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
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
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
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
Schnittke: Concerto for Piano and Strings - Prokofiev: Symphony No. 2
The third album on The Cleveland Orchestra's label follows the 'old-new' pairing of their previous release, showcasing recordings of Prokofiev and Schnittke that cover both preand post-pandemic music-making. Prokofiev's Symphony No.2 is a beautiful and exquisitely fashioned gem, inspired by the early 20th century's ...
Composer: Alfred Schnittke (1934-1998)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Concertos
Tatort: Dreams (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
For the Munich TATORT episode “Dreams, the 87th criminal case for police commissioners Ivo Batic (Miroslav Nemec) and Franz Leitmayr (Udo Wachtveitl), directed by Boris Kunz ("Hindafing"), the orchestral film music was commissioned from the Munich composer David Reichelt (*1986), who has already won the German Film Music ...
Composer: David Reichelt
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Orchestral
Castelnuovo-Tedesco: Guitar Chamber Works - Complete Edition
Giampaolo Bandini is considered to be one of the best Italian guitarists on the international music circuit. In 2003, he was nominated as the best Italian guitarist of the year by the magazine Guitar’s readers. ..
Composer: Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco (1895-1968)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
Admiral Fallow are thrilled to announce the forthcoming release of their new album The Idea Of You, their first in six years, on Chemikal Underground. Written and mostly recorded in 2019, The Idea Of You is a captivating collection of songs – generously melodic, confidently executed and festooned with intricacies. In true Admiral Fallow fashion, these tales of ...
Genre: Alternative
Subgenre: Indie Rock
Asserting himself as an exciting voice among those who are bringing vibraphone back to the front of the stage, Alexis Valet presents a captivating album with a shifting format exploring multiple directions, marked by the participation of two major European figures, pianist Bojan Z and saxophonist Ben Van Gelder. ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Mainstream Jazz
On his new album In Plain Sight, Neal Francis offers up a body of work both strangely enchanted and painfully self-aware, unfolding in songs sparked from Greek myths and frenzied dreams and late-night drives in the depths of summer delirium. True to its charmed complexity, the singer/songwriter/pianist’s second full-length came ...
Genre: Rock
Subgenre: Modern Rock
David Shenton's music has been described by critics as being immediately accessible, while maintaining immense depth, beautiful melodic writing, and incredible sophistication. There is something for every musical taste in these selections, brilliantly performed by pianist Joanne Polk. “Awesome on all fronts, Joanne Polk will engage and bedazzle like a ...
Composer: David Shenton
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Instrumental
