Miroslav Bukovsky and Emile Viklicky Czech into the Wangaratta Jazz Festival with John Mackey; Dave Liebman revisits Miles Davis and the influence of the African diaspora via Haiti and New Orleans inspires saxophonist Godwin Lewis. ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Contemporary Jazz
“I knew going in it was going to be a rocky road and a hard life in many ways, but I’m not unhappy about my choices. I just keep going, always looking ahead, and only looking back to the fond memories, good times, and my songs many of which have stood the test of time. What I am most happy about after all these years ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Mainstream Jazz
“Improvised beat-laden jazzy soundtrack jams in this UK meets Finland rendezvous“. Our latest recording features renowned UK pianist Greg Foat with a Finnish rhythm section consisting of Jazzaggression profiles Aleksi Heinola on drums and Teemu Åkerblom on bass.
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Modern Jazz
Ole Amund Gjersvik is a well-known name in Bergen's jazz life and has participated in a number of recordings, many of them released on Gjersvik's own record label Acoustic Records. Outside the city limits, Tore Hegdahl is probably a more indescribable magazine, but he is a cantor in Årstad church ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Contemporary Jazz
"Mancio’s tales of love, family, loss and hope are deceptively simple on paper but touchingly persuasive when she sings them. There’s no particular rhyme scheme or verse form, but all the songs follow the same pattern in performance, with a piano solo in the middle. ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Mainstream Jazz
Mahler: Symphonies Nos. 1, 5, 6, 9 & Lieder (Remastered)
“Barbirolli’s famous 1969 version on any count is one of the greatest, most warmly affecting performances ever committed to disc, expansive, yet concentrated in feeling: the Adagietto is very moving … A classic version.” (The Penguin Guide to Classical Music about the 5th Symphony.) ...
Composer: Gustav Mahler (1860-1911)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Vocal
De la Rue: Requiem - Elegies and Occasional Motets (Remastered)
Pierre de la Rue was a contemporary of Josquin, and spent most of his career in the service of the Dukes of Burgundy. Here is the earliest recording of his Requiem, the third known musical setting of the mass for the dead in music history after those by Dufay (lost) and Ockeghem. Performed by a precursory ensemble of the ...
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Vocal
Liz Gillies and Seth MacFarlane have put together quite possibly the strangest musical duo, giving us a throwback right to the swinging fifties with their newest single: Ain’t We Got Fun. MacFarlane has already established himself as a strong and confident voice in the world of modern swing, but Liz Gillies was certainly a welcome surprise. ...
Genre: Vocal
Subgenre: Vocal Jazz
In Transit - Live (Remastered 2021)
"In Transit" is a live album by Canadian progressive rock band Saga. The album was recorded at the Rudi-Sedlmayer-Halle, Munich on February 5, 1982 and at the Tivoli Theatre, Copenhagen on February 22, 23 & 24, 1982. Over 40 years have passed since Canadian prog-rockers Saga released their breakout self-titled debut album in 1978. ...
Genre: Rock
Subgenre: Modern Rock
With her spellbinding voice and time-bending sensibilities, Sierra Ferrell makes music that's as fantastically vagabond as the artist herself. On her highly anticipated Rounder debut Long Time Coming, Ferrell shares a dozen songs beautifully unbound by genre or era, instantly transporting her audience to an infinitely more enchanted world. ...
Genre: Songwriter
Subgenre: Folk Rock
The return of pianist Cordelia Williams with Nightlight, a compelling exploration of the contrariness of night, its turmoil, terror and tenderness, and the longing for light. Inspired by Williams’ experience mothering her two infant children in the isolating dead of night while the world around her slept, Nightlight is dedicated, she says, “to the many people who…
Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791), Alexander Scriabin (1872-1915), Franz Liszt (1811-1886), Franz Schubert (1797-1828), Thomas Tomkins (1572-1656), Bill Evans (1929-1980), Robert Schumann (1810-1856)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Instrumental
Beethoven: Symphony No. 4, Op. 60 (Remastered)
Die Wiener Presse scheute keine Superlative nach den Beethoven-Konzerten aus dem Goldenen Saal des Wiener Musikvereins (im Rahmen der Festwochen 2002) und lobte die "überwältigende Präzision", "Leuchtkraft" und "idyllische Schönheit" der Interpretation. Doch Rattles Beschäftigung mit Beethoven hat schon lange vor diesem Konzertzyklus angefangen, ...
