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
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
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
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
The last great tragédie en musique or “musical tragedy” of the reign of Louis XIV, Alcyone (Alcione, as the title appears in the 1706 edition) is an all-round spectacle poised between the 17th and 18th centuries. From the 17th century it takes its mythological source, its prologue in praise of the king, ...
Composer: Marin Marais (1656-1728)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Opera
Utopia For Realists: Hungarian Pictures (2021 Version)
Leslie Mandoki plays together with Ian Anderson (Jethro Tull), John Helliwell (Supertramp), Nick van Eede (Cutting Crew), Till Brönner, Szakcsi, Jane Xie, Steve Bailey, Al Di Meola, Peter Maffay, Jesse Siebenberg (Supertramp), Cory Henry, Deobrat Mishra, Mike Stern, Margarita, Randy Brecker, Bill Evans, Sirreal, Richard Bona, Moto ...
Genre: Rock
Subgenre: Modern Rock
When the Siberian-born ‘Arctic Circle Pianist’ Ekaterina Litvintseva heard “Blumenleben” (‘Life of Flowers’) for the first time, she immediately resolved to find out more about the life and music of Dora Pejačević (1885-1923). This resolution prompted her to investigate an extraordinary corpus of music, ...
Composer: Dora Pejačević (1885-1923)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Instrumental
The Spanish master guitarist Paco de Lucía, whose death anniversary will be celebrated for the seventh time in 2021, is the focus of the new album by the Eos Guitar Quartet (Julio Azcano, Marcel Ege, David Sautter, Michael Winkler). For the four musicians, his music, his innovative power and not least their personal ...
Composer: Manuel de Falla (1876-1946), Leo Brouwer (1939), David Sautter (1956), Marcel Ege (1955), Jose Antonio Rodriguez (1964)
Genre: Guitar
Subgenre: Classical Guitar
If the Music Stops, They'll Eat Him Up
Danish composer, pianist and producer Asger Baden has made a name for himself as a film and TV-series composer with his atmospheric music featured in world-acclaimed productions such as “Breaking Bad” and “The Wolfpack”. After having worked on several collaborative projects and composing with his bands ...
Composer: Asger Baden
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Classical Crossover
Spring 2020: Corona embarks on its world tour of destruction. Musicians may be grounded, but dreams live on, and suddenly there’s time to finally realise one of them: record some of Boccherini’s music with my friends from The Northern Consort. ...
Composer: Luigi Boccherini (1743-1805)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
Classic hard rock and progressive metal unite on the classy new album by the acclaimed European act featuring members of Geoff Tate band, Elegy and singer Göran Edman (Yngwie Malmsteen, John Norum, Karmakanic). "The right combination of technique and melody" (Metal Hammer) ...
Genre: Rock
Subgenre: Hard Rock
The music on this EP inhabits a particular corner of the bounteous repertory of characteristic pieces for violin and piano. Short without being slight, these miniatures are vibrant and emotive, getting to the heart of the matter with freshness and originality, and sharing a rich yet restrained harmonic language ...
Composer: Richard Rodney Bennett, Rebecca Clarke, Frank Bridge, Cyril Scott (1879-1970), Roger Quilter (1877-1953), Angela Morely
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
“No one is indifferent to Dowland’s Lachrimae. Hypnotic, sharp, pitiless, redeeming: with the pleasure of an almost taxonomic cataloguing Dowland leads us into the gallery of the different natures of weeping, where instead of paintings we find mirrors, exact portraits of our own individual and unique feeling. ...
Composer: John Dowland (1562-1626)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Vocal
Orpheus uncut is an imaginary web-opera conceived by the highly innovative conductor Martin Wahlberg and his Orkester Nord. Born out of the pandemic crisis, this six-part webseries focuses on the well-known Orpheus myth, that it undertakes to present in its full, uncut version. ...
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Opera
Spellbinding and transcendent, Recap’s debut album, Count to Five, showcases new generations of powerful music makers giving new breath to the world of percussion and contemporary classical music. A professional percussion quartet of BIPOC women, all alumni of Mantra Youth Percussion, Arlene Acevedo, Alexis Carter, Tiahna ...
Composer: Angélica Negrón, Allison Loggins-Hull, Ellen Reid, Lesley Flanigan, Mary Kouyoumdjian, Caroline Shaw (1982)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Instrumental
