Die »Stars« und die »Hits« der klassischen Musik werden immer wieder gerne einer Neuinterpretation unterzogen. Im neuen Gewand wird den alten Kompositionen von Pop-Sternchen vermeintlich frisches Leben und eventuell auch die eine oder andere Textzeile eingehaucht. ...
Genre: Electronic
Subgenre: Downtempo
The links between Breguet and classical music are as strong as they are long established. The composers Giovanni Paisiello, Gioachino Rossini and Serge Rachmaninoff and the pianist Arthur Rubinstein, to mention only a few notable personalities, were all the happy owners of timepieces ...
Composer: Jean Francaix (1912-1997), Gioachino Rossini (1792-1868), Carl Maria von Weber (1786–1826), Béla Kovács (b. 1937)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
Britten: Les Illuminations - Canteloube: Chants d'Auvergne
Following successful appearances at the Opéra-comique, in Paris, Grand Théâtre de Genève, Oper Frankfurt, Komische Oper Berlin, and Teatro alla Scala, in Milan, the Norwegian soprano Mari Eriksmoen is undoubtedly a rising star. On the concert stage she has made important recent appearances with the Orchestre de Paris, ...
Composer: Benjamin Britten (1913-1976), Joseph Canteloube (1879-1957)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Vocal
Marking the triumphant return of live music to London's West End, Andrew Lloyd Webber has brought together an 81-piece orchestra to record a new album Andrew Lloyd Webber: Symphonic Suites from three of his best-loved musicals: Evita, Phantom of the Opera and Sunset Boulevard, newly orchestrated....
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Orchestral
Bear's Sonic Journals: Live At The Carousel Ballroom, April 24 1968 (Remastered)
After a tumultuous 1967 for Johnny Cash, the year 1968 was bookended by what would become his two iconic, highest-grossing albums, At Folsom Prison and At San Quentin. But now, fifty-three years later, a lost chapter has emerged to enrich and complement the story of that very good year. ...
Genre: Country
Subgenre: Traditional Country
Virtuoso repertoire, brilliantly arranged: Dominik Wagner will release his Bottesini album 'Revolution of Bass' via Berlin Classics on 29th of October 2021. He presents the solo Double Bass Concerto No 1 in F sharp minor as well as two duets with Benjamin Schmid on violin and Jeremias Fliedl on cello. ...
Composer: Giovanni Bottesini (1821-1889)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Concertos
Tori Amos was never going to enjoy a lockdown. She’s been playing live since she was thirteen years old. She splits her life between Cornwall, Florida, and the road. Her songs are written with the act of traveling and observing. Her last studio record, 2017’s Native Invader, pulled together four impossibly disparate strands ...
Genre: Pop
Subgenre: Pop Rock
Pyrotechnia: Fire & Fury from 18th Century Italy
Contemporary accounts of the violin playing of Antonio Vivaldi, the ‘Red Priest’, show the extent to which he raised the instrument to hitherto unknown extremes of soloistic virtuosity – able, in its spontaneity and sonorous brilliance, to hold its own against an orchestra in fiery and unforgettably dramatic confrontations. ...
Composer: Antonio Vivaldi (1675-1741), Giuseppe Tartini (1692-1770), Pietro Antonio Locatelli (1695-1764)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
Following up January 2021’s digital release of her debut film score ‘Ainu Mosir’, New York-based cellist/composer Clarice Jensen returns with another remarkable score that should help cement her rising status as a soundtrack composer of the highest order. Composed for the Mexican independent feature film ‘Identifying Features’, ...
Genre: Soundtrack
Subgenre: Music
Grieg: Piano Sonata, 14 Lyric Pieces
Having completed his studies at the Brussels conservatoire and won first prizes at several distinguished competitions for young musicians, Matthieu Idmtal quickly became known as a specialist in the music of Alexander Scriabin. His debut on record was dedicated to a sequence of the Russian composer’s Etudes and ...
Composer: Edvard Grieg (1873-1907)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Instrumental
This is the story of two young musicians who met during the Coronavirus lockdown, of all things. Daniel Hope invited the French violist Adrien La Marca to appear on his Arte programme ‘Hope@home’ last December. For the first time, his duo partner was the German-Greek pianist Danae Dörken. ...
Composer: Johannes Brahms (1833-1897), Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840-1993), Antonin Dvořák (1841-1904), Hubert Giraud (1920-2016), Frank Bridge (1879-1941), Hans Sitt (1850-1922), Erik Satie (1866-1925), Francis Poulenc (1899–1963), Jules Massenet (1842-1912), Joseph Canteloube (1879–1957), Nadia Boulanger (1887-1979), Philip Glass (b. 1937), Astor Piazzolla (1921-1992), Yann Tiersen (b. 1970), Bruno Coulais (b. 1954), Charles Aznavour (1924-2018)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
Move over Mendelssohn: new recordings of six summery string quartets composed by the prodigiously gifted teenage Rossini. These sonatas, saucy and urbane, are the work of the young Rossini, who was possibly though not certainly 12 at the time of their composition while spending his summer holidays on the family estate of the Ravenna aristocracy. ...
