The duo formed by Rale Micic and Abe Rábade explores the traditional Serbian and Galician repertoire (that of their origins) and their own musical writing. A project that combines with naturalness and with a very loose stroke such diverse tendencies can only be imbued with the spirit of the American continent; the land most prone to cultural ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Contemporary Jazz
D' Alessandro: Arie dall’opera Adelaide (Hamburg 1744)
This recording production rebuilds the complex events of a composition by Gennaro D'Alessandro (Neapolitan musician, pupil of Leonardo Leo) believed to be hopelessly lost after the bombing in Dresden during the Second World War: the "Ottone", opera on the libretto by Antonio Salvi accommodated by Carlo Goldoni. ...
Composer: Gennaro D’Alessandro (1717-1778), Pietro Chiarini (1717-1765), Santo Lapis (1699-1765)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Vocal
I’m certain that I’m not the only pianist who has dreamt of recording at the historic Van Gelder Studio in Englewood Cliffs, NJ. When Cory Weeds asked me to do another project with him, I immediately thought of recording there with my trio. I still remember the thrill I got from thinking of this project! ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Contemporary Jazz
About A Burning Fire (20th Anniversary Edition - Remastered)
This Friday, September 20th, marks the release of Blindside‘s 2004 album “About A Burning Fire,” which is being published in a 20th anniversary edition. There will be two unreleased bonus tracks on that group’s last major label release. The Swedish alternative metal group will also be performing the entire record live this year at Birmingham, Alabama’s “Furnace Fest,” as previously ...
Genre: Rock
Subgenre: Adult Alternative
If there is one place where Kaz Hawkins' talent is perfectly expressed, it is the stage. This album recorded at the Summer Camp Festival in Brezoi, Romania is irrefutable proof. Having become one of the most important blues festivals in Europe, Brezoi has long crowned Kaz Hawkins as one of its queens, with the Northern Irishwoman being one of the ...
Genre: Blues
Subgenre: Electric Blues
Mandy Fredrich’s album brings together a series of art songs that create coherent arcs and extended storylines, like a kind of mini-opera. The composers’ songs were used to put together four stories about lovers, all of which revolve around the theme of dreamy happiness in all its different facets! ...
Composer: Dora Pejacevic (1885-1923), Gabriel Faure (1845-1924), Pauline Viardot-Garcia (1821-1910), Richard Strauss (1864-1949)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Vocal
Vocal tour de force Dinah Washington headlines this week with her 1955 release For Those In Love. This album is unique amongst Dinah's offering from that period, with the singer opting to work alongside a smaller combo as opposed to a larger jazz orchestra. This album also saw Washington team up with arranger Quincy Jones – who she used on subsequent releases; ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Vocal
„Foreigner“, released in 1973, was Cat Stevens’ fifth album with Island Records and represents the adventurous, risk- taking streak in his character. In a departure from his largely acoustic sound, the album saw Cat explore his love of R&B and soul music, as can be heard on the record’s main single, “The Hurt.” ...
Genre: Songwriter
Subgenre: Contemporary
In the summer of 2023, saxophonist and composer Wayne Escoffery found himself alone in a way that he’d never quite experienced before. He was away from home, on sabbatical in Europe with a month to himself between tours. A long-term relationship had just ended, and he was confronted with the loss of friendships that he’d once valued. Worst of all, he’d ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Contemporary Jazz
Music from Elizabethan England featuring Fantasias by the great William BYRD, Anthony HOLBORNE and Alfonso FERRABOSCO II, the beautiful Lachrymæ pavane by John DOWLAND, lively dance music by Thomas MORLEY alongside lesser known composers Elway BEVIN and Hugh ASTON. Performed on a beautiful renaissance consort of recorders made by ...
Composer: Anthony Holborne (1545-1602), Richard Dering (1580-1630), William Byrd (1543-1623), Giles Farnaby (1560-1620), John Dowland (1562-1626), Elway Bevin (1555-1638), Thomas Morley (1557-1602)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
After a first Brahms recital that made a great impression (Alpha 851) and Mozart concertos (Alpha 1039) praised by the press for their natural fit (Gramophone) and fluidity (Le Monde), Jonathan Fournel, winner of the Queen Elisabeth Competition at the age of 27 and now an important figure ...
Composer: Frederic Chopin (1810-1849), Karol Szymanowski (1882-1937)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Instrumental
In the depths of an Australian winter, Love Police Records & Tapes released Melbourne troubadour Alex Hamilton’s “Trouble In Paradise”, a fireside feast of heartwarming songs and stories. Loved by the Melbourne music mafia, and renowned around the musical traps and studios of Victoria, Alex Hamilton is a poet, seamless songwriter and artistic collaborator with musical bonds with the best from Neil to ...
Genre: Songwriter
Subgenre: Folk-Rock
Sir Arthur Bliss contributed two staples of the brass band repertoire - Kenilworth and The Belmont Variations, whose enduring success inspired arrangers to turn to his other compositions, for example Eric Ball and Four Dances from the ballet Checkmate or Phillip Littlemore's suite from the film score for Things to Come. ...
Composer: Sir Arthur Bliss (1891-1975)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Instrumental
The fourth album released by Chelsea Music Festival Records, Midsummer Night Magic brings us joy & solace through the stories it tells. Uljas Pulkkis paints pictures of Finnish Midsummer childhood legends. Edmund Finnis’s timeless landscape invites us to listen deeply. And our love for Robert Schumann’s music lays a foundation for how we tell ...
Composer: Uljas Pulkkis (1975), Robert Schumann (1840-1856), Edmund Finnis (1984)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
Together for over 25 years, The Jive Aces have been keeping the show on the road for three decades and become renowned worldwide for their high-energy live show having toured in over 40 countries. The band aim to spread smiles and cheer with their swingin’ music and classic vintage style from crooning smooth ballads to blasting honking rhythm & blues. ...
Genre: Easy Listening
Subgenre: Swing
“Every album is a bit different,” Misha Tsiganov noted at the end of the liner notes for Misha’s Wishes, his fourth Criss Cross album (Criss 1409), on which, for the first time on Criss Cross, he played primarily his original compositions and plugged in on the Fender Rhodes. ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Contemporary Jazz
Stanford: Te Deum & Elegiac Ode
By the time Stanford received a commission from the Norfolk and Norwich Festival to write a choral work for them in 1884, he had, at the age of 32, already begun to assert himself as one of Britain’s leading composers. The Elegiac Ode was, however, his first mature foray into the ...
Composer: Charles Villiers Stanford (1852-1924)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Vocal
Little Caesar fuse no-nonsense hard rock that harks back to 70 s giants such as Bad Company and Humble Pie, with an aching ZZ Top groove, and overlay it with classic R&B melodies to produce some mighty fine straight up good time rock and roll! The lead single 'Time Enough For That' is ...
Genre: Rock
Subgenre: Hard Rock
Who Wants to Live Forever: Queen on a Steinway
Pianist Simon Mulligan plays songs by the super glam-rock band, Queen.
Composer: Freddie Mercury (1946-1991), Brian May
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Instrumental
