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
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
“Plastic Wave” comes as the sequel to 2018´s celebrated “Happy Endlings”, where Ole Morten Vågan, one of the most sought-after bass players in Norway, collaborated with the unpredictable and creative Trondheim Jazz Orchestra, comprised of a sort of «who´s who» in Norwegian jazz. ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Modern Jazz
A new outing from the critically acclaimed Kornstad Trio—just in time for an anticipated re-opening of the global music scene. Maybe this album could open your ears, too? Kornstad Trio started performing together in 2016. Jazz saxophonist and opera singer Håkon Kornstad is joined by ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Crossover Jazz
Leo Sowerby: The Paul Whiteman Commissions & Other Early Works
Evoking the Roaring Twenties, Chicago composer Leo Sowerby’s engaging and ingenious Synconata (1924) and Symphony for Jazz Orchestra (“Monotony”) (1925), critically praised for their distinctive harmony, counterpoint, and humor, receive world-premiere recordings by Chicago bandleader-trombonist Andrew Baker ...
Composer: Leo Sowerby (1895–1968)
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Big Band
Brahms: Works (Arr. K.H. Schütz for Flute & Piano)
Brahms had already decided to retire as a composer when, on a journey to Meiningen in 1891, he was inspired and challenged by clarinettist Richard Mühlfeld’s beautiful playing. The two Sonatas, Op. 120 are part of a late flowering that resulted in some of Brahms’s finest chamber music. ...
Composer: Johannes Brahms (1833-1897)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
Acclaimed for his sacred choral and organ works, Francis Pott was recognised in 2021 with the Medal of the Royal College of Organists, its highest award. Regarded as an Everest of the organ repertoire, Christus is a Passion symphony that traces this dramatic Biblical narrative through evolving tonality, portraying ...
Composer: Francis John Dolben Pott (1957)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
Forma Antiqva, founded in 1998 by the brothers Aarón, Daniel and Pablo Zapico in Asturias, is considered to be the most courageous baroque ensemble in Spain. With variable formations - from the trio of the Zapico brothers (Concerto Zapico) to the baroque orchestra with outstanding performers of the young generation ...
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
Live at Royal Theatre Carré, Amsterdam
In September 2020 something unique happened: DeWolff and the legendary Metropole Orkest joined forces for four unique concerts in the Royal Theater Carré in Amsterdam. This double album is the perfect keepsake or, if you weren’t able to be there, a great recording of a total mind blowing once-in-a-lifetime experience! ...
Genre: Blues
Subgenre: Bluesy Rock
Dass es nicht leicht ist ein Album in der Pandemie zu veröffentlichen, dürften vermutlich die meisten Künstler:innen festgestellt haben, dennoch haben viele Bands auch neue und kreative Wege gefunden, mit ihren Fans zu Connencten, so auch die Münchener alternative Rockband Blackout Problems. ...
Genre: Rock
Subgenre: Adult Alternative
If This Isn’t Nice, I Don’t Know What Is
Still Woozy's music perfectly captures those hazy halcyon days, where sublime euphoria sits comfortably beside listless fantasy. In many ways, it betrays Sven Gamsky's origins as an artist who cut his teeth playing guitar in a math-rock band before refining his musicality by studying electric guitar and electronic music in college. ...
Genre: Pop
Subgenre: Pop Rock
Mark Forster veröffentlicht sein mittlerweile 5. Studioalbum "Musketiere" und in dieser beispiellos erfolgreichen Zeit ist er seine ganz eigene Kategorie geworden. Niemand wird häufiger im Radio gespielt, kein deutschsprachiger Pop-Künstler verkauft mehr Konzerttickets, niemand ist so regelmäßig in den relevanten musikaffinen Fernsehformaten zu Gast und ...
Genre: Pop
Subgenre: Pop Rock
Piano and clarinet duo albums are few and far between within the jazz canon. In the case of Dancing in the Dark, versatile horn player Tony Coe chose to stick to the clarinet as his saxophone case was too heavy, or so that's how pianist John Horler recounts it. Our performance in question takes place at St Michael's Church, ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Crossover Jazz
