Grechaninov: All-Night Vigil, Op. 59
With this new album the award-winning Latvian Radio Choir conducted by Sigvards Klava is turning its attention to the music of Alexander Grechaninov (1864–1956), one of the masters of Russian liturgic music. Grechaninov’s All-Night Vigil is a fitting continuation to the choir’s albums of sacred music by Sergey ...
Composer: Alexander Gretschaninoff (1864-1956)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Choral
Debussy & Rivier: String Quartets
The Mandelring Quartett's latest double release is dedicated to French repertoire. The first album, released in April 2021, presents Maurice Ravel's ground-breaking string quartet and the equally colourful one by his contemporary Fernand de La Tombelle. This second release juxtaposes Claude Debussy's quartet with Jean Rivier's ...
Composer: Claude Debussy (1862-1918), Jean Rivier (1896-1987)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
Margo Cilker is a woman who drinks deeply of life, and her debut record Pohorylle, (out on Loose) is brimming with it. For the last seven years, the Eastern Oregon songwriter has split her time between the road and various outposts across the world—Enterprise, Montana, the Basque Country of Spain—forging a path that is at once deeply ...
Genre: Country
Subgenre: Alternative Country
Bach’s famous and beloved Inventions and Sinfonias continue to captivate listeners, students and teachers today as they have throughout the generations. They are delightful discoveries playable by students of various ages and various stages of pianistic development, and provide an inexhaustible source of new ideas. ...
Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Instrumental
As a special, connecting and autobiographical element for this recording, the beautiful city of Salzburg is a legendary and inspiring place, deeply influenced by music history, which everyone involved in the production - from the composer, the conductor, the soloist to the orchestra musicians and the orchestra attendant ...
Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Vocal
Olga Scheps began playing her first melodies and pieces aged just five years and learned to play the piano in the same was as she did speaking, walking and reading. In 1992, her family moved from Moscow to Germany, Olga Scheps’s new home. ...
Composer: Joseph Haydn (1732-1809), Claude Debussy (1862-1918), Ludwig van Beethoven (1770–1827), Edvard Grieg (1843-1907)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Instrumental
Festive Trumpets for Christmas
If there’s one thing that makes Christmas what it is, it’s festive music and uplifting melodies: 'Festive Trumpets for Christmas' is the new Christmas album from Matthias Höfs, to be released by Berlin Classics on November 5. On this new album, the trumpeter joins his brass ensemble and organist Christian Schmitt in a wide-ranging programme. ...
Composer: Georg Friedrich Händel (1685-1759), Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827), Antonio Vivaldi (1678-1741), Samuel Scheidt (1587-1654), Tomaso Albinoni (1671-1751), Erik Morales (1966), Nikolaus Herman (1480-1561)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
“Of All Joys” also features Minimalist works by Arvo Pärt and several Renaissance composers such as John Dowland, Orland Gibbons amd Gregorio Allegri. The album is centred around the six movements of Glass’ “String Quartet No. 3 (“Mishima”)” which were themselves excerpted from Glass’ score for Paul Schrader’s 1985 film ...
Composer: Arvo Pärt (1935), Luca Marenzio (1553-1599), John Dowland (1562-1626), Orlando Gibbons (1583-1625), Philip Glass (1937), Gregorio Allegri (1582-1652), Jacobus Clemens non Papa (1510-1556), John Bennet (1575-1614)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
"Between Two Worlds" from Jon and Marte Eberson is the sequel to their previous album "Empathy". It is three years since that album's release, one that attracted a lot of positive attention, both critically and from a large audience. The expectations for the new album are high. ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Fusion
Hardouin: Complete 4-Part A Cappella Masses, Vol. 2
Henri Hardouin (1727–1808) war Chormitglied an der Kathedrale von Reims und stieg schnell zum Maître de chapelle auf – bis die Französische Revolution die religiösen Einrichtungen auflöste. Als Priester war er potenziell gefährdet und scheint untergetaucht zu sein, bis er 1794 nach dem Tod von Robespierre sein Amt wieder aufnehmen konnte. ...
