Sometimes the unexpected happens and it becomes a gift. Serendipity, good fortune. Think of it as life handing you what you need, not what you thought you wanted. When Malian singer and guitarist Samba Touré was planning Wande (The Beloved), his third Glitterbeat release, he had strong ideas for the way .....
Genre: Wold Music
Subgenre: Worldbeat
Snow Patrol will return with Wildness, their first album in seven years, which finds the band searching for clarity, connection, and meaning, while staying true to the melodic songwriting prowess that brought them to prominence. Wildness taps into something raw and ...
Genre: Alternative
Subgenre: Indie Rock
Korngold & Nielsen: Violin Concertos
Orchid Classics releases the debut album of Jiyoon Lee, the 26 year old South Korean violinist who won joint first prize of the 2016 Carl Nielsen International Competition. The album was recorded in Odense, home of the Carl Nielsen Competition in Denmark, together with the Odense ...
Composer: Carl Nielsen (1865-1931)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Concertos
Seymour Reads the Constitution!
Brad Mehldau Trio's new album, Seymour Reads the Constitution! , is out now on Nonesuch Records. The pianist and his longtime trio, which includes drummer Jeff Ballard and bassist Larry Grenadier, perform three Mehldau originals combined with interpretations of pop songs ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Contemporary Jazz
Their point of departure and focus is his String Quartet no. 1 in A minor. Robert Schumann always had difficulty with this particular genre, and in 1842 he brought his "attempts at writing quartets" to an end in a headlong burst of creativity that produced his opus 41, ...
Composer: Robert Schumann (1810-1856), Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, Aribert Reimann
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Vocal
Re-Powered Within (Remastered)
Originally released in early 2012, the fifth album “The Power Within” by Dragonforce is back as “Re-Powered Within” – completely remastered, remixed and repowered. Prepared by Damien Rainaud (Fear Factory, Babymetal) at award-winning studio Mix Unlimited, Los Angeles, CA, the Dragonforce classic sounds bigger, better, bolder ...
Genre: Rock
Subgenre: Metal
Morrison's 39th Studio Collection Showcases Electrifying Musical Collaborations, Fresh Interpretations of Blues/Jazz Standards and Deep Cuts from Van's Songbook. Legacy Recordings, a division of Sony Music Entertainment, will release Van Morrison's new 39th studio album, You're Driving Me Crazy, ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Mainstream Jazz
Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy - Vergessene Lieder (Remastered)
Mendelssohn rediscovered: Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy was the last great 19th century composer whose works were not completely listed. In the Mendelssohn anniversary year of 2009 this loophole has been closed thanks to the publishing of the Leipzig Edition of the works of Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy by the Saxon Academy of Sciences in Leipzig. ...
Composer: Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy (1809-1847)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Vocal
FUSK is 100% contemporary jazz, catapulted forward by the creative ingenuity of the band members; these are players who have something to say! The music is intensive, joyous. It grabs you, as it expands out of its musical roots and takes off and into the open air. ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Avantgarde Jazz
With "Dedication", Beady Belle has drawn together all the threads of inspiration at the core of who she is and has woven a brand new tapestry that is vibrant, organic, energetic, cool, emotional, intimate, and unequivocally funky. Soul and R&B have always been close to Beady Belle's heart, ...
Genre: R&B
Subgenre: Soul
Bach: The Solo Cantatas for Bass
With a new disc given over to three cantatas for bass by JS Bach, Christian Senn gives valid voice to that ever-continuing need of bringing the Kantor’s scores alive in fresh recordings. The career of the Chilean- born baritone Senn currently sees him having a strong – and much-applauded – ...
Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Vocal
Weinberg: Piano Quintet, Piano Sonatina & Cello Sonata No. 2
Mieczyslaw Weinberg, a composer beginning to be known outside Russia, found a home in music during a life full of persecution, exile, and upheaval. Pianist Jeanne Golan, cellist Andrew Yee, and the Attacca Quartet give passionate performances of three ...
Composer: Mieczysław Weinberg
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Instrumental
Haydn: Piano Sonatas Nos. 32, 40, 49, 50
Haydn's relationship with the keyboard was so intimate and inspirational that it enabled him to develop ideas of the most varied character. From the whimsical to the dramatic, this highly attractive music combines mischievousness, ingenuousness, eloquence and lyricism. ...
Composer: Franz Joseph Haydn (1732-1809)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Instrumental
Golden, Kylie's fourteenth studio album, is the result of an intensive working trip to the home of Country music, a city whose influence lingered on long after the pop legend and her team returned to London to finish the record: “We definitely brought a bit of Nashville back with us,” she states. ...
Genre: Country
Subgenre: Country Pop
Jacquet de La Guerre: L'inconstante
Élisabeth Jacquet de La Guerre has no reason to be ashamed to finally find herself alongside Chambonnières and Couperin in the discography devoted to the 17th century harpsichord. This is what the scholarly booklet of this new album tells us. Almost unknown today, yet she enjoyed a great reputation during her ...
Composer: Élisabeth Jacquet de La Guerre
Genre: Classical
Subgenre:
Bach, J.S.: Brandenburg Concertos
John Eliot Gardiner and his superb period-instrument chamber orchestra, English Baroque Soloists, record their unique interpretation of Bach’s Brandenburg Concertos for the very first time. ...
Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach (1685–1750)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Concertos
Live at Jazzhus Slukefter 1983 (Remastered)
The American pianist Hank Jones could, spanning his 65 year career, always be counted on for a joyful presence on the jazz scene, playing sparkling piano solos that uplifted every group that was wise enough to hire him. This set of previously unreleased music from June 6, 1983 puts the spotlight of one of the most ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Hard Bop
It had to be a train. The name of Victor Wainwright’s new band – and the sleeve image of their debut album – is also the most fitting of metaphors. In music folklore, the train might have associations with the freight-hopping bluesmen of yore, but with this restless boogie-woogie innovator stoking ...
Genre: Blues
Subgenre: Electric Blues
After perfecting his seedy beatnik image on albums like "Small Charge" and "Nighthawks At The Diner", Waits refined and expanded on it until the 1983 breakthrough of "Swordfishtrombones". "Blue Valentine" is full of low-rent nightlife imagery and arrangements that leave Waits' jazz leanings behind ...
Genre: Rock
Subgenre: Blues-Rock
Exuberant and exciting is the Big Round Records debut of big band pianist and composer Ron Paley. This is not “just another pops album.” Paley’s work is cool, clever, and ridiculously fun. Seven of the ten tracks on The More You Know are completely composed, arranged, and performed by Ron Paley. ...
Genre: Instrumental
Subgenre: Piano
