To many, Istanbul represents a place of longing, a place surrounded by myths and traditions, while others consider it a symbol for economic progress. Since the Gezi Park protests in 2013, Western Europe sees more in the picturesque metropolis by the Bosporus than just the Hagia Sofia and other cultural monuments....
Genre: Guitar
Subgenre: Jazz
Besondere Raritäten sind auch hier die Spezialität von Reinhard Goebel. Das Violinkonzert KV 268, bisher nur eingespielt von Yehudi Menuhin und Mayumi Fujikawa, stammt wohl in der Hauptsache von Johann Friedrich Eck. Und die Bearbeitung der Gran Partita vom Münchner Hofkomponisten Franz Gleißner ist gar eine Weltersteinspielung. ...
Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Concertos
Bartók: Hungarian Folksongs from Csík & Romanian Folk Dances (Arr. Székely for Clarinet and Piano)
Our beautiful Bartók physical boxset is out on September 17th! Among the numerous recordings by specialist Dezső Ránki, it includes pieces performed along with clarinetist Kálmán Berkes, the most praised player in Hungary, soloist of the most prestigious local orchestras. This short album contains two set of pieces, originally for ...
Composer: Béla Bartók (1881–1945)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
How Beautiful Life Can Be is The Lathums’ debut album. How Beautiful Life Can Be, recorded at Parr Street Studios, Liverpool. In the company of producers, James Skelly and Chris Taylor, pushes The Lathums’ remarkable story into the next, even more exciting phase. The Great Escape, having been previously self-released ...
Genre: Rock
Subgenre: Adult Alternative
Following the model of Josef Suk and Julius Katchen, whose recording they regard as the benchmark, Amaury Coeytaux and Geoffroy Couteau offer a version of these masterpieces notable for its plenitude of sonority, at once intense and reserved in its expression....
Composer: Johannes Brahms (1833-1897)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Instrumental
Adriatic Voyage: Seventeenth-Century Music from Venice to Dalmatia
In March 1575, a party led by the Venetian diplomat Giacomo Soranzo set out on a mission to Constantinople. They sailed down the Istrian coast, along the length of present-day Croatia, and on to the Bay of Kotor. Much of the land they passed was the territory of the Serenissima – inhabited by both ...
Composer: Francesco Usper (1561-1641), Paolo Puliti, Vinko Jelic (1596-1636), Julije Skjavetić (1530-1565), Bartolomeo Sorte (1555-1620), Ivan Lukacic (1587-1648), Tomaso Cecchino (1583-1644)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Vocal
Joey DeFrancesco has released a lot of music over the last three decades. This year, he’ll release his 39th studio album as a leader — which is simply titled More Music. The prolific multi-instrumentalist and composer — who celebrated his 50th birthday this year — returns to Mack Avenue for his third album with the record label. ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Hard Bop
HYBRID/C is a musical and cultural fusion project with a common point that is Afro-Cuban music and jazz. Jazz serves as a vehicle on this journey to the roots of Cuban music and Afro- Cuban culture from a modern musical perspective. Born in Spain to a Cuban father and French mother, Carlos Cippelletti’s compositions reflect his ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Contemporary Jazz
Florence Price: Symphonies Nos. 1 & 3
Florence Price came to prominence almost ninety years ago, having surmounted systemic barriers to the progress of African-Americans and women in classical music. Much of her music then fell into neglect, however, and has only recently been rediscovered. Among those championing her work today are The Philadelphia Orchestra ...
Composer: Florence Price (1887-1953)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Orchestral
Remember My Name is the new album from Mickey Guyton on Capitol Nashville Records. Mickey co-wrote 15 of the 16 songs on the album. It follows her critically acclaimed Bridges EP which included, "Black Like Me" for which she received a historic GRAMMY nomination. Her performance on the GRAMMYS was the first by a black female country ...
Genre: Country
Subgenre: Country Pop
or her first solo violin album Lea Birringer has selected three partitas for her instrument: partitas transformed over the centuries since Bach, commencing with Bach’s great Partita No.3 in E major and ending with Auerbach’s 2007 example ‘par.ti.ta’. ...
Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750), Max Reger (1873-1916), Eugene Ysaye (1858-1931), Lera Auerbach (1973), Ernst-Lothar Knorr (1896-1973)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Instrumental
Strauss, Françaix, Poulenc : Woodwind Chamber Music
After a critically acclaimed first album, the Ouranos Ensemble returns to the recording studio with pianist Guillaume Vincent. This mischievous album brings together masterpieces by Strauss, Poulenc and Françaix, and reveals the virtuosity of wind instruments through a thousand musical antics. ...
Composer: Richard Strauss (1864–1949), Francis Poulenc (1899-1963), Jean Françaix (1912-1997)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
Resonance Lines, a term borrowed loosely from physics, refers to the energy emitted or absorbed by an atom as it transitions between different energy states. This is a unique and innate quality for each type of atom that can only be measured and observed under the right enabling circumstances. ...
Composer: Thomas Kotcheff, Benjamin Britten (1913-1976), Caroline Shaw (1982), Kaija Saariaho (1952), Giuseppe Colombi (1635-1694)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
Ravel: Ma mère l'oye, M. 60 - Bartók: 44 Duos for 2 Violins, Sz. 98 (Arr. for Guitar Duo)
New York-based guitarists Jack Petruzzelli and Cameron Greider have played with a Who’s Who of rock and pop artists from Patti Smith and Chris Cornell to Joan Baez and Rufus Wainwright. As High Low Duo, they take the twangy electric guitar sounds of the fifties and sixties to some unexpected ...
Composer: Maurice Ravel (1875-1937), Béla Bartók (1881-1945)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre:
Brahms: Piano Concerto No. 1 - Transcription for Piano Left Hand of Bach's Chaconne
Within the framework of his complete Brahms cycle, Geoffroy Couteau presents an original program focusing on the trio Brahms formed with Robert and Clara Schumann, and on their relationship with Joseph Joachim. All these personalities lie at the heart of the conception of both the Concerto in D minor and ...
Composer: Johannes Brahms (1833-1897)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Concertos
Phantasmagoria or a Different Kind of Journey
"Phantasmagoria, or A Different Kind of Journey" is the latest album by the Eivind Aarset 4tet, to be released September 2021 at Punkt Festival, Kristiansand. Featuring Eivind Aarset, Wetle Holte, Erland Dahlen and Audun Erlien, the album is no departure in terms of the compositional quality contained therein, ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Nu Jazz
Madrid-based pianist Daniel Garcia carries within him a deep sense of the history that has made him. This is not least because he was born and grew up in Salamanca, a city steeped in history, with several important archaeological sites. In the centuries ever since the middle ages, student priests have walked in their ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Contemporary Jazz
In Senegalese society, aado stands for moral customs and values. In this album, Kadialy Kouyate’s enchanting music touches on those principles and reflects on Mandinka culture. As a musician and songwriter born into the great line of Kouyate Griot in Southern Senegal, Kadialy’s mesmerising kora playing embraces the art of storytelling, ...
Genre: World Music
Subgenre: Worldbeat
Fanny Mendelssohn: Piano Sonatas
The first album to bring together all of Fanny Mendelssohn’s four piano sonatas, written over the course of almost 20 years, and including the ‘Easter Sonata’ rediscovered in 2010. Born in 1998 to Albanian parents, the Italian pianist Gaia Sokoli has won rave reviews as well as a string of competition awards in her home country. She took first prize in the Bradshaw ...
Composer: Fanny Mendelssohn-Hensel (1805-1847)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Instrumental
Chopin: 12 Études, Op. 25 & 4 Scherzi
"Chopin is reserved, visionary and mysterious," says Beatrice Rana. "There are many layers to his music. It's pleasing to the ear and sincere in its communication, but the deeper you go, the more you find..." For this album, Rana pairs Chopin's 12 op. 25 études with his four scherzi, focusing on two musical genres ...
Composer: Frederic Chopin (1810-1849)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Instrumental
