Rage, confusion, despair, self-deception, and introspection—Madi Diaz cycles through the full spectrum of emotions on History Of A Feeling, her debut on ANTI-. It’s an album that undeniably marks Diaz’s status as a first-rate songwriter, a craft she’s spent years refining, and one wherein Diaz establishes herself as an artist ...
Genre: Songwriter
Subgenre: Folk Rock
Tchaikovsky: Piano Concerto No. 1
Daniil Trifonov, winner of the XIVth International Tchaikovsky Competition, is probably the world’s most exciting young pianist. On his first Mariinsky recording he joins Valery Gergiev for a scintillating performance of Tchaikovsky’s Piano Concerto No 1. Daniil also presents a selection of recital repertoire including music by Tchaikovsky, Chopin and Liszt transcriptions of Schubert and Schumann. ...
Composer: Peter Tchaikovsky (1840-1893)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Concertos
It’s been 30 years since Stigers released his eponymous debut album which took the charts by storm and generated the international hits “I Wonder Why”, “You’re All That Matters To Me”, and “Never Saw A Miracle”. For This Life a seasoned Curtis Stigers has revisited these early successes (and a couple of later ones) and ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Vocal
Russian Roots is the début recording of Trio Gaspard for Chandos Records, for which the group is joined by the soprano Katharina Konradi in a diverse and rewarding programme that explores the Russian influence across almost 200 years of music. A selection of Russian folksongs set by Beethoven, Shostakovich’s First Piano Trio and Seven ...
Composer: Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827), Igor Strawinsky (1882-1971), Mieczyslaw Weinberg (1919-1996), Dmitri Schostakowitsch (1906-1975), Sofia Gubaidulina (1931), Sergej Rachmaninoff (1873-1943), Lera Auerbach (1973)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Vocal
With its latest album, “Get Yourself Outside,” Colorado-based quintet Yonder Mountain String Band once again echoes out into the universe its place as not only a pioneering jam-grass act, but also one of the most innovative, intricate groups in the live music scene — something the groundbreaking ensemble has proudly held ...
Genre: Folk
Subgenre:
"The Swedish saviors of heavy metal HAMMERFALL let the hammer strike again, radiating power on all artistic levels with their twelfth studio album, Hammer Of Dawn! When HAMMERFALL released their debut album, Glory To The Brave, in 1997, they not only brought a breath of fresh air into the metal scene, but also managed to trigger a gargantuan boom for ...
Genre: Rock
Subgenre: Metal
Don't Go Throwing Roses In My Grave
Don't Go Throwing Roses In My Grave is the first solo record by beloved frontman of The Menzingers, Gregor Barnett. Devoted Menzingers fans will love its electrified Americana riffs, yearning melodies, driving beats and indelible lyrical imagery. The Philadelphia based singer/songwriter is telling his stories with a folkier style then he does ...
Genre: Rock
Subgenre: Adult Alternative
"On Early Music", pianist Francesco Tristano's third release with Sony Classical will be out February 4, 2022. Interspersed with his original compositions are works by some of early music’s greatest English composers and organists – Orlando Gibbons, John Bull, and Peter Philips – and one of Tristano’s greatest inspirations, ...
Composer: Francesco Tristano (b. 1981), Peter Philips (1560-1628), John Bull (1562-1628), Girolamo Frescobaldi (1583-1643), Orlando Gibbons (1583-1625)
Genre: Instrumental
Subgenre: Piano
"The Kick" is Grammy winning artist Foxes highly-anticipated third album, it was written and recorded remotely via zoom during the height of the pandemic, offering a form of escapism for Foxes. Inspired by the desire for freedom that the world collectively shared over the last 18 months of lockdowns, the near-animalistic desperation to ...
Genre: Pop
Subgenre: Pop Rock
Swedish rockers degreed have announced the upcoming release of their sixth studio album, “Are You Ready”. ”I can’t believe we’re about to release our sixth studio album. I am so proud of this band and I am very humbled that we are still around. And what could fit more perfectly than to release this album with Frontiers ...
Genre: Rock
Subgenre: Hard Rock
Liszt: The Complete Années de Pèlerinage
The virtuoso pianist and exclusive Chandos artist Louis Lortie here performs all three books, or ‘Years’, of Liszt’s Années de Pèlerinage (Years of Pilgrimage), a work rarely recorded in its entirety. Lortie has made more than thirty recordings for Chandos, covering a repertoire from Mozart to Stravinsky. ...