Composer: Ludwig van Beethoven (1770 - 1827)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Orchestral
The widely anticipated studio album from garage rock idols Shannon & The Clams, Year Of The Spider, is slated for a summer 2021 release. The band returned to Nashville to record with Dan Auerbach at his legendary Easy Eye Sound studio this past year. Fresh off of their standout album, Onion, and supporting tours with the ...
Genre: Rock
Subgenre: Adult Alternative
After releasing no new music for almost a decade, singer-songwriter Jim Bob has announced his second album in a year. It’s another silver-tongued snapshot of modern life in Britain from the singer-songwriter, musician and author. Following 2020's critically acclaimed, chart smashing, hiatus breaking 'Pop Up Jim Bob' album, the artist ...
Genre: Rock
Subgenre: Adult Alternative
Flutist, composer, and teacher Paul Taffanel (1844-1908) was to have a decisive influence on the development of chamber music for winds in France. While his work as a flutist and educator can in no way be undervalued, Taffanel’s musical career extended far beyond this. He was also a renowned composer and conductor, and had considerable ...
Composer: Charles Gounod (1818 – 1893), Charles Koechlin (1867 - 1950), Florent Schmitt (1870 - 1958), Théodore Gouvy (1819 - 1898), Vincent d'Indy (1851 - 1931)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Orchestral
A Poet's Love, Prokofiev: Romeo and Juliet - Schumann: Dichterliebe
In their debut recording for harmonia mundi, the young viola prodigy Timothy Ridout and his musical accomplice Frank Dupree celebrate the power of love, with selections from Prokofiev’s Romeo and Juliet, performed in Borisovsky’s popular arrangement, and with their own ...
Composer: Sergei Prokofiev (1891 - 1953), Robert Schumann (1810 - 1856)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
Passion - Officivm Hebdomadæ Sanctæ
Tomás Luis de Victoria’s OFFICIUM HEBDOMADÆ SANCTÆ is one of the most compelling examples of creative genius in a composer, a toweringly poignant and masterpiece on the Passion of Christ, a pure but infinitely subtle creation, Ad majorem Dei gloriam. ...
Composer: Tomas Luis de Victoria (1548 - 1611)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
Ein ungewöhnliches Programm: Das letzte Album der Pianistin Yaara Tal mit ihrem Duopartner Andreas Groethuysen, "18 Studien nach Johann Sebastian Bachs Kunst der Fuge", wurde hoch gelobt und mit dem "Preis der Deutschen Schallplattenkritik" ausgezeichnet. ...
Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach (1685 - 1750), Wilhelm Friedemann Bach (1710 - 1784), Prinz Louis Ferdinand von Preußen (1907 - 1994), Johann Nepomuk Hummel (1778 - 1837), Charles Valentin Alkan (1813 - 1888), Frédéric Chopin (1810 - 1849), Robert Schumann (1810 - 1856), Napoleon Alkan (1826 - 1906), Anton Arensky (1861 - 1906), Lyonel Feininger (1871 - 1956), Reinhard Febel (b. 1952)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Instrumental
This very gifted Chicago guitarist returns with his organ trio & delivers a blistering set of tunes perfectly suited for the organ trio. Honors the classic Hammond B-3 organ trio tradition while updating it with his own modern aesthetic. ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Jazz Blues
With their concerts celebrating the anniversaries of Piazzolla and Prokofiev in 2021 cancelled due to Covid, violinists Maya Levy and Hrachya Avenesyan decided to put their time in Lockdown to good use by recording a program of works by both composers and turning their Brussels apartment into a recording studio. ...
Composer: Sergei Prokofiev (1891 - 1953), Ástor Piazzolla (1921 - 1992)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
