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
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
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
Iraqi-American trumpeter, santur player, vocalist, and composer Amir ElSaffar is a visionary and a pioneer of cross-cultural musical exploration. His six-piece Two Rivers Ensemble, formed in 2006, was among the first projects to combine jazz with Iraqi Māqams. In 2015, ElSaffar expanded the group to form the 17 member Rivers ...
Composer: Amir ElSaffar (1977)
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Crossover Jazz
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
Orpheus. Hommage à Saint-Saëns
The Trio Zadig marks this Saint-Saëns anniversary year by presenting him not only as a composer but also as a transcriber of other composers’ works. Rameau’s Pièces de clavecin en concerts 1 and 5, together with Liszt’s Orpheus, both arranged by Saint-Saëns for piano trio, frame his own ...
Composer: Camille Saint-Saens (1835-1921), Jean Philippe Rameau (1683-1764), Franz Liszt (1811-1886)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
From Russia: music for clarinet and piano
Pure enjoyment is provided by this delightful new recording of popular Russian music arranged for clarinet and orchestra by Robin White. From Rimsky-Korsakov’s Clarinet Concerto – originally scored for military band – to the Andante Cantabile from Tchaikovsky’s first string quartet (a staple for arrangers for decades) ...
Composer: Modest Mussorgsky (1839-1881), Nikolai Rimsky-Korssakoff (1844-1908), Robin White (1954), Peter Iljitsch Tschaikowsky (1840-1893), Vittorio Monti (1868-1922)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Concertos
Die große Diva der Niederlande, Fay Claassen, hat sich mit dem begnadeten belgischen Sänger, Komponisten, Texter und langjährigen Pariser DDavid Linx auf „And Still We Sing“ zusammengetan; einer großartigen Kollaboration mit der WDR BIG BAND Köln unter der Leitung von MAGNUS LINDGREN. ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Vocal
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
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
Legendary pianist Jean-Yves Thibaudet releases ‘Carte Blanche’ in celebration of his 60th Birthday in 2021. This new album explores a very personal collection for Thibaudet; a stunning choice of tracks he’s never released before, including a brand new arrangement of the ‘Pride & Prejudice Suite’ by Dario Marianelli and tracks arranged ...
Composer: Dario Marianelli (1963), Francois Couperin (1668-1733), Domenico Scarlatti (1685-1757), Franz Schubert (1797-1828), Frederic Chopin (1810-1849), Franz Liszt (1811-1886), Johannes Brahms (1833-1897), Edward Elgar (1857-1934), Gabriel Pierne (1863-1937), Enrique Granados (1867-1916), Heitor Villa-Lobos (1887-1959), Francis Poulenc (1899-1963)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Instrumental
“Their years together have resulted in an ensemble with an utterly symbiotic creative flow,” observed Don Heckman in the Los Angeles Times, when the Marcin Wasilewski Trio was first making its presence felt on the international jazz scene. The improvisational communication among the players has continued to deepen with the ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Contemporary Jazz
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
Jonah Kim, one of America’s finest young cellists, steps out in this wide-ranging program, joined — in two of the three works — by esteemed collaborative pianist Robert Koenig. Kim begins the program with a Mount Everest for cellists, the Sonata for Solo Cello by Zoltan Kodály. Inspired by the legacy of his teacher, Janos Starker*, ...
Composer: Zoltan Kodaly (1882-1967), Edvard Grieg (1843-1907), Mark Abel (1948)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
Schubert: Schwanengesang & String Quintet
Here are two works composed by Schubert at the very end of his short life. Schwanengesang (Swansong) was written in Vienna in the autumn of 1828. He died on 19 November at the age of thirty-one, and Die Taubenpost (Pigeon post), which closes the collection, is said to be his very last composition. ....
Composer: Fanny Caecilie Mendelssohn Hensel (1805-1847), Felix Mendelssohn (1809-1847), Franz Peter Schubert (1797-1828)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Vocal
The fourth studio album from Kacey Musgraves, star-crossed is available here on mystery color vinyl as a special surprise just for you! A bold, empowering and personal series of songs display the GRAMMY-winner’s growth and evolution as one of our finest singer-songwriters. Following up Golden Hour, which distinguished Musgraves as ...
Genre: Country
Subgenre: Country Pop
