This is the fourth studio album "Hello My Beautiful World" from Tim Carroll and Oscar Dawson. “We were given all the freedom in the world to do whatever we wanted, and this is what we did,” explained the band’s Tim Carroll in a statement. “The songs dwell in the details of living. Dreams are a theme. ...
Genre: Rock
Subgenre: Adult Alternative
There’s more than a hint of 1960s flower child influence on Lorde’s third album. Solar Power is almost a work of pastiche, awash with nostalgia for a time the singer, real name Ella Yelich O’Connor, never experienced. The result is a mixed bag – sometimes beautiful and compelling, sometimes bordering on a caricature of itself. ...
Genre: Pop
Subgenre: Pop Rock
Writing and producing on every track, Greene shares a joyful celebration of the hope and abundance found in God’s love. Crafting a refreshing mix of modern sounds and rich harmonies, his album includes additional featured appearances from Tasha Cobbs Leonard, Kierra Sheard-Kelly, Le’Andria Johnson, Mali Music, Darrel Walls, D’Nar, and Madison Binion. ...
Genre: World Music
Subgenre: Gospel
Giosquino: Josquin Desprez in Italia
During the sixteenth century in Italy, the motto ‘i galli cantano’ (the Gauls are singing) circulated, acknowledging the supremacy of the Franco-Flemish ‘transalpine’ musicians who were summoned to the peninsula to serve princes and prelates in the techniques of composing and performing vocal polyphony. ...
Composer: Josquin Desprez (1450 - 1521)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Vocal
There aren’t any easy definitions of ARDEN’s music. The singer-songwriter has come a long way since her years as the idiosyncratic pop artist, Marie Marie back in 2014, a path filled with innovation and transformation – both to her music and personality. In the sea of changes, one thing has been a constant in Arden’s career; her voice ...
Genre: Pop
Subgenre: Pop Rock
Anchored in an optimistic synthesis of classical, folk, rock and electronic music, With Malice Toward None elevates the idea of what it means to be human in the 21st century. Pamela Z artfully deconstructs her folk rock heroes while paying homage to youthful nostalgia and childhood songcraft, ...
Composer: J. Kimo Williams, Pamela Z, Christopher Theofanidis, Komitas Vardapet (1869–1935), Eve Beglarian
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
Flag Day (Original Soundtrack)
It serves as the musical companion to the Cannes Film Festival selected film Flag Day starring and directed by Academy® Award winner Sean Penn and starring his daughter Dylan Penn. Eddie Vedder’s 17-year-old daughter Olivia has made her singing debut on the upcoming soundtrack to the Sean Penn-directed Flag Day. ...
Genre: Soundtrack
Subgenre: Music
Australian-Chinese wunderkind Christian Li became the youngest ever First Prize winner at the Menuhin Competition in 2018. Now he becomes the youngest ever artist to record Vivaldi's The Four Seasons, as he presents his debut album at the age of 13, play-directing a chamber ensemble from the Melbourne Symphony ...
Composer: Antonio Vivaldi (1678-1741)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
Roxane Elfasci from Paris uploaded in 2016 her take on the classical composer Claud Debussy's biggest hit Clair de Lune. 5 years later the video have amassed 7M views and the comments from fans all over the world have been overwhelming. The channel is constantly increasing with followers. ...
Composer: Claude Debussy (1862 - 1918), Manuel de Falla (1876 - 1946)
Genre: Guitar
Subgenre: Classical Guitar
Timing is everything, and as Donald Edwards continues to make recordings, we are able to hear the clarity of his development as a composer and artist. The Color Of US Suite throws the door open to the levers of power and opportunity in rebellion against systems engaging in fundamentally inimical propositions against ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Contemporary Jazz
Unsnared Drum, featuring new works for snare drum from Nina Young, Hannah Lash, Amy Beth Kirsten, and Tonia Ko. Our mission was to rethink the snare drum, to ask whether the instrument could be bold, coy, suave, and elegant: in short, interesting. Each composer lived with a drum and a number of implements over an extended period of ...
