The goal of Babylon ORCHESTRA, since its founding in 2016, has been to create a fresh sound that speaks to Berlin’s multicultural society. Conversations between the traditional sounds of the Middle East and the musical cultures of Europe emerge during performance, all while keeping the focus on urban elements of the Berlin music scene. ...
Genre: World Music
Subgenre: Worldbeat
Schumann: Symphonies Nos. 3 & 1
Robert Schumann wrote his first symphony according to his own words “in that springtime urge which carries people away into old age and overtakes them anew every year. – The famous quotation aptly describes Schumann’s emotional exuberance of that time, which probably did not only ...
Composer: Robert Schumann (1810-1856)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Orchestral
An effortless storyteller with a pure and unfiltered singing talent and songwriting ability, Mabel McVey has an instinctive gift of melody far beyond her twenty two years. Indeed Mabel has made quite the impression since bursting on to the scene in September 2015 with her release ‘Know Me Better’. ....
Genre: Pop
Subgenre: Pop Rock
After successful debut EP ‘Everlast’, two sold-out headline shows in London and 4 international headline and support tours, Matt Perriment returns with brand new ‘Memos’ EP, out via V2 Records. With support from BBC Introducing, Spotify editorial, and placement in various singer-songwriter charts, Perriment ...
Genre: Songwriter
Subgenre: New Acoustic
The first-time creative teaming of Poland’s Marcin Wasilewski Trio and US tenorist Joe Lovano brings forth special music of concentrated, deep feeling, in which lyricism and strength seem ideally balanced. The alliance plays tunes by Wasilewski and by Lovano, as well as Carla Bley’s classic ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Contemporary Jazz
Les Passions de l'Ame release their new album "Divina". The echo between heaven and earth becomes tangible in the spirited and opulent interpretation on instruments by Jacobus Stainer, the rich continuo and touching human voices. This album crowns the complete recording of all ...
Composer: Johann Heinrich Schmelzer (1623-1680), Heinrich Ignaz Biber (1644-1704)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Vocal
As saxophonist/composer Bobby Watson embarks on a new chapter in his storied career, his latest album arrives as a reminder of the authenticity that has characterized his music on every step of that journey. Keepin’ It Real, due out June 26 via Smoke Sessions Records, debuts a new incarnation of his ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Contemporary Jazz
Mozart: Piano Sonata, K. 331 "Alla turca"
The opening movement of Mozart’s Piano Sonata K.331 is a theme and variations, a novel approach for a Viennese composer of the time. The work’s finale – the famous rondo ‘alla turca’ – which echoes the sound of Turkish Janissary bands (an idiom the composer also mined for his operatic Singspiel ...
Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Instrumental
Contractual Obligation #1: Live in Moscow
Vocalist Ian Gillan, together with Robert Plant, Ozzy Osbourne and a few others, is considered one of the legendary voices that shaped hard rock. Despite his commitment to Deep Purple, the singer has built an impressive solo career. “Contractual Obligation” is a collection of performances during a recent tour ...
Genre: Rock
Subgenre: Classic Rock
Contractual Obligation #3: Live in St. Petersburg
Vocalist Ian Gillan, together with Robert Plant, Ozzy Osbourne and a few others, is considered one of the legendary voices that shaped hard rock. Despite his commitment to Deep Purple, the singer has built an impressive solo career. “Contractual Obligation” is a ...
Genre: Rock
Subgenre: Classic Rock
Whitesnake will bring together some of their hardest-hitting songs of its multi-platinum career on The ROCK Album, a new collection that features revisited, remixed and remastered versions of the group’s best ROCK songs. The album is the first release in the band’s “Red, White and Blues Trilogy,” a series of ...
Genre: Rock
Subgenre: Hard Rock
Star violinist Arabella Steinbacher presents Antonio Vivaldi’s world-famous Four Seasons alongside Astor Piazzolla’s Cuatro estaciones porteñas, creating a lively combination of baroque and tango. The enormous popularity of Vivaldi’s Four Seasons tends to make us forget the original and ground- ...
Composer: Antonio Vivaldi (1678–1741), Astor Piazzolla (1921-1992)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
This EP is part of a series of pop guitar covers of current hits crafted by Jerry Cortez (guitarist from Tower Of Power). Jerry has created fresh arrangements on acoustic and electric guitars, all recorded, mixed and mastered at 96khz/24bit. The coming EP #GUITARVER4 features “Don’t Start Now” ...
Genre: Guitar
Subgenre: Jazz
It’s evident within the initial seconds of BPMD's "American Made", as the legendary Bobby Blitz (Overkill) chants the introductory lyrics to Ted Nugent's "Wang Dang Sweet Poontang" in his signature skyscraper-high howl, that he and his equally iconic bandmates - drummer Mike Portnoy (The Winery ...
Genre: Rock
Subgenre: Hard Rock
Beethoven: Symphonies Nos. 1-9 (Live)
This new Beethoven symphony cycle with Malmö Symphony Orchestra is conductor Robert Trevino’s debut release on Ondine. Trevino is one of the fastest rising young conductors and known for his fresh and vivid interpretations of both standard repertoire as well as contemporary works. Currently Trevino is ...
Composer: Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Orchestral
Bach: Concertos for Harpsichord & Strings, Vol. 1
The extant concertos by Johann Sebastian Bach for one harpsichord and strings were all composed before 1738, which makes them some of the first, if not the first keyboard concertos – a genre destined to become one of the most popular within classical music. In all likelihood Bach wrote them for his own use ...
Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Concertos
Sun Ship: The Complete Session (Remastered)
One of the last studio recordings of the "Classic John Coltrane Quartet." John Coltrane's Sun Ship was one of the last - and finest - chapters in the story of his classic quartet. The album profiles the saxophonist in transition, from the secular to the sacred. Deepening his spiritual journey, Trane discovers the sound ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Free Jazz
Digitally remastered! With 80/81, Pat Metheny took one step closer to his dream of working with The Prophet of Freedom (a dream he finally achieved with 1985’s Song X), and what better company than Coleman alumni Charlie Haden and Dewey Redman, both fresh off the boat of Keith Jarrett’s newly defunct American Quartet and both ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Contemporary Jazz
Some say, “It is never too late to fulfill your dreams.” Matthew Austin Hunt, after a lifetime away from his passion for music, has recently released his first singles “Bye London Bye” and “American Made” for 2020. Despite the details of his life, Matthew was unable to escape from his musical ..
Genre: Songwriter
Subgenre: Folk Rock
If you want to travel America, climb aboard e Train. As a GRAMMY-nominated kingpin of American roots music, Victor Wainwright’s 2020 release is a snapshot of the nation’s great cities and genres, embodying a connection between exciting unseen places with a modern twist. ...
Genre: Blues
Subgenre: Electric Blues
