After her celebrated band Purson played its final gig in late 2016, singer/songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Rosalie branched out into a successful solo career. Her self-titled debut album issued in 2019 was acclaimed by both critics and fans. Alongside her debut album, Rosalie’s live performances confirmed that she was a highly creative force and this is confirmed still ...
Genre: Songwriter
Subgenre: Contemporary
"Standstill" is a collection of more reflective works portraying a personal navigation through the COVID-19 pandemic. After the world came to a sudden standstill, these 5 tracks vaguely follow a timeline of the changing climate surrounding the journey, attempting to gauge the general feeling in the air from the constraints of lockdown. ...
Composer: Danny Keane
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Nu Jazz
Charlie is the most senior member of the legendary New Orleans Jazz ensemble, Preservation Hall Jazz Band. Charlie’s first professional gig dates to 1943, sitting in for his father in New Orleans’ Eureka Brass Band. As a teenager living in Detroit, Charlie played with Lionel Hampton, whose band just then also included a young ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Trad. Jazz
Mozart: Complete Piano Sonatas
Elisabeth Leonskaja is one of the most celebrated pianists of our time, remaining true to herself and to her music, and in doing so, is following in the footsteps of the great Russian musicians of the Soviet era, such as Sviatoslav Richter and Emil Gilels."A kaleidoscopic Mozart with a lifetime's wisdom and experience behind it" according to ...
Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Instrumental
With the 10 arias on Tormento d’amore, Ian Bostridge demonstrates the important place that the tenor voice held in Italian opera from the mid-17th to the mid-18th century – often thought of as the era of the castrato. At this time, there were two main centres of opera in Italy: Venice, where such composers as Cavalli, Vivaldi, Cesti, Stradella, ...
Composer: Antonio Sartorio (1630-1681), Francesco Cavalli (1602-1676), Alessandro Stradella (1642-1682), Marc (Pietro) Antonio Cesti (1623-1669), Francesco Provenzale (1624-1704), Giovanni Legrenzi (1626-1690), Leonardo Vinci (1690-1730), Francesco Nicola Fago (1677-1745), Antonio Vivaldi (1678-1741)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Vocal
The Beauty Seems Close, But Is So Far Away (Deluxe)
Jean Lucas is a young rising piano player from the Netherlands. He has been writing neoclassical piano pieces for a number of years and took a deep dive to carefully record all his ideas. After playing in numerous acts for several years, I restarted composing my own neo-classical pieces in the winter of 2018. Getting inspired by everyday things ...
Composer: Jean Lucas
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Instrumental
Croz is David Crosby's first studio album in over 20 years, a collection of 11 new tracks from one of America's most notable singer-songwriters and two-time Rock and Roll Hall of Famer. Croz also features guest appearances from ...
Genre: Rock
Subgenre: Classic Rock
“Amazing,” featuring DJ Khaled, was written by Blige, Denisia Andrews, Brittany Coney, Khaled, Streetrunner, Tarik Azzouz, Willie Cobbs, and Ellas McDaniels. In addition, Khaled produced the song with Streetrunner and Azzouz. Good Morning Gorgeous will be Mary J. Blige’s follow-up to her 2017 album Strength of a Woman. “Working on this new album has been so much fun,” Blige stated in a press release. ...
Genre: R&B
Subgenre: Hip Hop Soul
Minutes to Midnight (Remastered Deluxe Edition)
Alterna-Rock band's 2007 album. 'Rick Rubin asked US what we wanted this album to sound like. We wanted to create something that maintained the integrity of the band's personality, but pushed our boundaries. Rick challenged US that no boundaries should exist whatsoever in our creative pursuit.' Minutes to Midnight is rock's most anticipated album of the year. ...
Genre: Rock
Subgenre: Adult Alternative
With all the grit, guts & determination of The Del-Lords, Los Lobos, Tito & Tarantula, & The Beat Farmers – LA’s The Cruzados return with more style, verve & muscle than they had on their earlier post-punk Latin-inflected major-label rock LPs. And those collections sizzled. Tito Larriva was a founding member back in 1985 & now plays out of Austin, ...
Genre: Rock
Subgenre: Blues-Rock
2022 release from the seminal British Heavy Metal heroes hailing from Barnsley, UK. Ten titanic tracks bristling with steel-clad riffery and proud intent, Carpe Diem is the statement which reminds heavy metal fans worldwide who the true masters of British Metal are, drawing on a variety of ingredients from their career to forge what is Saxon's most ...
Genre: Rock
Subgenre: Metal
In my parents' living room stands an elaborately hand-forged copper kettle - my grandfather's masterpiece, hammered out of a single piece of copper. Growing up in a family of craftsmen, I have been familiar since early childhood with the attitude of perfecting a thing for its own sake. ...
Composer: Sven Helbig (1968)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
Mozart & Strauss: Oboe Concertos
“I couldn’t have imagined a better constellation for my first album!” says Cristina Gómez Godoy about her first recording. She has chosen this repertoire because these pieces made her fall in love with the instrument and music. As a musician in Daniel Barenboim’s Berlin-based orchestra, ...
Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Concertos
In Praise of Escape: There’s a special vibe of freedom tinged with regret running through Maxence Cyrin’s new album, Melancholy Island. The title draws its inspiration from two works – “Éloge de la fuite” (In praise of Escape) by Henri Laborit and “La Possibilité d’un île” (The Possibility of an Island) by Michel Houellebecq ...
Composer: Maxence Cyrin
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Instrumental
It took a sanitary crisis for Youn Sun Nah to finally reveal herself as a songwriter in the full sense of the word. Twenty years after her first album released under her name, the Seoul-born singer publishes a collection without any covers, featuring eleven songs of her own which she began writing while confined in Korea. ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Vocal
Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young's Déjà Vu was the most-anticipated new album in America in 1970. More than 50 years later, it's one of the most famous albums in rock history with legendary songs, including "Carry On" and "Teach Your Children," that still resonate today. This milestone album is transformed into an expansive HiResAudio collection that includes a ...
Genre: Rock
Subgenre: Classic Rock
The renowned vocal competition Operalia awarded Elsa Dreisig First Prize as best female singer of 2016. The same year she was named Vocal Discovery of the prestigious Victoires de la Musique Classique and the highly esteemed magazine Opernwelt granted her the sought-after mention as Young Artist of the Year. ...
Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Vocal
In the eyes of the rap generation, an older musician's hipness is often defined by how many times he or she has been sampled for beats and breaks. That means that keyboard wizard Bob James - whose records have been sampled a staggering 1,435 times, according to the website WhoSampled.Com - is a bona fide legend and cooler than cool. ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Contemporary Jazz
Following a chance “no frills session” with psych-rock duo Sunglasses For Jaws at the band’s Hackney studio, Miles’ fourth solo album ‘Change The Show’ really began to take shape. “I saw myself in their energy, but also their taste and their knowledge of music,” Miles explains. “It was the first time I’d felt old!” ...
Genre: Rock
Subgenre: Adult Alternative
Billy Talent will release their sixth studio album CRISIS OF FAITH on Jan 21, 2022. The ten track album was produced entirely by the band’s guitarist and main songwriter, Juno-nominated producer Ian D’Sa, in the band’s Toronto studio and was mixed by the legendary Chris Lord-Alge (My Chemical Romance, Green Day, ...
Genre: Rock
Subgenre: Adult Alternative
