Rachmaninov: Piano Concertos Nos. 2 & 3
Though the works of Russian composer Rachmaninoff are often appreciated for their ardent passion and overflow of emotions, pianist Cho Jae-hyuck aims to examine a more reserved, thought-out side of the Romantic composer’s works with his latest recording of his piano concerto pieces. ...
Composer: Sergej Rachmaninoff (1873-1943)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Concertos
On two highly praised discs, Susanna Mälkki and her players in the Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra have released recordings of Béla Bartók’s three scores for the stage – The Miraculous Mandarin, The Wooden Prince and Bluebeard’s Castle, all written before 1918. The team now takes on two of his late orchestral ...
Composer: Bela Bartok (1881-1945)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Orchestral
Roll Tape: Live From Melody League Studios
The new live album includes a special guest feature from Lauren Daigle on the track 'A Place Called Earth', as well as including several other tracks from Jon's solo studio album 'Departures', released earlier this year. Jon Foreman's musical journey began in 1996 in a surfboard filled garage in San Diego, California. ...
Genre: Songwriter
Subgenre: Contemporary
Beethoven: String Quartets, Op. 18 Nos. 1-3
For a string player, Beethoven’s 16 quartets are of an importance similar to that of his sonatas to a pianist, or his symphonies to a conductor. As a body they form the culmination of all the chamber music composed before them, and to this day they remain a benchmark for every composer of string quartets. ...
Composer: Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
Gorgeous and haunting, Graindorge uses strings, harmonium and electronic treatments to explore intimate corners and widescreen vistas. Over the centuries Eldorado has become a word weighted down by so many meanings, layer upon layer of possibility and expectation. But it can also be a place to find hope and solace and discover dreams. ...
Genre: Ambient
Subgenre: Experimental
The Loops mixtape fluctuates behind walls of menacing synths and distorted vocals. The complexity found in the first intricate, electronic soul leaning single, ‘I Hope You Hear’ is accompanied by a comfortingly nostalgic video. The purposefully glitchy visuals tap into hazy memories with an aspiration to relive intimate moments with loved ones through an empathetic lens. ...
Genre: Electronic
Subgenre: Ambient
With the simultaneously glamorous and tender sounds of her instrument, harpist Sarah Christ transports us into the world of dance – into a world that is as much characterised by a sense of celebration and buoyancy as it is by contemplation and melancholy. ...
Composer: Ferenc Farkas (1905-2000), Claude Debussy (1862-1918), Hector Berlioz (1803-1869), Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750), Manuel de Falla (1876-1946), Frederic Chopin (1810-1849), Astor Piazzolla (1921-1992)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Instrumental
Taewook Ahn or the saxophone as embodiment of romantic aesthetics. The sound of the saxophone is not commonly associated with romantic classical music. One could even think of Schumann's music as an awkward choice for the instrument; Taewook Ahn proves the opposite to be true, ...
Composer: Robert Schumann (1810-1856)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Classical Crossover
In These Silent Days, the highly anticipated new studio album from six-time Grammy Award-winning singer, songwriter, performer, producer and New York Times Best Selling author Brandi Carlile. Of the album, Carlile shares, “Never before have the twins and I written an album during a time of such ...
Genre: Songwriter
Subgenre: Contemporary
The Imaginary Music Book of J.S. Bach
Johann Sebastian Bach has made the reputation of Café Zimmermann ever since the ensemble was formed in 1999. This new recording presents the music of the Leipzig Kantor from a different angle, that of the notebooks in which musicians wrote down pieces and movements they particularly liked. This recording brings ...
Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
Jennifer Pike writes: ‘This recording project of Polish music is one that is particularly close to my heart. The idea for the series arose from an awareness of the sound world associated with Polish music, of the country’s long-held fascination with the violin, and of my own Polish heritage on my mother’s side.' ...