Composer: Nina C. Young, Hannah Lash, Amy Beth Kirsten, Tonia Ko
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Instrumental
Poèmes for Violoncello & Piano
Poèmes are wayfarers crossing borders between language and music. What had mostly been called Lied/Song before, has often been seen as poems in the past 200 years: Richard Wagner gave his Wesendonck-Liedern the title Five Poems for Female Voice and Piano and Francis Poulenc composed around 30 Poèmes to be sung and ...
Composer: Francis Poulenc (1899-1963), Jean Francaix (1912-1997), Alban Berg (1885-1935), Sergej Rachmaninoff (1873-1943), Richard Wagner (1813-1883), Johannes Brahms (1833-1897)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
First Ladies: Three Romantic Violin Sonatas
One could hardly intuit from these fresh and flowing violin sonatas the obstacles their female composers had to face – family opposition for Mel Bonis in France and Ethel Smyth in England, institutional conservatism for Elfrida Andrée in Sweden. It has taken a century and more for that initial prejudice to fall away, ...
Composer: Ethel Smyth (1858 - 1944), Mélanie Bonis (1858 - 1937), Elfrida Andrée (1841 - 1929)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
Stradella: Cantatas & Serenatas, Vol. 2
Alessandro Stradella was the undisputed star composer of his day who wrote hundreds of works in varying genres. His cantatas are in essence miniature operas in which the themes of love and the complexities of the human condition reflected the composer’s own ‘cloak and dagger’ misadventures amidst Roman and Venetian aristocracy. ...
Composer: Alessandro Stradella (1642 - 1682)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Opera
Joan Chamorro Presenta Marçal Perramon
Continuing the successful series in which Joan Chamorro – the driving force behind the Sant Andreu Jazz Band – promotes the young talents from our jazz scene trained in the Sant Andreu youth academy. We are talking about an album collection that has released the first albums by Andrea Motis, Rita Payés, Magalí Datzira, ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Big Band
Schumann: Complete Works for Piano, Vol. 15 – Early Works in Second Editions II
The first true complete recording of Robert Schumann’s works for piano solo on 17 albums (in 15 volumes), played by Florian Uhlig, seeks for the first time to offer imaginative compilations on album (e.g. “Robert Schumann and the Sonata”, “The Young Piano Virtuoso”, “Schumann in Vienna”, “Schumann and Counterpoint”, “Variations”) ...
Composer: Robert Schumann (1810-1856)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Instrumental
Bartók, J.S. Bach & Schneeberger: Solo Violin Works
Russian violinist Dmitry Smirnov's début recording on FHR features works by master baroque composer J. S. Bach, a leading figure of 20th century music Béla Bartók and a wonderful newly discovered work by influencial mid-twentieth Swiss violinist Hansheinz Schneeberger who died in 2019. The Schneeberger 'Sonata', written two years ...
Composer: Bela Bartok (1881-1945), Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750), Hansheinz Schneeberger (1926-2019)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Instrumental
Haydn: Die Schöpfung, Hob. XXI:2
Inspired by hearing performances of Handel’s oratorios during his visits to London, Haydn composed Die Schöpfung (‘The Creation’) in 1798. Through a series of accompanied recitatives, arias, duets and choruses, the music depicts the creation of the universe and the carefree existence of Adam and Eve. ...
Composer: Joseph Haydn (1732 - 1809)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Vocal
Strings Attached: The Voice of Kannel
Die Kannel, eine estnische, aber auch finnische und karelische Kastenzither, ist mit der Harfe verwandt, wird horizontal vor dem Spieler positioniert und besitzt eine ungewöhnliche Klangfarbe, die manchmal an das Cembalo erinnert. Anna-Liisa Eller vermittelt auf ihrem ersten Soloalbum einen Eindruck der verschiedenen ...
Composer: William Byrd (1543 - 1623), Anna-Liisa Eller (b. 1988), John Dowland (1563 - 1626), Louis Couperin (1626 - 1661), Guillaume de Machaut (1300 - 1377), Sylvius Leopold Weiss (1687 - 1750), Helena Tulve (b. 1972), Girolamo Frescobaldi (1583 - 1643)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Instrumental
