Alycia Baumgardner Vs. Christina Linardatou

The challenge of the Etude has intrigued and inspired composers from Bach and Chopin on: can music designed to improve technique hold its own aesthetic value? Pianist Christina Bjørkøe has an inspired answer to that question. She commissioned a set of three animal etudes from twelve composers and here presents the charming, evocative and very useful musical menagerie that resulted.

Erik Satie’s influence, once barely acknowledged, has now permeated nearly every corner of modern music.

Erik Satie’s influence, once barely acknowledged, has now permeated nearly every corner of modern music. Best known for the sensual simplicity of his tender Gymnopédies, such seeming naivety masked a colorful, and frequently, complex life and artistic vision. The experimental composer John Cage famously called Satie “indispensable,” citing him as a profound inspiration for his own groundbreaking work.

Stuttgart-born mezzo-soprano Christina Baader has been a much sought-after musician for many years, not only as an opera singer and soloist, but is also an internationally successful visual artist.

In the wake of Bach and Handel, Felix Mendelssohn and his sister Fanny Hensel leave some of the most sumptuous choral pages of the first half of the nineteenth century. In the shadow of Paulus and Elias, the testamentary Christus, unfinished at his death, forms with them a veritable trilogy.

In the wake of Bach and Handel, Felix Mendelssohn and his sister Fanny Hensel leave some of the most sumptuous choral pages of the first half of the nineteenth century. In the shadow of Paulus and Elias, the testamentary Christus, unfinished at his death, forms with them a veritable trilogy. Fanny's youthful cantata Lobgesang, composed for her son Sebastian's first birthday, is the joyful and festive counterpoint.

Christina María Aguilera (born December 18, 1980) is an American pop/R&B singer and songwriter. Aguilera first appeared on national television in 1990 as a contestant on the Star Search program, and went on to star in Disney Channel's television series The New Mickey Mouse Club from 1993–1994. Aguilera signed to RCA Records after recording "Reflection" for the film Mulan.

With L’Amore innamorato – ‘Love in love’ – Christina Pluhar and L’Arpeggiata return to their own first great love, Italian music of the 17th century, and specifically to composer Francesco Cavalli (1602-1676). A luminary of the glamorous and innovative world of Venetian opera, Cavalli was a protégé of Claudio Monteverdi – the composer around whom L’Arpeggiata built Il teatro d’amore, the ensemble’s first Warner Classics album, which was released in early 2009. “Cavalli’s music excites my passions”, says Christina Pluhar. He composed some 40 operas, some of which have achieved new currency since the 1960s, such as La Calisto, Il Giasone, L’Egisto and L’Ormindo and La Didone. Arias and instrumental numbers from six of his operas feature in L’Amore innamorato. The instrumentalists of L’Arpeggiata are joined for the album – which also includes pieces by two of Cavalli’s contemporaries, Girolamo Kapsperger and Andrea Falconieri – by two sopranos, the Catalan Núria Rial and the Czech Hana Blažíková.

Think you know Christina Novelli? Well, you do. but not nearly as well as you're about to! The penultimate month of 2019 sees the release of a longplayer that dispenses with the 'featurings', '&s' and 'withs' and places her work centrestage under a single-beam-spotlight. By-lined 'The Acoustic Sessions', 'Through My Eyes' tells you all you need to know about its focus. This is an album that illuminatingly dials Christina's songs - both recent and classic - right back to their origin points. ??Be it the best known/received club-flamers from the last eighteen months, her own most recent solo singles or outright time-honoured classics, each has been stripped down to their bare acoustic bones.

Christina Perri Announces New Lullaby Album 'Songs for Pixie' Multi-platinum singer-songwriter Christina Perri announced her brand new lullaby album, songs for pixie, in celebration of her daughter Pixie’s first birthday. The new lullaby album follows Christina’s 2022 a lighter shade of blue, which was 8-years in the making with Christina’s last album Head or Heart being released in 2014. The deeply personal album followed Christina’s healing journey after losing her daughter Rosie.