The Cox Family, widely known for their GRAMMY®-winning collaboration with Alison Krauss, I Know Who Holds Tomorrow, as well as their ravishing performance of "I Am Weary, Let Me Rest" from the smash-hit soundtrack O Brother, Where Art Thou?, make a triumphant return with Gone Like the Cotton, an album 17 years in the making. . .
Genre: Country
Subgenre: Bluegrass
This is the third installment of a magnificent Chopin journey by David Wilde. The first two volumes received rave reviews and this volume is sure to follow suit. Frédéric Chopin, a leading symbol of the Romantic era, wrote mainly for solo piano with a style that was highly ...
Composer: Frédéric Chopin (1810-1849)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Instrumental
Loveplaydance: 8 Scenes From the Floor
On ‘LOVEPLAYDANCE’, legendary Tokyo DJ and producer Toshio Matsuura charts a new direction. Casting musical cornerstones in a fresh light, the TOSHIO MATSUURA GROUP features Tom Skinner (drummer for Sons of Kemet and Owiny Sigoma Band amongst others) as its musical director, ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Nu Jazz
There’s something universal in the appeal of an escape – of finding somewhere to relax and explore your ideas. It’s a feeling which connects together the different parts of Maisha’s debut album. A deep record which provides grist for serious spiritual rumination, the music prompts ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Mainstream Jazz
A fresh and open music, delicate and space-conscious, is shaped as drummer Thomas Strønen and Ayumi Tanaka, previously heard in the ensemble Time Is A Blind Guide on Lucus, resurface in a new trio with clarinettist/singer/percussionist Marthe Lea. The group first came together at Oslo’s Royal ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Contemporary Jazz
On her third PENTATONE album Bach Unbuttoned, Ana de la Vega brings together a group of exciting young soloists and the Württembergisches Kammerorchester Heilbronn to present a lively and fresh perspective on Bach as man and composer. The programme contains Brandenburg concertos Nos. 2, 4 & 5, a unique ...
Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
Navona Records’ acclaimed PRISMA series continues with a fifth installment, again showcasing the Janáček Philharmonic Orchestra’s riveting take on contemporary composition. With a focus on innovation and imaginative performance, the orchestra brings a breath ...
Composer: William Copper, Kevin McCarter, Lawrence R. Mumford, Samantha Sack, Katherine Saxon, Anthony Wilson
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Orchestral
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
