Blessings and Miracles is one of the most ambitious, inspired and magical albums of Santana’s storied career, on which the legendary guitarist aims higher than ever. “The title of this album comes from my belief that we’re born with heavenly powers that allows us to create blessings and miracles,” Santana says. ...
Genre: Rock
Subgenre: Modern Rock
The cellist creates a unique sound world to celebrate his passion for movie soundtracks. “Everything you will hear on this album is made only and exclusively with my cello. The possibilities of this instrument are unlimited and infinite, and this album is a celebration of the instrument and of epic film music as well.” (Kian Soltani) ...
Composer: Hans Zimmer (1957), Howard Shore (1946), Alfred Schnittke (1934-1998), John Powell (1963)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
Music and friendship are utterly intertwined for Hania Rani and Dobrawa Czocher, the Polish duo who have just recorded their first album of original music, Inner Symphonies. Friends since their teenage years at music school in Gdansk, the pair share a spirit of adventure and curiosity. ...
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
Whether it be on the banks of the Mississippi River or deep in the heart of the English countryside, rock 'n' roll lives, breathes, and burns on the outskirts. Hailing from Rome, GA, at the foothills of the Appalachian Mountains, The Georgia Thunderbolts rise up with a scorching signature style steeped ...
Genre: Rock
Subgenre: Blues Rock
Let It Be (Super Deluxe Remastered)
The "Let It Be" album has been newly mixed by producer Giles Martin and engineer Sam Okell. All the new "Let It Be" releases feature the new stereo mix of the album as guided by the original "reproduced for disc" version by Phil Spector and sourced directly from the original session and rooftop performance eight-track tapes. ...
Genre: Rock
Subgenre: Classic Rock
The Wonderful World of Louis Armstrong All Stars are the cream of the crop of current New Orleans musicians, paying tribute to the musician who started it all in the Crescent City. Comprised of new arrangements and recordings of music associated with Louis by a rotating cast of key New Orleans players ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Mainstream Jazz
Bach: Matthäus-Passion (Remastered)
Die Matthäuspassion gehört zu Ostern wie das Weihnachtsoratorium zu Weihnachten und zählt zu den populärsten Werken Johann Sebastian Bachs überhaupt. Das Besondere dieser Aufnahme liegt darin, daß hier der Thomanerchor Leipzig und der Dresdner Kreuzchor gemeinsam ...
Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Vocal
A new chapter in the history of the legendary Christoph Spendel Group, with international musicians from all around the world. The „CSG“ has been touring Europe in the eighties and nineties and is now back on road with new music from contemporary influences, between jazz, latin, pop and world. ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Contemporary Jazz
Mozart: Violin Concerto No. 3, Symphony 'Jupiter', Le nozze di Figaro Overture
Julien Chauvin and Le Concert de la Loge join Alpha and launch a new cycle devoted to Mozart. This project is a natural continuation of Julien Chauvin’s work of rediscovery focusing on the interpretation of the music of Haydn and his contemporaries in Paris in the late eighteenth century. ...
Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Concertos
Newly signed to the naïve label, violinist Fabio Biondi, the celebrated founder and director of Europa Galante, here presents his interpretation of one of the major peaks of the solo violin repertoire: the Sonatas and Partitas of J. S. Bach. For many years a passionate devotee of this Holy Grail of violinists, ...
Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach (1685–1750)
Genre: Classic
Subgenre: Chamber Music
Bodenschätze (Motetten aus dem 17. Jahrhundert)
The great “composer of the millennium” Johann Sebastian Bach stands like a solitary rock in the landscape of music history. There is less talk about where he came from and what influenced him stylistically. Chorwerk Ruhr embarked on a search for clues with highly interesting results: the young Johann Sebastian ...
Composer: Giovanni Gabrieli (1557-1612), Alessandro Orologio (1555-1633), Orlando di Lasso (1532-1594), Tarquinio Merula (1590-1665), Jacobus Gallus (1550-1591), Marco Antonio Ingegneri (1547-1592), Andrea Gabrieli (1510-1586), Heinrich Hartmann (1580-1616), Johann Caspar Kerll (1627-1693), Hieronymus Praetorius (1560-1629), Giovanni Battista Stefanini (1574-1630), Hans Leo Hassler (1564-1612)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Choral
Marais: Quatrième livre de pièces de viole
Marin Marais published his Quatrième Livre de Pièces de Viole two years after the death of Louis XIV, establishing himself as the undisputed master of the genre and providing pieces not only for musicians who had achieved some skill on the viol but also for the most virtuoso players. ...
Composer: Marin Marais (1656-1728)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
Twelve Sibyls, ancient psychics, became during the Middle-Ages the counterpoints of the Prophets, announcing since the beginning of time (2nd-7th centuries) the arrival of a child who will become the Savior of the World. The emergence of those characters and of these strange and mysterious texts resulted ...
Composer: Orlando di Lasso (Lassus) (1532-1594)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Vocal
Soprano Claire Booth and pianist Christopher Glynn follow their critically acclaimed collaborations Percy Grainger: Folk Music and Edvard Grieg: Lyric Music with Modest Mussorgsky: Unorthodox Music, interspersing a selection of the Russian composer's under-represented songs with solo piano works. ...
Composer: Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky (1839-1881)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Vocal
‘Going all the way back to the Celts and the Druids, the term nemeton designates a place where forces and energies are crystallised, generally clearings where solemn or ritual actions were performed. The best-known nemeton is certainly Stonehenge. The architectural marvel of Chartres Cathedral is built on a nemeton. ...
Composer: Matthias Pintscher (1971)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
Pancho Vladigerov: Impressions
With this album, Etsuko Hirose explores the rich world of Pancho Vladigerovs harmonic imagination. The Impressions op. 9, a youthful work depicting a passionate love story, open the album and enchant through their unique late-Romantic sound images. They are followed by the Suite Bulgare op. 21, which plays with material ...
Composer: Pancho Vladigerov (1899-1978)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Instrumental
Violinist Marie Nadeau-Tremblay presents Preludes et solitudes, a very personal album of pieces for solo unaccompanied violin by Baroque composers such as Telemann, Purcell, Torelli, Baltzar and Biber. The booklet for Preludes et solitudes includes Nadeau-Tremblay's poems inspired by each piece she selected for ...
Composer: Georg Philipp Telemann (1681-1767), Henry Purcell (1659-1695), Giuseppe Torelli (1658-1709), Thomas Baltzar (1630-1663), Heinrich Ignaz Franz von Biber (1644-1704)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Instrumental
It’s been some time since we’ve heard from Shawnn Monteiro, jazz chanteuse extraordinaire. While the pandemic derailed most performance, Monteiro, who also spends a good deal of her time teaching jazz vocals in a university setting, managed to pull a recording together, and we’re all happy that she did. ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Vocal
Deutsche Grammophon presents Winter Tales – a new seasonal album featuring music from some of the label’s star composers, who were invited to reimagine the music of Christmas and Chanukah, drawing inspiration from their childhoods and homelands. The album comprises 12 very personal responses to that creative challenge, ...
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Compilations
After their acclaimed recording of Gluck’s Orfeo ed Euridice, La Nuova Musica and David Bates expand their PENTATONE discography with Handel’s Unsung Heroes, in which the instrumentalists of Handel’s operas are put centre stage. Traditionally restricted to an “invisible” existence in the orchestra pit, ...
Composer: Georg Friedrich Händel (1685-1759)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Vocal
