vocal
Ravel: Daphnis et Chloé (Remastered)
Daphnis et Chloé, commissioned for the Ballets Russes by Serge Diaghilev is one of Ravel’s most ambitious works and its premiere in Paris gathered the most innovative artists of their time: Fokine at the choreography, Nijinsky in the leading role, Leon Bakst for the scenery (the set design he created ...
Composer: Maurice Ravel (1875-1937)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Orchestral
The eight song project showcases his soul-infused country, and includes the rowdy anthem, “Beer With My Friends” featuring Cole Swindell and David Lee Murphy. The track was penned by Carter, Murphy, and Bryan Simpson, and is currently impacting country radio. The project also includes his 2020 breakout single “Good Love.” ...
Genre: Country
Subgenre: Alternative Country
