Andy McKee is one of the world’s finest acoustic guitarists and it’s evident from the accolades he’s received throughout his career. It’s his youthful energy, attention to song structure and melodic content that elevates him above the rest. After nearly a decade without releasing new studio recordings, McKee returns ...
Genre: Guitar
Subgenre: Fingerstyle
Beethoven: Symphony No. 8, Op. 93 (Remastered)
Die Symphonie Nr. 8 F-Dur op. 93 ist Ludwig van Beethovens kürzeste Symphonie. Nach den Vorstößen in vollkommen neue symphonische Gefilde besonders mit den Symphonien Nr. 3, 5 und 7 erscheint die Achte wie eine Rückbesinnung auf ein klassisches Grundmodell und auf Haydn. Das kompakte Werk ist allerdings ...
Composer: Ludwig van Beethoven (1770–1827)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Orchestral
Unlike almost any other modern musician, Pat Metheny remains uniquely unpredictable. A new Metheny record could be almost anything as the only musician to have won twelve of his twenty Grammy awards in twelve different categories. His recent recording Road To The Sun caused a sensation in the classical music world for its intricate and emotionally satisfying ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Contemporary Jazz
If you could call out to your country, what would you say? When Eric Bibb embarked on the title song that would galvanize his latest album, ‘Dear America’, the songwriter found himself unpacking a seven-decade relationship with a partner of dramatic extremes. Bibb has known many different Americas, the good, the bad and the ugly. ...
Genre: Blues
Subgenre: Electric Blues
A voyage through a universe of unique colours and sonorities, different works melting into one another as they guide listeners on their musical journey. “Ad Illam” features pieces either dedicated to or written by women, and together they help us explore the different facets of the feminine personality. ...
Composer: Maurice Ravel (1875–1937), Frédéric Chopin (1810-1849), Lili Boulanger (1893-1918), García Demestres, Astor Piazzolla (1921–1992), Alberto Ginastera (1916-1983), Susana Gómez Vázquez
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Instrumental
Home In This World: Woody Guthrie’s Dustbowl Ballads
Guthrie gilt als eines der ersten Konzeptalben überhaupt und wird zu den bahnbrechenden Werken der Musikgeschichte gezählt. Nun hat Elektra Records eine neu interpretierte Version des Meisterwerkes angekündigt: „Home In This World: Woody Guthrie’s Dust Bowl Ballads“ erscheint am 10. September und wurde vom Grammy-ausgezeichneten Music ...
Genre: Folk
Subgenre:
Five years after his first studio album for Ed Sheeran’s Gingerbread Man Records, 2016’s The Wild Swan, Foy Vance has revealed that his follow-up, Signs Of Life, will be released on September 10, 2021. The announcement comes as the Irish singer-songwriter releases the latest single from the album, “Time Stand Still”, which features a soaring, emotive ...
Genre: Pop
Subgenre: Pop Rock
Berlioz composed his Requiem at the request of a French government minister to commemorate the soldiers who died in the July Revolution in 1830. The Requiem would become one of Berlioz’s most popular works, among other things because of its imaginative instrumentation and gigantic orchestration, including four brass ensembles distributed throughout the hall. ....
Composer: Hector Berlioz (1803-1869)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Vocal
Wenigen modernen Musiktheater-Stücken wird mit derart großer Vorfreude entgegengefiebert wie „Ku'Damm 56 - Das Musical“, der neudimensionierten Geschichte über die Schöllack-Frauen. Ihre Schicksale wurden bekanntlich in Form des ZDF-Events „Ku'damm 56“, einer UFA Fiction Produktion, zu einem der erfolgreichsten deutschen TV-Events ...
Genre: Soundtrack
Subgenre: Musicals
Accomplice Series, Vol. 2 (with Richard Smith)
Acclaimed and Grammy®-nominated acoustic guitarist, singer and songwriter TOMMY EMMANUEL—one of five people ever named a CPG (Certified Guitar Player) by his idol, music icon Chet Atkins—has announced he will release his new EP, ACCOMPLICE SERIES VOL. 2 with Richard Smith, on September 10. Smith is the revered British fingerpicking ...