Composer: Karol Szymanowski (1882-1937), Poldowski (alias Regine Wieniawska) (1879-1932), Grazyna Bacewicz (1909-1969)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
"Houses", which will be released by Masterworks/Sony Music on 1 October, is Norwegian singer Silje Nergaard’s latest album, a release as personal as it is varied and richly resonant. Among her guests are Kurt Elling, Vince Mendoza, Bugge Wesseltoft, Toninho Horta and Adam Baldych. For more than twenty-five years Silje Nergaard has not just been a star in her native Norway, ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Vocal
The long-awaited album "Pulse" by Thomas Lemmer & Andreas Bach is finally here. After their successful debut album "Night Travellers" from 2019, the two artists have now followed up and kept their promise for a worthy successor. ...
Genre: Electronic
Subgenre: Downtempo
Schubert: Rosamunde & Der Tod und das Mädchen
At the gates of night and deliverance: By turns symphonic in dimensions and intimately lyrical, grippingly dark and gently enveloping, these two monuments of chamber music reveal the two faces of Schubert. At the end of 1822, Schubert learnt that he had contracted a venereal disease. ...
Composer: Franz Schubert (1797-1828)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
Roger Taylor has had plenty of free time recently to reflect on his long, rich, extraordinary journey through life and music. With Queen + Adam Lambert's blockbuster Rhapsody European tour postponed until 2022 by the Covid-19 pandemic, Roger has made good use of his lengthy lay-off. Fired up with creative inspiration, ...
Genre: Rock
Subgenre: Modern Rock
Beethoven: Violin Sonatas, Op. 30 Nos. 1-3
The award-winning duo ensemble formed by Christian Tetzlaff and Lars Vogt are returning to the masterworks of European chamber music with this new album that includes Ludwig van Beethoven’s (1770–1827) three violin sonatas from Op. 30. The expressive and intimate chamber music recordings ...
Composer: Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
Johann Sebastian Bach left us three sonatas for viola da gamba and harpsichord. He made various transcriptions of the gamba sonata in G major, one of which was of the last movement as a trio sonata for organ. Several movements of the six organ trio sonatas themselves are also reworkings of previously ...
Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
With their latest recording, Frieder Bernius and the Kammerchor Stuttgart reach a new pinnacle in the art of interpretation: The Cinq Rechants for 12 mixed voices by Olivier Messiaen, with their rhythmically striking onomatopoeias, pose an enormous challenge for the performers. ...
Composer: Olivier Messiaen (1908-1992), Claude Debussy (1862-1918), Maurice Ravel (1875-1937), Gustav Gustav Mahler (1860-1911)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Choral
Messiaen: Orchestral Works (Live)
Few performers are more familiar with the musical language of the French composer Olivier Messiaen than the American conductor Kent Nagano. Nagano has had Messiaen's orchestral works and oratorios in his program for several decades now, and he also participated in the world premiere of “Saint François d'Assise”, ...
Composer: Olivier Messiaen (1908-1992)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Vocal
Venezia 1631 - La Festa della Salute
In the early summer of 1630, Venice was struck by the plague in a devastating way: It raged for 18 months and killed almost 50,000 people, more than a third of the population at the time! Doge Nicolò Cantarini vowed to build a large church for the deliverance from the plague, and even though he was unable to experience it himself, ...
Composer: Bartolomeo Barbarino (1568-1617), Giuseppe Scarini (1600-1674), Tarquinio Merula (1595-1665), Giovanni Battista Fontana (1589-1630), Claudio Monteverdi (1567-1643), Giovanni Battista Riccio (1570-1630), Antonio Bertali (1605-1669), Dario Castello (1602-1631), Bartolomeo de Selma y Selaverde (1595-1638), Pier Francesco Cavalli (1602-1676), Giovanni Rovetta (1596-1668), Alessandro Grandi (1586-1630), Giovanni Paolo Cima (1575-1630), Bartolomeo Barbarino (1568-1617)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
