"Midnight Sun" is the much-anticipated new release from Billboard Magazine Critics’ Choice artist Bryan Lubeck. Weaving Bryan’s signature Spanish guitar sound with pop, funk, and urban influences, Midnight Sun’s 11-track collection delivers immersive, front-to-back listening pleasure. Collaborations with guitarist Felton Offard ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Smooth Jazz
Schubert: Rarities & Short Piano Works
Among Schubert's compositions are rare and overlooked works for solo piano that reflect staging posts of his short compositional life. As a boy he had studied with Salieri who almost certainly encouraged him to explore contrapuntal techniques in 1812 - the fugues and fugal expositions he wrote are testament to his secure ...
Composer: Franz Schubert (1797-1828)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Instrumental
Della Mae is a GRAMMY-nominated, Nashville-based, all-female string band made up of lead vocalist/guitarist Celia Woodsmith, 2-time national champion fiddle player Kimber Ludiker, and mandolinist Jenni Lyn Gardner. Hailing from across North America, and reared in diverse musical styles, they are one of the most charismatic ...
Genre: Country
Subgenre: Bluegrass
J.S. Bach: Goldberg Variations, BWV 988 (Arr. for 10-String Guitar Duo)
Johann Sebastian Bach’s Goldberg Variations is a contrapuntal tour de force, and one of the pinnacles in the history of the variation genre. Composed ‘to refresh the spirits of music-lovers’, it is a constantly fascinating and deeply enriching evocation of an entire musical universe. ...
Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach (1685–1750)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Instrumental
David Liebman is considered a renaissance man in contemporary music with a career stretching over fifty years. He has played with masters including Miles Davis, Elvin Jones, Chick Corea, John McLaughlin, McCoy Tyner and others; authored books and instructional DVDs which are acknowledged as classics in the jazz field; ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Contemporary Jazz
Prayer's Tale: Taiko Drums & Asian Percussion
Nature, the cosmos and humanity are the inspirations for Joji Hirotas latest solo album, Prayers Tale. Single-handedly playing 40 different Japanese and Asian instruments, combined with vocals, he weaves sounds of nature, emotions and colours of the universe into a beautiful soundscape. ...
Genre: World Music
Subgenre: Worldbeat
The new album "Spectrum" by the vision string quartet presents 13 songs composed, arranged and produced by the four young musicians from Berlin themselves. Inspired by folk, pop, rock, funk, minimal and singer-songwriter music, Jakob Encke (violin), Daniel Stoll (violin), Sander Stuart (viola) and Leonard Disselhorst ...
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
Australian singer/songwriter Lawson Hull announces his new EP Hangin’ Out With Cowboys will be released August 27th, and today he shares the song that inspired the EP’s title, “Cowboys,” where he combines indie folk rock and dream pop melodies as he reflects on the life of an artist in the wild west of the music industry. ...
Genre: Songwriter
Subgenre: Folk Rock
West London five-piece Chubby and the Gang are balanced by two energies – a casual “fuck it” on one side, an active “fuck off” on the other. For every moment of punk imperfection, there’s an intricate flurry of detail. For every enraged statement about modern life as war, there’s a lyric like “Hello heartbreak, my old friend” ...
Genre: Alternative
Subgenre: Grunge
Per l'Orchestra di Dresda, Vol.1 Ouverture
Composer: Johann David Heinichen (1683 -1729), Jan Dismas Zelenka (1679 -1754), Georg Philipp Telemann (1681 - 1767), Johann Joachim Quantz (1697 - 1773), Johann Georg Pisendel (1687 - 1755), Johann Friedrich Fasch (1688 - 1758)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre:
Kapsberger in Rome, 1610 "Il Tedesco"
Roman accounts of the nobleman Kapsperger reveal a highly eccentric musician: a virtuoso theorbist, a singer, a successful composer, he was said to be arrogant, even irascible . . . A character straight out of a novel, as the musicians of L’Escadron Volant de la Reine present him in their first ...
Composer: Giovanni Kapsberger (1580-1651)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Vocal
Steven Wilson’s 2020 album The Future Bites is an exploration of how the human brain has evolved in the Internet era. Featuring gorgeous electronic sounds warped by human intervention (King Ghost), soaring acoustics that headinto the stratosphere (12 Things I Forgot), relentless bass-driven ...
Genre: Rock
Subgenre: Modern Rock
The "Before Bach" project brings together Erik Marchand and Rodolphe Burger both share a taste for the unusual and the singular. Erik Marchand is a 'master' of Traditional Breton song with a well documented passion for the music of the Balkans and modal music. Rodolphe Burger, ...
Genre: Pop
Subgenre: Adult Contemporary
J.S. Bach: Six Suites for Viola Solo BWV 1007-1012
In the music of Bach, the Italian violist Simone Libralon has found a lifelong companion, who ‘unfailingly touches that emotional chord we need in the varied and contrasting moments of human experience - a safe haven reserved for intimate spirituality.’ His own approach to the suites which Bach wrote while Capellmeister at Weimar, ...
Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach (1685–1750)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
In lifelong seclusion in rural County Wicklow, Ina Boyle created a legacy of song – tender, often melancholy, illuminated by an exquisite sense for harmony. ‘I think it is most courageous of you to go on with such little recognition,’ wrote Vaughan Williams to his pupil. ‘The only thing to say is that it does come finally.’ ...
Composer: Ina Boyle (1889-1967)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Vocal
Tchesnokov: Tales without Words, Music for Flute and Piano
This album features the complete works for flute (to date) by Franco-Ukranian composer Dimitri Tchesnokov (b.1982), with the exception of his flute trio Tableaux feìeìriques. This programme is supplemented by some of Tchesnokov’s piano solos in a comparable style. The pieces presented here offer a contrast to the composer’s religious/mystical ...
Composer: Dimitri Tchesnokov (1982)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
Is Richie Beirach the best kept secret of piano jazz? Together wirth Dave Holland and Jack DeJohnette he played in the band of Stan Getz. He worked with Chet Baker and John Abercromby. And he shares a very special musical friendship with Dave Liebman. ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Contemporary Jazz
Composer and guitarist Van Stiefel's Spirits is his unique take on the studio-instrumental albums of layered guitar by legends like Les Paul, Chet Atkins, and Glen Campbell, filtered through his own introspective and personally spiritual approach to the instrument. Those albums were often a series of vignettes, each tune suggesting a particular location, mood, or flavor. ...
Genre: Guitar
Subgenre:
Evening Dusk Serenade: Newly Discovered Finnish Works for Violin & Orchestra
The repertoire of Finnish music for violin and orchestra is full of hidden gems, with a substantial amount of works remaining unperformed and unpublished. The music on this recording represents a style of light classical music that was popular from the 1930s to the 1960s but remains largely forgotten today. ...
Composer: George de Godzinsky (1914-1994), Uuno Klami (1900-1961), Nils-Eric Fougstedt (1910-1961), Elemer Szentirmay (1836-1908), Yrjö Gunaropoulos (1904-1968), Heino Kaski (1885-1957), Harry Bergström (1910-1989), Eino Partanen (1915-2004)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Orchestral
