Pianist Ben Winkelman’s sixth album as a leader, Heartbeat, features jazz heavyweights Gilad Hekselman, Matt Penman and Obed Calvaire, and comprises nine originals, four played by piano trio, five by quartet with guitar. Written mostly in the early months of the Covid pandemic while awaiting the birth of his first child, the album ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Modern Jazz
Verdi: Inno delle nazioni; Quattro Pezzi Sacri
Chailly and La Scala maintain the gold standard for Verdi in this new release coupling two great but rarely recorded choral works. The Hymn of the Nations (Inno delle nazioni) features Decca’s star tenor Freddie De Tommaso, the first tenor to record this work for Decca since Pavarotti. First performed in London in 1862 the ...
Composer: Giuseppe Verdi (1813-1901)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Vocal
The queen of jazz violinists, Naoko Terai's new 2016 album is a melodious, mature work that focuses on the beauty of the music! Her first self-produced work since her major label debut. While her previous album "Hot Jazz" focused on intense and passionate songs such as "Libertango" and "Spain", this album features classical masterpieces such as Debussy's "Moonlight" and Mahler's "Resurrection Symphony No. 2", ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Contemporary Jazz
“My album ‘Duality’ is about the conflicting parts of our lives, and ‘Evil Twin’ captures that contrast” Lindsey says about the release. “Sometimes we feel at war with ourselves as we see the divide between who we are and who we wish we were. These conflicts feel like they could tear you ...
“My album ‘Duality’ is about the conflicting parts of our lives, and ‘Evil Twin’ captures that contrast” Lindsey says about the release. “Sometimes we feel at war with ourselves as we see the divide between who we are and who we wish we were. These conflicts feel like they could tear you ...
Genre: Pop
Subgenre: Pop Rock
Emmy award-winning violinist Damien Escobar is back with a new album "Gemini". Escobar is on a mission to prove there’s astonishing power in instrumental music and his intention is to motivate listeners and make an impact on mainstream music like never before. ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Mainstream Jazz
Storyteller: Contemporary Concertos for Trumpet
Mary Elizabeth Bowden, praised for her "splendid, brilliant" artistry (Gramophone), celebrates the narrative power of the trumpet with Storyteller: Contemporary Concertos for Trumpet. Bowden is joined by the Chicago Youth Symphony Orchestra and conductor Allen Tinkham in a collection of new concertos that ...
Composer: James Stephenson (1969), Sergio Assad (1952), Vivan Fung (1975), Carl Davis (1936)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Concertos
Alvin Queen is reported as saying that for all their excellence he’d rather not record with celebrity jazz stars. Instead, intent on leaving egos at the door, he prefers to work with relatively unknown musicians that deserve wider attention. An admirable stance, though it’s saddening to realize that interesting star line-ups, that most everybody in the jazz realm will be able to ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Free Jazz
The debut album by Markus Kaufmann, the organist of Leipzig's Nikolaikirche, narrates tales of love with pieces by composers such as Edward Elgar, Johann Sebastian Bach, Franz Liszt, Robert Schumann, and Edvard Grieg. Each of the pieces describes love and the emotions of its creator in its own way: be it the "Salut d’amour" that Elgar dedicated to his piano ...
Composer: Sigfrid Karg-Elert (1877-1933), Edward Grieg (1843-1907), Edward Elgar (1857-1934), Sir William Walton (1902-1983), Franz Liszt (1811-1886), Robert Schumann (1810-1856), Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750), Charles-Marie Widors (1844-1937), Markus Kaufmann
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Instrumental
There is spirit and fire in the music of The Zawose Queens. There’s the vibrations of the ancestors, coming through on traditional instruments — soaring chizeze fiddle, buzzing illimba thumb piano, ngoma drums that chatter and thunder — and voices that go deep, high and out there. ...
Genre: World Music
Subgenre: Worldbeat
Night Reign is the new album from GRAMMY-winner Arooj Aftab, an ode to the night as her primary source of inspiration and a vivid reflection of the creative community she has fostered in her home of Brooklyn, New York. The track features an enchanting rhythm (closely related to the Brazilian maracatu) that drives the song forward. ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Crossover Jazz
How Are The Mighty Fallen: Choral Music by Giovanni Bononcini
The Choir of The Queen’s College, Oxford, Academy of Ancient Music, and an outstanding array of soloists join forces to breathe new life into the choral works of Giovanni Bononcini (1670-1747). Bononcini was Handel’s main rival in London, and with little to separate the two in terms of public status and reputation, ...
