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Pinnacle, Vol. 2: Contemporary Chamber Works

PINNACLE VOL. 2, a collection of contemporary chamber works by composers John A. Carollo, Edmund Cionek, Sarah Wallin Huff, Santiago Kodela, Adnan Marafi, Amintas Silva, Joseph T. Spaniola, and Kong-Yu Wong, that highlight the melodic, emotive, and dramatic styles offered by today’s chamber music. ...

Composer: John A. Carollo, Edmund Cionek, Sarah Wallin Huff, Santiago Kodela, Adnan Marafi, Amintas Silva, Joseph T. Spaniola, Kong-Yu Wong

Genre: Classical

Subgenre: Chamber Music

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Longyin: The Dragon Chants – 1930s Silk-Stringed Guqin with Xiao Flute

Cheng Yu plays the original 1936 Van Gulik-Picken silk-string guqin, with Dennis Kwong Thye Lee on xiao flute. This cherished guqin, steeped in history, was previously owned by two of the world’s greatest 20th century sinologists – Robert Hans Van Gulik and Laurence Picken. The feeling of antiquity is further ...

Genre: Wolrd Music

Subgenre: Worldbeat

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Schumann: Études symphoniques, Op. 13 - Études sur un thème de Beethoven, WoO 31 & Geistervariationen, WoO 24

From one disc to the next, Claire Désert pursues her exploration of Schumann’s catalogue. Focussing on the variation genre, this new release reveals the manifold, elusive moods, like a diary of the composer. ...

Composer: Robert Schumann (1810-1856)

Genre: Classical

Subgenre: Instrumental

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Best Of

"Twenty years. It's a lifetime in rock 'n' roll. Long enough to chew up and spit out the artists who don't take it seriously. But also long enough for those who live, breathe and bleed the music to build up an enviable body of work. From his first appearance on the radar back at the turn of the century, when a handful of Danish blues pub-crawlers ...

Genre: Blues

Subgenre: Electric Blues

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Extasis

Daniel Rowland: I remember so well the moment I first heard Marcelo play, in the beautiful and historic Holywell Music Room in Oxford, in the autumn of 2009. Marcelo's version of a magical Piazzolla touched me deeply and I was utterly captivated and fascinated by it: by the depth, the honesty, ...

Composer: Astor Piazzolla (1921-1992), Marcelo Nisinman (1970)

Genre: Classical

Subgenre: Chamber Music

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Psalms and Canticles

Following up on the incredible success of his recording of "Being" Michael Torke has a new work, about to be released on Ecstatic Records, "Psalms and Cancticles". Featuring the talented singer Lydia Brown, this promises to be a new major work in Torke’s catalogue. ...

Composer: Michael Torke (1961-)

Genre: Classical

Subgenre: Vocal

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In Memoriam

Jason Köhnen (Mansur / The Kilimanjaro Darkjazz Ensemble / The Mount Fuji Doomjazz Corporation) returns to his experimentations within the realms of Darkjazz. The Lovecraft Sextet is his new creative outlet regarding further explorations into cinematic jazz orientated compositions. ...

Genre: Electronic

Subgenre: Experimental

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My Gift (Special Edition)

Carrie will release "My Gift" (Special Edition) featuring three additional tracks. Carrie’s first-ever Christmas album, My Gift, debuted #1 across multiple global charts, including Billboard’s Country, Christian and Holiday album charts. ...

Genre: Vocal

Subgenre: Vocal Pop

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Down Home Boy

Rising country phenomenon Kidd G releases his highly anticipated debut album "Down Home Boy". The 14-track collection was co-written by Kidd G, and will feature previously released tracks “Summer In A Small Town,” his current radio single, and “Paper Hearts (F-150),” as well as a new track released, “Whiskey & Wine." ...

Genre: Country

Subgenre: Alternative Country

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Reassembled, Vol. 1: Sole Impulse

"The music itself on Sole Impulse is impressive, but what’s perhaps worthy of greater commendation is how well they crafted something that should appeal to every type of metalcore fan without leaving anything to be desired. This is as perfect a soundtrack for a mosh pit as it is for your morning commute" (Heavy Blog is Heavy)

Genre: Rock

Subgenre: Metal

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Of Love and War

Of Love and War, partly inspired by Eduardo Galeano’s novel Days and Nights of Love and War, draws parallels between the isolation and pent-up passions of wartime and the experiences of the current pandemic. Much of this repertoire was composed around the time of the First World War, but also embraces broader themes...

