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
Queen of Hearts: Laments and Songs of Regret for Queens Terrestrial and Celestial
Queen of Hearts addresses and reflects on queens spiritual (the Virgin Mary) and temporal (Mary Tudor and Anne Boleyn, among others) in a programme of music largely of the sixteenth century, but spiced with two short works from the twenty-first. ...
Composer: Antoine Brumel (1450-1520), Josquin Des Prez (1450-1521), Loyset Compère (1445-1518), Pierre de la Rue (1460-1518), Sebastiano Festa (1490-1524), Jean Mouton (1459-1522)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Vocal
Pianist Ben Winkelman’s sixth album as a leader, Heartbeat, features jazz heavyweights Gilad Hekselman, Matt Penman and Obed Calvaire, and comprises nine originals, four played by piano trio, five by quartet with guitar. Written mostly in the early months of the Covid pandemic while awaiting the birth of his first child, the album ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Modern Jazz
Verdi: Inno delle nazioni; Quattro Pezzi Sacri
Chailly and La Scala maintain the gold standard for Verdi in this new release coupling two great but rarely recorded choral works. The Hymn of the Nations (Inno delle nazioni) features Decca’s star tenor Freddie De Tommaso, the first tenor to record this work for Decca since Pavarotti. First performed in London in 1862 the ...
Composer: Giuseppe Verdi (1813-1901)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Vocal
The queen of jazz violinists, Naoko Terai's new 2016 album is a melodious, mature work that focuses on the beauty of the music! Her first self-produced work since her major label debut. While her previous album "Hot Jazz" focused on intense and passionate songs such as "Libertango" and "Spain", this album features classical masterpieces such as Debussy's "Moonlight" and Mahler's "Resurrection Symphony No. 2", ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Contemporary Jazz
“My album ‘Duality’ is about the conflicting parts of our lives, and ‘Evil Twin’ captures that contrast” Lindsey says about the release. “Sometimes we feel at war with ourselves as we see the divide between who we are and who we wish we were. These conflicts feel like they could tear you ...
“My album ‘Duality’ is about the conflicting parts of our lives, and ‘Evil Twin’ captures that contrast” Lindsey says about the release. “Sometimes we feel at war with ourselves as we see the divide between who we are and who we wish we were. These conflicts feel like they could tear you ...
Genre: Pop
Subgenre: Pop Rock
