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9/11: 20 (Memorials on the Twentieth Anniversary of September 11th)

Throughout the recital, voices from a diverse range of American communities are heard. These include African American composer Karen Walwyn, gay New York composer David Del Tredici and a brand new work by Kevin Malone: “Sudden Memorials”, which aims to capture in sound the instant and fleeting memorials that friends and ...

Composer: Henry Cowell (1897-1965), Kevin Malone (1958), Scott Joplin (1868-1917), David del Tredici (1937)

Genre: Classical

Subgenre: Instrumental

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Das Leben

Violinist Eung-soo Kim, who has been through turbulent times in recent years, suffered from illness and parting with a close family member while the stage of enthusiastic applause continued. As a performer, he confesses that he accepted the composer's work anew through this process. ...

Composer: Antonín Dvořák (1841-1904), Edward Elgar (1857-1934), Christoph Willibald von Gluck (1714-1787), Jean Marie Leclair (1697-1764), Witold Lutosławski (1913-1994), Samuel Dushkin, Robert Schumann (1810-1856), Camille Saint-Saëns (1835-1921)

Genre: Classical

Subgenre: Instrumental

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Rory Gallagher (50th Anniversary Edition Remaster)

To celebrate the 50th Anniversary of Rory Gallagher’s eponymous 1971 debut solo album, UMC/UMe is pleased to announce the September 3 release of a five-album set of the album. Rory Gallagher 50th Anniversary Edition will include a brand-new mix of the original album, plus 18 previously unreleased outtakes and alternate ...

Genre: Rock

Subgenre: Blues Rock

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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

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The Capitol Session '73 (Live Remaster)

In 1973 Bob Marley and the Wailers found themselves stranded on the West Coast of the United States after being asked to leave the Sly & The Family Stone tour for outperforming them every night. To make the best of the situation the band made their way to Los Angeles where they performed this recording session at the famed Capitol Studios. ...

Genre: World Music

Subgenre: Worldbeat

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Mozart & Contemporaries

Between tradition and modern: Multi-award-winning pianist Víkingur Ólafsson turns his attention to the music of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Ólafsson presents some of his favourite Mozart keyboard works in the company of pieces by a selection of the composer’s leading contemporaries. Juxtaposing works by Mozart, Haydn and C.P.E. Bach ...

Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791), Baldassare Galuppi (1706-1785), Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach (1714-1788), Domenico Cimarosa (1749-1801), Joseph Haydn (1732-1809)

Genre: Classical

Subgenre: Instrumental

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Hope

In this album called “Hope”, created during lockdown, violinist Daniel Hope presents a highly personal, yet distinctive collection of timeless classics by Schubert, Elgar and Pärt, several beloved traditional songs in stunning new instrumental versions and a brand-new arrangement of the inspiring and spiritual Misa Criolla by Ariel Ramírez. ...

Composer: Ariel Ramirez (1921-2010), Franz Schubert (1797-1828), Arvo Pärt (1935), John Dowland (1562-1626), Tomaso Albinoni (1671-1751), Edward Elgar (1857-1934), Bechara El-Khoury (1957), Stephen Collins Foster (1826-1864)

Genre: Classical

Subgenre: Chamber Music

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Voodoo Cello

Nadia Mladjao can do anything. She carved a place for herself in a large Comorian family, where she always managed to have her say. She cut her teeth as a model in New York City before the calling from music was too strong to ignore. But Nadia would tap into true power, once she took the stage – under the name, Imany. ...

Genre: Pop

Subgenre: Pop Rock

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Black Acid Soul

The debut album Black Acid Soul from Lady Blackbird is one of the standouts for 2021. It's instant and within a minute you are hooked. Rough Trade Shops loves this album. Think Nina Simone, Hot Buttered Soul-era Isaac Hayes, Billie Holiday and Chaka Khan. Gilles Peterson called her "the Grace Jones of Jazz". ...

Genre: Jazz

Subgenre: Nu Jazz

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Blueprint

The sound of Danish quartet Abekejser works pretty similar to the eclectic playlists of young digital natives – no one really cares about genre boundaries anymore, as long as the ingredients are fun: Heavy Hip Hop Beats meet gnarly synth sounds, reverb drenched Rock Guitars and a room filling bass. The result is a highly danceable mix ...

