Two Bird Stone is boldly Americana. They present fresh, accessible song material as performed on instruments including the banjo, fiddle, accordion, mandolin, along with a stellar rhythm section. Paying tribute to the many swirling cultures that make up the American identity, ...
Genre: Folk
Subgenre: Folk Rock
Monteverdi: Vespro della Beata Vergine, SV 206 (Live)
TENET Vocal Artists, NYC’s pre-eminent early music ensemble, releases a CD of the final performance of its Green Mountain Project. For the past ten years, the Green Mountain Project has been made up of some of the best Baroque specialists in the United States for concerts of Claudio Monteverdi’s iconic ...
Composer: Claudio Monteverdi (1567–1643)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
Elgar: Cello Concerto in E Minor, Op. 85
The profoundly moving, elegiac lyricism of Elgar is on full display in this irresistible re-release from PENTATONE played with consummate virtuosity by the German-Canadian cellist Johannes Moser with the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande under Andrew Manze. ...
Composer: Edward Elgar (1857-1934)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Concertos
Dead Lord’s fourth record Surrender is a one-stop shop of everything from sweet licks and stylish solos, to simply remarkable catchy songs that hit you in the feels and fill the gas tank to the brim. Stellar guitar rock, fresh and unleashed, as Dead Lord reinvigorates and rewires a long-lost style, ...
Genre: Rock
Subgenre: Metal
Genera, by François Houle 5+1 (2012) was the Canadian clarinetist’s last ambitious creative jazz project, though 2018’s Houle/Hawkins/Eisenstadt trio You Have Options was lovely and exemplary in its own way. But last year he started working on a new group including Vancouver ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Contemporary Jazz
Royal Welcome Songs for King Charles II Volume III
Purcell’s genius abounds throughout the latest volume of The Sixteen’s celebrated exploration of his music for monarchy. Rarely recorded in recent years, Harry Christophers and his award-winning ensemble breathe fresh life into these exquisite works, including two Welcome Songs and one ...
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Vocal
J.S. Bach: St. John Passion, BWV 245
Suzuki presents the 1749 version of the St. John Passion, a work that underwent many changes since its first performance in 1724. This fourth version, performed at the end of Bach's life, represents his ultimate vision of this great work. (Suzuki includes in an appendix ...
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Vocal
Homage to Count Basie (Remastered)
This is the best kind of homage. When Bob Mintzer looks back at Basie, it’s with respect, not with intent to imitate. Mintzer has his own agenda: Basie-inspired arrangements, but with writing that is fresh, lively, occasionally tongue-in-cheek, always swinging. ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Big Band
Charles Ives: Complete Symphonies
Charles Ives – Complete Symphonies offers fresh insights into the music of a radical thinker, creator of what Leonard Bernstein called “his own private musical revolution.” The Los Angeles Philharmonic’s performances of these works at Walt Disney Concert Hall, conducted by Music & ...
Composer: Charles Ives (1874-1954)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Orchestral
Death of the Party (Bonus Track Version)
The Magic Gang release their buoyant new album Death Of The Party. The album was recorded in Atlanta with the Grammy-winning producer Ben H. Allen (Deerhunter, Animal Collective, Gnarls Barkley), whose work in alternative and pop matches for band’s own blend of genres. The quartet approached the album with two ...
Genre: Alternative
Subgenre: Indie Rock
Los Angeles duo The Score — comprised of Eddie Anthony (vocals, guitar) and Edan Dover (keyboards, production) — are thrilled to announce their forthcoming second album, Carry On, will be released on August 28, 2020 via Republic Records. Following two blisteringly awesome singles earlier this year ...
Genre: Rock
Subgenre: Adult Alternative
Castelnuovo-Tedesco: Music for Violin & Piano
World-premiere recordings and a Heifetz commission full of virtuoso fireworks on a unique compilation of music by one of the 20th-century’s reluctant romantics. Forced into exile from his native Italy by the onset of Fascism, Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco ...
Composer: Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco (1895–1968)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
Soundtrack of the American Soldier
Navona Records presents SOUNDTRACK OF THE AMERICAN SOLDIER, an album of contemporary works for wind band performed by The United States Army Field Band. Led by Colonel Jim R Keene, the Army Field Band is the U.S. Army’s premier touring musical organization. In SOUNDTRACK OF THE AMERICAN SOLDIER, ...
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Orchestral
PJ Morton comes full circle with the announcement of his first-ever gospel album, Gospel According to PJ. The project features Yolanda Adams, Kim Burrell, The Clark Sisters, Commissioned, Kirk Franklin, and over a dozen others collaborating on fresh interpretations ...
Genre: World Music
Subgenre: Gospel
All the Ways You Sing in the Dark
Old Sea Brigade & Luke Sital-Singh share a new song called “Summertime Low” from their upcoming EP collaboration, All The Ways You Sing In The Dark. “It’s a dog days of summer moment,” Ben Cramer (aka Old Sea Brigade) says. “Some days you feel so lazy. The next thing you know, it’s three o’clock in the afternoon and you feel a little down, because ...
Genre: Songwriter
Subgenre: Contemporary
Keeper of My Soul (Remastered)
On his second and last Black Jazz album Keeper of My Soul (1973), Walter Bishop Jr. plays acoustic and electric pianos and organ with a sense of uplift, a quality characterizing the best soul-jazz of the day. Opening number "Soul Village" is a fascinating union of jazz and funk; today, ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Free Jazz
After spending the past four years writing, recording and touring relentlessly, Canadian powerhouse rock duo Crown Lands are back with their blistering new track “Spit It Out”. This is the first major label release for Oshawa, Ontario locals Cody Bowles (vocals and drums) and Kevin Comeau ...
Genre: Rock
Subgenre: Adult Alternative
A Ceremony of Carols: Britten, Praetorius, McDowall, Weir, Dove
The juxtaposition of old and new which lies at the heart of much Christmas music lends this recording by the mixed-voice Choir of The Queen’s College Oxford its theme. The repertoire ranges in period from Hildegard of Bingen to pieces composed during the last few years. The central work ...
Composer: Benjamin Britten (1913-1976), Michael Praetorius (1637–1707), Jonathan Dove (1959), Judith Weir (1954), Cecilia McDowall (1951)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Choral
Fresh off the heels of winning "Best Guitarist" at the 2020 International Blues Challenge in Memphis, Jones was stoked for a huge year before COVID-19 hit and halted his tour schedule. "I knew I had to do something productive to stay positive, so I turned isolation into inspiration!" ...
Genre: Blues
Subgenre: Electric Blues
Duke Ellington had made about 50 albums under his name before he got around to recording a trio album, Money Jungle, with bassist Charles Mingus and drummer Max Roach. It was 1962, and Ellington was 63, a revered titan of the music with so many masterpieces behind him that listeners could be excused ...
Composer: Bill Frisell
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Contemporary Jazz
