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
Die wahre vox humana in Gestalt einer glockenreinen Sopranstimme, dazu die künstliche Nachahmerin derselben im harmonischen Zusammenklang mit all den Pfeifenwerken, der die Königin der Instrumente ihre Hoheit verdankt; komplexe Linien und Akkorde, zu Flächen gewirkt, worüber einfacher, liedhafter Gesang sich in Girlanden ...
Composer: Leo Sowerby (1895-1968), Louis Vierne (1870-1937), Max Reger (1873-1916), Sigfrid Karg-Elert (1877-1933), Harald Genzmer (1909–2007), Herbert Howells (1892-1983), Tom Harrold (1991), Gustav Mahler (1860-1911)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Vocal
This album is both a continuation and the capstone of the idea of recording all five sonatas by Ludwig van Beethoven for piano and cello. The presented album contains the Sonata No. 1 in F Major, Op. 5 No. 1, which opens the cycle of these works, as well as the Sonata No. 4 in C Major, Op. 102 No. 1 and the Sonata No. 5 in D Major, Op. 102 No. 2, ...
Composer: Ludwig van Beethoven (1770–1827)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
The friendship between Mátyás Seiber and Antal Doráti dates back to their youth, when they were the two youngest students in Zoltán Kodály's composition class in Budapest in the 1920s. Doráti was one year younger than Seiber and held him in high esteem from the beginning. In the memoirs, Így láttuk Kodályt ...
Composer: Matyas Gyorgy Seiber (1905-1960)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Concertos
Beethoven: Piano Concertos Nos. 4, Op. 58 & "6", Op. 61a
A surprisingly different Beethoven: With Beethoven’s Piano Concertos no. 4 and op. 61a, the latter being the composer’s own transcription of his Violin Concerto, Gianluca Cascioli, Riccardo Minasi and Ensemble Resonanz present two milestones of the piano literature. Basing their interpretation on intensive source research ...
Composer: Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Concertos
Hida Takayama Virtuoso Orchestra 2021 (Live)
This album is the latest in the "Hida Takayama Virtuoso Orchestra Concert" series. In this orchestra without a conductor, artists play music in a collaborative and focused manner. It features a sophisticated tone not found in other orchestras. In 2021, influenced by COVID-19, they recorded live session ensemble of stringed and wind instruments. ...
Composer: Henryk Mikołaj Górecki (1933-2010), Astor Piazzolla (1921-1992), Wojciech Kilar (1932-2013), Pavel Haas (1899–1944), Edgard Varèse (1883-1965)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Orchestral
Marigold has been out for a year and a half now; it entered the world at the same time the pandemic shut down everything, and most of the planet entered some form of lockdown. During these quieter days, Stu Larsen spent a few months in a small cottage on The Isle of Raasay off the west coast of Scotland, surrounded ...
Genre: Songwriter
Subgenre: Contemporary
Rock is dead, long live rock: The War On Drugs announce I Don’t Live Here Anymore, their first studio album in four years. In conjunction with today’s announcement, they present its first song/video, “Living Proof.” Over the last 15 years, The War on Drugs have steadily emerged as one of this century’s great ...
Genre: Rock
Subgenre: Adult Alternative
Schubert: Winterreise, Op. 89, D. 911 (Arr. for Baritone & Piano)
When Franz Schubert in 1827 invited a friend to the first performance of his Winterreise, he called it "a cycle of horrifying songs". The texts that he had chosen to set were by the poet Wilhelm Müller, whose 24 poems form a psychodrama which starts with regret over a lost love but develops into an inner voyage in which a nameless ...
Composer: Franz Schubert (1797-1828)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Vocal
The Kalevala is a compilation of mostly original folk poetry, arranged into fifty extensive runos (‘poems’) by the Finnish physician and folklorist Elias Lönnrot. Beginning with the creation of the world, it develops into a series of separate episodes which nevertheless form a rich whole, introducing epic characters such as Väinämöinen, ...
Composer: Uuno Klami (1900-1961)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Orchestral
Marianne Crebassa's new album celebrates her French-Spanish roots. Centered around French composers taking inspiration from Spain and Spanish composers searching for new ideas in France. Séguedilles is a mix of opera arias and songs from composers Bizet, Massenet, De Falla, Mompou, Offenbach, Guridi, Ravel, and Saint-Saëns. ...
Composer: Georges Bizet (1838-1875), Manuel de Falla (1876-1946), Jules Massenet (1842-1912), Jesús Guridi (1886-1961), Camille Saint-Saëns (1835-1921):, Frederic Mompou (1893-1987), Maurice Ravel (1875-1937), Jacques Offenbach (1819-1880)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Vocal
Lyapunov: 12 Études d'exécution transcendante
Florian Noack offers a clear, imaginative and vigorous reading of these brilliant yet still little- known pieces. Like Liszt’s Douze Études d’exécution transcendante, which Lyapunov revered, these visionary and colourful works, sometimes steeped in Russian folklore, require the performer to possess technical prowess ...
Composer: Sergei Lyapunov (1859-1924)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Instrumental
Love Letters, Nine Through Six
Following March’s 9696 Dream mixtape and July’s Flex Time EP, this new album sees 96 Back shine the spotlight on his own vocals for the first time, at points (such as on lead single ‘9 To Find 6’) operating fully in the realms of experimental pop. At other times, such as on ‘Teach Me Tenderness’ and ‘Feel Hard’, 96 Back stretches ...
Genre: Electronic
Subgenre: Electronica
Hindemith: Clarinet Concerto, Clarinet Quartet & Clarinet Sonata
Even if some people still consider him “too modern” today, Hanau-born Hesse Paul Hindemith is undoubtedly one of the most influential German composers of the generation after Richard Strauss. Few of his immediate colleagues have found their way into the international repertoire to the same extent that he has, or influenced ...
Composer: Paul Hindemith (1895–1963)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Concertos
Based on her career throughout South Korea and the United States, she set her musical direction to, "Not a single note wasted". Her music is a battle of two different egos within herself; Calm, dispassionate contemplation of her piano playing and the fearless vocalist exploring promptly to reach the perfect note, harmony and rhythm. ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Vocal
Zemlinsky: Lyric Symphony, Op. 18 (Live)
Alexander Zemlinsky composed his Lyric Symphony, Op. 18 for soprano, baritone and orchestra during his time as musical director of the New German Theatre in Prague, where he had moved in 1911 from Vienna. It was generally regarded as his corresponding equivalent to Mahler’s Lied von der Erde and is based on Nobel Prize laureate and ...
Composer: Alexander von Zemlinsky (1871-1942)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Vocal
The project, called 6 Visits, provides a glimpse into the quartet’s “musical DNA”. Check out the first single from the release, ‘Beyond The Sunrays’ – a mashup of ‘Beyond The Sun’ by McCoy Tyner and the Stones Throw classic ‘Sunrays’ by Madlib’s Yesterdays New Quintet. ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Modern Jazz
