It has been the words that carried my thoughts, that got me into a state of relative despair at a point in my life. I found myself curled up in a skein of doubts and questions, drifting away from normality. "In my attempt to make sense of things again, I was drawn to the piano that I had inherited from my grandmother. ...
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Classical Crossover
Treasures from the vault! The only artist to ever achieve #1 albums in SIX consecutive decades, Barbra Streisand’s Release Me 2 is yet another musical gem in her unparalleled career. The follow-up to her acclaimed 2012 album, Release Me, this new collection contains previously unreleased tracks from Barbra’s vault, including duets ...
Genre: Vocal
Subgenre: Vocal Pop
Beethoven: Sinfonie No. 9 & 1 (Remastered)
Wie schon bei den vier Sinfonien zuvor (5. und 6. sowie 7. und 8.), war auch die 9. Sinfonie zunächst als eine von zweien gedacht. Den Anstoß zu beiden Sinfonien erhielt Beethoven durch die Philharmonische Gesellschaft in London. Am 9. Juni 1817 schrieb ihm sein ehemaliger Schüler Ferdinand Ries in deren Namen: ...
Composer: Ludwig van Beethoven (1770–1827)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Orchestral
Songs From My Father is the much-anticipated new album from renowned musical polymath Gerry Gibbs. On his thirteenth release as a leader, drummer – percussionist – bandleader – arranger Gibbs presents a smashing double-disc masterwork featuring four iterations of his acclaimed Thrasher Dream Trio. ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Contemporary Jazz
Andrés Segovia - The Art of Segovia (Remastered)
Andres Segovia is seen by many as the grandfather of the classical guitar, and one of the greatest guitarists of all time. Many of today’s professional classical guitarists are students of Segovia, or students of Segovia’s students. His guitar is housed in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. ...
Composer: Francisco Tarrega (1852-1909), Fernando Sor (1778-1839), Manuel de Falla (1876-1946), Heitor Villa-Lobos (1887-1959), Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750), Cesar Franck (1822-1890), Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy (1809-1847), Modest Mussorgsky (1839-1881), Girolamo Frescobaldi (1583-1643), Domenico Scarlatti (1685-1757), Jean Philippe Rameau (1683-1764), Niccolo Paganini (1782-1840)
Genre: Guitar
Subgenre: Classical Guitar
Dvořák: Sinfonie No. 1 (Remastered)
Der Kopfsatz von Antonín Dvoráks erster Sinfonie c‑Moll op. 3 ist packend und teils schon sehr ausladend. Erstaunlicherweise ist das kein vorsichtiges oder respektvolles Herantasten an eine Gattung, die wie keine andere zu dieser Zeit von Beethoven beherrscht war, was letztlich auch den jungen Solo-Bratscher beeinflusste. ...
Composer: Antonin Dvorak (1841-1904)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Orchestral
Schubert: Sinfonie No. 8 "Die Große" (Remastered)
Franz Schubert befand sich wandernd auf der Suche. Auf der Suche nach einem neuen symphonischen Weg, den er nach Haydn und Mozart und abweichend von Beethoven einschlagen wollte. Nach den sechs Symphonien der früheren Schaffenszeit, in denen Schubert noch dem klassischen Modell verhaftet war, ...
Composer: Franz Schubert (1797-1828)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Orchestral
Beethoven: Symphony No. 3, Op. 55 "Eroica" (Remastered)
Rasend heroisch: Ludwig van Beethovens «Eroica» wird bis heute mit einer Anekdote in Verbindung gebracht: Als der Komponist davon erfuhr, dass sich Napoleon zum Kaiser krönte, zerriss er wütend die Titelseite der Partitur der Symphonie Es-Dur, auf der eine Zueignung des Werkes an «Bonaparte» stand. So schilderte es der Beethoven-Schüler ...
