The Halo Original Soundtrack is a soundtrack for the video game Halo: Combat Evolved. Composed and produced by Martin O’Donnell and Michael Salvatori for Bungie, the soundtrack was released on June 11, 2002. Most of the music from Halo: Combat Evolved is present on the CD, although some songs have been remixed by O’Donnell in […]
Seasons of Love
“Seasons of Love“, also known as “525,600 Minutes”, is a song from the 1996 Broadway musical Rent, written and composed by Jonathan Larson. The song starts with an ostinato piano motif, which provides the harmonic framework for the cast to sing “Five hundred twenty-five thousand, six hundred minutes” (the number of minutes in a common […]
LADANIVA
LADANIVA (stylised in capitals and named in reference to the off-road SUV Lada Niva) is a French-Armenian world music group originally from Lille. The duo, founded in 2019, consists of Armenian singer Jaklin Baghdasaryan and French multi-instrumentalist Louis Thomas. Their musical style is inspired on the one hand by music from around the world, particularly […]
Chopin – Etude Op. 10 No. 12 (Revolutionary)
Étude Op. 10, No. 12 in C minor, known as the “Revolutionary Étude” or the “Étude on the Bombardment of Warsaw“, is a solo piano work by Frédéric Chopin written c. 1831, and the last in his first set, Études, Op. 10, dedicated “à son ami Franz Liszt” (“to his friend Franz Liszt”). The autographed edition is located in […]
Hrdza
Hrdza (lit. Rust in Slovak) is a Slovak folk rock band from Prešov, formed in 1999. Their music blends the old and traditional with the new and modern to create a distinctive sound deeply rooted in East European folk music.The band mostly performs in their native Slovakia, but they have played in numerous other nations […]
Angine de Poitrine
Angine de Poitrine is a Quebec experimental rock duo from Saguenay. Their musical concept, which they call “Mantra-rock dada pythago-cubist”, is based on both the game of the guitarist Khn, who plays on a microtonal double-handle (guitar and bass) instrument, that is to say fretted at the quarter of a tone, and building his music […]
The Shallaras
The Shallaras are an energetic duo founded in 2023 by Angela Cory and Mauro Pandolfino. They deliver a raw, rhythmic sound that blends 50s and 60s rock ‘n’ roll with rhythm & blues and garage influences. Embodying the attitude of legends like Chuck Berry and The Cramps, their performance features simultaneous vocals, saxophone, guitar, and […]
Beethoven – Piano Concerto No.4 in G Major
Ludwig van Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 4 in G major, Op. 58, was composed in 1805–1806. Beethoven was the soloist in the public premiere as part of the concert on 22 December 1808 at Vienna’s Theater an der Wien. It was premiered in March 1807 at a private concert of the home of Prince Franz […]
Vivaldi – Armatae face et anguibus
“Armatae face et anguibus” is a dramatic aria from the oratorio “Juditha triumphans devicta Holofernis barbarie”, RV 644, by Antonio Vivaldi. The exact date of composition and performance of Juditha triumphans are not known, but the allegorical treatment of the Venetian defence of Corfu dominated public discussion in Venice throughout 1716. This work was an […]
Faia Younan
Faia Younan is a Syrian-Assyrian singer, considered the first Middle Eastern artist ever to crowdfund her debut. Younan was born on June 20, 1992 to an Assyrian Christian family in the town of Tell Tamer, Syria, and grew up in the city of Aleppo. t’s hard to state a point of time at which Faia […]