YES, who are Steve Howe, Alan White, Geoff Downes, Jon Davison and Billy Sherwood, will release their new studio album THE QUEST. “It is simply an honour for me to have the opportunity to bring together the band members ...
Genre: Rock
Subgenre: Modern Rock
All four American composers on this new album by the Basque National Orchestra and conductor Robert Trevino wrote music that was known, played and esteemed during their lifetimes, but none of them ever had a huge “hit” and so the pieces here are likely familiar only to musical scholars. ...
Composer: Charles Martin Loeffler (1861-1935), Carl Ruggles (1876-1971), Howard Hanson (1896-1981), Henry Cowell (1897-1965)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Orchestral
Gregor Joseph Werner: Salve Reginas & Pastorellas
Expressiveness, drama and Alpine joie de vivre: the hitherto neglected œuvre of Haydn’s predecessor Gregor Joseph Werner reveals a wealth of contrasts. Connecting different epochs to each other, his compositions are musical jewels casting a new light on the works of the Viennese classical era. ...
Composer: Gregor Joseph Werner (1695-1766)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Vocal
The brand new studio album by Paul Carrack "One On One". In more than 20 years of running his own record label and touring operation, Paul Carrack knows more than most about taking responsibility for his own career. So when lockdown cast its unwelcome shadow on the music business, one of Britain's most distinguished and soulful ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Mainstream Jazz
Schubert: Piano Trios, Volume 1
In their second album for Resonus, the Gould Piano Trio returns with a recording of Franz Schubert’s Piano Trios. Apart from a very early single movement written when he was fifteen years of age, Schubert came to the piano trio late in his short career and left only two full-length works in the form, ...
Composer: Franz Schubert (1797-1828)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
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
City of Sounds was captured onstage at Smoke Jazz & Supper Club with a superb trio featuring legendary pianist Kenny Barron and bass titan Peter Washington. The three are reunited from Farnsworth’s Smoke Sessions debut, Time To Swing, which also included Wynton Marsalis in the line-up. ....
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Contemporary Jazz
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
