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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 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...
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...
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...
For their third Rattle release following their two Best Classical Album nominated releases, Bright Tide Moving Between (2008) and Flourishes (2011), NZTrio's exceptional new recording features recent commissions by some of the finest of the current generation of New Zealand composers. Taking its...
Between Darkness and Light is a celebration of 19th and 20th century art-song from two of our finest classical musicians. This fine album features works by some of the world's most beloved composers, Gabriel Fauré, Sergei Prokofiev, Madeleine Dring, André Previn, MauriceRavel, Samuel Barber, Ralph...
A thrilling album from Steven Isserlis couples the ground-breaking Prokofiev Cello Concerto from the 1930s with Shostakovich's eruptive response to it written for Rostropovich in 1959. These seminal works mark the cello's coming of age, enveloping its trademark rhapsodic lyricism in a newly...
Originally conceived as a ‘theatrical entertainment' and first heard at the 2013 Auckland Festival Songs and Dances of Desire consisted of twenty movements, five of them cabaret dances. Now recomposed by Body into this orchestral song cycle Songs of Death and Desire, these sumptuous songs, full of...
Douglas Lilburn (1915-2001) is considered ‘the father of New Zealand music'. After considerable success, he rejected composing for acoustic musical instruments and turned wholly to the creation of electronic works because he felt they would more accurately portray New Zealand in its own right,...
In December 1917, Sergei Rachmaninov had to flee Moscow in haste, never to return again. Some sixty years later, the composers Elena Firsova and Dmitri Smirnov found themselves blacklisted in Russia (alongside five other composers, including Sofia Gubaidulina); after a difficult decade, and just...
The Köln Concert will be entered into the Grammy Hall of Fame in 2011 Albums that sell vast quantities are not always to be recommended. This exceptional example of solo piano is the biggest selling record in the 25 year history of the pioneering jazz label ECM. It is an almost perfect recording of...
Both Schumann and Mussorgsky were wildly imaginative composers who found ways of expression that went beyond the conventional. On this recording, pianist Kirill Gerstein offers an unusual yet logical pairing of Mussorgsky's ‘Pictures at an Exhibition' and Schumann's ‘Carnaval': piano pieces in...
Father and son composer-combinations are relatively rare in recent times, but there have been some famous examples: Johann Sebastian Bach and his sons, Carl Philipp Emanuel and Johann Christian, Johann Strauss I and II, Wolfgang Amadeus and his father Leopold Mozart, Domenico Scarlatti and his...
Following nearly three years of silence, FatCat's 130701 imprint is reactivated, with several new signings lined up ahead of next year's fifteenth anniversary of the label that played a pioneering role in the development of today's vibrant post-classical scene. The first of these signings, Dmitry...