Beady Belle will release her 9th studio album "Nothing But The Truth". This album marks her 20 years anniversary as the artist Beady Belle. Beady Belle's music is melodically gripping, harmonically intricate, lyrically intelligent, and underpinned by solid grooves. However, the true glint of that jewel is, as always, the stunning voice of Beady Belle herself. ...
Genre: R&B
Subgenre: Soul
Holland Baroque presents Minne, an improvised programme inspired by the love poetry of medieval mystic Hadewijch from Brabant. Hadewijch was a 13th-century beguine who wrote an impressive oeuvre of love poetry, providing an original, female perspective on medieval life. For this project, Holland Baroque works together ...
Composer: Judith Steenbrink (1977), Heinrich Isaac (1450-1517), Melchior Franck (1580-1639)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
Belladonna is a set of compositions written specifically for Halvorson on guitar plus The Mivos Quartet: Olivia De Prato (violin), Maya Bennardo (violin), Victor Lowrie Tafoya (viola), and Tyler J. Borden (cello). This is Halvorson’s first time writing for String Quartet. Six through-composed compositions for Mivos spin Halvorson’s compositional voice ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Crossover Jazz
Fresh off their Grammy nomination for Best Chamber Music/Small Ensemble Performance, Third Coast Percussion is back in the studio, hard at work on their fourth album for Cedille, Perspectives. As with all of their Cedille albums, Perspectives will highlight Third Coast Percussion’s passion for collaboration and pushing boundaries. ...
Composer: Danny Elfman (1953), Philip Glass (1937)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Instrumental
"Are Schumann’s late works the product of a household where a physically and mentally declining composer and his wife, who refused to admit that reality, were living in a stuffy atmosphere? Or was Schumann’s Düsseldorf circle a fruitful terrain that gave rise to magnificent masterpieces because these close, talented friends – Robert Schumann, ...
Composer: Clara Schumann (1819-1896), Robert Schumann (1810-1856), Heinrich Wilhelm Ernst (1814-1865), Johannes Brahms (1833-1897), Albert Dietrich (1829-1908)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Instrumental
Cartoons in the Night Vol. I (Live 2019)
Like no other, Ahmed Gallab, whose music is produced under the pseudonym of Sinkane, manages to combine diverse cultural and musical approaches. His album “Mars” was one of the insiders’ tips of 2012 and a tribute to his adopted home of Brooklyn, which was as new and exciting to him as a new planet, and just as lonely. ...
Genre: R&B
Subgenre: Soul
Conductor Nicholas Collon began as the new Chief Conductor of the Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra in September 2021. This all-Sibelius programme, carefully selected by the conductor, is his debut album together with his new orchestra. Collon offers fresh and modern interpretation of Sibelius’ symphonic testament, the 7th Symphony, and brings to life the ...
Composer: Jean Sibelius (1865-1957)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Orchestral
One of Australia’s most celebrated voices, Mark Vincent, returns with a new album. Featuring the impeccable production and arrangement of Chong Lim, ‘In The Eyes Of A Child’ captures Mark at a genuine crossroads in his career. Armed with a wealth of life experience and a maturity well beyond his years, ‘In The Eyes Of A Child’ features a ...
Genre: Vocal
Subgenre: Vocal Pop
Trombone Shorty returns with Lifted, his first album in 5 years and the follow-up to his Blue Note debut Parking Lot Symphony, featuring special guests including vocalist Lauren Daigle & guitarist Gary Clark Jr. An album that captures the energy of his legendary live shows, Lifted combines classic New Orleans sounds (funk, gospel, street rhythms, Mardi Gras Indian chants & second ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Contemporary Jazz
A Matter of Life... 2021 (Remastered)
Penguin Cafe are back with a lovingly produced 10th anniversary reissue of their debut album, titled A Matter of Life… 2021. Besides being completely remastered and pressed on vinyl for the very first time, the record also features a brand new 2021 recording of lead single Harry Piers, a song commemorating Arthur Jeffes’ late father and Penguin Cafe Orchestra founder Simon Jeffes. ...
