If I Can’t Have Love, I Want Power
f I Can't Have Love, I Want Power is the fourth studio album by American singer Halsey. The album's production were handed by the industrial rock duo Nine Inch Nails, composed of American musician Trent Reznor and English musician Atticus Ross. She described the project as "a concept album about the joys and horrors of pregnancy and childbirth". ...
Genre: Pop
Subgenre: Pop Rock
Josquin was one of the greatest composers of his time, the author of sacred and secular music and works for court and city. The ensemble Thélème and Jean-Christophe Groffe offer a bold and original interpretation of some of Josquin's songs. Combining the language of the Renaissance with very different sounds ...
Composer: Josquin Desprez (1450 - 1521)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Vocal
Kiefer’s new album sees the acclaimed GRAMMY Award-winning artist team up with several other musicians for a full live band sound. When There’s Love Around is an album of two halves. The first is “about feeling small and insignificant and stressed,” Kiefer says. “It’s about things that cause me to worry, but at the end ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Mainstream Jazz
Johann Gottlieb Goldberg: Complete Trio Sonatas
If there is one student of Johann Sebastian Bach whom posterity has definitely not forgotten, it is Johann Gottlieb Goldberg. However, he owes this destiny to his position as harpsichordist to Count Keyserling: during the latter’s bouts of insomnia, it was Goldberg’s task to play for him the famous variations that ...
Composer: Johann Gottlieb Goldberg (1727-1756)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
Pros and Cons | Jazz Thing Next Generation Vol. 89
A variable, melodically and rhythmically exciting debut. Without words, the independent pieces convey feelings and emotional situations. Works by Julius Windisch. ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Contemporary Jazz
American violinist Jennifer Koh’s new recording, Alone Together is based on her online performance series of the same name, created in response to the coronavirus pandemic and the financial hardship it has placed on so many in the arts community. The New York Times called Alone Together “a marvel for a time of crisis” and the lineup ...
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
Music for Water is a devotional offering to the natural world in the form of sound. Most of our planet is made up of water, our bodies too, and we are calmed by the sound of water. This album is an attempt to give back to that source. ““First Encounter” was the first song that came together for the album. We were jamming at ...
Genre: Electronic
Subgenre: Ambient
he acclaimed trumpeter & composer returns with an album of music written & inspired by jazz legend Wayne Shorter. Featuring Blanchard’s band E-Collective with pianist Fabian Almazan, guitarist Charles Altura, bassist David Ginyard & drummer Oscar Seaton, and the Turtle Island String Quartet. ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Modern Jazz
Through their relentless hard work, non-stop touring and critically acclaimed/chart-topping releases gaining them over 250 million cross-platform streams/views – JINJER are inarguably one of modern metal's hottest and most exciting bands active today. The band has become synonymous with doing things their own way and breaking every ...
Genre: Rock
Subgenre: Metal
Johannes Brahms: Piano Concerto No. 1 & Tragic Overture - Cherubini: Éliza (Overture)
A peak of the Romantic concerto: With his First Concerto, the young Brahms set his own course in the wake of Beethoven and Schumann and at the same time poured forth his personal emotions in this work of impressive dimensions. The Russian soloist has chosen an instrument contemporary with the premiere, a magnificent ...
Composer: Johannes Brahms (1833 - 1897), Luigi Cherubini (1760 - 1842)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Concertos
Stravinsky: Die Geschichte vom Soldaten (Deutsche Fassung). Élégie. Duo concertant
An exquisite ensemble has come together here: Genuine virtuosos equally devoted to new and old music, team players in prestigious small and large formations - the kind of ensemble you need for this piece, in which everyone is challenged soloistically and as interactor. The soul of it all is the violin, the instrument the soldier gives ...
Composer: Igor Stravinsky (1882 - 1971)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 2
Daniel Barenboim and his West-Eastern Divan Orchestra share the stage with the extraordinary Martha Argerich in this concert of Romantic masterworks by Ludwig van Beethoven. In 1795, Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 2 was premiered in Vienna under the direction of Antonio Salieri with ...
Composer: Ludwig van Beethoven (1770–1827)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Concertos
The trio format has always been something of an ideal for Jan Lundgren. That particular buzz when communication between the musicians in a trio is direct, immediate and ever-present...when the trio keeps a constant sense of forward motion and development...when the players collectively remain open to the inspiration of every millisecond. ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Contemporary Jazz
The recording project Northscapes weaves works—from the first decades of the twenty-first century by composers from the Nordic and Baltic countries of Europe—into a tapestry of soundscapes, vibrating between landscape and the imagination, between the external and internal, between nature and psyche. ...
Composer: Lasse Thoresen (1949), Anna Thorvaldsdottir (1977), Bent Sörensen (1958), Kaija Saariaho (1952), Raminta Serksnyte (1975), Peteris Vasks (1946)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Instrumental
The widespread positive response to “Lampedusa Lullaby”, KUU!’s 2018 label debut on ACT also gave rise to enthusiastic, imaginative and telling descriptions of the band’s music: “An alchemically complex jazz punk alloy. […] Really rather wonderful.”( PROG magazine). ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Crossover Jazz
Sounds from the Ancestors, is a multi-faceted album. The music, however, doesn’t lodge inside the tight confines of the jazz idiom, which is not surprising considering the alto saxophonist and composer acknowledges the likes of Aretha Franklin and Marvin Gaye as significant touchstones. ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Vocal
In the burgeoning contemporary repertoire for percussion, the work of a group of North American composer-performers has a special place. Classically trained but influenced as much by rock and jazz as by the Western canon, they have found a stellar exponent in the Scottish marimba player Calum Huggan. ...
Composer: Michael Burritt (1962), Ivan Trevino (1983), Emmanuel Sejourne (1961), Eric Ewazen (1954)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Instrumental
Musical Rarities: String Chamber Music from Zurich & St. Petersburg
The trio was founded in 2017 by violinist Marina Yakovleva, her fellow-violinist and brother Mikhail Yakovlev and cellist Lev Sivkov. They chose the name “Trio Amani” in honour of the Russian composer Nikolai Amani (1872-1904), whose String Trio they discovered in 2018 and premiered that year in Zurich. After a highly successful concert ...
Composer: Nikolai Amani (1872-1904), Hans Schaeuble (1906-1988), Paul Müller-Zürich (1898-1993), Serge Prokofieff (1891-1953)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
Enescu, Shostakovich & Campos: String Octets
Bambú Ensemble was expressly created as a string octet and its players are trained in the careful cultivation of the distinguishing features of their literature – from Mendelssohn or Gade to more contemporary offerings. On this album, therefore, they demonstrate an intuitive and eloquent ability to deliver ...
Composer: George Enescu (1881-1955), Dmitri Schostakowitsch (1906-1975), Javier Martinez Campos
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
The Italian pianist Filippo Gorini took advantage of the world health crisis to immerse himself in The Art of Fugue, Johann Sebastian Bach’s unfinished mystical masterpiece: ‘The view that it should be seen solely as a theoretical marvel is misguided: as the counterpoints and canons ...
Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Instrumental
