Legendary Afrobeat drummer Tony Allen presents his tenth album Film of Life, an album that has the ring of a true self-portrait, an overview of his rich and exemplary career that began alongside Fela Kuti in 1960s Lagos and has continued ...
Genre: World Music
Subgenre: Worldbeat
Hey Now Hey (The Other Side Of The Sky)
„Hey Now Hey“ finds the Queen of Soul taking her untouchably powerful set of pipes somewhat left field of the straight-ahead Atlantic groove formula of the late '60s. This is not to suggest that the record is neither soulful nor funky.
Genre: R&B
Subgenre: Soul
This is Jessie J‘s third album but her sophomore album. It was the quickest album I ever made, Jessie told Radio.com. I m really proud of it though. I really feel like it represents where I m at right now as a singer, as a woman, as a person, ...
Genre: Electronic
Subgenre: Electro-Pop
Swedish singer-songwriter Tove Lo, who has enjoyed huge global success with “Habits (Stay High)”, which was also recently certified RIAA GOLD and is now approaching PLATINUM status in the U.S.
Genre: Electronic
Subgenre: Electro-Pop
Callas sings Rossini & Donizetti Arias - Callas Remastered
Although the bel canto repertoire was crucial to Callas’s career, and she played a significant part in reviving its fortunes, she never sang any of the roles – from both serious and comic operas – that are represented in this recital.
Composer: Gaetano Donizetti (1797-1848), Gioacchino Antonio Rossini (1792-1868)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Opera
Wenn die Trompete in der barocken Zeit der Kaiser, Könige und Fürsten ihre klangprächtige Stimme erhob, gab es etwas zu feiern – Thronbesteigungen, Namens- wie Geburtstage oder Hochzeiten. Die englische Trompetenvirtuosin Alison ...
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Orchestral
Sound the Trumpet - Royal Music of Purcell & Handel
In the year of Queen Elizabeth II’s Diamond Jubilee, Alison Balsom celebrates the heroic era of the Baroque trumpet in works by George Frideric Handel (1685-1759) and Henry Purcell (1658 or 1659-1695), whose anthems, odes, ...
Composer: George Frideric Handel (1685-1759), Henry Purcell (1659-1695)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Concertos
Voted Young British Classical Performer of the Year at the 2006 Classical Brits, Alison Balsom follows her critically-acclaimed album Bach: Works for Trumpet with Caprice, a novel and demanding programme of specially arranged ...
Composer: Joseph Jean-Baptiste Laurent Arban (1825-1889), Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750), Claude Achille Debussy (1862-1918), Manuel de Falla (1876-1946), Oskar Fredrik Lindberg (1887-1955), Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791), Niccolò Paganini (1782-1840), Astor Piazolla
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Instrumental
Stradella: La forza delle stelle
Following four successful recordings released on the Ricercar, Alpha and Arcana labels, Rome-based Andrea De Carlo and his Ensemble Mare Nostrum continue their exploration of the Roman repertoire and inaugurate here a new series of ...
Composer: Alessandro Stradella (1644-1682)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
The Chamber Orchestra of Philadelphia almost never ventures so deeply into the core territory of the Orchestra Next Door as it did in its final concert of the season, an all-Tchaikovsky program under music director Dirk Brossé.
Composer: Pyotr Il'yich Tchaikovsky, Erik Satie
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Concertos
Dances is a dazzling display of solo works for piano from Bach to Boogie Woogie; via Chopin, Granados, Albeniz, Scriabin and the Blue Danube. For his second solo album on Decca, Benjamin Grosvenor has assembled a typically imaginative ...
Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750), Frédéric Chopin (1810-1849), Alexander Scriabin (1872-1915), Enrique Granados (1867-1916), Morton Gould (1913-1996), Isaac Albéniz (1860-1909), Adolf Schulz-Evler (1852-1905)
Genre: Instrumental
Subgenre: Piano
One of the most accomplished and respected artists, songwriters and performers of the last 20 years, Tori Amos new and 14th studio album 'Unrepentant Geraldines' is a winner. „Unrepentant Geraldines“ is a return to her core ...
Composer: Tori Amos
Genre: Songwriter
Subgenre: Contemporary Jazz
I Never Loved A Man The Way I Loved You (Mono)
After the end of Aretha Franklin's five year stint on Columbia Records (who tried marketing her as a jazz vocalist), she signed on with Atlantic Records. Produced by music biz veteran Jerry Wexler, Franklin's Atlantic debut found her ...
Genre: R&B
Subgenre: Classic Soul
Ottorino: Belkis, Queen Of Sheba Suite
Keith O. Johnson, Engineer More Information 'Dazzling orchestral colors,' is one one way to describe the music of Ottorino Respighi. 'Belkis, Queen of Sheba' was conceived as an evening-long ballet with singing whose lavishness has ...
Composer: Ottorino Respighi (1879-1936)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Orchestral
The album was recorded at Wolf Tone Studios in London, and produced by frontman Dave Bayley under executive production of Paul Epworth. The 11 track record features new singles Gooey and Pools plus a reworking of previous ...
Composer: Dave Bayley
Genre: Alternative
Subgenre: Indie Rock
Live at the Lugano Festival 2013
The twelfth Progetto Martha Argerich took place during June and early July 2013. The aims of the Progetto since 2004 remain the same: to invite the most promising young musicians to take part in recitals, chamber and orchestral ...
Composer: Ludwig van Beethoven (1770–1827), Ottorino Respighi (1879–1936), Franz Liszt (1811–1886), Dmitri Shostakovich (1906–1975), Maurice Ravel (1875–1937), Claude Debussy (1862–1918), Jacques Offenbach (1819–1880), Camille Saint-Saëns (1835–1921)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Instrumental
Billy Squier’s landmark 1981 album, „Don t Say No“, included the mega-hits The Stroke, My Kinda Lover, and In the Dark and laid the groundwork for the success of such crossover hard-rock/metal acts as Def Leppard and Bon Jovi.
Genre: Rock
Subgenre: Classic Rock
„Emotions in Motion, the excellent follow-up to Billy Squier's sophomore outing „Don't Say No“, saw Squier rise from theater headliner to bona fide arena rock sensation by delivering his most consistent solo record to date.
Genre: Rock
Subgenre: Classic Rock
Ysaÿe: The Complete Sonatas for Solo Violin, Op. 27 & Sonata for Two Violins
This recording is the logical – and awaited – complement to the ‘Fugue for Solo Violin’ set released in the spring of 2013, on the occasion of the publication of Tedi Papavrami’s autobiography by Robert Laffont.
Composer: Eugène Ysaÿe (1858-1931)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Concertos
