Franck: Préludes, Fugues & Chorals
Given the paucity of César Franck's piano music on disc, Nikolai Lugansky's focus on this composer is to be commended. On his third release for harmonia mundi, the Russian pianist reveals an organ master strongly attached to the musical forms inherited from J.S. Bach: the prelude, ..
Composer: Cesar Franck (1822-1890)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Instrumental
Charles Lloyd has played the 150-year-old adobe theater in downtown Santa Barbara more often than any other venue, and more often than any other performer. Knowing that Marian Anderson sang there on February 14, 1940 makes it a sacred space for him. ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Contemporary Jazz
As he has throughout his musical life, Mendes thrives on collaboration on In the Key of Joy. The album brings together fellow Brazilian legends with modern-day hitmakers and young rising stars, bringing familiar voices and fresh life to a set of new original songs penned by Mendes ...
Genre: Latin
Subgenre: Pop Latino
Buenos Hermanos (Special Edition) (Remastered)
World Circuit will release a very special edition of Buena Vista vocalist Ibrahim Ferrer’s Grammy-winning second solo album ‘Buenos Hermanos’ on 28th February. Originally released in 2003, ‘Buenos Hermanos’ was acclaimed as an audacious and assured album firmly rooted in ...
Genre: Latin
Subgenre: Contemporary Latin
Epiphany presents four traditional-style Navajo skip dance & two-step dance favorites by Todi Neesh Zhee, popular across Dinétah for over 30 years, with four youth-oriented songs from the younger generation, the Martin Sisters. Alger Greyeyes, leader of Todi Neesh Zhee, ...
Genre: World Music
Subgenre: Worldbeat
US based pianists / keyboardists extraordinaire Jacob Pavek & Philip Daniel have teamed up on the new collaborative project BLOMMA. Their eponymous debut is fun and fresh from start to finish, with tunes built on a layering of rhythmic pianos, synths and electronics. ...
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Classical Crossover
In the Way Out West trio you will meet musicians Atle Nymo (sax), Magne Thormodsæter (bass) and Hermund Nygård (drums). The trio started a few years ago as a tribute to Sonny Rollins, and plays music based on Rollins' rich trio repertoire. Sonny Rollins created a new expression when in 1957 he chose to omit the ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Contemporary Jazz
In 2014 Dan Snaith aka Caribou released Our Love to overwhelming critical acclaim and massive fan support. Now Caribou returns with his seventh studio album Suddenly, an album about family and the changes we go though as those relationships evolve. ...
Genre: Electronic
Subgenre: Electro-Pop
The Essential Van Morrison (Remastered)
With Legacy Recordings securing the rights to the meat and potatoes of Van Morrison’s catalog, the drive to get the music in shape and out to consumers is full-on. Covering more than 50 years of music, with 50 titles from 1964 to the present, Morrison’s solo works from 1971 to the present are up for renewal as is the music ...
Genre: Folk
Subgenre: Folk Rock
Mannaggia Amore - Giuseppe Porsile: Cantatas for Soprano
Giuseppe Porsile (1680-1750) was one of the very few representatives of the Neapolitan School at the otherwise rather conservative Imperial Court in Vienna. Inês d'Avena and the ensemble La Cicala continue their exploration of the Neapolitan repertoire, ...
Composer: Giuseppe Porsile (1680-1750)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Vocal
The Skiffle Sessions: Live In Belfast (Remastered)
The Skiffle Sessions – Live in Belfast is a live album by Northern Irish singer-songwriter Van Morrison, with Lonnie Donegan and Chris Barber, released in 2000. Lonnie Donegan had played with the Chris Barber jazz band when he had his first hit with "Rock Island Line"/"John Henry" in 1955. ...
Genre: Blues
Subgenre: Bluesy Rock
Astral Weeks: Live at the Hollywood Bowl (Remastered)
The sixth live album of Morrison’s career had to be something special to stand out among its predecessors, and this track-bytrack concert re-creation of perhaps his most acclaimed studio release doesn’t disappoint. Don’t, however, expect a carbon copy of what went before, as its ...
Genre: Rock
Subgenre: Singer
Blowin' Your Mind! (Remastered)
It was a brand new day for Van Morrison when the Belfast, Ireland legend cut Blowin' Your Mind!, his spellbinding 1967 debut solo album! Fresh from a string of smash singles fronting British Invasion heroes Them, Van rode "Brown Eyed Girl," one of the all-time great teen-angst tales, ...
Genre: Rock
Subgenre: Singer
A striking album of new music from pianist/composer Carla Bley, whose trio with Andy Sheppard and Steve Swallow is now in its 25th year. Individual associations among the players go back much further: bassist Swallow first recorded music by Carla in 1961. So when Bley says “Life Goes On”, ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Contemporary Jazz
Three and a half decades after releasing Special EFX’s self-titled debut album, multi-faceted composer/guitarist Chieli Minucci is still blazing innovative trails in contemporary jazz, continuously finding that musical sweet spot between in the pocket, radio ready pop/soul/funk and progressive, freewheeling world fusion. ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Fusion
Carly Pearce's self-titled sophomore album, featuring the hit single "I Hope You're Happy Now" with Lee Brice, contains 13 new tracks produced by the acclaimed busbee. She is 2018's Radio Disney The Freshest! Country Best New Artist winner and a 2019 ACM Awards New Female Artist of ...
Genre: Country
Subgenre: Traditional Country
It was the age of the Lumière Brothers, Alexander Graham Bell, Karl Benz, the Wright Brothers and Louis Blériot, Marie Curie and Louis Pasteur – an age not unlike our own, marked by rapid scientific and technological development as well as intense literary, artistic and musical ...
Composer: Ernest Chausson (1855-1899), Claude Debussy (1862-1918), Jules Massenet (1842-1912), Richard Strauss (1864-1949), Arnold Schönberg (1874-1951), Edward Elgar (1857-1934), Sergej Rachmaninoff (1873-1943), Alexander von Zemlinsky (1871-1942), Charles Koechlin (1867-1950), Gabriel Faure (1845-1924), Maurice Ravel (1875-1937), Alban Berg (1885-1935)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
Jazz pianist Ai Kuwabara performs the classic Disney musical offerings in her unique and signature style in this solo piano record. From Aladdin to The Aristocats, and many more, your favourite Disney songs are given fresh life with the interpretations of this modern jazz star! ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Contemporary Jazz
The SteelDrivers will release Bad For You, their fifth studio album and the follow-up to their GRAMMY®-winning 2015 release The Muscle Shoals Recordings. The eagerly-awaited album features eleven new songs, ten of which were co-written by Tammy Rogers, whose spirited and soulful voice ...
Genre: Blues
Subgenre: Electric Blues
The Beethoven Sonatas for Fortepiano and Violin Collection
Susanna Ogata, violin, and Ian Watson, fortepiano, join forces to record the complete Sonatas for Fortepiano and Violin of Ludwig van Beethoven in four installments. The second album in the series features Beethoven's tenth Sonata, Op. 96 in G major, as well as the exquisite ‘Spring’ ...
Composer: Ludwig van Beethoven (1770–1827)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
