Schubert: Piano Sonatas D. 840 & D. 960
Jean-Marc Luisada knows the song of Romanticism, the voice of the soul that permeates all of Schubert’s output. In the Sonata no.15, the melodies that spring from the pen of a young composer of twenty-two are deceptive. The tranquillity of the pastoral atmosphere is often answered by the harsh suffering of reality. ...
Composer: Franz Schubert (1797-1828)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Instrumental
Death Stranding (Original Score Volume 2)
Mit dem audiovisuellen Meisterwerk Death Stranding hat der legendäre Spieleentwickler und Metal Gear Solid-Erfinder Hideo Kojima ein neues Genre definiert. Das Spiel wurde in sieben Kategorien, u.a. "Best Audio", für die 20. Game Developers Choice Awards und als "Game of the Year 2020 nominiert. ...
Genre: Soundtrack
Subgenre: Music
COVERS Four was recorded over the period of about a year (2020/2021) at my studio in Hamburg, Germany. Mostly recorded for my monthly 'Sounds Like Dirk' radio show on bremen zwei, but sometimes just for kicks and because it's always a good thing to learn, play and record songs by fantastic songwriters. ...
Genre: Pop
Subgenre: Pop Rock
“Trying Not To Think About It” is an EP made up of 12 tracks which showcase honesty, vulnerability and transparency around mental health. JoJo adds: “Trying Not To Think About It is a result of feeling sooooo lost, scared, and confused at the end of 2020 ...
Genre: R&B
Subgenre: Hip Hop Soul
Music of the Italian Baroque by woman composers and the men who encouraged them. The cicada develops slowly, secretly, over a period of years before presenting itself in style with a song that everyone can hear and appreciate. In the well-known fable, the ants belittled the cicada ...
Composer: Isabella Leonarda (1629-1704), Francesca Caccini (1587–1641), Settimia Caccini (1591–1638), Giulio Caccini (1551–1618), Antonio Vivaldi (1678–1741), Barbara Strozzi (1619–1677)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
There is no question too big for Boy Scouts, and no detail too small to be glossed over on the way to an answer. On Wayfinder, the follow-up to the acclaimed 2019 album Free Company, Oakland-based songwriter Taylor Vick chases her queries to the very edge of the horizon. This is an album that's not afraid to track down what it all means ...
Genre: Songwriter
Subgenre: Contemporary
Liszt: Harmonies poétiques et religieuses III, S. 173
Performed here by pianists Jenny Lin and Adam Tendler, Liszt’s rarely heard Harmonies poétiques et religieuses is a sublime example of Liszt’s early compositions. Lin and Tendler alternate movements of this monumental piano cycle. “Few performers are willing to take on not only ...
Composer: Franz Liszt (1811-1886)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Instrumental
Respighi: Violin Sonata in B Minor, P. 110 (Arr. A. Pompa-Baldi for Piano)
Antonio Pompa-Baldi plays his solo piano arrangement of the B minor Violin Sonata, a dramatic work from Respighi's later period. “Pompa-Baldi knew how to suspend time, letting a phrase hover and expand in poised inner stillness… He relied on warmth, exquisite taste… arresting technique.” (Los Angeles Times) ...
Composer: Ottorino Respighi (1879-1936)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Instrumental
To say In Heaven is about conquering grief would be oversimplifying everything Tim Showalter has achieved on the eighth studio album from Strand of Oaks. A stunning, hopeful reflection on love, loss, and enlightenment, In Heaven is a triumph in music making, and a preeminent addition ...
Genre: Songwriter
Subgenre: Folk Rock
Ten years of Revue Blanche. That’s ten years of making music together. Of exploring, brainstorming and challenging themselves, finding other soulmates and meeting audiences across the world. ...
Composer: Deodat de Severac (1873-1921), Erik Satie (1866-1925), Louis Durey (1888-1979), Maurice Ravel (1875-1937), Georges Auric (1899-1983), Alfredo Casella (1883-1947), Henri Duparc (1848-1933)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Vocal
Josquin, the Undead: Laments, Deplorations & Dances of Death
Bjorn Schmelzer and his ensemble provide their special vision in this Josquin Desprez anniversary. With the conviction that Josquin, during his late years, produced works in sight of his own death, Graindelavoix renders compositions included in Tielman Susatos 1545 Antwerp print ...
Composer: Nicolas Gombert (1495-1560), Josquin Des Prez (1450-1521), Jean Le Brun (1759-1809), Hieronymus Vinders (1510-1550), Benedictus Appenzeller (1480-1558)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Vocal
Christoph Martin Wieland's “Der Vogelsang oder die drey Lehren” – “The Songbird or The Three Lessons” – first appeared in March of 1778 in the literary-political magazine “Der Teutsche Merkur”, which he edited, with the note “Based on the Lays de l'Oiselet in Fabliaux et Contes etc. Vol. 1. ...
Composer: Steffen Wolf (1971)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
Stravinsky suffered from the First World War and its consequences for Europe; Bartok spoke out before and during the Second World War against the nationalist mood in twentieth-century Europe; Bartok’s friend and colleague, the Hungarian violinist Joseph Szigeti, to whom he dedicated his Contrasts trio, ...
Composer: Igor Stravinsky (1882–1971), Dana Barak (b. 1987), Roglit Ishay (b. 1965), Béla Bartók (1881-1945), Jörg Widmann (b. 1973)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
Beethoven: String Trios, Opp. 3 & 8
Ludwig van Beethoven left only a few works for the string trio, and, unlike his quartets, they are played far too seldomly. The Trio Boccherini now presents a complete recording of these trios on the GENUIN label to draw attention to this. The program includes Beethoven's first two works in this genre, the Trio op. 3 ...
Composer: Ludwig van Beethoven (1770–1827)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
These two works present two sharply contrasting sides of Malcolm Arnold: his limitless resources of knockabout fun, and a sense of existential tragedy. But each score presents its own surprises: the jocularity of the Grand Concerto Gastronomique – written for a Hoffnung concert ...
Composer: Malcolm Arnold (1921-2006)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Orchestral
Monoglot's music thrives on repetitive patterns layered over a pulsating rock grove, pop mock-up and improv. It merges these elements quite accessibly and draws out melodies to shine through the fabric every now and then. The Basel-, Berlin- and Reykjavik-based quintet expands genre boundaries but is perhaps best described ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Modern Jazz
More than the previous eight Jazz Is Dead releases Instrumentals JID009 delivers on Adrian and Ali’s original promise of showcasing the music made with their heroes, laying bare the inspired compositions created when different generations of musicians come together to collaborate in the studio. ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Mainstream Jazz
Cesare Picco releases his new album for the first time on Decca Records label. Always considered one of the most authoritative musicians of that current commonly known as 'neoclassical' together with Ludovico Einaudi, Olafur Arnalds, Max Richter, Picco has established himself in the world as a brilliant and committed artist. ...
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Minimalism
Abbey Road Masters: Songs of Love & Hope
I’ve always loved music, and played a load of instruments when I was young but got myself a guitar when I was about 15/16 and once I learnt a few chords I began to write songs. Since then I have never stopped writing and by the time I was 18, I knew it was something I wanted to take further....
Genre: Songwriter
Subgenre: New Acoustic
