Having made a gradual switch during the 15 years since his first album was published from electronica to instrumental variations on ambient and minimalism, Max Richter is among the most commercially successful composers of our time. This album of his solo piano music belongs in the genre explored so thoroughly for Brilliant Classics by Jeroen van Veen, whose prolific recording history includes hugely popular albums of Philip Glass (BC9419) and Michael Nyman (BC95112), Ludovico Einaudi (BC94910) and Yann Tiersen (BC95129) and his fellow Dutch musician Jakob ter Veldhuis (BC94873) and himself (BC9454). The appetite for slowly moving, unchallenging, post-Minimalist music is apparently infinite, and so this new album is sure to be a success.
13 previously unissued solo acoustic demos including 5 unheard original composition, showcasing Buckley's recognisable style of acid-folk tinged with harpsichord and harmonium. Recorded in 1967, remastered from recently discovered tapes and rare acetate.
Looking ahead to the 300th anniversary of the birth of Haydn in 2032, the Joseph Haydn Foundation of Basel has joined forces with the Alpha Classics label to record all of the composer’s 107 symphonies. This ambitious project is placed under the artistic direction of Giovanni Antonini, who now presents the third volume, after two previous issues that attracted great attention and received numerous awards, including the Echo Klassik Prize 2015 for the ‘best orchestral recording’ of the year.
Like Mick Jagger before him, Steven Tyler itched to launch a solo career, but where Mick struck while the iron was relatively hot – 20 years after "Satisfaction," true, yet the Rolling Stones still packed arenas – the Aerosmith singer took the better part of a decade to figure out what he wanted to do on his own. Stumbling through a starring gig on American Idol and an accompanying flop single that led to an awkward 2012 reunion with Aerosmith, Tyler finally resurfaced as a country singer – a surprise, because the closest he ever came to country was the Desmond Child co-write "What It Takes," a power ballad that provides a good touchstone for 2016's We're All Somebody from Somewhere.
This album by gifted Romanian pianist Eugen Cicero was recorded during Hungary's Debrecen Jazz Days in September 1978, but the tapes remained in the archives until 2004 when a Slovenian collector discovered them…
The BRAND NEW studio album from British gothic rock legends THE MISSION!!!! Produced by Wayne Hussey & Tim Palmer, ANOTHER FALL FROM GRACE is the lost link between The Sisters Of Mercy First And Last And Always and The Mission s God's Own Medicine…
Viulisti Kreeta-Maria Kentala on Suomen vanhan musiikin liikkeen uranuurtaja, joka on kotonaan solistina, johtajana ja pedagogina niin barokin, klassisen ja romantiikan ajan musiikin kuin kansanmusiikinkin parissa. Hän konsertoi säännöllisesti sekä soolo- ja kamarimusiikkiprojekteissa että eri orkesterien solistina, konserttimestarina ja johtajana.