Composer: Henri Hardouin (1727–1808)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Choral
Michael Graves, the Chairman of the Peter Warlock Society, writes: “Warlock’s songs are among the most exquisite, inventive and original to emerge in Britain in the early part of the twentieth century. Generally under-represented in today’s song repertoire, they are particularly so for the soprano voice. ...
Composer: Peter Warlock (1894–1930)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Vocal
Kornauth & Fuchs: Works for Viola & Piano
In the spring of 2020, the Covid pandemic caused turmoil in the concert diaries of most musicians, including the conductor Andrew Litton and his wife Katharina Kang Litton, principal violist of New York City Ballet. To find an outlet for their musical expression they began to explore the repertoire for viola and piano together. ...
Composer: Robert Fuchs (1847-1927)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
Keep Those Teardrops from Falling
Music has always played a role in my life as a healing agent. My story is the same story people have been singing about for hundreds of years…heartbreak. My approach on this record is the same thing I’ve always done; turn to music to heal the hurt. I had a few months where I couldn’t fathom making ...
Genre: Songwriter
Subgenre: Contemporary
Barry: Alice's Adventures Under Ground
Signum Classics is proud to announce a new label partnership and recording debut with Irish National Opera, presenting the world-premiere recording of Gerald Barry’s opera, Alice’s Adventures Under Ground, based on the famous book by Lewis Carroll. ...
Composer: Gerald Barry (1952)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Vocal
Unreleased British folk from 1972. Three young German musicians are spending their summer holidays hanging around London folk-clubs; among those they visit are The Half Moon in Putney and The Nag's Head in Battersea. These three are members of the 5 piece Folk Band Gurnemanz, Lukas W. Scheel (21), Wolfgang Riedel (20) and Manuela Schmitz (16). ...
Genre: Folk
Subgenre: Vocal
Bartók: The Quiet Revolutionary
Violinist Franziska Pietsch and pianist Maki Hayashida offer deeply personal readings of Bela Bartok's magnificent Sonatas for violin and piano, and his irresistible 'Romanian Folk Dances'. Franziska Pietsch, recent winner of an ICMA (International Classical Musical Award) in the Chamber Music ...
Composer: Béla Bartók (1881–1945)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Instrumental
In Harmony, We Journey - The Best of R. Carlos Nakai - The Second 20 Years
This collection presents music released by eleven-time Grammy nominee R. Carlos Nakai over the second 20 years of a distinguished career which explored the expressive range of the traditional Native American flute in a wide range of genres – jazz, new age, classical, Hawaiian, and EDM – and features harp guitarist William Eaton, percussionist Will Clipman, ... < This collection presents music released by eleven-time Grammy nominee R. Carlos Nakai over the second 20 years of a distinguished career which explored the expressive range of the traditional Native American flute in a wide range of genres – jazz, new age, classical, Hawaiian, and EDM – and features harp guitarist William Eaton, percussionist Will Clipman, ...
Genre: World Music
Subgenre: Worldbeat
"Of All Joys" – the new record from the Grammy Award-winning string ensemble – is their attempt to recapture all that, and to revel in the beauty and wonder of great works from both the minimalist and Renaissance eras. “Ultimately,” says cellist Andrew Yee, “it is about the joy of coming together and making something ...
Composer: Arvo Pärt (b. 1935), Luca Marenzio (1553 - 1599), John Dowland (1563 - 1626), Orlando Gibbons (1583 - 1625), Philip Glass (b. 1937), Gregorio Allegri (1582 - 1652), John Bennet (1575 - 1614), Jacobus Clemens non Papa (1510 - 1555)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
Mozart: Requiem in D Minor, K. 626 "Missa pro defunctis" (Completed by F.X. Süßmayr) [Live]
It is difficult to say anything about Mozart's famous Requiem – the masterpiece having been described and analysed all too often. It is known to almost everyone in the world, either in its entirety or in large parts, or is familiar to them at the very least from its title. Almost everybody has come into contact with the Requiem’s music, ...
Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756–1791)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Vocal
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