hen at home in New York City, Schonig is a fixture in both the jazz and Broadway scene- he recently held the drum chair for the critically acclaimed Tony, Grammy and Emmy-award winning Broadway Revival of The Color Purple and is currently playing drums and percussion for Moulin Rouge! The Musical. ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Modern Jazz
Sérgio Azevedo: Hukvaldy Cycle
Taking its title from the village in which Leoš Janáček was born, this album of chamber works by the prize-winning Portuguese composer Sérgio Azevedo reveals his deep affinity for the music and personality of the great Czech composer. Using fragments from Janáček’s In the Mists and On an Overgrown Path has allowed Azevedo to create ...
Composer: Sergio Azevedo (1968)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
The Montreal-based collective founded and fronted by Jon Matte transforms experiences into anthems and has done so since emerging on the 2014 debut, This Is How I Let You Down. Logging nearly 400 shows, they canvased the world alongside everyone from Mumford & Sons, Ben Howard to Edward Sharpe, City and Colour an Half Moon Run. ...
Genre: Rock
Subgenre: Adult Alternative
Saskatchewan-born singer-songwriter Andy Shauf has announced he will be releasing a new album titled Wilds on Sept. 24. The recordings come from the same sessions that produced his 2020 release The Neon Skyline.Shauf recorded the arrangements on his own in his Toronto studio and is the sole musician ...
Genre: Songwriter
Subgenre: Contemporary
Weiss: Works for Lute (Arr. A. Rinehart for Guitar)
The lute often conjures images of medieval bards and travelling troubadours, but the instrument’s repertoire extends long beyond the Dark Ages. On Sylvius Leopold Weiss, guitarist and lutist Alan Rinehart pays tribute to the composer’s legacy of the high Baroque, bringing to light a collection of works that ...
Composer: Sylvius Leopold Weiss (1687-1750)
Genre: Guitar
Subgenre: Classical Guitar
Semina Rerum: Italian Baroque Violin Sonatas
This recording charts a path through the sonatas for violin and basso continuo composed by eight composers born in Italy, the epicentre of the genre’s experimentation at the time. Most of these composers were also violin virtuosos, true explorers and connoisseurs of their instrument, and several enjoyed ...
Composer: Antonio Veracini (1669-1733), Giovanni Antonio Pandolfi Mealli (1624-1670), Giovanni Battista Fontana (1589-1630), Ignazio Albertini (1644-1685), Antonio Caldara (1671-1736), Antonio Vivaldi (1678-1741), Francesco Geminiani (1687-1762), Arcangelo Corelli (1653-1713)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
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
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
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
"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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