Composer: Richard Strauss (1864-1949), Claude Debussy (1862-1918), Anton Webern (1883-1945), Paul Hindemith (1895-1963), Gabriel Faure (1845-1924), Lili Boulanger (1893-1918)

Genre: Classical

Subgenre: Vocal

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Pilgrim of Curiosity

A key presence in Glasgow’s musical life as composer and teacher, Oliver Iredale Searle is revealed in this first album devoted to his work as a poet of place and of sensation. Three works for wind ensembles vividly evoke journeys and their destinations, in a panoply of sights and sounds stretching from (and sometimes forging unexpected connections between) ...

Composer: Oliver Iredale Searle (1977)

Genre: Classical

Subgenre: Chamber Music

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Gesualdo: Dolcissima mia vita. Madrigali a cinque voci, Libro quinto (1611)

Philippe Herreweghe records his third album devoted to a controversial figure in the world of music and art in general: Carlo Gesualdo, who had his wife murdered and is suspected of having his son smothered. This time Collegium Vocale Gent performs his fifth book of madrigals (1611), published two years before his death. ...

Composer: Carlo Gesualdo (1566-1613)

Genre: Classical

Subgenre: Choral

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LIGHT: Migration Music Part 1

This initiative is created and curated by iconoclastic Billboard Chart-topping pianist and NPR Music personality Lara Downes, inspired by exploration of her own mixed-race heritage as a trailblazing interpreter of diverse American traditions, and building on the legacies of history, family, and collective memory. ...

Genre: Classical

Subgenre: Instrumental

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These Dreams (EP)

The three original tracks on the These Dreams EP were written and recorded in amongst the lot for A Common Turn. Before tracklisting, these were very much part of the album – but of course, decisions had to be made and these were cut. However, they are integral to the album and the album arc. ...

Genre: Alternative

Subgenre: Indie Rock

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Shall We Gather

"Shall We Gather“ responds to the darkness of the pandemic and social distancing with the simple question of its title. Through fifteen art songs by and about a broad swath of people from the United States, Lucas and Irina Meachem offer a vision of Americanness centred around the things that call on us to gather and that we gather to call ...

Composer: Gene Scheer (1958), Arthur Farwell (1872-1952), William Grant Still (1895-1978), Kurt Weill (1900-1950), John Musto (1954), Richard Hageman (1881-1966), Florence Price (1887-1953), Jake Heggie (1961), Carrie Jacobs-Bond (1862-1946), Ricky Ian Gordon (1956), Stephen Collins Foster (1826-1864), Dan Emmett (1815-1904)

Genre: Classical

Subgenre: Vocal

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Place Ste-Opportune

Musician, radio man, teacher, Thomas Curbillon was born into a family of artists who also fed, at night, on jazz that makes java. With this very first album Place Sainte-Opportune, of which he wrote the score on texts in French by Gaëlle Renard, he winks at his masters, Charles Aznavour and Henri Salvador. ...

Genre: Jazz

Subgenre: Contemporary Jazz

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The Jukebox Album

On March 17, 2020, we made the rather ambitious – and, it should be noted, jet-lagged – decision to record and share one music video for every day we would spend in isolation as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. In retrospect, it was a bold choice – little did we know that our imagined two-to-three weeks of lockdown would turn into 88 days of ...

Composer: Lili Boulanger (1893-1918), Mark Simpson (1988-), Édith Piaf, Cheryl Frances-Hoad, Clarice Assad (1978), Cole Porter (1891-1964), Gabriel Fauré (1945-1924), Huw Watkins (1976), Jessie Montgomery, Donald Grantham (1947-)

Genre: Classical

Subgenre: Chamber Music

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Energy of the Mountains

Italian producer Giovanni Amighetti and chinese flute virtuoso Guo Yue take their musical energy and inspiration from the world of mountains – the Alps. Together with Chapman-Stick master Guido Ponzini, Guzheng performer and composer Wu Fei and Percussion wizard Helge Andreas Norbakken, these masterminds are the core of an extraordinary project. ...

Genre: New Age

Subgenre: Nature

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Expect the Unexpected (Live at Club Inégales)

The magic on Club Inégales nights often comes in the 3rd set. The resident band and guest have each played their own music, then comes the moment they come together, the clash, the unexpected, the meeting of minds and ears. ...

Genre: Jazz

Subgenre: Modern Jazz

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