Camille Saint-Saëns: La princesse jaune
That globetrotting composer Camille Saint-Saëns wrote La Princesse jaune in 1872, exemplifying the current craze for all things Japanese. Kornélis, played by the tenor Mathias Vidal, dreams only of the Land of the Rising Sun. Under the influence of a hallucinogenic potion, he becomes infatuated with Ming, ...
Composer: Camille Saint-Saens (1835-1921)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Opera
Ensemble Perspectives, an a cappella vocal quintet founded and directed by Geoffroy Heurard, creates programmes that blend the mainstream classical repertory with lesser-known composers and folk and pop songs. These pieces are sung in transcriptions ‘tailor-made’ for Perspectives, which works with world-renowned ...
Composer: Johannes Brahms (1833-1897), Samuel Coleridge-Taylor (1875-1912), Gabriel Fauré (1845-1924), Alexander Levine (1955), Henry Purcell (1659-1695), Ravel, Maurice (1875-1937), Paul Simon (1941), Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872-1958)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
Zal - The Music of Milosz Magin
After acclaimed recordings of music by the great masters, Lucas Debargue shines much-needed light on a composer he is determined must be heard: Miłosz Magin (1929-1999). "Magin’s style is capable of both enchanting and surprising us," the French pianist says. "Few composers of his time were so open to ...
Composer: Milosz Magin (1929-1999)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
Chopin: Piano Concerto No. 2; Scherzi
For his sixth and latest Deutsche Grammophon album, pianist @Seong-Jin Cho returns to the music of Frédéric Chopin with his Piano Concerto No. 2 and four Scherzi. The album features these best-loved works in interpretations characterised by thoughtful poetry and youthful ardour. ...
Composer: Frédéric Chopin (1810-1849)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Concertos
Countertenor Iestyn Davies and the viol consort Fretwork present a new recording of works for viol consort and voice, drawn from 17th Century Germany, following their critically praised 2019 album of works by Michael Nyman and Henry Purcell. ...
Composer: Franz Tunder (1614-1667), Samuel Scheidt (1587-1654), Johann Christoph Friedrich Bach (1732-1795), Johann Hermann Schein (1586-1630), Heinrich Schütz (1585-1672), Christian Geist (1650-1711), Giovanni Felice Sances (1600-1679)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Vocal
Robben Ford, a name that needs no explanation. For over 40 years now, the guitarist inspires artists and fans of blues rock and truly shaped the genre with his innovative playing. With both parents being passionate musicians themselves, Robben early found his love for music and especially ...
Genre: Blues
Subgenre: Bluesy-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
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
Stravinsky: The Soldier's Tale (English version), 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 away ...
Composer: Igor Stravinsky (1882 - 1971)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
Triptychon (Vasks - Bach - Liszt)
Having garnered the ultimate accolades from a host of arts review pages for her premiere recording on the Hamburg Elbphilharmonie’s organ and on the double organ of the Taiwanese Kaohsiung Center for the Arts, concert organist Iveta Apkalna now presents her third release on the Berlin Classics label as a triple album. ...
Composer: Peteris Vasks (1946), Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750), Franz Liszt (1811-1886)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
Muddy Waters: The Montreux Years (Live)
An unstoppable blues colossus, the father of Chicago blues, Muddy Waters, was the hot ticket during his run of appearances at the Montreux Jazz Festival in the 1970s. Already a cultural and musical force to behold when Nobs first caught him live in 1965, Waters found critical acclaim outside of the U.S., ...
Genre: Blues
Subgenre: Electric Blues
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
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
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
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
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
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
