Shadow Plays (Live at Konzerthaus, Wien / 2020)
Craig Taborn’s Avenging Angel album was widely praised for the fresh ideas it brought to the solo piano idiom. “It reflects Mr Taborn’s galactically-broad interests,” said the New York Times, “along with his multifaceted technique,” while the Guardian saluted Craig’s “genius (there is no other word for it)" and his “world of whispered, wide-spaced figures, ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Contemporary Jazz
Reba McEntire is releasing REVIVED REMIXED REVISITED. The three-part box set is a reimagined collection of some of Reba’s most iconic songs. REVIVED includes some of Reba’s biggest hits as they’ve evolved over the years in her live show and features all new arrangements of fan favorites like “Is There Life Out There” ...
Genre: Country
Subgenre: Traditional Country
Justice (The Complete Edition)
Bieber took the simple approach for his expanded release; a black-and-white cover of 'Justice', which he is now referring to as the "complete edition" of the album. "3 unreleased songs FRIDAY. RED EYE, ANGELS SPEAK, HAILEY,". ...
Genre: Pop
Subgenre: Pop Rock
In the 50th year of her musical career Susana Baca has no intention of surrendering her creativity to the will of others and Palabras Urgentes is not just another album in her discography. It is more than that. It is a musical creation, a collection of songs, intended to take on today’s difficult times. ...
Genre: Latin
Subgenre: Contemporary Latin
Reshape the face of pop: GRAMMY-winning UK artist James Blake's first new full-length album in 3 years, Friends That Break Your Heart, was released on September 10, 2021, via Republic Records and features the single, "Say What You Will." Blake calls this a concept album and worked closely with artist Miles Johnston ...
Genre: Songwriter
Subgenre: Contemporary
As the pianist/composer says, “I think there are only two genres: the genre which moves my heart and the genre that doesn’t. So I don’t really mind where this album gets categorized… I’m just playing the music which moves my heart.” ...
Composer: Hiromi
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Contemporary Jazz
Known for the versatile sonics and storytelling that earned her eight #1 singles, Hemby explores a full range of her musical gifts, spanning influences from Tom Petty to Sheryl Crow and the early 90’s rock and roots she was raised on — with incomparable individuality. Across the 11-track collection, Hemby delivers unconventional ...
Genre: Country
Subgenre: Country Pop
Voice of Nature: The Anthropocene
Renée Fleming's new album "Voice of Nature: The Anthropocene" with Yannick Nézet-Séguin. Inspired by the solace Fleming found while hiking near her Virginia home during lockdown, the album explores the centrality of nature in Romantic-era song and highlights the peril and fragility of the natural world today. ...
Composer: Kevin Putts (1972), Gabriel Faure (1845-1924), Reynaldo Hahn (1875-1947), Franz Liszt (1811-1886), Nico Muhly (1981), Edvard Grieg (1843-1907), Caroline Shaw (1982)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Vocal
Cycles is the debut solo album from Sam Teskey, lead guitarist & Grammy-nominated engineer from The Teskey Brothers. What Sam Teskey presents on Cycles nothing short of a cosmic journey, one that traverses a lot of musical territory. From sprawling, orchestral balladry to dissonant, ambient soundscapes, ...
Genre: Songwriter
Subgenre: Contemporary
This album was recorded during a live concert held at the Auditorium Parco della Musica - Sala Petrassi in Rome on November 12th, 2004. Recording and production are by Giulio Cesare Ricci in collaboration with the National Academy of Santa Cecilia - Foundation. ...
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Concertos
Concept, character and cool – Emily D’Angelo’s debut album on Deutsche Grammophon encompasses everything that comes so naturally to this young Canadian vocalist. Her chosen title for this thoughtfully curated sonic journey comes from Hellenistic rhetoric and sums up the essence of the album: enargeia ...
Composer: Hildegard von Bingen (1098-1179), Hildur Gudnadottir (1982), Missy Mazzoli (1980), Sarah Kirkland Snider
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Vocal
A new Rockstar is born: Almost two years since the release of Sam’s critically acclaimed debut album Hypersonic Missiles debuted at number 1 in the UK album chart, Sam now readies its follow up. Seventeen Going Under finds Sam turning the mirror on himself; his adolescence and the trials and tribulations ...