Composer: Arthur Jeffes
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Modern Composition
On their new album “Closer to Paradise” Spark, the Classical Band, form a unique partnership with the internationally acclaimed countertenor Valer Sabadus to produce, in musical form, a feeling of longing, that wonderful, painful yet bitter-sweet emotional state ’twixt melancholy and happiness. ...
Composer: Erik Satie (1866-1925), Antonio Vivaldi (1678-1741), Robert Schumann (1810-1856), Kurt Weill (1900-1950), Lucio Dalla (1943-2012), Gabriel Faure (1845-1924)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Vocal
Gramophone Award-nominated artist Martin Fröst uses every recording as an opportunity to look at repertoire and performance through fresh eyes. His latest album for Sony Classical brings the extraordinary alchemy of a specially formed ensemble to the public with highly original arrangements for the first time on record. ...
Composer: Domenico Scarlatti (1685-1757), Chick Corea (1941-2021), Henry Purcell (1659-1695), Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750), Richard Rodgers (1902-1979), Jean Philippe Rameau (1683-1764), Marc (Pietro) Antonio Cesti (1623-1669), Georg Friedrich Händel (1685-1759), Hugo Alfven (1872-1960), Gordon Jenkins (1910-1984)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
Ralph Vaughan Williams: Folk Songs, Vol. 4
This is the fourth and final instalment in a series of four albums recording all 81 of the folk songs in English that Ralph Vaughan Williams arranged for voice and piano or violin. 57 of the 81 songs have not previously been recorded in these arrangements. "This album has 19 tracks including 13 world premières. All but four of the songs were collected by Maud Karpeles in Newfoundland in ...
Composer: Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872-1958)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Vocal
Monologue: Polish Solo Cello Works
This album features pieces for solo cello, displaying the extraordinary technical and tone colour possibilities of this instrument. The album is also a musical journey through a century of Polish chamber music composed for this instrument by outstanding artists. ...
Composer: Grazyna Bacewicz (1902–1969), Witold Lutosławski (1913-1994), Krzysztof Penderecki (1933-2020), Jerzy Fitelberg (1903-1951), Piotr Moss (1949), Jan Krenz (1926-2020)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
Vibraphonist and composer Joel Ross returns with stunning conviction, issuing his third release for Blue Note Records: The Parable of the Poet. Steadfast in his commitment to skewing perceptions of improvisation and written composition, the critics’ favorite explores new, more expansive territory with his eight-piece Parables band, bringing together ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Contemporary Jazz
Before David Helpling released his trilogy of epic ambient collaborations with Jon Jenkins, before his shimmering guitar records A Sea Without Memory and RUNE—he had an idea that would evolve to become IN. A massive double album composed over ten years, IN was born from finding wonder in the tiniest of places. ...
Genre: Electronic
Subgenre: Ambient
"Auburn Whisper" is the latest album from trombonist, singer, and songwriter Natalie Cressman and guitarist, composer, and vocalist Ian Faquini—not only serves as a testament to the couple’s symbiotic musical partnership but also to their resilience during unprecedented times. Written and recorded in 2020, Auburn Whisper finds the two ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Contemporary Jazz
After the surprising success of their previous long player „Phase Three“ DeVicious is back with their highly anticipated 4th Studio album „Black Heart“!eartHeart Having previously produced three albums in only three years, the international outfit based in Germany decided to use the pandemic enforced break wisely to take ...
Genre: Rock
Subgenre: Hard Rock
Fear of the Dawn is the fourth studio album from Jack White, founding member of The White Stripes, The Raconteurs, and The Dead Weather. True to his DIY roots, this record was recorded at White's Third Man Studio throughout 2021. ...
Genre: Rock
Subgenre: Adult Alternative
Suk: The Ripening & Symphony No. 1
The Czech maestro Jirí Belohlávek performs works by his countryman Josef Suk, conducting the BBC Symphony Orchestra, with whom he is their Chief Conductor. As a composer, Josef Suk followed in the tradition of Smetana and Dvorák, the latter of whom was not only his professor at the Prague Conservatory, but also became his father-in-law – Suk married Dvorák’s oldest surviving ...
Composer: Josef Suk (1874-1935)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Choral
