Super-Audio CD

KUNIKO's much-anticipated third studio recording features the works of Lannis Xenakis, whose work has had a huge impact within the world of music, and in particular on percussion repertoire. Full of challenges, from the pioneering mathematical...

Krzysztof Penderecki's setting of the Passion story as told in the Gospel of St Luke was premi?red in 1966 and immediately established a place for itself among the most important large-scale choral works of the twentieth century. Despite it's decidedly...

Kristjan Jarvi conducted Australian orchestras in 2008 on a triumphant national tour, for which he was nominated for a limelight award. 'The conductor Kristjan Jarvi is bringing a bracing blast of Bernstein.' - the Times. Bernstein's Mass is one of the...

Kristian Ofstad Lindberg writes: "The title of this recording is inspired by the painter and poet William Blake's collection of poems, Songs of Innocence and of Experience. It is a title that lends itself well to the pieces presented here, exploring as...

Korngold's Violin Concerto was completed in 1945. This is a beautiful, late Romantic work that harks back clearly to Korngold's earlier compositional style, when he was a younger man living in Vienna. But had he really turned his back on film music he...

Knud Jorgensen, one of Sweden's best swing pianists, here together with Sture Aringkerberg - bass and Johan Dielemans - drums. Knud offers his own, personal and dynamic interpretations of numerous classics of Swing: Satin Doll, Too Late Now, You Look...

Known as St Cecilia Mass, Haydn's fifth Missa is the longest and most complex setting of the Latin Mass text. Rich in elaborate contrapuntal interweaving and with a duration of more than one hour, it reveals Haydn the opera composer. The present...

Kerstin Blodig's Debut Album For Stockfisch Records On 2-Channel SACD! The Norwegian singer/songwriter/guitarist Kerstin Blodig presents her debut album on Stockfisch. The recordings took place in Solling - in a clearing in one of Germany's largest...

Keeping It Real for More Than 50 Years: Bill Withers' Still Bill Is an Understated Soul Masterwork Distinguished by Unstinting Consistency, Universal Emotions, and Smooth Singing. Mastered on Mobile Fidelity's Renowned Mastering System: Numbered-Edition...

Katharina Treutler's new release offers devilish pleasure alongside intimate worship of God. For example, Ligeti's tricky, demonic 'Treppenwitz' stands opposite the glistening piano work of the faithful Catholic Messiaen. Enlivened by variations of the...

Kassel, the city in the heart of Germany, internationally known as the city of the world art exhibition "documenta", which takes place every five years, also attracted international attention in the field of music when the then General Music Director ?dm...

Kalevi Aho is one of today's most prolific composers of large-scale orchestral scores, including 17 symphonies and 32 concertos to date. Less well-known is the fact that he has also written chamber music, as well as an ever-expanding series of solo...