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
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
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
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
This 100% Graubünden production presents the rich musical life of this region with Philippe Bach at the head of the Kammerphilharmonie Graubünden, for a first collaboration with Claves. Raffaele d’Alessandro was born in St. Gallen to a mother from the Grisons and an Italian father. ...
Composer: Gion Antoni Derungs (1935-2012), Raffaele d’Alessandro (1911-1959)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Concertos
The Musical Universe of Andreas Pevernage
Flämischer Meister: Vermutlich ist das Werk von Andreas Pevernage weniger bekannt, weil er die gesamte berufliche Laufbahn ausschließlich in Flandern verbrachte. Zu Lebzeiten wurde sein Name jedoch in einem Zug mit Orlando di Lasso, Clemens non Papa und Giaches De Wert genannt: Die Qualität seiner Musik steht den Werken der heute berühmteren ...
Composer: Andreas Pevernage (1542-1591), Geert van Turnhout (1520-1580), Antoine Barbé (1505-1564), Séverin Cornet (1530-1582)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Vocal
A Tombeau in the French Baroque period refers to a piece of music in memory of a more or less beloved person, but sometimes also of a parrot or canary. This does not mean, however, that the pieces must necessarily be sad, somber music. The genre is also varied by the fact that a Tombeau can actually take on any type of movement ...
Composer: Wilhelm Friedemann Bach (1710-1784), Laurent de Saint-Luc (1669-1708), Ennemond Gaultier (1575-1651), Georg Gebel (1709-1753), Robert de Visée (1650-1725), Johann Georg Weichenberger (1676-1740), Silvius Leopold Weiss (1687-1750), François Dufaut (1604-1672), Germain Pinel (1600-1661), Denis Gaultier (1603-1672), Johann Jacob Froberger (1616-1667)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
Re-imagining the fabled tale of the folklore favorite Robin Hood has been the latest creative challenge for Chris de Burgh. The compelling result breathes music and lyrical life into a centuries-old and much-loved classic. Regardless of its central theme, the music stands up on its own as a new collection of vintage ...
Genre: Folk
Subgenre: Folk Rock
Piano Recital: Brahms, Liszt-Schubert, Prokofiev
He is already being compared to Daniil Trifonov: the young Siberian pianist Sergey Tanin. Without question - the musician is already one of the most promising pianists of his generation. He gained his first international recognition at the Géza Anda Competition in Zurich, 2018 (3rd prize and audience award). ....
Composer: Johannes Brahms (1833-1897), Sergei Prokofiev (1891-1953), Franz Liszt (1811-1886), Franz Schubert (1797-1828)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Instrumental
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
Pēteris Vasks: Oboe Concerto, Vēstījums & Lauda
Latvian composer Pēteris Vasks (b. 1946) is one of the most prominent names among living composers today. This album by the Latvian National Symphony Orchestra conducted by Andris Poga includes the first recording of Vasks’ atmospheric and pastoral Oboe Concerto written for the centenary celebrations of Latvia’s ...
Composer: Peteris Vasks (1946)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Concertos
Satellite (Expanded Edition - 2021 Remaster)
0th Anniversary Edition: "Satellite" is the fourth studio album and the second major label release by the American Christian nu metal band P.O.D. The album was released on September 11, 2001—the same day as the terrorist attacks on the United States—debuting at No. 6 on the Billboard 200 chart with over 133,000 copies sold. ...
Genre: Rock
Subgenre: Adult Alternative
Nocturnes: Music For 2 Pianos was written during 2020 and 2021. There are 14 compositions, written mostly at night in lockdown. The decision to compose for two pianos gave me the ability to write more abstract compositions, blurring the melodies and harmonies to make a diffused sound. ...
Composer: Craig Armstrong (b. 1959)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Instrumental
Pierre-Gabriel Buffardin, a French-born flautist, was active at the court of Dresden. He is known to have been the teacher of Johann Joachim Quantz and a friend of Johann Sebastian Bach, who wrote a few concertante arias for him in his cantatas. He was considered one of the greatest virtuosos of his time. ...
Composer: Pierre-Gabriel Buffardin (1689-1768)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Concertos
Violinist Sylvia Huang, a prizewinner at the Queen Elisabeth Competition in 2019, and Éliane Reyes, the renowned virtuoso pianist, present a new disc bubbling with elegance and femininity. Linked by a keen musical rapport and an irrepressible friendship, they declare their love for Belgian Romantic music, ...
Composer: Guillaume Lekeu (1870-1894), Eugène Ysaÿe (1858-1931)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Instrumental
Richard Strauss: Don Quixote. Till Eulenspiegel
After two memorable recordings devoted to Mahler's Third and Fifth symphonies, Francois-Xavier Roth continues his exploration of the major works premiered by the Gurzenich Orchestra. In the spotlight this time are two of the young Richard Strauss's most brilliant achievements: Till Eulenspiegel and Don Quixote. ...
Composer: Richard Strauss (1864–1949)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre:
Ella van Poucke. Winner of the prestigious Premio Chigiana 2017 and recently awarded the Grachtenfestival Prize, the 27 year old Dutch cellist belongs to the top rank of today's generation of cellists. She is the first prize winner of the International Isang Yun cello competition 2015, the Leopoldinum ...
Composer: Robert Schumann (1810-1856)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Concertos
Brahms: Liebeslieder, Op. 52 & 65
Johannes Brahms’ Liebeslieder–Walzer (1869 & 1875), Op. 52 and Op. 65, are a cheerful, short, witty set of songs full of anger, joy and rejection. These part-songs are accompanied by one piano, with four hands and any number of voices can perform any selection. ...
Composer: Johannes Brahms (1833-1897)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Vocal
Saxophonist Joe Lovano and trumpeter Dave Douglas debuted their extraordinary Sound Prints quintet on Blue Note Records in 2013, the year of Wayne Shorter’s 80th birthday, and from the outset the group had a joyful but somewhat imposing mandate: to lift up Shorter’s legacy through the writing and performance of new music ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Contemporary Jazz
Borrowing from the title of Proust’s great novel, the latest recital by Imogen Cooper features a collection of pieces that she learnt as a teenager in Paris, or in her twenties working with Alfred Brendel in Vienna, but none of which she has performed on the concert platform, or really played at all in the intervening years. ...
Composer: Maurice Ravel (1875–1937), Gabriel Fauré (1945-1924), Franz Liszt (1811-1886), Ottorino Respighi (1879-1936)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Instrumental
