Mendelssohn: String Symphonies Nos. 7, 9 & 12
Felix Mendelssohn's string symphonies can be broadly split into two groups: the first six all have a three-movement structure; the movements of the first three are ordered fast-slow-fast and are thus based on the pre-Classical models. The second group of string symphonies comprises ...
Composer: Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy (1809-1847)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Orchestral
In the thirty years since the National Youth Choirs of Great Britain were born, they have continued to blossom and flourish. New director Ben Parry was quick to notice they share their birthday in 2013 with Brittens centenary, and the result ...
Composer: Benjamin Britten (1913-1976)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Choral
An album on the occasion of the 100th birthday of Astor Piazzolla. The arde Trio offers two world premieres on its debut release: Fresh and new arrangements by Omar Massa, which are congenially embodied by the unusual instrumentation of the arde Trio, allow not only the great "classics" of Tango Nuevo music to resound ....
Composer: Astor Piazzolla (1921–1992)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
On her second full-length record, Head of Roses, Jenn Wasner follows a winding thread of intuition into the unknown and into healing, led by gut feelings and the near-spiritual experience of visceral songwriting. ...
Genre: Alternative
Subgenre: Indie Rock
The production with Reinhold Friedrich, Eriko Takezawa and Alisa Kratzer unites original works for trumpet and piano as well as arrangements for this instrumentation. One can only share Friedrich's regret that despite numerous, sometimes even exposed orchestral solos, ...
Composer: Gustav Gustav Mahler (1860-1911), Thomas Oehler (1980), Joseph Jongen (1873-1953), Karl Pilss (1902-1979), Victor Nessler (1841-1890), Richard Strauss (1864-1949)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Instrumental
With ‘Electric Mud’ Muddy Waters took the blues in a new direction and managed to influence everyone from Chuck D to Jimi Hendrix. Marshall Chess, son of Chess Records co-founder Leonard, had to work hard to persuade Muddy Waters of the benefits in recording Wading In Electric Mud, released on 5 October 1968. ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Blues Rock
Memorias, Astor Piazzolla Memories in 6 Tableaux
Memorias I: Memorias is clair-obscur’s birthday present for Astor Piazzolla, who would have celebrated his 100th birthday in 2021. A manera de memorias is the title of Argentinean author Natalio Gorín’s anthology of interviews with Astor Piazzolla from the 1990s. ...
Composer: Astor Piazzolla (1921–1992)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Classical Crossover
If ever a moment in history called for the caustic, corrosive rantings of guitarist-composer-poet Todd Clouser and the abstract grooves of his combustible beat-skronk band Magnet Animals, it’s this one. With our collective headspaces dizzied by a nearly yearlong pandemic induced isolation ...
Genre: Rock
Subgenre: Adult Alternative
Hiromi's Sonicbloom: Beyond Standard (Remastered)
Hiromi’s supergroup, Sonicbloom, crafts a melting pot of jazz, classical, fusion, standards and even a traditional Japanese tune. Hiromi’s supergroup, Sonicbloom, has shattered the formula of making records written solely by the celebrated ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Fusion
When it came to his music, Michael Jackson was never one to play it conservative. Each new album was a chance to surprise people: to introduce new sounds, new production, new collaborators. “I always want to do music that inspires or influences another generation,” said Jackson in his last major interview in 2007. “You want what you create to live.”
Genre: Pop
Subgenre: Pop Rock
"WE ARE" is a career-changing album from musician and activist Jon Batiste. "WE ARE" celebrates Black American culture and music while exploring themes of lineage, authenticity, excellence and evolution. This album is about honoring roots and traditions, while looking forward to the future and constantly evolving. ...
Genre: R&B
Subgenre: Soul
On the album "Bach Mirror" the French pianist Thomas Enhco and marimba player Vassilena Serafimova give well-known and less well-known works by Johann Sebastian Bach an innovative sound. Pieces such as the Prelude No. 2 from the Well-Tempered Clavier or the Air from the orchestral suite No. 3 ...
Composer: Thomas Enhco, Vassilena Serafimova, Johann Sebastian Bach
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Instrumental
The American music icon’s 50th studio album (excluding her 10 studio duet collaborations with Conway Twitty), Still Woman Enough celebrates women in country music. From her homage to the originators, Mother Maybelle Carter and the Carter Family (via her cover of “Keep On The Sunny Side”) through a new interpretation of her very first ...
Genre: Country
Subgenre: Traditional Country
"I’ve been planning for a long time to create a new musical material. It was no doubt that the composer of the new album would be Tibor. Not because he is my husband but because his compositions always are characteristic, rhythmical and very singable, all which are important for connecting with the audience. ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Vocal
We not only relied on interpretations of well-known standards, but also collected ideas for our own pieces in the run-up to the recordings, which bring our respective handwriting to life even more clearly. It was great fun to play our music, which was already recorded after two afternoons. ...
Genre: Guitar
Subgenre: Fingerstyle
Beethoven, Brahms: Violin Concertos
Violinist Gil Shaham partners with The Knights, a Brooklyn-based ensemble conducted by Eric Jacobsen, for his first recording of the Beethoven violin concerto. Shaham was captivated growing up listening to David Oistrakh's recording of the Beethoven over and over again, ...
Composer: Ludwig van Beethoven (1770–1827), Johannes Brahms (1833-1897)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Concertos
This project showcases contemporary reworks of the music of the two revolutionary French composers, Debussy and Rameau, that Ólafsson released earlier this year. Ólafsson says: “I wanted to explore certain works from fresh perspectives, to reimagine them and invite other composers to rework elements of these ...
Composer: Claude Debussy (1862-1918), Jean-Philippe Rameau (1683-1764)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Instrumental
Stanley Grill’s REMEMBER is presented by Navona Records. Featuring viola and piano, these inventive works aptly demonstrate Grill’s unique style; rooted in his passion for medieval and Renaissance music, his compositions are as pioneering and contemporary as they are fundamentally traditional. ...
Composer: Stanley Grill
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
1717: Memories of a Journey to Italy
Imagine that you have the opportunity to fill your suitcase with the best music of your time. What would you take and what would you leave? Remember you do not have room for everything and you have to choose! This is more or less what happened to Pisendel (the concertmaster of the Dresden orchestra ...
Composer: Tomaso Albinoni (1671-1751), Giuseppe Valentini (1680-1746), Giuseppe Maria Fanfani, Antonio Maria Montanari (1676-1737), Johann Georg Pisendel (1687-1755), Antonio Vivaldi (1678-1741)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 6 in B Minor, Op. 74, TH 30 "Pathétique"
Tchaikovsky toyed with the public on the meaning of his final symphony, proclaiming an underlying program existed, but refusing to disclose it. His death shortly after its premiere brought a perfect storm of mystery and intrigue, leaving an imaginative public to proclaim this work was his suicide note. ...
Composer: Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840-1993)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Orchestral
