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...
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...
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...
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...
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 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...
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...
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...
Masterfully blending the worlds of classical, pop and folk Anna’s music and alluring stage presence boast a mesmerising appeal, stacking up performances of note all over the country. As a solo artist Anna has toured NZ with famed Welsh tenor, Paul Potts performed at the likes of 'Coca Cola...
As the title suggests, Asperities is a record born of conflict: internal, personal and global. Universal themes. The build of pressure and the threat of violent release. Utilising looped cello, electronics and found sounds, Kent creates a world where the technological and the organic merge in...
Tenth release on the VIVAT label brings the latest in The King’s Consort’s acclaimed recordings of Henry Purcell’s brilliant chamber music: the Twelve Sonatas of Three Parts. Proudly published by the young composer in 1683, Purcell’s highly individual, extraordinarily inventive music combines...
Latest release on VIVAT brings Mendelssohn’s astonishing reconstruction of Handel’s great oratorio Israel in Egypt. Mendelssohn’s 1833 Düsseldorf performance has been painstakingly reconstructed from fragments and sources across Europe: the large and colourful orchestra, playing...
The first volume in a major new recording series across which a host of world-renowned singers draw listeners, decade by decade, through a century of song, from 1810 to 1910. Each volume features a perfectly planned, varied programme performed by household names, whilst the series overall creates a...
A beautifully themed collection of fourteen of the finest unaccompanied British choral masterpieces of the last 125 years performed by award-winning Choir of The King's Consort. The fascinating mix of familiar and unfamiliar includes five paired settings: William Harris's classic 1959 Bring us, O...
Mirusia is an Australian – Dutch soprano and has gained worldwide fame as soloist with Andre Rieu. She studied opera at the Queensland Conservatorium in Australia and at the age of 21, Mirusia was announced as the youngest winner ever of the prestigious Dame Joan Sutherland Opera Award. After this...
Not long after the release of Peter Broderick’s seventh solo album ‘Partners’, the composer closes 2016 with his equally exceptional ‘Grunewald’ recordings, out on December 9th via Erased Tapes. Born in just one night inside the four walls of the discrete yet majestic Grunewald Church, situated on...
Decades: A Century of Song – Vol. 2 (1820–1830) The second volume in this major recording series, across which a host of world-renowned singers draw listeners, decade by decade, through a century of song, from 1810 to 1910. Each volume features a carefully planned, varied programme performed by...
With their first two Daptone albums – Get an Understanding, and as featured singers on Como Now – THE COMO MAMAS established themselves as three of the strongest voices in gospel music today. In December of 2015, they cemented that reputation by taking their first trip from their home in Como, MS...