Michael Collins Plays Works for Clarinet and Orchestra
Michael Collins OBE embraces the double role of conductor and soloist in this thrilling revelation of clarinet treasures by the Finnish composer Bernhard Henrik Crusell, masterly supported by the fresh and spontaneous Swedish Chamber Orchestra. ...
Composer: Bernhard Henrik Crusell (1775–1838)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Concertos
Franz Schubert: String Quartet No. 15, String Trios D. 471 & D. 581 (Remastered)
A novel juxtaposition of Schubert's last quartet, his most enigmatic and most original, with his two string trios, endeavours without successors but prefiguring the harmonic modernism of the late masterpieces. The Pražák Quartet, as in the two sister-works, 'Rosamunde' and 'Death in the Maiden' (PRD 250 091), ...
Composer: Franz Schubert (1797-1828)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
Hummel Ballet Suites & Twelve Waltzes and Coda
"Hummel is shown in a new light in these premiere recordings. Shelley lends a his usual classy touch to these attractive works." (Classic FM Magazine). "Howard Shelley’s light touch, fresh and colourful orchestral playing, and excellent recording, make this very well worth hearing on its own account, not simply as a rediscovered rarity." (BBC Music Magazine) ...
Composer: Johann Nepomuk Hummel (1778-1837)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
Chandos's laudable opportunism in digitising a complete recording from a sequence of Spoleto Festival performances has, for the most part, paid off. This is just as well as this must have been a major project; filling a gap in the otherwise plentiful Chandos Prokofiev catalogue. ...
Composer: Sergei Prokofiev (1891–1953)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Opera
Vivaldi: String Concertos, Vol. 2
With this album, Simon Standage continues his survey of the 40 odd concertos for strings by Vivaldi. As with period practice, winds are added to a few of the works. The continuo consists of harpsichord and guitar, the latter a very appealing sounding period instrument. There is less unity of mood on this album ...
Composer: Antonio Vivaldi (1678-1741)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Concertos
The Harmonious Echo - Songs by Sir Arthur Sullivan
Although most widely remembered for his operettas in partnership with W.S. Gilbert, Sir Arthur Sullivan was the most famous of all British composers of the nineteenth century. He was revered as a composer of oratorios, and was urged by Queen Victoria to compose a grand opera. The result, Ivanhoe, achieved 155 consecutive ...
Composer: Arthur Sullivan (1842-1900)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Vocal
The Matrix Resurrections (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
The Matrix Resurrections is an upcoming American science fiction action film produced, co-written, and directed by Lana Wachowski. It is the sequel to The Matrix Revolutions (2003) and the fourth installment in The Matrix film series. Keanu Reeves, Carrie-Anne Moss, Lambert Wilson, and Jada Pinkett Smith reprise ...
Composer: Johnny Klimek, Tom Tykwer
Genre: Soundtrack
Subgenre: Music
Dmitry Evgrafov returns with his fourth career album and third for FatCat’s 130701 imprint (Max Richter, Johann Johannsson, Dustin O’Halloran and Hauschka). His most accomplished work to date, ‘Surrender’ is a broad and dramatic record that expands the Moscow-based artist’s palette and reaches beyond the usual post-classical range. Revealing an ambitious ...
Composer: Dmitry Evgrafov
Genre: Instrumental
Subgenre: Piano
When filmmaker Ben Chace finished shooting the movie Sin Alas (Without Wings) in Cuba he reached out to Aruán Ortiz to score it. The haunting original “Cuban Nocturne,” the title song on this album, is the film’s theme. Sparked by that collaboration with Chace, these songs became a reflection on the music that saturated Ortiz's ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Contemporary Jazz
Maybe This Place Is The Same And We're Just Changing (Optimized for Digital)
"Maybe This Place Is the Same and We're Just Changing" is the debut studio album by American rock band Real Friends. The album was recorded in February 2014 with Seth Henderson at Always Be Genius Recording Studio. It was released through Fearless on July 22. The album charted at number 24 in the U.S. ...
Genre: Rock
Subgenre: Adult Alternative
Mendelssohn: Symphonies Nos. 1 & 3
Having begun their collaboration in 1997, the Swedish Chamber Orchestra and its conductor laureate Thomas Dausgaard have developed an unusually tight partnership. Nowhere is this demonstrated more clearly than in their cycles of the symphonies of Schumann, Schubert and, most recently, Brahms....
Composer: Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy (1809-1847)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Orchestral
The Mighty Soulmates is a towering early 90s project from the legitimate super group of André Cymone (artist, writer, producer and original bass player with the Artist known as Prince), St. Paul Peterson (keyboard player in The Time and lead singer in Prince’s group The Family), Mic Murphy (of Sass and The System fame) ...
Genre: R&B
Subgenre: Soul
May 19, 1992, KISS released their critically acclaimed REVENGE album. With producer Bob Ezrin at the helm, a ferocious KISS delivered one of their heaviest and best albums ever! All the band members shined on this release! Ever reliable Paul Stanley was on top of his game here, ....
Genre: Rock
Subgenre: Hard Rock
Leoš Janáček: On An Overgrown Path
On An Overgrown Path, Leoš Janáček’s 15 pieces-spanning piano cycle, is here presented in a reshaped guise, arranged for string orchestra and played by the Camerata Zürich under lead violinist Igor Karsko’s direction. This is the premiere recording of the adaption, written by Daniel Rumler in 2017. ...
Composer: Leos Janacek (1854-1928)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
Aili Järvelä, widely known as an authentic and soulful performer, and Sointi Jazz Orchestra, one of Finland’s most interesting new jazz groups, joined forces to release a Finnish-language album titled Unituulia. Unituulia is a moving and atmospheric collection of new Finnish-language chansons written ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Big Band
In early 2020, the world was struck by the COVID-19 pandemic. During this time, NZTrio began its new era with the appointment of pianist Somi Kim and violinist Amalia Hall joining cellist Ashley Brown in continuing the 19-year legacy of commissioning works from NZ composers, bringing lesser-known works to ...
Composer: Christos Hatzis (1953), Salina Fisher (1993), Josef Suk (1874–1935), Erich Wolfgang Korngold (1897-1957)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
It came as a surprise to many when pianist Sandro Ivo Bartoli, one of Italy’s most charismatic and willful musicians, moved from London to a small farm in Tuscany, producing his own food and withdrawing to the countryside. Instead of ending his career, however, the decision provided him with the time and calm required ...
Composer: Franz Liszt (1811–1886)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Instrumental
"An excellent master of his craft" (M. Harras). For four decades, bass-baritone Klaus Mertens has been acclaimed by critics in concerts and nearly 200 album recordings as "unearthly radiant" (klassik.com), "wonderfully slender, clearly delineating" (mdr Figaro) and "unchanged fresh and immensely homogeneous" (klassik.com) ...
Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach (1685–1750)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Vocal
When guitarist Tom Hamilton and pianist Holly Bowling get together to improvise, they don’t talk about the music. That conversation happens with their instruments once they start playing. Indeed, on Lacuna, their first duo recording together, Hamilton and Bowling explore the outer limits of improvisation ...
Genre: Ambient
Subgenre:
Wilhelm Furtwängler conducts three of Richard Strauss' symphonic poems in Vienna reproduced in the best possible sound, and paired with the first recording in London of the 'Vier Letzte Lieder', under the supervision of Walter Legge [Mr Schwarzkopf]. A homage to Richard Strauss for his 150th anniversary. ...
Composer: Richard Strauss (1864-1949)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Vocal
