The 18th century had a dynamic musical scene in which much experimentation went alongside respect for accepted traditions. A wide range of hybrid forms emerged in the wake of the French dance suite and the new Italian solo sonata: not only sonatas with divergent forms and suites in which French character titles suddenly gave way to Italian tempo indications, but also everything in between. Korneel Bernolet here presents an anthology of European 'compiled' sonatas in the form of or derived from suites, alongside contrasting compositions that sought the true sonata form. He plays the Joannes Daniel Dulcken magisterial 1747 single-keyboard harpsichord, whose ambassador and titular player he is.

Abigail is a 2024 American vampire horror film directed by Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett from a screenplay written by Stephen Shields and Guy Busick. Based on and a reimagining of the 1936 Universal Classic Monsters film Dracula's Daughter.Brian Tyler composed the film's score; he collaborated with Bettinelli-Olpin and Gillett on prior projects.
Brian Theodore Tyler is an American composer, conductor, musician, arranger, and record producer, best known for his film, television, and video game scores. In his 26-year career, Tyler has scored seven installments of the Fast & Furious franchise, Rambo, Eagle Eye, The Expendables trilogy, Iron Man 3, Now You See Me, Avengers: Age of Ultron with Danny Elfman, Crazy Rich Asians and The Super Mario Bros. Movie among others.

Giacomo Orefice is best known as an opera composer. His piano output mainly consists of evocative short pieces that draw inspiration from poetry and paintings, as well as landscapes, nature, and scenes from daily life. The childlike atmosphere of Ninnoli is followed by the delightful Valse des amoureuses, Orefice's only piano piece published outside Italy. The Preludi del mare describe a day at the seaside from the first lights of dawn to the rising of the moon. These impressionist worlds are enhanced in the Quadri di Böcklin by a sound palette that expresses the symbolist painter's moods of sorrow and solitude. The melancholy Cipressi, a piece of unknown origin, is now seen as Orefice's musical epitaph.

Fauré: Symphonie en Fa Op. 20; Herbert, V: Suite für Cello und Orchester, Op. 3; Fauré: Elégie für Cello und Orchester, Op. 24.

Five of the best brass players in the world united in a chamber music ensemble: The Reinhold Friedrich Brass Quintett was founded in 2022 and presents here it's first CD, UNITY. For this brass quintet's lifelong dream, world-renowned trumpeter Reinhold Friedrich has brought together the best players in their respective fields, musicians who not only get along extremely well with one another in a musical sense but also on a personal level. In their playing, one can feel their mutual appreciation and their joy in making music together, and, coupled with their unique technical and musical skills, as well as their chamber music experience, this enables the musicians to merge into a single unit.

Gene Chandler's second LP for Brunswick suffers from comparisons to its predecessor, but consider how difficult it must have been to top an album padded with several tracks previously released as Constellation singles. The two singles here, "Those Were the Good Old Days" and "There Was a Time," are as good as anything he'd recorded for the label. Though the titles evoke similar themes, they're radically different songs. The first is (as expected) a good-time nostalgia tune with a sweet female chorus, but the second is a torrid horn-driven salute to the best dances of recent years; one looks back to the heady Chicago soul of the Impressions, while the other looks ahead to the increasingly intense urban funk of Curtis Mayfield. Chandler again displays an amazing mastery of voice control, adding brilliant tossed-off vocals between lines on the choruses…

“Ho acceso un fuoco (Live studio session)” (Carosello Records) è un’intensa raccolta di brani di Diodato, registrati dal vivo alle Officine Meccaniche, storico studio di registrazione milanese. In uscita il 19 Aprile 2024, l’album contiene 11 tracce edite: 7 brani del repertorio di Diodato, che l’artista suona sempre nei suoi concerti, ri-arrangiati in una veste inedita; “Ti muovi”, il brano che l’artista ha presentato al Festival di Sanremo 2024 e che sarà per la prima volta disponibile su un supporto fisico; 2 cover, “Amore che vieni, amore che vai” di Fabrizio De André, brano a cui l’artista è molto legato e che da anni ha fatto suo (lo ha anche portato come cover al Festival di Sanremo di quest’anno), e “Cucurrucucù Paloma” nella sua versione originale di Caetano Veloso, uno dei più grandi cantautori brasiliani di sempre.L’album sarà disponibile in: vinile 180 grammi nero autografato e CD.

