This new showpiece in the Collection Diotima, in which the eponymous quartet devotes itself to monographies of contemporary composers, offers here a triple line-up of some of the foremost composers of their generation: this album is a living image of serious music today, which in this 21st Century has focused on ...
Composer: Stefano Gervasoni (1962), Gerard Pesson (1958), Enno Poppe (1969)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
Salonen: Cello Concerto & Ravel: Sonata for Violin and Cello
Nicolas Altstaedt presents here his version of Esa-Pekka Salonen’s monumental Cello Concerto, originally composed for Yo-Yo Ma, and given its Finnish premiere by the Franco-German cellist under the composer’s direction. In partnership with the Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra and conductor Dima Slobodeniouk, he reveals its full expressive ...
Composer: Maurice Ravel (1875-1937), Esa-Pekka Salonen (1958)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Concertos
In 2017 Midnight Oil returned from a long hiatus with a sweat drenched pub gig at the legendary Sydney venue, Selina’s. In the middle of that special set, frontman Peter Garrett borrowed some famous lines, exhorting “rage, rage, against the dying of the light”. And that’s exactly what they’ve done ever since. ...
Genre: Rock
Subgenre: Modern Rock
Meditative Baroque music: Dhrupad is the oldest and purest genre within the North Indian classical music and can trace its origins to the recitation of Sanskrit texts in Hindu temples more than two thousand years ago. Dhrupad reached the Mughal courts in Rajasthan in the 16th century, where it developed into a classical art form. ...
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
British singer-songwriter JP Cooper announced his long-awaited sophomore album “SHE”. It is his first album in four years. JP Cooper's new album 'She' features some of his most personal, authentic and moving music yet. Including singles 'Call My Name' and 'Holy Water'. The album comprises of 24-track. ...
Genre: Pop
Subgenre: Pop Rock
Recorded over two studio sessions, As I Try Not To Fall Apart is White Lies’ most expansive record to date, taking in explosive rock, electro-pop bangers, prog-inspired invention, funk-tinged grooves and some of their most indelible hooks yet.
Genre: Rock
Subgenre: Adult Alternative
Verdi: La forza del destino (Live)
Giuseppe Verdi travelled to St Petersburg in 1862 to premiere La forza del destino, which had been commissioned by the city’s Imperial Theatre. The source material appealed to the composer’s sense of tragic intensity and the ruthlessness of destiny. The local audience was accustomed to 18th-century ...
Composer: Giuseppe Verdi (1813-1901)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Opera
In the 25 years since Bugge Wesseltoft founded Jazzland Recordings, he has engaged in numerous group projects and collaborations such as New Conception of Jazz, duos with the likes of Sidsel Endresen, Henning Kraggerud and Henrik Schwarz, one-off projects such as Trialogue, Bugge and Friends, and OKWorld! ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Nu Jazz
SCHIMMERLING sind Jeansjacke, Philosophie, Schweiß, Choupette und Tiger, Hure und Heiliger Geist, Fleetwood Mac und Talking Heads, Aroma, Liebe, Muse und Springsteen, klug und wahnsinnig. Die Band, in deren Zentrum Shimmoneq als Sänger, Gitarrist und Texter steht, ist Haltung! Sein Gesang suggeriert nämlich mit jedem Ton, den er standesgemäß ...
Genre: Rock
Subgenre: Adult Alternative
”Otilia scoops up a spell of inspiration. Developing alternative playing techniques with my harp I discover mysterious colors and new forms of sounds. I like to use the harp also as a percussion, and by adding kalimba, sandpaper, mom’s silver spoons, my own voice and a looper, I created my one-woman’s orchestra. ...
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Instrumental
Valentina Lisitsa marks her debut on the Naïve label with a release commemorating the 150th anniversary of Russian composer Alexander Scriabin’s birth. The program includes eighteen short pieces spanning his body of work, from his early anthology of 24 preludes – modeled after those of ...
