RESPECT (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
Academy Award-winning actress and Grammy Award-winning recording artist Jennifer Hudson announces the Original Motion Picture Soundtrack to Respect. Respect follows the rise of Aretha Franklin’s career from a child singing in her father’s church’s choir to her international superstardom, Respect is the remarkable true story of Franklin’s journey ...
Genre: Soundtrack
Subgenre: Music
One of the most remarkable aspects of Distant Populations—Quicksand’s first album since 2017’s Interiors—is how timely and prescient the themes running throughout its songs sound at this very moment. Distant Populations, just the fourth full-length album of Quicksand's career, comes as a comparatively swift follow- ...
Genre: Rock
Subgenre: Adult Alternative
Live in London 2002 (Remastered)
The Soundboard Series focuses on the last three decades of concerts around the world. While some of the shows were previously available as rare and limited fan club editions, others are concerts from the artist archive, mixed and mastered for the occasion. In both cases, great care is spent to achieve the best audio quality. ...
Genre: Rock
Subgenre: Classic Rock
Louisville, KY's Bendigo Fletcher have announced they will release their debut studio album Fits of Laughter on Elektra Records. On Fits of Laughter, frontman Ryan Anderson crafts the patchwork poetry of his lyrics by serenely observing the world around him. When matched with the band's gorgeously jangly collision ...
Genre: Rock
Subgenre: Adult Alternative
Josienne Clarke releases her new album A Small Unknowable Thing. For the first time since her early beginnings, Clarke is flying solo. No label, no musical partner, no producer. Clarke is in complete control of her songwriting, arranging, producing, release schedule and musical direction. ...
Genre: Songwriter
Subgenre: New Acoustic
Michael Barenboim lets music, in its diverse and enduring ways, speak for itself through his violin. His performances are praised by the critics as “stunning”, “exciting, “utterly persuasive and breathtaking”. “Barenboim makes it all sound easy, though, with performances spilling over with life and drama. Every work’s soul has ...
Composer: Ludwig van Beethoven (1770–1827)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Concertos
Elgar-Britten-Warlock-Jenkins: Very British
The new recording is entirely dedicated to British music and offers a great selection of works by famous but also lesser-known composers: works by Edward Elgar (1857-1934), Benjamin Britten (1913-1976), Peter Warlock (1894- 1930) and Karl Jenkins (* 1944). The album opens with the earliest masterpiece, the famous Serenade in E minor for string orchestra ...
Composer: Edward Elgar (1857-1934), Benjamin Britten (1913-1976), Peter Warlock (1894-1930), Karl Jenkins (1944)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Orchestral
The Norwegian opera literature is a well concealed and all too little known gem in our national cultural heritage. There is general agreement that it begins with the Waldemar Thrane/Henrik Bjerregaard Singspiel Fjeld-eventyret (The Mountain Story) from 1824. And throughout the nineteenth century there were a number of Norwegian composers who ...
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Orchestral
Over the past decade, the harpist Brandee Younger has been at the center of music’s celebrated work, even if you didn’t know she was there. Be it her output with the soul singer John Legend or the rapper Common, she’s always put her stamp on the music in question, all while setting a new course for what ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Contemporary Jazz
For his eighth and latest Deutsche Grammophon album, Canadian pianist extraordinaire Jan Lisiecki has chosen to return to the music of Frédéric Chopin. Following on from Works for Piano & Orchestra (2017) and Chopin: Études (2013), Chopin: Complete Nocturnes features profoundly personal interpretations of some of the most beautiful ..
Composer: Frederic Chopin (1810-1849)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Instrumental
The Killers will release their seventh studio album, entitled Pressure Machine, on Island Records on August 13, 2021. The album was co-produced by the band, Shawn Everett, and Jonathan Rado (of Foxygen), all of whom worked together on The Killers’ critically-acclaimed album Imploding The Mirage, released last year. ...
Genre: Rock
Subgenre: Adult Alternative
Their story alone would be enough for a drama series – cancer, suicide, betrayal, divorce, loss, self-identity crisis, survival, and ancestral skeletons. Write about what you know, they say. There's a richness running through the songs with dark, multi-layered narratives that course through ...
Genre: Rock
Subgenre: Blues Rock
Sheryl Crow has defined the essential place of a woman in Rock since releasing her 7X PLATINUM-certified TUESDAY NIGHT MUSIC CLUB and self-titled Best Rock Album Grammy-winning follow-up. Raw, rue and to the point, her lean approach to life with a freedom and euphoria that defied the rules that made the BMI Songwriter of the Year ...
Genre: Rock
Subgenre: Modern Rock
Danielle Eva Schwob: Out of the Tunnel
Originally from London but based in Los Angeles and New York, Danielle Eva Schwob is a “notable cross-genre composer” (The New Yorker) who writes concert works, experimental electro-rock and film scores. Danielle’s debut album as a composer in the classical realm, Out of the Tunnel, ...
Composer: Danielle Eva Schwob
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
Latin American Dances: Works for Saxophone & Piano
Virtuoso duo Sándor Rigó and Christina Leeb-Grill have taken Jean Françaix’s description of his own work, ‘musique pour faire plaisir’, as the motto for this programme. Dance styles and rhythms are at the heart of his repertoire, from the spectacular Brazileira with which Milhaud concludes ...
Composer: Jean Francaix (1912-1997), Astor Piazzolla (1921-1992), Darius Milhaud (1892-1974), Maurice C. Whitney (1909-1984), Paquito D'Rivera (1948)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
Acclaimed for consistently capturing audiences’ hearts, Elijah Ocean is widely known for his distinct vocals, catchy melodies, and razor-sharp storytelling. Born Blue took shape over the course of two years, whittled down from a batch of 30 songs Ocean had crafted. He reached out to Dwight Yoakam sideman and Los Angeles Americana staple Brian Whelan ...
Genre: Country
Subgenre: Alternative Country
Wieslaw Rentowski: Solo & Chamber Music
Internationally-renowned composer Wieslaw Rentowski presents CHAMBER WORKS on Navona Records, an album whose works span three decades of Rentowski’s chamber music oeuvre. Many of the works featured on the album are inspired by Louisiana and the Southern United States. The 1986 piece Baton Rouge for Prepared Piano ...
Composer: Wieslaw Rentowski
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
Cryptozoo: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
Cryptozoo is an animated feature-film drama, written and directed by Dash Shaw, featuring the voices of Lake Bell, Zoe Kazan, Michael Cera and Louisa Krause. The film won the NEXT Innovator Award at Sundance, and premiered internationally at the 2021 Berlinale. It will be released on August 20 in theaters and on demand. ...
Genre: Soundtrack
Subgenre: Music
The music of Iranian composer Behzad Abdi fuses dastgāh (the Iranian modal system) with Western classical forms. He wrote Iran’s first national opera, Rumi (Naxos 8.660424-25), and Hafez also exemplifies his approach to the medium. The opera’s subject is the great Persian poet and mystic Hafez, ...
Composer: Behzad Abdi (1973)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Opera