Leonor de Lera has chosen the "Arcadia" described in Greek mythology as a transfigured place in idyllic nature as the title for her new CD. The genre of the pastorale, the Arcadian pastoral idyll, enjoyed incredible popularity during the
Renaissance and all the great poets of the time wrote poems that were in turn set to madrigals by the great composers. Leonor de Lera plays a selection of such pastorals on her violin - accompanied by lute and guitar. She does this, as was customary for Renaissance and early Baroque instrumentalists, by not playing the melodies true to the notes, but by embellishing them with so-called "diminutions". There were many schools and styles for these, which are described in treatises of the time, and the virtuoso also demonstrated his skills with his art of diminution. The violinist now applies the different styles to the various pieces she has chosen for this programme, which are by Monteverdi, Caccini, Falconieri, Trombocino, Willaert and many others. The result is a stylistically diverse, highly virtuosic CD that is also a comprehensive compendium of the art of diminution in Italy around 1600.

Tei Shi Is Coming Out With an Eponymous Solo LP 'Valerie'. The newly independent artist also shared the first song from the album, “Quédate Queriéndome.” Singer, producer and DJ Tei Shi is continuously evolving, recreating herself on each new album. The prolific artist, whose real name is Valerie Teicher Barbosa, will be returning with another body of work, the eponymous album Valerie.
Following last year’s BAD PREMONITION EP, Shi bills Valerie of an extension of her last project, which marked her becoming a fully independent artist. Whereas BAD PREMONITION emphasized the cathartic experience of gaining her musical freedom, the new album will see her truly come into her own sound.

Global cello sensation HAUSER brings his artistry and passion to a new selection of classical music’s greatest melodies with the release of his new album Classic II, a follow-up to the worldwide success of 2020’s Classic. For the new album, which arrives Friday, April 19, HAUSER has chosen and realized 18 unforgettable melodies in revelatory new arrangements, which were recorded with the London Symphony Orchestra conducted by Robert Ziegler.

Recording Antonio Vivaldi’s The Four Seasons, aside from playing the notes, is no easy task. What is the most important aspect? For the musical effects and ideas that Vivaldi enveloped in the notation to find their way to the minds of today’s audiences, creating the same forceful effect as in the eighteenth century.

On a list of instruments people associate with the name Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, the organ probably doesn't come very near the top. All those piano, violin, horn, flute concertos and more understandably dominate the limelight. Yet there's a small but significant body of music by Mozart for this instrument - one that played an important role in his employment at Salzburg and which he held in high esteem.

A monumental innovator, icon, and maverick, trumpeter Miles Davis helped define the course of jazz as well as popular culture in the 20th century, bridging the gap between bebop, modal music, funk, and fusion. Throughout most of his 50-year career, Davis played the trumpet in a lyrical, introspective style, often employing a stemless Harmon mute to make his sound more personal and intimate. It was a style that, along with his brooding stage persona, earned him the nickname "Prince of Darkness." However, Davis proved to be a dazzlingly protean artist, moving into fiery modal jazz in the '60s and electrified funk and fusion in the '70s, drenching his trumpet in wah-wah pedal effects along the way.

Seit über einem halben Jahrhundert gilt das von Paul Van Nevel gegründete Huelgas Ensemble als eines der weltbesten Vokalensembles für Alte Musik. Nach zahllosen, preisgekrönten Aufnahmen mit Werken aus dem Mittelalter und der Renaissance widmen sie sich mit Max Reger (1873-1916) erstmals ausschließlich einem Komponisten aus der Spätromantik.Reger ist wahrscheinlich am besten für seine symphonischen und Orgelwerke bekannt, während sein Vokalrepertoire weitgehend in Vergessenheit geraten ist. Zu Unrecht, wie Paul van Nevel meint, denn er ist ein großer Fan der polyphonen Musik Max Regers. Mit dieser Aufnahme demonstriert er eindrücklich, welche Intensität, Tiefe, Vielfalt und Qualität Regers Musik bietet.

Mejor De Los Nuggetz is a collection of 1960s hyper kinetic garage, punk, pop and psychedelic music from Mexico, Spain and Latin American countries. While the inspiration for this collection has been the enduring trend and influence of American garage and psych bands from the '60s, it is an introduction to the amazing variety of Mexican and Latin American rock from that era. The, fuzz and fury of rock En Espanol with all the punk and pop elements that make it immediately listenable. Spanish interpretations of classic American and British songs that became popular around the world. The 14-track set was originally released on CD as disc one as part of a 4 CD box set in 2014. It now makes its vinyl debut on red-colored vinyl