Selle: Concertum Latino Sacrorum - Liber Primus
The prosperous Hanseatic city of Hamburg with its thriving cultural life always attracted capable minds. One of these was Thomas Selle (1599-1663), who worked here as city cantor from 1641. Around 1650, he compiled what he considered to be the most relevant of his own sacred compositions for printing, in order to preserve his work for ...
Composer: Thomas Selle (1599-1663)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Vocal
With the title Irish Minimalism, composer Dave Flynn has laid down a marker. Minimalism is associated with America, and specifically with composers like Steve Reich and Philip Glass (both of whom have spent a good portion of their careers disavowing the term) however, the hallmarks of the style (repetition, gradual incremental changes that accrue over time, ...
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Modern Composition
Sea birds, distorted noise, and then the line “Mighty ships hung over ground” — the marine theme not only begins but makes its mark throughout the entirety of A Lantern and a Bell, the first album from Loney dear since 2017, released on Peter Gabriel’s Real World Records label. ...
Genre: Electronic
Subgenre: Electro-Pop
Domenico Maria Dreyer: Sonatas for Recorder and Basso Continuo
A veritable discovery from the Italian High Baroque. The flute sonatas by Domenico Maria Dreyer, a contemporary of Antonio Vivaldi. The Swiss recorder player with an Indian background Isaac Makhdoomi interprets them together with Sebastian Bausch on the harpsichord. In this integral compilation, the works are recorded on an album for ...
Composer: Domenico Maria Dreyer (1700-1735)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
All Things Must Pass (50th Anniversary (Super Deluxe))
Newly remastered! "All Things Must Pass" is the third studio album by English rock musician George Harrison. Released as a triple album in November 1970, it was Harrison's first solo work after the break-up of the Beatles in April that year. It includes the hit singles "My Sweet Lord" and "What Is Life", as well as songs such as ...
Genre: Rock
Subgenre: Classic Rock
All Things Must Pass (50th Anniversary)
Newly remastered! "All Things Must Pass" is the third studio album by English rock musician George Harrison. Released as a triple album in November 1970, it was Harrison's first solo work after the break-up of the Beatles in April that year. It includes the hit singles "My Sweet Lord" and "What Is Life", as well as songs such as "Isn't It a Pity" and the title track ...
Genre: Rock
Subgenre: Classic Rock
Schumann & Chopin: Davidsbündlertänze and Polonaise-fantaisie
A formidable interpreter of the works of Robert Schumann, the German pianist Severin von Eckardstein here offers an intense version of rare narrative force of one of the most complex cycles of the 19th century, the Davidsbündlertänze Op. 6. This dazzling kaleidoscope of moods is coupled with works by ...
Composer: Frédéric Chopin (1810-1849), Gabriel Edouard Xavier Dupont (1878-1914), Robert Schumann (1810-1856), Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840–1893)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Instrumental
Joseph Martin Kraus: Voix des Lumières
Overshadowed by the giants Mozart, Haydn and Beethoven, many other highly talented composers also played a part in shaping the Classical style. Génération Mozart aims to reinstate those lesser- known composers and thus shed light on other aspects of Classicism. ...
Composer: Joseph Martin Kraus (1756–1792)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Vocal
In the courts of the 15th century, music was a constant companion. The chanson was a daily pleasure, a vehicle for poetry and passion, a remedy for pain and sublimated the richness of amorous relationships. The chanson was perhaps the musical form in which Dufay, despite being a man of the Church, best expressed his immense talent. ...
Composer: Guillaume Dufay (1397–1474)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
In the golden age of Italian music, during the Baroque era, Venice shone brightly and the artistic abundance that reigned there at the time is still celebrated today. Marianne Piketty and Le Concert Idéal go off the beaten track by proposing rarer, even unpublished works by the author of the Four Seasons. ...
Composer: Antonio Vivaldi (1675-1741)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
Haydn, Vellard: The Seven Last Words
Haydn composed The Seven Last Words in 1786 to accompany the liturgy of the long Good Friday ceremony in Cádiz. Later, he adapted this cycle of seven sonatas, all with a slow tempo for string quartet, which is the version presented here. ...
Composer: Franz Joseph Haydn (1732-1809)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
Born in Frankfurt, Nora Kamm operates in the border area between jazz, afro and fusion. Kamm began playing the flute at the age of twelve, discovered the saxophone five years later and studied jazz at the Lyon Conservatory. She released two albums with the band Dreisam and played with musicians such as Michel Benita, Manu Dibango, Andy Sheppard, Cheick Tidiane Seck and Erik ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Contemporary Jazz
Quasi as a supplement to the Dupré year 2021 (135th birthday, 50th year of death), the new CD recording of the Polish organist Tomasz Głuchowski reached us at the beginning of this year. Recorded in March 2021 at the New Forum for Music in Wrocław, it includes works from three different creative periods of Dupré. It begins with the ...
Composer: Marcel Dupre (1886-1971)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Instrumental
Tulsa slide guitar wizard and master luthier, Seth Lee Jones, delivers a collection of nine rocking, road-tested blues covers that crackle with energy. The album was recorded in under seven and a half hours, straight to tape with no edits or overdubs. These tracks are some of the band’s personal ...
Genre: Blues
Subgenre: Bluesy Rock
You will, of course, be wondering what took Kings of Convenience so long. When 12 years elapse between albums, you might well assume that there has been some dramatic rift. And when you learn that an album has been recorded across five years in five different cities, you might expect something fiendishly ornate, larded with fancy ...
Genre: Songwriter
Subgenre: Contemporary
Eden's Island: The Music of an Enchanted Isle (60th-Anniversary Edition)
The ultimate reissue of one of the world’s most important albums in the field of Exotica, Jazz and even Proto Psychedelic Music from 1960! Ahbez, was a 20th century maverick, possibly comparable to Moondog and Harry Partch. A bearded, vegetarian, sandal wearing traveller, known for sleeping in caves and even under the Hollywood sign - in the 1940s. ...
Composer: Eden Ahbez (1908-1995)
Genre: Easy Listening
Subgenre:
Songs from Other Places (Special Edition)
Stacey Kent’s Songs From Other Places Special Edition with 5 bonus tracks. Stacey Kent’s clear-as-light vocals and Art Hirahara’s lyrical piano make their duo outing exactly “what the world needs now.” On Songs from Other Places, their artistry is beautifully laid bare in classic songs including Weill and Gershwin’s “My Ship,” ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Vocal
Black Label Society builds their music on this simple truth, truth as self-evident on Back in Black as on the dozen songs comprising Doom Crew Inc., the eleventh album from the dependable stalwarts. Doom Crew Inc. is both a tribute to the band's "first to bleed, last to leave" road crew and a salute to the legion whose support, ...
Genre: Rock
Subgenre: Hard Rock
W.A. Mozart: Divertimento KV 563, Adagio e Fuga KV 546
"Mozart is a touchstone of the heart. If I want to do something especially dear to someone, I sit down at the piano and play them a piece by Mozart." With these sentences, the great Mozart interpreter Edwin Fischer has said something essential. From every note of Mozart speaks an extremely sensitive and delicate, loving and at the same time masculine ...
Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756–1791)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre:
W.A. Mozart: Concertos KV 216, KV 219 - Adagio KV 261 - Rondeau KV 269
The peculiar and almost impromptu importance of the genre of the Violin concerto in the catalogue of Mozarts musical production is highlighted by the very limited space of time in which the five most important compositions of this type appeared (all within the one year 1775). ...
Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Concertos
