When Facing the Things We Turn Away From
After releasing his fourth studio album with multiplatinum pop rock phenomenon 5 Seconds of Summer last March and while much of the world was on hold, Luke Hemmings spent time in quarantine writing songs and, unknowingly at the time, working on new music that would become his forthcoming debut solo album ...
Genre: Songwriter
Subgenre: Contemporary
Klaus Fischer-Dieskau: String Quartets No. 1 & 4
With this recording, we celebrate the centenary of Klaus Fischer-Dieskau. Originating from a world famous musical family, we associate with him among others the Hugo Distler Choir, which he founded in 1953 and led until 1989. Above all, however, it is his compositional output of 110 works that is of ...
Composer: Klaus Fischer-Dieskau (1921-1994)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
In 2001 Billy Reeves, fresh from introducing the world to Sophie Ellis-Bextor (via their band theaudience) was smashed to bits by joyriders whilst in his Morris Minor - resulting in a two-week coma and a year in and out of hospital. In 2017 his brother gave him two mini-discs that had been saved from the wreckage, including demos of songs he had forgotten ...
Genre: Rock
Subgenre: Adult Alternative
Merging the deep, powerful messages of poetry with adventurous modern jazz, Toronto-based pianist/composer Amanda Tosoff leads a hybrid ensemble with strings and seven rotating vocalists on Earth Voices, the follow-up to her Juno Award-nominated 2016 release Words (“a grand achievement” – CBC Radio). ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Vocal
The Valentine Brothers (Remastered)
The Valentine Brothers were an American recording act in the late 1970s and 1980s, comprising brothers John and William "Billy" Valentine. One of their biggest hits, as singers and songwriters, was "Money's Too Tight (to Mention)", which reached no. 41 in the R&B chart in 1982 and was later recorded with greater ...
Genre: R&B
Subgenre: Soul
Strauss: Eine Alpensinfonie, Op. 64, TrV 233 (Live)
Vladimir Jurowski and the Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester continue their PENTATONE journey through the heights of German late-Romantic repertoire with a recording of Richard Strauss’s Eine Alpensinfonie. The Alpine Symphony was inspired by the composer’s experiences during a mountain trail, and is an audience favourite ...
Composer: Richard Strauss (1864-1949)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Orchestral
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
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
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
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
