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
Bruckner: Symphony No. 6 in A Major, WAB 106
Start of the most comprehensive Bruckner Symphonies Edition including all available 19 versions. Bruckner burst out of the confines of the cathedral using that most secular of musical forms: the symphony. It is with reflexive reoccurrence in music history that supposed performance traditions burn themselves into a score as if they ...
Composer: Anton Bruckner (1824-1896)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Orchestral
Tinctures In Time (Community Music, Vol. 1)
Tinctures in Time is the first original music Bernstein has ever written for the MTO, which from the beginning had exclusively been a vehicle for his arrangements of other people's songs, from Count Basie to Prince. Most of the album was composed in 2019, a tough year for Bernstein: Henry Butler had recently passed, and there were serious ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Avantgarde Jazz
Saint-Saëns: Symphonies, Vol. 2
The present album is the second of two recorded by the Orchestre Philharmonique Royal de Liège and Jean-Jacques Kantorow to commemorate the centenary of the death of Camille Saint-Saëns. On the first instalment the team offered us ‘deeply impressive performances in stunning sound’ (theclassicreview.com) of the composer’s first and ...
Composer: Camille Saint-Saëns (1835-1921)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
On Remembering, the Danish cellist Jakob Kullberg continues his collaborations with two of the foremost Nordic composers: Per Nørgård and Kaija Saariaho. Praised internationally for his performances of the modern cello concerto, Kullberg regards the concerto form as the encounter of an individual soloist ...
Composer: Per Nørgård, Kaija Saariaho
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Concertos
Home counties born, music polymath Jules Buckley has been releasing teasing tracks from this album through the summer. First there was his version of ‘Apache’, then there was ‘X Breaks’ which was quickly followed by the cover of ‘Space Funk’. All three confirmed the promotional material ...
Genre: Pop
Subgenre: Pop Rock
For Senjutsu – loosely translated as ‘tactics & strategy’, the band once again enlisted the services of Mark Wilkinson to create the spectacular Samurai themed cover artwork, based on an idea by Steve Harris. And with a running time of a little under 82 minutes, Senjutsu, like their previous record The Book Of Souls, will be a double album. ...
Genre: Rock
Subgenre: Metal
This strange last year has been a time of reflection and contemplation for many of us, cut off from the people and the things that we love. Pianist and composer Renee Rosnes has emerged with a reinvigorated appreciation for the many different shapes that love can take. Her breathtaking new recording, Kinds of Love, ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Vocal
Mozart: String Quartets - Dedicated to Haydn, Vol. 2
With this release, the Engegård Quartet completes its recordings of the six string quartets that Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart dedicated to his paternal friend Joseph Haydn. Written in Vienna in Mozart’s “mature” years — from age 25 until he died 36 years old in 1791 — they are a gift to a friend that hardly has its equal. ...
Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756 –1791)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
Mit großer Spannung erwartet wurde diese Einspielung von Claude Debussys Meisterwerk Pelléas et Melisande mit einer außergewöhnlichen Sängerbesetzung unter dem jungen Dirigenten Pierre Dumoussaud, der das Werk bereits in vielen Häusern erfolgreich dirigiert hat. Die »entwaffnende Aufrichtigkeit« des Pelléas ... The Covid pandemic caused the cancellation of the performances of Pelléas et Mélisande at the Opéra National de Bordeaux, which approached Alpha in order to make an audio recording of this masterpiece. So here is that unexpected but highly anticipated new version, with an exceptional cast and a young conductor, ...
Composer: Claude Debussy (1862-1918)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Opera
Jéliote, haute-contre de Rameau
Reinoud Van Mechelen and his ensemble A Nocte Temporis continue their ‘Haute-Contre Trilogy’ with Rameau’s favourite singer, Pierre de Jéliote, probably the finest haute-contre in history. (Reminder: this is a high tenor voice, not to be confused with the countertenor!) Rameau wrote an enormous amount of music for Jéliote, ...
Composer: Jean Philippe Rameau (1683-1764), François Colin de Blamont (1690-1790), François Rebel (1701-1775), Charles-Louis Mion (1699-1775), Jean-Marie Leclair (1697-1764), Antoine Dauvergne (1713-1797), Jean-Joseph Cassanea de Mondoville (1711-1772), Pierre-Montan Berton (1727-1780), Jean-Benjamin de La Borde (1734-1794)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Vocal
"It is not by chance that luminous textures and sensual orchestral colors are considered essential features of French music. Its history features great names renowned for their art of instrumentation and sensitive use of timbres, who include the composers of the cello concertos on this recording: Camille Saint-Saëns, ...
Composer: Camille Saint-Saens (1835-1921), Gabriel Faure (1845-1924), Edouard Lalo (1823-1892), Arthur Honegger (1892-1955)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Concertos
This album by the Jyväskylä Sinfonia conducted by Ville Matvejeff presents three works by Éric Tanguy (b. 1968), one of the leading composers in contemporary French music with two outstanding soloists, clarinetist Pierre Génisson and violinist Júlia Pusker. ...
Composer: Eric Tanguy (1968)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Concertos
“Always a student of dance music, it's clear that for whatever his next project is shaping up to be, Lauber has dug deep into the inner workings of dance music and studied the history vigorously.“ (PopMatters). An album engineered with the precision and expertise of a production master yet born from the creative ...
Genre: Electronic
Subgenre: Electro-Pop
Home counties born, music polymath Jules Buckley has been releasing teasing tracks from this album through the summer. First there was his version of ‘Apache’, then there was ‘X Breaks’ which was quickly followed by the cover of ‘Space Funk’. All three confirmed the promotional material ...
Genre: Pop
Subgenre: Pop Rock
Beethoven: Violin Sonatas Nos. 8 - 10
Previous instalments of the Beethoven sonata cycle from Frank Peter Zimmermann and Martin Helmchen have met with wide acclaim. Described as ‘conversations by a perfect instrumental pairing’ in BBC Music Magazine, the discs have received a Choc in Classica and the recommendation of German website klassik.com, respectively. ...
Composer: Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Instrumental
Alex Christensen ist einer der erfolgreichsten Produzenten Deutschlands. Mit Singles wie „Das Boot“ und „united“ hat er die 90er entschieden mitgeprägt und den Dance- und Technoboom in Schwung gebracht. Mit der Reihe „Classical 90s Dance“ brachte Alex Christensen dann gar Klassik und Dance Music zusammen. ...
Genre: Electronic
Subgenre: Electro-Pop
After the highly acclaimed recording of the complete Mozart piano sonatas, pianist William Youn, who was born in South Korea and has been living in Munich for many years, started the cycle of piano sonatas by Franz Schubert. The first volume received fantastic reviews: "The very first album of the Schubert complete recording deserves ...
Composer: Franz Schubert (1797-1828)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Instrumental
Mozart Symphonies Nos. 39, 40, 41
"Antonello Manacorda ist mit seinen Einspielungen für Sony Classical und durch zahlreiche herausragende Engagements in der Opernwelt in Kürze zu einem der interessantesten Dirigenten der heutigen Zeit geworden. Die Sony Classical-Einspielungen aller Schubert-Sinfonien mit der Kammerakademie Potsdam erhielten weltweit zahlreiche Preise und ...
Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756–1791)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Orchestral
