Dark, grungy, and beautifully intense: The Mysterines’ debut album Reeling, has a way of creating an atmosphere for the darkest corners of Rock‘n’Roll, right from the distorted opening of ‘Life’s A Bitch (But I Like It So Much)’. It’s the kind of music that you want to hear in the basement of a rock club, packed into a ...
Genre: Rock
Subgenre: Adult Alternative
Palatín belonged to a musical line that dates back to the 18th century and among whose members we find, for example, the creator of the first Spanish musical dictionary. He was born in 1852 in Seville (Spain). From a young age he showed great musical talent and mastery of the violin, so it was considered when he was ...
Composer: Fernando Palatin (1852-1927)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Instrumental
This album celebrates dance music, from waltz to tango, from slow foxtrot to quickstep, from samba to jive. Seventy years of music rooted in the 1920s, assembled by the enthusiastic musicians of the Ludwig Orchestra, who have taken to playing them at festivals, alongside their usual programmes devoted to ...
Composer: Glenn Miller (1904-1944), Pablo Beltran Ruiz (1915-2008), Kurt Weill (1900-1950), Barry Manilow (1943), George Hamilton Green (1893-1970), Robert Stolz (1880-1975), John Schönberger (1892-1983), Xavier Cugat (1900-1990), Frederick Loewe (1901-1988), Wingy Manone (1900-1982), Edward Elgar (1857-1934)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Vocal
Brahms was one of the first composers to write for pairs of violins, violas and cellos, blazing the trail for Dvořák, Tchaikovsky, Korngold and Schoenberg. His two sextets are early works, composed in 1860 and 1865 respectively. Brahms wrote to his publisher that the second was in ‘the same joyful vein’ as the first. ...
Composer: Johannes Brahms (1833–1897)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
Eine schöne Welt ist da versunken: Balladen, Legenden und Lieder von Martin Plüddemann
Martin Pluddemann was a pivotal figure in the revival and modernization of the art of ballad composition. He revered Carl Loewe and Richard Wagner and this confluence of influences allowed him to explore the close relationship between ballad, opera, and music drama, not least through the use of ...
Composer: Martin Plüddemann (1854-1897)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Vocal
The piano pieces on this release, all of them, show the lushness of aromas, colors, and reflections of prodigal lands in the production of artistic sensations. One could speak of landscapes in which the human element is present; the voice of a folk tradition which longs to express it's most intimate essence, ...
Composer: Mily Balakireff (1837-1910), Sergei Lyapunov (1859-1924), Aleksandre Machavariani (1913-1995), Isaac Albeniz (1860-1909)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Instrumental
Alessio Pianelli's debut album is a beautifully curated, affectionate, and eclectic musical tribute to his native land, the island of Sicily. "For A Sicilian Traveller, I investigated the richness of Sicily's culture through the music of other composers who have explored - some more explicitly than others - that central aspect in the tradition of art music. ...
Composer: Sulkhan Tsintsadze (1925-1991), Komitas (1869-1935), Samuel Coleridge-Taylor (1875-1912), Bela Bartok (1881-1945), Nikos Skalkottas (1904-1949), Alessio Pianelli (1989)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
Cleveland Calling, Pt.2 (Remastered)
‘Cleveland Calling PT. 2’ is an unreleased radio session recovered from the depths of the Rory Gallagher archives. This recording features Rory and his band playing 7 songs live in an empty Cleveland Agora venue for WNCR Radio. This release follows the RSD 2020 release ‘Cleveland Calling’ (No.2 on the Billboard Blues chart) ...
Genre: Rock
Subgenre: Blues Rock
Eine Ode an die Frauen! Oder ganze elf Stück davon! Direkt nach der erfolgreichen Veröffentlichung von Inglorious' viertem Studioalbum "We Will Ride" im Februar 2021, ihrem ersten mit der neuen Besetzung, ging die Band zurück ins Studio, um ein ganz besonderes neues Album aufzunehmen. Die neue Veröffentlichung der aufstrebenden britischen ...
Genre: Rock
Subgenre: Hard Rock
Frühling: Piano Quintet in F-Sharp Minor, Op. 30 & Piano Quartet in D Major, Op. 35
It is frankly little short of a miracle that the name of Carl Fruhling is stilI remembered today, since we know next to nothing about him. Scant biographical notes provide a few reference points rather than an orderly resume of his life, and a mere handful of the hundred or more works he is thought to have composed is extant today. ... It is frankly little short of a miracle that the name of Carl Fruhling is stilI remembered today, since we know next to nothing about him. Scant biographical notes provide a few reference points rather than an orderly resume of his life, and a mere handful of the hundred or more works he is thought to have composed is extant today. ..
Composer: Carl Frühling (1868-1937)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
The Opening, Or Closing Of A Door
Out of chaos, the universe emerged, and from chaos a person can emerge, too. Kristine Leschper isn’t being hyperbolic when she describes a sensation of “being born” when a culmination of events, both personal and global, catalyzed in her “an understanding of how to relinquish control in a big way, and from that, a new sense of ...
