Sir Arthur Bliss contributed two staples of the brass band repertoire - Kenilworth and The Belmont Variations, whose enduring success inspired arrangers to turn to his other compositions, for example Eric Ball and Four Dances from the ballet Checkmate or Phillip Littlemore's suite from the film score for Things to Come. ...
Composer: Sir Arthur Bliss (1891-1975)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Instrumental
The fourth album released by Chelsea Music Festival Records, Midsummer Night Magic brings us joy & solace through the stories it tells. Uljas Pulkkis paints pictures of Finnish Midsummer childhood legends. Edmund Finnis’s timeless landscape invites us to listen deeply. And our love for Robert Schumann’s music lays a foundation for how we tell ...
Composer: Uljas Pulkkis (1975), Robert Schumann (1840-1856), Edmund Finnis (1984)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
Together for over 25 years, The Jive Aces have been keeping the show on the road for three decades and become renowned worldwide for their high-energy live show having toured in over 40 countries. The band aim to spread smiles and cheer with their swingin’ music and classic vintage style from crooning smooth ballads to blasting honking rhythm & blues. ...
Genre: Easy Listening
Subgenre: Swing
“Every album is a bit different,” Misha Tsiganov noted at the end of the liner notes for Misha’s Wishes, his fourth Criss Cross album (Criss 1409), on which, for the first time on Criss Cross, he played primarily his original compositions and plugged in on the Fender Rhodes. ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Contemporary Jazz
Stanford: Te Deum & Elegiac Ode
By the time Stanford received a commission from the Norfolk and Norwich Festival to write a choral work for them in 1884, he had, at the age of 32, already begun to assert himself as one of Britain’s leading composers. The Elegiac Ode was, however, his first mature foray into the ...
Composer: Charles Villiers Stanford (1852-1924)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Vocal
Little Caesar fuse no-nonsense hard rock that harks back to 70 s giants such as Bad Company and Humble Pie, with an aching ZZ Top groove, and overlay it with classic R&B melodies to produce some mighty fine straight up good time rock and roll! The lead single 'Time Enough For That' is ...
Genre: Rock
Subgenre: Hard Rock
Who Wants to Live Forever: Queen on a Steinway
Pianist Simon Mulligan plays songs by the super glam-rock band, Queen.
Composer: Freddie Mercury (1946-1991), Brian May
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Instrumental
Queen of Hearts: Laments and Songs of Regret for Queens Terrestrial and Celestial
Queen of Hearts addresses and reflects on queens spiritual (the Virgin Mary) and temporal (Mary Tudor and Anne Boleyn, among others) in a programme of music largely of the sixteenth century, but spiced with two short works from the twenty-first. ...
Composer: Antoine Brumel (1450-1520), Josquin Des Prez (1450-1521), Loyset Compère (1445-1518), Pierre de la Rue (1460-1518), Sebastiano Festa (1490-1524), Jean Mouton (1459-1522)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Vocal
Pianist Ben Winkelman’s sixth album as a leader, Heartbeat, features jazz heavyweights Gilad Hekselman, Matt Penman and Obed Calvaire, and comprises nine originals, four played by piano trio, five by quartet with guitar. Written mostly in the early months of the Covid pandemic while awaiting the birth of his first child, the album ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Modern Jazz
Verdi: Inno delle nazioni; Quattro Pezzi Sacri
Chailly and La Scala maintain the gold standard for Verdi in this new release coupling two great but rarely recorded choral works. The Hymn of the Nations (Inno delle nazioni) features Decca’s star tenor Freddie De Tommaso, the first tenor to record this work for Decca since Pavarotti. First performed in London in 1862 the ...
Composer: Giuseppe Verdi (1813-1901)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Vocal
The queen of jazz violinists, Naoko Terai's new 2016 album is a melodious, mature work that focuses on the beauty of the music! Her first self-produced work since her major label debut. While her previous album "Hot Jazz" focused on intense and passionate songs such as "Libertango" and "Spain", this album features classical masterpieces such as Debussy's "Moonlight" and Mahler's "Resurrection Symphony No. 2", ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Contemporary Jazz
“My album ‘Duality’ is about the conflicting parts of our lives, and ‘Evil Twin’ captures that contrast” Lindsey says about the release. “Sometimes we feel at war with ourselves as we see the divide between who we are and who we wish we were. These conflicts feel like they could tear you ...
“My album ‘Duality’ is about the conflicting parts of our lives, and ‘Evil Twin’ captures that contrast” Lindsey says about the release. “Sometimes we feel at war with ourselves as we see the divide between who we are and who we wish we were. These conflicts feel like they could tear you ...
Genre: Pop
Subgenre: Pop Rock
Emmy award-winning violinist Damien Escobar is back with a new album "Gemini". Escobar is on a mission to prove there’s astonishing power in instrumental music and his intention is to motivate listeners and make an impact on mainstream music like never before. ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Mainstream Jazz
Storyteller: Contemporary Concertos for Trumpet
Mary Elizabeth Bowden, praised for her "splendid, brilliant" artistry (Gramophone), celebrates the narrative power of the trumpet with Storyteller: Contemporary Concertos for Trumpet. Bowden is joined by the Chicago Youth Symphony Orchestra and conductor Allen Tinkham in a collection of new concertos that ...
Composer: James Stephenson (1969), Sergio Assad (1952), Vivan Fung (1975), Carl Davis (1936)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Concertos
Alvin Queen is reported as saying that for all their excellence he’d rather not record with celebrity jazz stars. Instead, intent on leaving egos at the door, he prefers to work with relatively unknown musicians that deserve wider attention. An admirable stance, though it’s saddening to realize that interesting star line-ups, that most everybody in the jazz realm will be able to ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Free Jazz
The debut album by Markus Kaufmann, the organist of Leipzig's Nikolaikirche, narrates tales of love with pieces by composers such as Edward Elgar, Johann Sebastian Bach, Franz Liszt, Robert Schumann, and Edvard Grieg. Each of the pieces describes love and the emotions of its creator in its own way: be it the "Salut d’amour" that Elgar dedicated to his piano ...
Composer: Sigfrid Karg-Elert (1877-1933), Edward Grieg (1843-1907), Edward Elgar (1857-1934), Sir William Walton (1902-1983), Franz Liszt (1811-1886), Robert Schumann (1810-1856), Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750), Charles-Marie Widors (1844-1937), Markus Kaufmann
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Instrumental
There is spirit and fire in the music of The Zawose Queens. There’s the vibrations of the ancestors, coming through on traditional instruments — soaring chizeze fiddle, buzzing illimba thumb piano, ngoma drums that chatter and thunder — and voices that go deep, high and out there. ...
Genre: World Music
Subgenre: Worldbeat
Night Reign is the new album from GRAMMY-winner Arooj Aftab, an ode to the night as her primary source of inspiration and a vivid reflection of the creative community she has fostered in her home of Brooklyn, New York. The track features an enchanting rhythm (closely related to the Brazilian maracatu) that drives the song forward. ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Crossover Jazz
How Are The Mighty Fallen: Choral Music by Giovanni Bononcini
The Choir of The Queen’s College, Oxford, Academy of Ancient Music, and an outstanding array of soloists join forces to breathe new life into the choral works of Giovanni Bononcini (1670-1747). Bononcini was Handel’s main rival in London, and with little to separate the two in terms of public status and reputation, ...
Composer: Giovanni Bononcini (1670-1747)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Choral