Composer: Franz Liszt (1811-1886)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Instrumental
REFLECTIONS: Scott Joplin Reconsidered
Chart-topping pianist Lara Downes, hailed as "A musical ray of hope" by NBC News, reflects on the music of American innovator Scott Joplin through a 21st-century lens, revealing its many layers of genre-blurring subtlety and nuance. ... Chart-topping pianist Lara Downes, hailed as "A musical ray of hope" by NBC News, reflects on the music of American innovator Scott Joplin through a 21st-century lens, revealing its many layers of genre-blurring subtlety and nuance. ...
Composer: Scott Joplin (1867-1917), Louis Chauvin (1881-1908), Grantley Marshall (b. 1959), Lara Downes (b. 1973)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
Three years after the release of her critically acclaimed debut, Putting On Airs, Nashville-raised singer-songwriter Erin Rae shares an intimate, honest, and playful version of herself through her sophomore album Lighten Up. Produced by Jonathan Wilson, and recorded in the musically hallowed grounds of California’s Topanga Canyon, the album ...
Genre: Songwriter
Subgenre: Contemporary
The new faces of German Jazz: This is how the German magazine stern referred to triosence, the trio formed in 1999 by Bernhard Schüler (piano), Omar Rodriguez Calvo (bass) and Tobias Schulte (drums). Since their debut album, “First Enchantment”, released in 2002, triosence has been praised by the music press all ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Contemporary Jazz
Joachim Raff – Complete Works for Cello & Piano
Christoph Croise turns to the rich Romantic works of his 19th-century Swiss compatriot Joachim Raff, breathing new life into the composer's complete works for cello and piano. The beautiful, lyrical music of prolific 19th-century Swiss composer Joachim Raff was widely performed during his ...
Composer: Joachim Raff (1822-1882)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
Lorenzo Feliciati and Dominique Vantomme met for the first time in Brussels where both of them lived for a couple of years. Ever since their first interaction, the chemistry between the counterparts were established, music spoke to them in different tongues, more than words, furthermore their friendship grew with their ongoing recording sessions ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Nu Jazz
There is something deeply rewarding about having both old and new music on your music stand. By pretending that old music is new, it becomes easier to nd freedom from tradition and to discover fresh ideas and new meanings. By imagining that new music is old, a certain reverence set in, a trust in the composer, ...
Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach (1685–1750), Airat Ichmouratov (b. 1973), Gabriel Dharmoo, Carmen Braden (b. 1985), Nicole Lizée (b. 1973), Cris Derksen, Roy Johnstone
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
New York based singer, songwriter and producer Amber Mark releases her long-awaited debut album Three Dimensions Deep via EMI/PMR Records. Amber’s debut album arrives almost 4 years after the release of her second EP ‘Conexão’, an extended process that has proved central to its thematic development. ...
Genre: R&B
Subgenre: Hip Hop Soul
Genderless tribute to opera's divas by the countertenor Théophile ALEXANDRE & the female string quartet ZAÏDE, redistributing musical direction to women and Ladies' agonies to a man, to celebrate the divas' arias beyond their gender clichés. Starring heroines by Mozart, Verdi, Bellini, Bizet, Haendel, Saint-Saëns, Piazzolla, Haydn, Tchaïkovsky...
Composer: Edward Grieg (1843-1907), Christoph Willibald Gluck (1714-1787), Vincenzo Bellini (1801-1835), Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840-1993), Jacques Offenbach (1819-1880), George Bizet (1838-1875), Astor Piazzolla (1921-1992), Giuseppe Verdi (1813-1901), Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791), Francesco Cavalli (1602-1676), George Frideric Handel (1685-1759), Joseph Haydn (1732-1809), Gioachino Rossini (1792-1868)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Vocal
J.S. Bach: Sonatas, Fantasias & Improvisations
This project represents a starting point in gently opening up the possibilities of incorporating an element of improvisation into the oeuvre of Bach's chamber music. Given that both Toshi and Anthony are improvising musicians, able and willing to extemporise in a variety of genres (jazz, folk music, early music, etc.), ...
Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
Genre: Classical
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