Genre: Pop
Subgenre: Pop Rock
"For most of the 20th century, the two giants of Hungarian music were Bartok and Kodaly. Following his explosion on the international scene in the mid-60s, Gyorgi Ligeti, a student of Kodaly, was added to that list. Kodaly was one of the most significant early figures in the field of ethnomusicology. ...
Composer: Zoltan Kodaly (1882-1967), Gyorgy Ligeti (1923-2006)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Choral
David Briggs ist ein international anerkannter Organist, dessen Darbietungen für ihre Musikalität, Virtuosität und die Fähigkeit, ein Publikum aller Altersgruppen zu begeistern und zu fesseln, gefeiert werden. David Briggs ist derzeit Artist-in-Residence an der Kathedrale von St. John the Divine in New York City. Er ist nicht nur als Interpret, sondern auch als Arrangeur von Orchesterwerken für die Orgel ...
Composer: Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872-1958)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
Mortua dulce cano. A Florilegium of Late Renaissance Lute Music
Dum vixi tacui; mortua dulce cano: “While I lived I was silent; dead, I sing sweetly.” Found in the portrait of the sixteenth-century lute maker Gaspar Tieffenbrucker, these words, spoken by the imaginary tone wood used for centuries in the manufacture of string instruments, fittingly depict its double life. ...
Composer: Giulio Cesare Barbetta (1540-1603), Vincenzo Galilei (1520-1591), Lorenzino Tracetti (1552-1590), Simone Molinaro (1565-1615), Giovanni Battista Domenicho (16 Jh.), Kasper Sielicki (16 Jh.), Jacob Reys dit Le Polonois (1550-1605), Diomedes Cato (1560-1627), Valentin Bákfark (1526-1576), Nicolas de Rans (16Jh.), Matthias Reymann (1526-1625), Johannes Spalkaiber (16 Jh.):, Benedictus de Drusina (1556-1573), John Hoskins (16 Jh.), Barick Bulman (16 Jh.), Alfonso Ferrabosco I (1543-1588), Robert Askue (16 Jh.), John Whitfield (1588-1620)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
Splendid interpretations and superb singing make this album of opera arias a special treat. Oksana Dyka’s dramatic and dazzling voice sparkles in this collection of favorites from treasured operas by Puccini and Verdi. A rising star of the world’s most famous opera houses, the acclaimed Ukrainian soprano has been called “nothing less than ...
Composer: Giuseppe Verdi (1813-1901), Giacomo Puccini (1858-1924)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Vocal
Songs of wisdom, peace and spirituality, presented by the Israeli singer Shira Karmon and the Viennese pianist Paul Gulda, both of whom developed this programme in 2018 on the occasion of a concert tour to Israel. Grounded also in their families and their origins, with precisely this view of the relationships and fates in German-speaking Central ...
Composer: Ferdinand Hiller (1811-1885), Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827), Salomon Sulzer (1804-1890), Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791), Eyal Bat (1966), Simon Laks (1901-1983), Arnold Mendelssohn (1855-1933), Arnold Schönberg (1874-1951), Alban Berg (1885-1935), Leonard Bernstein (1918-1990), Paul Gulda (1961), Marwan Abado (1967)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Vocal
Few composers can be said to be ‘citizens of nowhere’ and yet, exactly this moniker is appropriate for Mieczysław Weinberg. He was born and raised in Poland to a Jewish family, but for complex reasons spent the majority of his life in Soviet Russia. He had a prolific output(over 150 opus-numbered works, and more besides), but never reached ...
Composer: Mieczysław Weinberg (1919-1996)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
1824 - Hummel, Romberg, Rossini & Schubert
Christoph Dangel’s new album focusses on the year 1824 and brings it to life through the marvellous music of four composers (Hummel, Romberg, Rossini & Schubert) who gave the cello a special role in their compositions, and by the text which tells the story of the year 1824 based on original sources from journals, newspapers, letters, recollections, historic objects and works of art. ...
Composer: Johann Nepomuk Hummel (1778–1837), Franz Schubert (1797-1828), Gioachino Rossini (1792-1868)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
There are 24 Odes and Welcome Songs composed by Purcell between 1680 and 1695: 4 celebrate St Cecilia, 6 are to welcome royalty, 3 celebrate King James II’s birthday and 6 celebrate that of Queen Mary (from 1684 to 1694). The others were written for specific events – royal wedding, Yorkshire festival, Duke of Gloucester’s birthday, hundredth anniversary of ...
Composer: Henry Purcell (1659-1695)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
This new release is pianist-conductor Lars Vogt’s debut album together with the Orchestre de chambre de Paris. Lars Vogt started his tenure as the new Music Director of the orchestra on 1 July 2020. This album release continues Lars Vogt’s discography of recordings of cornerstone works within the classic piano concerto literature conducting from the keyboard. ...
Composer: Felix Mendelssohn (1809-1847)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Concertos