Composer: Alexander Scriabin (1872-1915)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Instrumental
A sense of departure – the often-used catchword stands here not only in a figurative sense, but also for three different life situations of the young Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, in which he left his not necessarily beloved hometown of Salzburg and set out for new shores elsewhere. In 1772, at the age of only 16, he travelled ...
Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Concertos
Johannes Brahms: String Sextet No. 1, Theme and Variations in D Minor (Remastered)
The string Sextet genre was introduced at the end of the 18th century by Boccherini but did not fully blossom until Brahms and Tchaikovsky, before Schönberg, Reger, Martinu and Richard Strauss. We probably owe the first Brahms Sextet (1859) to the example of Spohr. Nicknamed ‘Frühling-Sextett’ ...
Composer: Johannes Brahms (1833-1897)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
This recording brings together works that were originally written for one or two pianos, and which ""show how the composer […] in an approach similar to that of Chopin writing his waltzes, polonaises, mazurkas… started with rhythms that were subtly harmonised and, above all, firmly stereotyped, before being to profoundly distort ...
Composer: George Gershwin (1898-1937)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Classical Crossover
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky: Souvenir de Florence - Antonín Dvořák: String Sextet (Remastered)
The string sextet genre was introduced at the end of the 18th century by Boccherini but did not fully blossom until Brahms, Tchaikovsky, before Schönberg, Reger, Martinu and Richard Strauss. Antonín Dvořák composed his sextet, his only work in that genre, in just two weeks in May 1878. His reputation as a composer was beginning to escalate, ...
Composer: Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840-1893), Antonin Dvorák (1841-1904)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
Mieczysław Weinberg: Cello Sonatas Nos. 1 & 2, Solo Cello Sonata No. 1 & String Trio (Remastered)
Little known in the West and victim of anti-Semitic ostracism in the former USSR, the name of Mieczysław Weinberg, the third great “Russian” composer of the 20th century, after Prokofiev and Shostakovich, seems to be slowly emerging from the shadow of the latter, his protector and friend. Far from being an epigone, he is rather, by his ...
Composer: Mieczyslaw Weinberg (1919-1996)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
Antonín Dvorák: Piano Quintets Nos. 1 & 2 (Remastered)
“The Op. 81 Quintet is the more popular of these two A major quintets, but the Op. 5, written in 1872, has much to recommend it as well. Like its later sibling, there’s an immediately gripping melody sung by the cello and a piano part (in the first two movements) that’s full of Schubertian grace, idiomatically played here by Ivan ...
Composer: Antonín Dvorák (1841-1904)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
Two renowned tenor greats go on a special voyage of discovery: René Kollo and Jay Alexander sing evening songs by Schubert, Brahms, Mendelssohn and Schumann. The famous songs from the Romantic era have all been newly arranged for string orchestra and lavishly produced in this form for the first time in the studio. ...
Composer: Franz Schubert (1797-1828), Robert Schumann (1810-1856), Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy (1809-1847), Johann Abraham Peter Schulz (1747-1800), Edward Elgar (1857-1934), Jules Massenet (1842-1912)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Vocal
The nine-member Intercontinental Ensemble, which consists of four strings and five wind instruments, has previously made the enthusiastically received productions 'Traveling Light' (TTK 0021) and 'In Motu' (TTK 0071) for the adventurous TRPTK label. Besides playing original nonet repertoire, the musicians focus on their own arrangements ...
Composer: Bianca Bongers (b. 1987), Clara Schumann (1819-1896), Aregnaz Martirosyan (b. 1993), Sarah Neutkens (b. 1998), Louise Farrenc (1804-1875)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
Brahms / Schumann: Ein Menschliches Requiem
Johannes Brahms is an icon. Say Johannes, and you know you are talking about Brahms. The successor to Beethoven, the sober man who valued seriousness, the champion of classical traditions, a close friend of the Schumanns. But how well do we really know Brahms? How close does he let us get to him in his music? ...
Composer: Johannes Brahms (1833-1897), Robert Schumann (1810-1856)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Vocal
