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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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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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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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Saint-Georges: Orchestral Works

Joseph Boulogne, Chevalier de Saint-Georges was a brilliant swordsman, athlete, violin virtuoso and gifted composer, with a claim to being the most talented figure in an age of remarkable individuals. He was an early and important exponent of the hybrid symphonie concertante - a genre that draws on both the symphony and concerto traditions. ...

Composer: Joseph Bologne Chevalier de Saint-Georges (1745-1799)

Genre: Classical

Subgenre: Chamber Music

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Everything's Waiting for You

Tom Speight has made the album that 2021 deserves. A celebration of living life to the max, Everything’s Waiting For You is a timely reminder to approach every day as an adventure, and an invitation to ride alongside the singer/songwriter as he travels the world wide-eyed. ...

Genre: Songwriter

Subgenre: Contemporary

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Telemann: Baroque Concertos

Georg Philipp Telemann (1681–1767) was a German Baroque composer and multi-instrumentalist.Telemann was one of the most prolific major composers of all time: his all-encompassing oeuvre comprises more than 3,000 compositions, half of which have been lost, and most of which have not been performed since the 18th century. ... Georg Philipp Telemann (1681–1767) was a German Baroque composer and multi-instrumentalist.Telemann was one of the most prolific major composers of all time: his all-encompassing oeuvre comprises more than 3,000 compositions, half of which have been lost, and most of which have not been performed since the 18th century. ...

Composer: Georg Philipp Telemann (1681–1767)

Genre: Classical

Subgenre: Concertos

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Two Takes, Vol. 2: Big Band

Jazz soars with rhythmic, harmonic and melodic luminosity in a variety of settings—solo, duo, trio, quartet, quintet and so on— but there’s nothing like being swept into the frothy tides of an instrumental community in which upwards of 18 members assemble to embrace and exchange notes. ...

Genre: Jazz

Subgenre: Big Band

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Britten: Complete Music with Guitar & Voice

The guitar music of eminent 20th-century British composer Benjamin Britten (1913–1976) comprises three works, all of them written with the great guitarist Julian Bream in mind. Two of these are sets of songs for high voice, for which Britten’s vocal model was of course the famous English tenor ...

Composer: Benjamin Britten (1913-1976)

Genre: Classical

Subgenre: Vocal

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Intersec#Ion - Classic Meets Jazz

Pushing boundaries, daring to experiment and breaking new ground: through its extraordinary interpretations of arrangements and commissioned works, Ensemble Clazzic has found a musical language all its own. Sometimes filigree and playful, sometimes virtuosic or melancholic, but always rousing and unique. ...

Genre: Classical

Subgenre: Classical Crossover

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Klebanov: Chamber Works

The ARC Ensemble (Artists of The Royal Conservatory) is among Canada’s most distinguished cultural ambassadors. It focuses on researching and recovering music suppressed under the totalitarian regimes of the twentieth century and marginalised thereafter. Exile is generally associated with ...

Composer: Dmitri Klebanov (1907-1987)

Genre: Classical

Subgenre: Chamber Music

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Elgar: Cello Concerto, Enigma Variations

From Arturo Toscanini and Sir John Barbirolli to Riccardo Muti and Antonio Pappano in our own time, Italian-heritage performers have often brought special qualities of sympathy and understanding to Edward Elgar’s (1857-1934) music. Now comes a new recording made in the ‘boot’ of southern Italy, lending Mediterranean ...

Composer: Edward Elgar (1857-1934)

Genre: Classical

Subgenre: Concertos

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In The Meantime

Alessia Cara has announced that her third studio album In The Meantime will be released on September 24 via Def Jam Recordings. The album, which follows up 2018’s The Pains of Growing, will feature the recently released singles “Sweet Dream” and “Shapeshifter.” ...

Genre: Pop

Subgenre: Pop Rock

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Hâl. Ballades amoureuses

The talented Chemirani family - Keyvan, Bijan and Maryam - have recorded an album called Hâl (pronounced ‘Hol’), which explores the intersection of Iranian, Indian and Irish music. Subtitled ‘Love ballads’, it features love poems with texts sung in English or Persian. ...

Genre: Classical

Subgenre: Classical Crossover

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Magic Moments 14

"More than any other art form, music touches people directly," is ACT founder Siggi Loch's credo. For nearly 30 years, the core of what the label does has been to find and to promote the artists who can inspire the mind, reach the heart and touch the soul, and who do so in ways that have a lasting impact. ...

Genre: Jazz

Subgenre: Compilations

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Beethoven: Symphony No. 9, Op. 125 (Remastered)

Schon bevor Simon Rattle sein Einstandskonzert als Chef der Berliner Philharmoniker gab, sorgte er mit einem anderen Weltklasseorchester für Schlagzeilen: Es war der Zyklus der neun Beethoven-Sinfonien, den er mit den Wiener Philharmonikern in Tokio, Berlin und - natürlich ...

Composer: Ludwig van Beethoven (1770–1827)

Genre: Classical

Subgenre: Vocal

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