Technical Ecstasy (2021 - Remaster)
In the summer of 1976, Ozzy Osbourne, Tony Iommi, Geezer Butler and Bill Ward headed to Miami to record Technical Ecstasy at the famed Criteria Studios. The band was coming off a world tour for their previous album, Sabotage, that had found their live performances ...
Genre: Rock
Subgenre: Metal
Especially for 'Silent Dreams' Harriet selected sixteen songs by classic composers such as Schubert, Schumann, Brahms, Strauss and Poulenc. She cherishes all of these songs as they reflect her life as a performing musician. Longing and silence are recurring themes on the album. ...
Composer: Franz Schubert (1797-1828), Robert Schumann (1810-1856), Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy (1809-1847), Johannes Brahms (1833-1897), Ernest Chausson (1855-1899), Francis Poulenc (1899-1963), Michael Glinka (1804-1857), Sergei Rachmaninoff (1873-1934), Richard Strauss (1864–1949)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
Carnegie Hall 1970 Live (Remastered)
Finally the release of Neil Young's Carnegie Hall 1970. Young has selected this concert he played at New York’s Carnegie Hall on December 4th, 1970 as the inaugural release from his Official Bootleg series. The show rounded off a seminal year for Young who had released the After The Gold Rush ...
Genre: Rock
Subgenre: Classic Rock
"Love for Sale" is the second collaborative album by American singers Tony Bennett and Lady Gaga, released on September 30, 2021, by Columbia and Interscope Records. It is the sixty-first studio album of Bennett's career, and Gaga's seventh. Following Cheek to Cheek (2014), ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Big Band
The fourth album by this Brooklyn-based collective builds on their strengths in a program that ranges across jazz, improv, and contemporary classical/new music, with a passing nod to the traditions of eastern Europe. As composers, Black, Speed and D’Angelo provide different frameworks for the band’s characteristic, often tensile explorations, ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Avantgarde Jazz
Mozart: Works for Violin & Orchestra
After having recorded Mozart’s last three violin concertos in 2014, Arabella Steinbacher, the Festival Strings Lucerne and its leader Daniel Dodds now complete the cycle by presenting Mozart’s less well-known, but equally enchanting Violin Concertos 1 & 2, together with his Adagio in E Major and Rondos in C Major ...
Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Concertos
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
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
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
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
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
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
