A new release by vocalist Katrine Madsen is always an exciting event. With her easily recognizable, dusty voice, her original phrasing and deeply personal approach to the essence of jazz, time and time again Katrine Madsen has taken unexpected turns and surprised audiences at home and abroad. ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Vocal
In 1999 I visited the beautiful village Ernen in the Alps of canton Wallis in Switzerland for the first time. I was selected to attend master classes by the world-renowned teacher and pianist György Sebök. He founded the master classes and an international music festival here. ...
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Classical Crossover
Kjemilie is ready with their second album, "Bakkekontakt", an album that flows in you, embraces and spreads over you. «Bakkekontakt» follows in the footsteps of the debut «Hverdagenene», and Kjemilie has refined the low-key expression, the songs are clearer and sharper, but keep it close and personal. ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Vocal
Liszt’s Études d’exécution transcendante enshrine the spirit of High Romanticism, embodying extremes of expressive drama and technical virtuosity. His encyclopedic approach to technique is shown at its most dazzling in this cycle, heard here in the 1852 revision which Liszt himself declared ...
Composer: Ferencz Liszt (1811-1886)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Instrumental
With his debut Mack Avenue Records recording, REACH, singularly talented pianist and five-time Grammy® Award nominee Christian Sands is stretching into exciting progressive territory as he breaks new ground traversing from the straight-ahead zone into fresh-...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Contemporary Jazz
GRAMMY®- and Emmy-nominated recording artist John Beasley leads a smashing big band project MONK’estra. The feel and sound of MONK’estra captures the spirit of Thelonious Monk’s singular style with its off-beat melodies, humor, strange beauty and unbounded swing in fresh ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Big Band
New Devices is the 3rd album from Leeds based trio and Mercury Prize nominees Roller Trio. A unique trio, their sound is modern and gritty, pushing sonic boundaries to their limits. Switching the feel of a tune in a heartbeat from edgy improv to anthemic power riffs to reverb-swamped note storms, ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Modern Jazz
Singer-songwriter Kat Edmonson is back with Old Fashioned Gal, an album that really couldn’t be called anything else. Rich in affection for the past but bracingly alive in the present, the 11 original songs on Old Fashioned Gal tell a story––actually, a classic Hollywood “movie” that took ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Vocal
New York award-winning composer, arranger, and trombonist Nick Finzer, will certainly delight the admirers of both traditional and modern jazz with his new release, Hear & Now, a politically-charged body of work that envisions to make us aware of the turbulent days we’re living in. ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Contemporary Jazz
The Jazzlab Orchestra is a Montreal-based ensemble of 8 musicians that presents creative music since 2003 - the Orchestra celebrates this year its fifteenth anniversary. This collective of artistic collaboration has produced many projects over the years, but always working with top ...
Composer: Félix Stüssi
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Contemporary Jazz
Deva’s enchanting album, "Password", was created with Miten and Manose at the end of their 2010 world tour, and marked an exciting new direction in their unique blending of East and West, embedding the extraordinary energy carried by ancient mantras into a rich fusion of sound and silence. Mantras are passwords that ...
Genre: Easy Listening
Subgenre: New Age
Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (Original Score)
Sony Music proudly announces the release of SPIDER-MAN™: INTO THE SPIDER-VERSE (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) featuring original music by multiple Golden Globe nominee Daniel Pemberton. Phil Lord and Christopher Miller, the creative minds behind The Lego Movie and 21 Jump Street, ...
Genre: Soundtrack
Subgenre:
Hildegunn was fascinated by the three Swedish masters on this record already back in the 90 ́s when they played and toured together with Bohuslän Big Band. For her second release on Losen Records (Stillness, 2011) we planned a summit in Spain. Studio ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Contemporary Jazz
Pianist, composer, arranger. Leader of his own groups, essential as a co-leader and sideman in several others. Teacher, writer, once the editor of the Norwegian jazz magazine Jazznytt – Rune Klakegg’s presence on the Norwegian (jazz) music scene has been diverse, distinct and not to ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Big Band
Beethoven: Piano Sonatas, Vol. 3
Jean-Efflam Bavouzet’s fascinating journey through Beethoven’s complete sonatas now comes to an end with this third volume. The prodigious exploration reaches its culmination in this three-disc set – sold for the price of 2 CDs as were its two predecessors – featuring the most mature and exploratory of ...
Composer: Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Instrumental
From Spain to Mexico and Brazil, the RNCM Wind Orchestra under the conductors Clark Rundell and Mark Heron here celebrates the strong Latin tradition of wind bands in an exhilarating programme. The album prominently features works by one of the most iconic composers for ...
Composer: Carlos Chávez (1899-1978), Joaquin Rodrigo (1901-1999), Heitor Villa-Lobos (1887-1959)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
Vaughan Williams: Songs of Travel
Having previously recorded British repertoire on Chandos, James Gilchrist joins the pianist Anna Tilbrook nine years after their previous recording, in a lyrical journey through some of Vaughan Williams’s best songs and rarely heard chamber works. They are joined by Philip Dukes, ‘Great Britain’s most outstanding viola player’, according to The Times. ...
Composer: Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872-1958)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
Mary Poppins Returns (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
In Disney's "Mary Poppins Returns," an all new sequel with a fresh sensibility that celebrates the spirit of the original, Mary Poppins is back to help the next generation of the Banks family find the joy and wonder missing in their lives. Emily Blunt ("The Girl on the Train," "Into the Woods") stars as the practically-perfect nanny ...
Genre: Soundtrack
Subgenre: Film
Carpenters With The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
Carpenters with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra showcases the anthemic ballads of Karen and Richard Carpenter with brand new symphonic arrangements composed, produced, and conducted by Richard Carpenter himself. Performed by the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra at the iconic Abbey Road Studios, ...
Genre: Vocal
Subgenre: Vocal Pop