Genre: Songwriter
Subgenre: Contemporary
Pianist Sheng Cai devotes his latest recording to piano works by Edvard Grieg, Norway's most famous composer. At the age of 22, Grieg wrote his only Piano Sonata, Op. 7, dedicated to his teacher, the influential Danish composer Niels Gade. The piano arrangement of Peer Gynt, Suite No. 1, Op. 46 is ...
Composer: Edward Grieg (1843-1907)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Instrumental
For more than thirty years, Fritz Brun (1878-1959) was chief conductor of the city orchestra in Bern, Switzerland. He was strongly influenced by Johannes Brahms and extremely respected as a composer in his time. He is often referred to as the last symphonist of the Romantic style. ...
Composer: Fritz Brun (1878-1959)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
Chiaroscuro (Works for clarinet and piano)
Clarinetist Ona Cardona and pianist Josep Colom join forces on this recording, performing Brahms’ late masterpieces, the clarinet sonatas op. 120. Superb performances of both sonatas that framed Robert Schumann’s Fantasiestücke, op. 73 and a wonderful arrangement for clarinet and piano of Clara Schumann’s largely ...
Composer: Johannes Brahms (1833-1897), Robert Schumann (1810-1856), Clara Schumann (1819-1896)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
The first joint album from countertenor Philippe Jaroussky and guitarist Thibaut Garcia, À sa guitare takes its name from a song by the 20th century French composer Francis Poulenc. But its frame of reference is extraordinarily wide – both culturally and stylistically. Its 22 tracks range across 400 years ...
Composer: John Dowland (1562-1626), Giuseppe Giordani (1751-1798), Francesca Caccini (1587-1640), Enrique Granados (1867-1916), Franz Schubert (1797-1828), Henry Purcell (1659-1695), Luiz Bonfa (1922-2001), Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791), Ariel Ramirez (1921-2010), Gabriel Faure (1845-1924), Francis Poulenc (1899-1963)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Vocal
2021 release, the fourth album from the country music group. Time, Tequila & Therapy features the single "I Was on a Boat That Day". Every member of the five-piece band had a hand in writing songs from the 13-track project. Gladys Knight appears on "Lonely Side of Town," described as a "Motown by way of Music Row soul stunner." ...
Genre: Country
Subgenre: Country Pop
Vollblutmusikerinnen: Dieses Album bei ALPHA CLASSICS feiert eine mittlerweile zwanzig Jahre währende fruchtbare musikalische Zusammenarbeit, vor allem aber eine echte Freundschaft ‒ auch abseits des Podiums: »Wir sind wie zwei Schwestern, auf der Bühne und im Leben«, ... #!EN!#> This album celebrates a musical rapport that has lasted for twenty years and, above all, a true friendship: ‘We’re like two sisters, on stage and in life’, as Patricia Kopatchinskaja and Sol Gabetta like to say. In parallel with their dazzling solo careers, they have frequently got together for concerts ...
Composer: Jean Marie Leclair (1697-1764), Jörg Widmann (1973), Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach (1714-1788), Francisco Coll (1985), Maurice Ravel (1875-1937), Marcin Markowicz (1979), Julien-Francois Zbinden (1917), Iannis Xenakis (1922-2001), György Ligeti (1923-2006), Zoltan Kodaly (1882-1967), Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Concertos
Bruckner: Symphony No.4 in E-flat Major, WAB 104 (Edition Haas)
Sensationelle Einspielung des gewaltigen Werks: Die bisher erschienenen Einspielungen der Bruckner-Sinfonien mit den Wiener Philharmonikern unter Christian Thielemann wurden weltweit als musikalisches Ereignis gefeiert. Jetzt erscheint die 4. Sinfonie des Zyklus’ bei Sony Classical. ...
Composer: Anton Bruckner (1824-1896)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Orchestral
Violist Jesus Rodolfo makes his PENTATONE debut, accompanied by pianist Min Young Kang, with an album showcasing three iconic 20th-century Russian composers who all left their homeland: Prokofiev, Rachmaninov and Stravinsky. Rodolfo presents selections of Prokofiev’s Romeo ...
Composer: Serge Prokofieff (1891-1953), Sergej Rachmaninoff (1873-1943), Igor Strawinsky (1882-1971)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
