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This holiday season, internationally renowned tenor Andrea Bocelli is teaming up with his 24-year-old son Matteo Bocelli and 10-year-old daughter Virginia Bocelli for their first ever album together, A Family Christmas. A Family Christmas captures the Bocelli festive spirit: "We are offering our...
24 Tone Clocks Featuring two of New Zealand's finest pianists, Jenny McLeod's 24 Tone Clocks is the definitive recording of an extraordinary series of compositions. A lifetime in the making, 24 Tone Clocks is a summation of Jenny's decades-long immersion into Peter Schat's ‘tone clock' theory of...
The unmistakable voice of Whitney Houston is powerful and timeless. She reached the pinnacle of pop success becoming one of the most accomplished recording artists of all time. But her heart was always in Gospel music, and it profoundly influenced her life and career. This 14-track album captures...
Aotearoa's beloved trio Sol3 Mio today announce their highly-anticipated third studio album, Coming Home, out November 12th via Universal Music New Zealand. The album announcement is accompanied by the release of new single and video ‘E Ipo' - an awe-inspiring rendition of Prince Tui Teka's...
Moses of SOL3 MIO - NZ's most beloved highest selling classical trio - releases his debut solo album. The album is classically influenced but is a soulful dedication to his grandmother with the album titled - Grace. Recorded in LA at Furaha Studios (studio to Bruno Mars and Lady Gaga), Moses called...
The Wellington violin and guitar duo - Duo Tapas - release their debut album Da Chara. Duo Tapas', style ranges from Baroque through to twentieth century, including music influenced by folk music of Spain, Eastern Europe, Japan, Ireland and New Zealand. - Da Chara by Duo Tapas (CD)
Horizon showcases the vibrant and beautiful piano music of New Zealand composer Gareth Farr. From the exotic sonorities of Indonesian gamelan to the more impressionistic influence of Olivier Messiaen, with echoes of Prokofiev and Shostakovich, this recording reveals Farr's engaging style. New...
Michael Houstoun is New Zealand's most respected and loved classical musician. His commitment to performing New Zealand repertoire has led to paths crossing with the Rattle label on numerous occasions over the years, but with this recording both Michael and Rattle have realised a shared dream....
The variation form is at the foundation of many forms of music, and was of particular importance in the classical period. Stradivariazioni demonstrates various elements of the form: a central unifying theme throughout the long discourse of Schubert's brilliant Fantasy; the tension release of a set...
Fourth release on the new VIVAT label features an outstanding collection of vocal music by Claudio Monteverdi. 14 glorious tracks present an exquisitely varied programme on the theme of love in all its conflicting emotions, its joys and sweet pains affecting gods and mere mortals. All-star cast...
Acclaimed countertenor Iestyn Davies and The King's Consort perform an outstanding programme of Handel arias from some of the composer's finest oratorios. Eleven varied solo arias include ‘O sacred oracles of truth', the delicate ‘Tune your harps', ‘Eternal source of light' (with supreme trumpet...
Of all the great back catalogs in the history of rock, Bob Dylan's is among the most covered, his acolytes ranging from The Byrds to Adele via Manfred Mann and Guns N' Roses. But something tells us you won't have heard anything quite like Dylan's Gospel by The Brothers & Sisters, a choir of Los...
Naga is a new album of contemporary compositions for the New Zealand School of Music gamelan orchestras, Gamelan Padhang Moncar and Gamelan Taniwha Jaya. For three weeks of July 2013, the New Zealand School of Music's two gamelan ensembles (the Javanese Padhang Moncar and the Balinese Taniwha Jaya)...
Sixth release on the VIVAT label features Henry Purcell's brilliant yet melancholic "Ten Sonatas in Four Parts". The King's Consort holds a worldwide reputation as leading performers of Purcell. This new release adds to TKC's 25 recordings of the composer's music, which have won numerous...
In early 2010, Rupa Maitra, violin and Owen Moriarty, guitar, formed Duo Tapas, with the aim of performing a wide range of music written for this beautiful combination of instruments as well as exploring and introducing exciting new arrangements of music existing for other instruments. Duo Tapas'...
Throughout 2013, Chamber Music New Zealand's ReCycle Series featured acclaimed New Zealand pianist Michael Houstoun performing the complete Beethoven piano sonatas. Michael recorded the sonatas with producer Kenneth Young and Rattle engineer Steve Garden, and the result is a 14-CD set and...
In a church in a quiet northern Italian town, Alice Castello, survives a hidden jewel: an organ dating from 1749, perfect for Bach's organ music. The latest release on the acclaimed VIVAT label, performed by renowned Italian organist Luca Guglielmi, presents a remarkable programme of some of Bach's...
Passing By is a double album set of chamber works by one of our most revered and cherished composers, the inimitable Jack Body. With new recordings from NZTrio and Stephen De Pledge, recent recordings from Kronos Quartet, Del Sol Quartet, Stroma New Music Ensemble, New Music Works Ensemble, David...