Composer: Giovanni Bononcini (1670-1747)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Choral
Here, the band mixes dreamy choruses with buzzy, dramatic guitars, and cinematic sonic flourishes. The song will fill the room with its majestic melodies and singalongs. Misery never sounded quite so good. If Queen were a post-hardcore band, they would have made a song like “Misery Scene.” ...
Genre: Rock
Subgenre: Metal
The sensational and explosive British-Norwegian guitar hero Krissy Matthews is returning to Europe for a 50 date tour this spring with a brand-new band and a masterpiece new album. ...
Genre: Blues
Subgenre: Bluesy Rock
Voices of Bishara Live at "mu"
Voices of Bishara is Skinner’s first solo studio album under his own name – with inspiration found in the album title of Abdul Wadud’s 1978 album ‘By Myself’, pressed on Wadud’s label, Bishara. Voices of Bishara is a classic sounding record that connects backwards to Skinner’s 2017 Hello Skinny ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Contemporary Jazz
What's Love Got to Do with It (30th Anniversary 2023 Remaster)
Originally released on June 15, 1993, What’s Love Got To Do With It was a commercial and critical success. The album was the soundtrack for the Tina Turner biographical film of the same name and reached No.1 in the UK, also making the top 10 in Switzerland, Germany, Austria, and Canada, and the top 20 in the US. The album went on to be a ...
Genre: Pop
Subgenre: Pop Rock
The fifteenth project of Haydn2032 is entitled “La Reine”. An alternative name might be "Majesties" or “(for) Mother and Daughter”, since it couples two works written for or in honour of Maria Theresa with a Paris Symphony, no.85 “La Reine”, which is said to have been a particular favourite of Marie Antoinette, Queen of ...
Composer: Franz Joseph Haydn (1732-1809)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Orchestral
Harpa Romana. Arias & Cantatas by the 17th-Century Virtuosos
“What I have that is most precious I will preserve in my own name”. This is most likely the belief that guided a series of harpists – ranging from Leonardo Mollica, the most renowned virtuoso of the late Renaissance, to Orazio Michi, Marco Marazzoli and Giovan Carlo Rossi (brother of the better-known Luigi) – to change their names to ...
Composer: Orazio Michi (1594-1641), Girolamo Frescobaldi (1583-1643), Andrea Falconieri (1585-1656), Mario Savioni (1608-1685), Stefano Landi (1587-1639), Giovan Carlo Rossi (1617-1692), Luigi Rossi (1598-1653), Marco Marazzoli (1608-1662), Lelio Colista (1629-1680), Rinaldo Trematerra (1575-1603), Vespasiano Roccia (1560-1625)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Vocal
World premiere recording: ‘It will be a strange score: people will either not like it at all, or will like it enormously’, prophesied Camille Saint-Saëns a few days before the premiere of Déjanire. The opera, first performed in Monte Carlo on 14 March 1911, is based on incidental music written in 1898 ...
Composer: Camille Saint-Saens (1835-1921)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Opera
How Do You Make It Look So Easy? (Deluxe)
"The selection is made up of songs from very different times in our lives, over the span of many years. The first song ‘Fireflies,’ for example, was written seven years ago so it’s a real journey through our adulthood and everything that comes with it,” explain Arctic Lake’s Emma Foster and Paul Holliman. ...
Genre: Rock
Subgenre: Adult Alternative
Schumann, Bach & Rachmaninov: Concertos Without Orchestra
“Concertos Without Orchestra” is the concept of the young Turkish pianist Salih Can Gevrek, Associate Artist at the Queen Elisabeth Music Chapel, for his first album recording. He presents two mirrored works, both of which are imbued with references to the musical style and structure of concertos with orchestra. J. S. Bach’s famous Italian ...
Composer: Robert Schumann (1810-1856), Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750), Sergej Rachmaninoff (1873-1943)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Instrumental