Composer: Ludwig van Beethoven (1770 - 1827)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Orchestral
The Locket is the coming together of two masters of their craft to create something hopeful in a time of unrest. Its title track refers to memories of happier times: “we fill a locket with memories we protect, and don’t forget to keep it round your neck.” It’s a reminder to focus on positivity in the face of ...
Genre: Hip Hop
Subgenre: Rap
Electric Kif has caught the attention of countless music lovers by capturing the energy of execution in the fusion of Cosmic Funk, Rock, Soul, and jazz. Their powerful live show brings an unparalleled energy and sound to the stage and displays a new experience every night. ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Nu Jazz
Andrea von Kampen’s "That Spell" is an emotionally evocative powerhouse. It’s cinematic and sweeping- with literary references, reflections on nature and above all the ability to transport you to a memory, a place in time or somewhere you saw in a dream with vivid lucidity. Like a film director, she works as an aural auteur building scenes ...
Genre: Songwriter
Subgenre: Folk Rock
Haydn: L'isola disabitata, Hob. XXVIII:9
After their acclaimed recording of Telemann’s Miriways, the Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin returns to PENTATONE with Joseph Haydn’s opera L’isola disabitata, together with an excellent quartet of vocalists. Officially called an azione teatrale, L’isola is a serious opera about love, loss and misunderstanding with ...
Composer: Franz Joseph Haydn (1732-1809)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Vocal
Brahms: Piano Sonata No. 1 in C Major, Op. 1
He is already being compared to Daniil Trifonov: the young Siberian pianist Sergey Tanin. Without question - the musician is already one of the most promising pianists of his generation. He gained his first international recognition at the Géza Anda Competition in Zurich, 2018 (3rd prize and audience award). ...
Composer: Johannes Brahms (1833 - 1897)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Instrumental
Musical Debating Culture at its Finest - Bach's Adaptation of the Italian Concerto Style: The continuation of the celebrated recording series with the Thüringer Bach Collegium provides remarkable insights into Bach’s adaptation of the Italian concerto style: the concertos for one to three solo instruments ...
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
Nashville newcomer Laci Kaye Booth will release her self-titled debut collection. With her deeply personal and heartfelt lyrics, Booth’s debut collection shows all the facets of herself as she blends her raw and velvet-like sound with the echoes of her Country influences. ...
Genre: Country
Subgenre: Country Pop
Bruckner: Symphony No. 3 in D Minor, WAB 103 "Wagner" (1873 Version) [Ed. L. Nowak]
Following a visit to Wagner in Bayreuth in 1873, Anton Bruckner dedicated his most recent symphony, No. 3 in D minor, to ‘the unattainable world-famous noble master of poetry and music’, and would later refer to the work as his ‘Wagner Symphony’. Among Bruckner’s symphonies, it is the one with the most complicated ...
Composer: Anton Bruckner (1824-1896)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Orchestral
Barber & Ives: String Quartets
Previous releases from the New York-based Escher Quartet include an acclaimed set of Mendelsohn’s six string quartets as well as an album with works by Dvořák, Tchaikovsky and Borodin. For their latest offering the members have looked closer to home, however, choosing to combine ...
Composer: Samuel Barber (1910–1981), Charles Ives (1874-1954)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
After appearing on a quartet of very different BIS releases, ranging from early baroque arias to orchestral songs by Alban Berg and Mahler’s ‘Resurrection Symphony’, the British soprano Ruby Hughes has devised a song recital, together with her regular Lieder partner Joseph Middleton. ...
Composer: Gustav Gustav Mahler (1860-1911), Charles Ives (1874-1954), Helen Grime (1981)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Vocal
Travis Denning is releasing his new EP, Dirt Road Down. The collection of songs, which includes his latest single “ABBY,” make up what he feels is another piece of his career. “I just loved the encompassing feeling of Dirt Road Down. It sounds like, the same way the song approaches it so many ...
Genre: Country
Subgenre: Alternative Country
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