Composer: Gioacchino Rossini (1792-1868)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
Spring Night (Russian Songs by Tchaikovsky and Rachmaninov)
For Russian musicians, the romances of Tchaikovsky and Rachmaninov have always been a test of their artistic maturity. Even the name of the genre has many shades of meaning in Russian and sometimes denotes very different forms of musical expressions. The vocal chamber music works of these two composers, who are usually ....
Composer: Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840-1993), Sergei Rachmaninow (1873–1943)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Vocal
Das Wesen des Berges wird zum Klang. Die Weite des Blickes wird zur Melodie. Mulo Francel ist Saxophonist und Globetrotter. Mit seinem Ensemble Quadro Nuevo reist er seit 25 Jahren spielend um die Welt. Als wolle er sich einen Überblick verschaffen steigt der mehrfache ECHO-Preisträger an all diesen Orten in die Höhe. ...
Composer: Mulo Francel (1967)
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Modern Jazz
Komponistinnen - Women Composers - Compositrices
Die zweite Einspielung des Liedduos bei Solo Musica präsentiert mit 24 Liedern von 24 Komponistinnen das vielfältige Schaffen von Komponistinnen der Romantik bis zur Zeitgenössischen Musik. Für das Clara SCHUMANN-Jubiläum 2019 setzten sich die Schweizer Sopranistin Franziska HEINZEN und der britisch-polnisch-deutsche ...
Composer: Rebecca Clarke (1886-1979), Irène Poldivski (1879-1932), Alma Mahler (1879-1964), Amy Beach (1867-1944), Clara Schumann (1819-1896), Henriëtte Bosmans (1895-1952), Isabel Mundry (b. 1963), Marie Jaëll (1846-1925), Rosy Wertheim (1888-1949), Katharina Rosenberger (b. 1971), Fanny Mendelssohn-Hensel (1805-1847), Juliana Hall (b. 1958), Henriette Puig-Roget (1910-1992), Charlotte Bray (b. 1982), Manuela Kerer (b. 1980), Elizabeth Maconchy (1907-1994), Ingeborg Bronsart (1840-1913), M. Roesgen-Champion (1894-1976), Madeleine Dring (1923-1977), Ruth Schonthal (1924-2006), Caroline Charrière (1960-2018), Josephine Lang (1815-1880), Cécile Chaminade (1857-1944), Germaine Tailleferre (1892-1983)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Vocal
A Sentimental Christmas With Nat King Cole And Friends: Cole Classics Reimagined (Remastered)
The new album 'A Sentimental Christmas with Nat King Cole and Friends: Cole Classics Re-imagined' weaves Nat’s unparalleled, beautifully restored vocals with new arrangements and contemporary artists creating beautiful sentimental duets of holiday classics. Taking its lead from the GRAMMY award-winning virtual duet of ...
Genre: Vocal
Subgenre: Vocal Pop
Valentini: Recorder Sonatas, Op. 5, La Villeggiature
Roberto Valentini (1671–1747) was born in Leicester and most likely remained in England until his 21st birthday, when he emigrated to Italy, settling in Rome. A multi-instrumentalist, Valentini began his career in the papal city as a violinist, cellist and ...
Composer: Roberto Valentini (1671-1747)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
In December 2001, Sophie Cherrier's flute class at the Paris Conservatoire met in concert around a flagship work: Steve Reich's Vermont Counterpoint. The parts were distributed amongst the students, while the teacher took up the solo line; at the podium stood a very young, sparkling and charismatic conductor, ...
Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach (1685–1750), Steve Reich (b. 1936)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Instrumental
3VIOLAS is an unconventional, dynamic ensemble based in Amsterdam. Influenced and inspired by classical, pop, minimal, electronic, and film music, 3VIOLAS pursues an adventurous path by deconstructing and combining musical genres. Ever since their formation in 2015, 3VIOLAS has increasingly ...
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Minimalism
Malipiero: Complete Songs for Soprano and Piano
Belonging to the generation of Respighi but dying several decades later, Gian Francesco Malipiero (1882-1973) is a far more varied composer than listeners to his post-Romantic chamber and orchestral music would guess. This album is both the most comprehensive publication ever issued of his song output on record, and a valuable ...
Composer: Gian Francesco Malipiero (1882-1973)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Vocal
