Das neue Album des Pianisten Igor Levit, "On DSCH", welches am 10. September bei Sony Classical erscheint, präsentiert gleich zwei großartige Klavierzyklen: Schostakowitschs 24 Präludien und Fugen op.87 und die virtuose, selten zu hörende "Passacaglia on DSCH" des britischen Komponisten Robert Stevenson. ...
Composer: Dmitri Shostakovich (1906-1975)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Instrumental
Dropping his third album two weeks prior to last year’s stay-at-home order due to the COVID-19 pandemic didn’t halt guitarist Adam Hawley’s remarkable chart domination. His R&B-jazz collection “Escape” proved inescapable, scoring three No. 1 singles, including the No. 1 single of 2020, “To The Top.” The musician-songwriter-producer ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Smooth Jazz
Nostalgia: Brahms, Mussorgsky & Bartók
On her third PENTATONE album Nostalgia, Magdalena Kožená presents Bartók’s Village Scenes, Mussorgsky’s The Nursery and a selection of Brahms songs, together with acclaimed pianist Yefim Bronfman. Sung in Slovak, Russian and German, these songs on love, longing and innocence show three master composers ...
Composer: Bela Bartok (1881-1945), Modest Mussorgsky (1839-1881), Johannes Brahms (1833-1897)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Vocal
Yo-Yo Ma's new album "Notes for the Future" brings together extraordinary artists from five continents: across nine tracks, Ma joins Angélique Kidjo, Mashrou’ Leila, Tunde Olaniran, Jeremy Dutcher, Andrea Motis, ABAO, Lila Downs, and Marlon Williams to explore our fears and hopes, reminding us that the future is ours to shape, together. ...
Composer: Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson (1932-2004), Jeremy Dutcher (b. 1990), Yo-Yo Ma (b. 1955), Jonathan Zott, Bella Bellow (1945-1973), Tunde Olaniran, Mashrou' Leila, Marlon Williams (b. 1990), ABAO
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Classical Crossover
An Extraordinary Recording: For the first time in history, 12 of the most wonderful violins ever made by the finest violin maker of all time, Antonio Stradivari (1644–1737), have travelled across the world for a ground-breaking new project with violin superstar Janine Jansen. The resulting album, 12 Stradivari, captures the individual characters of ...
Composer: Sir Edward William Elgar (1857–1934), Manuel de Falla (1876–1946), Richard Franz Joseph Heuberger (1850–1914), Jerome Kern (1885-1945), Fritz Kreisler (1875–1962), Sergey Vassilievich Rachmaninov (1873–1943), Maurice Ravel (1875-1937), Clara Schumann (1819–1896), Robert Schumann (1810–1856), Josef Suk (1874-1935), Karol Szymanowski (1882–1937), Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840–1893), Henri Vieuxtemps (1820-1881)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Instrumental
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:
In September 2016, a 21-year-old unknown singer named Abbey Smith stepped onstage for a SoFar Sounds show in New York City, and accompanied only by a guitarist, pretty much re-arranged the molecules in the room. Tearing through a staggering performance of “My Mind”— a song she’d written about facing up to the fact that the one you love is hung up on ...
Genre: Alternative
Subgenre: Indie Rock
Internationally renowned French virtuoso, Ingrid Riollot has been catching the hearts of audiences across the globe with the enchanting beauty of her performance. ...
Composer: John Williams (1932), Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750), Erik Satie (1866-1925)
Genre: Guitar
Subgenre: Classical Guitar
On her most recent album, the pianist Claire Huangci made her first discographic foray into the chamber-music world of Ernest Chausson and Maurice Ravel. Her latest album creates a musical link almost back to the beginning of her professional career, to her highly acclaimed Scarlatti album, and proves yet again that she ...
Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Instrumental
Nuevo Tango Concertos by Piazzolla and Massa
"Astor Piazzolla, the great Argentine composer and bandoneon player, was born exactly a century ago in 1921. Fascinated by the music of Bach, Mozart and Chopin, Piazzolla wanted to compose great classical music. From Alberto Ginastera he received lessons in orchestration, composition and conducting, ...
Composer: Omar Massa (1981), Astor Piazzolla (1921-1992)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Concertos
These two new books of metaludios, which continue the three already recorded releases in 2018, explore new sound territories through the piano. Science is once again the main pillar underlying the compositional process of these twelve new pieces. Multiple scientific disciplines serve as generators of musical raw material: biology ...
Composer: Gustavo Díaz-jerez
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Instrumental
With WONDERFUL WORLD, Chris Standring's 14th release as a leader, he is once again pushing the envelope of taste and style with a project that is wholly different from anything he has done before. Unlike all his other projects, he composed just one of the tunes on the album and instead concentrated on putting his own unique spin on songs ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Vocal
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
Michael Stephenson Meets Alexander Claffy with His Trio
This album chooses 20th century American music to send its message for a reason. Twentieth century American popular music is one of the greatest artistic gifts ever given to the world -- and barely anyone talks about it when discussing America. In contrast, Michael Stephenson and Alexander Claffy have made an album that leads with that message. ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Vocal
"Internationally acclaimed hard rock musician and God of Partying, ANDREW W.K., marks another extraordinarily intense chapter in his fabled and perplexing tenure as a pop culture icon, with his fifth full-length rock album, God Is Partying, out on September 10, 2021, via Napalm Records. ...
Genre: Rock
Subgenre: Modern Rock
The Ultra Vivid Lament (Deluxe Edition)
Manic Street Preachers return with their 14th studio album ‘The Ultra Vivid Lament’ ‘The Ultra Vivid Lament’ is both reflection and reaction; a record that gazes in isolation across a cluttered room, fogged by often painful memories, to focus on an open window framing a gleaming vista of land melting into sea and endless sky. ...
Genre: Pop
Subgenre: Pop Rock
‘One does not create by adding, but by subtracting’, said the film director Robert Bresson, quoted by Jacques Drillon in the booklet that accompanies this new recording of Bach’s Sonatas and Partitas for solo violin by Tedi Papavrami, seventeen years after a first version that already made quite an impact on the discography. ...
Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach (1685–1750)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Instrumental
On "Pleasure Is The Measure", a live recording, Teus presents his vision on the arts & culture industry. In his opinion, the idea that 'culture should be for everyone' contains the risk that arts & culture makers will just create with public opinion in mind. If you take music for example, music gains enormous eloquence ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Contemporary Jazz