Genre: Guitar
Subgenre: Fingerstyle
Brand-new 2021 remixed stereo versions by Andy Bradfield and Avril Mackintosh, who also remixed the deluxe editions of Script For A Jester’s Tear and Clutching At Straws. In March 1984, Marillion released their second studio album Fugazi, which went on to be certified Gold and reach ...
Genre: Rock
Subgenre: Modern Rock
“Arvo Pärt’s music takes us from darkness to light,” says Renaud Capuçon. “It looks relatively simple on paper, but each note needs to have its own life as it undergoes change. This music is not just relaxing – it has a depth and drama.” In Autumn 2021 Renaud Capuçon becomes Artistic Director of the Orchestre de Chambre de Lausanne. ...
Composer: Arvo Pärt (b. 1935)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre:
Jonathan Paull Gertler operates on the “less is more” premise with No Fear, set for release on September 10. Capturing a pure acoustic sound, Gertler has gone for clean guitar tones, supportive instrumentals and clear vocals, aiming at minimum production density and an organic feeling. “I hope the simpler it gets, the better it ...
Genre: Songwriter
Subgenre: New Acoustic
Beethoven: Symphony No. 6, Op. 68 "Pastoral" (Remastered)
Beethoven’s Sixth evolves as an exploration of an unemphatic harmonic progression that embodies a feeling of calm. Beethoven employs this exploration in charting the broad structure of the symphony’s movements individually, and of the work as a whole. The first movement prefigures the aura of calm by drawing out harmonies over ...
Composer: Ludwig van Beethoven (1770–1827)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Orchestral
Beethoven: Symphony No. 5, Op. 67 (Remastered)
The Symphony No. 5 in C minor of Ludwig van Beethoven, Op. 67, was written between 1804 and 1808. It is one of the best-known compositions in classical music and one of the most frequently played symphonies,[1] and it is widely considered one of the cornerstones of western music. First performed in Vienna's Theater an der Wien ...
Composer: Ludwig van Beethoven (1770–1827)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Orchestral
Colleen Green war schon immer cool, aber auf dem 2015 erschienenen Album I Want To Grow Up hat sie sich nicht unbedingt so gefühlt. Zu jung, um frei von Unsicherheiten zu sein, aber alt genug, um es satt zu haben, dass diese ihr Leben bestimmen, befand sich Green in einer existenziellen Krise. ...
Genre: Alternative
Subgenre: Indie Rock
A dangerous concert experience with the Danish National Symphony Orchestra. Murder at the Symphony is next in line in their conceptual series, with another exciting concert full of mystery, thrill and popular film music. The Danish National Symphony Orchestra manages to merge the boundaries between ...
Composer: Choir of Young Believers, Hans Zimmer (b. 1957), Leonard Cohen (1934-2016), Nicklas Schmith, Angelo Badalamenti (b. 1937), Johnny Greenwood (b. 1971), Richard Rodney Bennett (1936 - 2012), Nino Rota (1911 - 1979), Nick Cave (b. 1957), Bernard Herrmann (1911 - 1975), Nikko Weidemann (b. 1961)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Orchestral
Strauss: Tod und Verklärung, Don Juan & Till Eulenspiegel
The release date of our stunning boxset gathering all the studio recordings of Wilhelm Furtwängler is approaching (September 24th)! Let’s digitally tease a bit its splendid newly remastered content with these intense Strauss’ tone poems, from Death and Transfiguration to Don Juan and Till Eulenspiegel, one of his latest musical acts. ...
Composer: Richard Strauss (1864–1949)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Orchestral
Quality is laced throughout It’s Never Too Late, the first regular studio album featuring Tommy Emmanuel completely solo without guests since 2000. A friend and follower of the late Chet Atkins – who christened Emmanuel a Certified Guitar Player, making him one of only five musicians to receive the C.G.P. distinction ...
Genre: Guitar
Subgenre: Fingerstyle
