Born on 23 July 1944 in Lisbon, Maria João Pires gave her first public performance at the age of 4 and began her studies of music and piano with Campos Coelho and Francine Benoît, continuing later in Germany, with Rosl Schmid and Karl Engel. In addition to her concerts, she has made recordings for Erato for fifteen years ...
Composer: Frédéric Chopin (1810-1849)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Concertos
Ralph Vaughan Williams: Folk Songs, Vol. 3
Folk Songs from the Eastern Counties is is the third in a series of four albums recording all 81 of the folk songs in English that Ralph Vaughan Williams arranged for voice and piano or violin. 57 of the 81 songs have not previously been recorded in these arrangements. ...
Composer: Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872-1958)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Vocal
Juno Award-winning, powerhouse rock duo Crown Lands – Cody Bowles (vocals and drums) and Kevin Comeau (guitar, bass, and keys) are set to release their EP, White Buffalo. The four-track record includes the previously released title track “White Buffalo” and the thirteen-minute, multi-part composition “The Oracle” along with two new songs; “Inner ...
Genre: Rock
Subgenre: Adult Alternative
We hope you will enjoy the music just as much as we did making it, and you’ll use it now and then as a stress relief from all the insanity that the world, and we as human beings, are going through in these darkest hours. In this release, Hoff and yours truly, have used the rise and fall of the Roman empire as a metaphor and link to todays ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Contemporary Jazz
In celebration of 30 years of "The Black Album", welcome the definitive re-release: Metallica (Remastered). Metallica is the fifth studio album by American heavy metal band Metallica. Released on August 12, 1991, by Elektra Records, it is commonly referred to as The Black Album because of its packaging design. ...
Genre: Rock
Subgenre: Metal
Metallica (Remastered Expanded Edition)
In celebration of 30 years of "The Black Album", welcome the definitive re-release: Metallica (Remastered). Metallica is the fifth studio album by American heavy metal band Metallica. Released on August 12, 1991, by Elektra Records, it is commonly referred to as The Black Album because of its packaging design. I...
Genre: Rock
Subgenre: Metal
The Metallica Blacklist ist eines der ambitioniertesten und größten Projekte Metallicas: der Longplayer bringt mehr als 50 Künstler*innen aus verschiedensten Genres und Generationen, aus etlichen Kulturen und Kontinenten zusammen, die allesamt ihren jeweiligen Lieblingstitel aus Metallicas gleichnamigem Grammy-prämierten Album von ... <#!EN!# The Metallica Blacklist celebrates the 30th anniversary and enduring influence of the iconic Black Album, with one of the most ambitious projects ever conceived by the Metallica team: An unprecedented 50+ artists spanning an unbelievably vast range of genres, generations, cultures, continents and more, each contributing a unique ...
Genre: Rock
Subgenre: Modern Rock
This Year's Model (2021 Remaster)
"This Year's Model was begun at Eden Studios, London at the end of 1977, just after the single release of "Watching the Detectives", and completed at the beginning of 1978. The Sessions, which had to be scheduled at either end of our first American tour, took about eleven days. ...
Genre: Rock
Subgenre: Adult Alternative
90 of Ray Charles greatest songs: Every Ray Charles album post-1960 is represented here, along with singles not available on any of his previously released albums. Most of these recordings will be available on major streaming services for the very first time in a decade or more. ...
Genre: R&B
Subgenre: Soul
Legendary guitarist Steve Hackett releases his new studio rock album Surrender of Silence on 10th September 2021, via Inside Out Music. The album features 11 new songs as Steve has been working hard through Lockdown and, the first time, has completed two studio albums for release within the same year! ...
Genre: Rock
Subgenre: Modern Rock
2021 Latin Grammy Lifetime Award honoree and legendary Percussionist Pete Escovedo “Pops" is an artist who broke down the barriers between Smooth Jazz, Salsa, Latin Jazz and contemporary music. His name has been synonymous in the music industry for more than 50 years. Pete Escovedo is known worldwide for his live performances, ...
Genre: Latin
Subgenre: Latin Jazz
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
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
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
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
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
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