Genre: Jazz

Subgenre: Mainstream Jazz

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Certified Lover Boy

Drake’s long awaited new album, Certified Lover Boy. Serving as his sixth studio album and follow-up to 2018’s Scorpion, the effort intended on dropping in early 2020. However, the pandemic hit, causing it an indefinite delay, where we saw the Dark Lane Demo Tapes release during that spring. ...

Genre: Hip-Hop

Subgenre: Rap

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Karl Böhm conducts Hindemith & Bruckner (Live, Remastered)

He did not thrust himself into the limelight but put himself, with economical, clear gestures, entirely at the service of the music: amongst the conductors of his time, Karl Böhm epitomized the anti-star. In the summer of 1964 he delighted the Lucerne audience with a compellingly flowing and cantabile reading of Bruckner’s Seventh – of course at the ...

Composer: Paul Hindemith (1895-1963), Anton Bruckner (1824-1896)

Genre: Classical

Subgenre: Concertos

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British Oboe Quintets

The legendary British oboist Leon Goossens inspired all the composers represented on this recording, and all but one of the pieces were written for his oboe, on which he premièred the works by Delius, Bax, Bliss, and Finzi. The piece by Vaughan Williams is arranged for cor anglais, ...

Composer: Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872-1958), Arnold Bax (1883-1953), Gerald Finzi (1901-1956), Sir Arthur Bliss (1891-1975), Frederick Delius (1862-1934)

Genre: Classical

Subgenre: Chamber Music

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Jurowski Conducts Mahler's Symphony No. 8 (Live)

The world premiere of Mahler’s colossal Eighth Symphony, in Munich in September 1910, was the greatest success of his life. Ten years earlier, his then future wife, Alma, had received this blunt verdict from her step-father, the painter Carl Moll: ‘Mahler? Great conductor. ...

Composer: Gustav Mahler (1860-1911)

Genre: Classical

Subgenre: Orchestral

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Sitting Pretty On Top Of The World

Following on from her two critically acclaimed EPs of last year, Georgia native Lauren Alaina has announced that September 3rd will see the release of her third full-length album “Sitting Pretty On Top Of The World”. Lauren co-wrote 14 of the album’s 15 songs, collaborating with names you will no doubt recognise including Lori ...

Genre: Country

Subgenre: Country Pop

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Mercury - Act 1

Teaming up with esteemed producer Rick Rubin, Mercury – Act 1 is a candid album that abandons metaphorically charged lyrics and instead embraces emotional extremities, holding nothing back. The title draws inspiration from the word “mercurial.” ...

Genre: Rock

Subgenre: Adult Alternative

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Fetish

Dave Zinno and his Unisphere bandmates—Mike Tucker on tenor sax, Eric Benny Bloom on trumpet and flugelhorn, Leo Genovese on keyboards, Tim Ray on piano, Rafael Barata, drums and percussion, and special guest Rafael Rocha on trombone—have been writing and practicing, biding their time until jazz scene reopened. ...

Genre: Jazz

Subgenre: Contemporary Jazz

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Mozart: String Quartets dedicated to Joseph Haydn K. 421, 458 'Hunt', 464

After the early quartets and the famous 'Dissonance' Quartet, the Cuarteto Casals continues its exploration of the set of works Mozart dedicated to Joseph Haydn. Here one composer took on the mantle of the other: the younger man, who had now settled in Vienna and had just started a family, was going through an exceptional ...

Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756 –1791)

Genre: Classical

Subgenre: Chamber Music

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Arvo Pärt: Passio

Composed in 1982, Arvo Pärt’s Passio has retained its place as one of the foremost works of sacred music of the late 20th century. It has been called a minimalist masterpiece, and is a seminal work in the composer’s oeuvre – the culmination of his so-called tintinnabuli style, and the first in a line of large-scale choral works on religious ...

Composer: Arvo Pärt (1935)

Genre: Classical

Subgenre: Choral

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Bach: Solo Violin Sonatas

The cycle of six solo Sonatas and Partitas by J.S. Bach is arguably one of the most powerful and most important compositions in musical history. These works have been with Linus Roth since he was nine years old, when he first learned the Gigue from the E major Partita, moving on by the age of twelve to the first ...

Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach (1685–1750)

Genre: Classical

Subgenre: Instrumental

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