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...
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...
An ethereal and meditative soundtrack album from pianist and composer Rachel Grimes (Rachel's, King's Daughters & Sons), The Doctor from India features piano, violin, harp, saxophone, and strings interspersed with ambient sound design. Created for a new documentary film by Jeremy Frindel, this...
For his debut on Warner Classics, Samoan tenor Pene Pati (Sol3Mio) matches favourite showpiece arias with rarer operatic gems in a programme of Verdi, Rossini, Donizetti, Meyerbeer, Gounod and Benjamin Godard. A singer of glowing lyricism who establishes an immediate rapport with his audience, Pati...
Global superstar tenor Andrea Bocelli announces his brand new album ‘Sì’ – his first recording of all-new material in 14 years, to be released on Decca/Sugar on 26 October. The first single ‘If Only’ is unveiled today and can be heard HERE. Bocelli’s humble manner belies his international status as...
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...
Following up on the success of both Piano Guys and Piano Guys 2, get ready for the next volume of crossover hits from the guys. Hailing from Utah, The Piano Guys became an Internet sensation by way of their immensely successful series of strikingly original self-made music videos. They’ve made more...
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.
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...
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)...
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...
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...
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,...
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 Faure, Sergei Prokofiev, Madeleine Dring, Andre Previn, MauriceRavel, Samuel Barber, Ralph...
