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
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
GRAMMY-nominated trumpeter, composer, producer, and artist THEO CROKER has announced a new album BLK2LIFE || A FUTURE PAST, his first since the critically acclaimed Star People Nation, the album that earned him the nomination. The album was produced by Theo Croker and features Wyclef Jean, Ari Lennox, Gary Bartz, Charlotte ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Nu Jazz
Chris Kramer ist ein deutscher Bluesmusiker, talentierter Mundharmonikaspieler und Singer / Songwriter aus Dortmund. Als Markenzeichen des viermaligen „German Blues Award“-Gewinners (Kategorie „Blues Harp“ 2010, 2012, 2014) gilt sein gekonntes Harpspiel, er setzt auf der Bühne aber auch Gitarre und Dobro ein. ...
Genre: Blues
Subgenre: Bluesy Rock
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
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
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
Schubert: 4 Sonatas for Violin & Piano
Sparkling new accounts of Schubert’s violin-and-piano music from two luminaries of the Finnish period-instrument scene. The Bulgarian violinist Zefira Valova graduated from the National Music Academy of her native Sofia, Bulgaria, before specialising in Baroque violin studies with Lucy van Dael. ...
Composer: Franz Schubert (1797-1828)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
