Classical » Mood: Brooding
ANDY GARBI: The Sound Of One
A dark, filmic, fairytale like experience featuring Andy’s soaring otherworldy vocals, cello, violin and viola - this is a haunting neo-classical work, reminiscent of the “holy minimalism” of Arvo Pärt, John Tavener and Henryk Górecki.
CD price: $18.00
EAKEN PIANO TRIO: Masterpieces
Three great classical trios in the romantic style, played with passion from the heart.
CD price: $12.97 / MP3 price: $12.97
PETE HAWKES: Witchcraft
Guitarist Pete Hawkes describes his 2006 CD release as "chamber or folk/classical music". The album features his steel-stringed acoustic guitar, Louise Woodward's viola, Michael McClintock's violins and Gareth Skinner's cello.
CD price: $13.95 / MP3 price: $13.95
MIRÓ QUARTET & MATT HAIMOVITZ: Epilogue
Epilogue explores two strikingly different works, each written in the last months in the lives of two contemporary early Romantic composers, Franz Schubert and Felix Mendelssohn.
CD price: $15.00
PETE HAWKES: Melancholy Cello
beautiful cello music, acoustic guitar and cello, very sad and with a Russian flavour
CD price: $11.99 / MP3 price: $11.99
DAVID JAEDYN CONLEY: String Quartet No. 1, "The Mydnyte Sun"
This composer moves easily between the stridency of the moderns and the sweetness of the romantics. He is equally adept at writing polyrhythmic ensemble percussion & lyrical contrapuntal melodies.
Recommended if you like Ludwig van Beethoven, Дмитрий Дмитриевич Шостакович, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.CD price: $13.00 / MP3 price: $3.96
EUGENE WATANABE: Honens Laureate Series: Rediscovering America
Important works by the great 20th century American composers - including the classic Gershwin preludes and Rhapsody in Blue.
CD price: $12.97
THE DENVER DUO:ZOE ERISMAN, JESSE CECI: French Sonatas For Violin & Piano
French romantic sonatas that are highly emotional and melodious.
Recommended if you like Martha Argerich.CD price: $16.00 / MP3 price: $16.00
JOSH PERSCHBACHER: Premiere
A classical, modern organ recording with all the brilliance and majesty of a full symphony.
Recommended if you like Virgil Fox.CD price: $14.95 / MP3 price: $14.95
INITIAL ASCENT: Reasons for Drowning
Dark, dense, piano/oboe/violin trio with groove and extended technique.
CD price: $15.00 / MP3 price: $15.00
THOMAS PAUL, BASSO: ECLIPSE - Music of Bernard Rands
Basso singing in six languages, poetic gems laced together from many cultures about human response to lunar eclipse, literally and metaphorically. An evocative chamber work for voice and ten instruments.
CD price: $14.95 / MP3 price: $14.95
CANDLE IN THE WINDOW: Candle in the Window
This modern chamber opera, an adult version of "Stone Soup" is riche with romance, longing, humor, and loss.
CD price: $14.99
MICHAEL MAULDIN: Enchantment: Music by Michael Mauldin
Refreshing piano, choral, chamber and orchestral music that is tonal, yet distinctive--inspired by the scenic and spiritual landscape of New Mexico.
CD price: $10.95
LIKE TREES WALKING: compositions no.1
Spacious, sparse, reflective and reverberating piano compositions.
CD price: $9.97 / MP3 price: $9.97
JEFF LAWRENCE: Emily
Folk and classical guitar; hauntingly hits you like the pain of the liars dance
Recommended if you like Bruce Springsteen, Garth Brooks.
A. TCHAIKOVSKY / AMBARTSUMIAN, VIOLIN/CONDUCTOR: "Distant Dreams" Concerto for Violin and Orchestra
Two selections from this CD, "Lonely Voice" and "Distant Dreams of Childhood" express the heart and soul of the music of the Russian people.
Recommended if you like Дмитрий Дмитриевич Шостакович, Сергей Сергеевич Прокофьев.CD price: $12.97
DEAN MAIER: Black Irises
Classical crossover chamber music with lyrical poetry
CD price: $10.00 / MP3 price: $10.00
MUSICA FICTA: De Antequera sale un moro
Music of Christian, Moorish and Jewish Spain around 1492. Songs of conquest, religion, war and love, the oldest of all human feelings. Exquisitely crafted songs performed with colorful yet subtle, intimate charm.
Recommended if you like No-L, Hespèrion XX.CD price: $12.97 / MP3 price: $12.97
PAUL NEUBAUER, VIOLA/ ANNE-MARIE MCDERMOTT, PIANO: Schumann-Romance
This music is emotional, intense, exciting, moody, and virtuosic
CD price: $14.99 / MP3 price: $14.99
NATHAN HANSON: Letting Go
Instrumental meditations on loneliness, failure and the hope of a new beginning. Starkly beautiful.
CD price: $11.49 / MP3 price: $9.97
WASTED LONELYS: Wasted Lonely Cathedral
Poetic and enthralling from the depths of a dead refrain. Take a listen. Song writing still matters in rock music.
CD price: $11.99 / MP3 price: $11.99
CANTUS: ...against the dying of the light
Male Vocal Ensemble singing a song cycle that travels from grief and sorrow to consolation and joy.
CD price: $15.00 / MP3 price: $15.00
ROSIN COVEN: Menagerie
Eight musicians blend violin, two cellos, bass, guitar, harp, vibraphone, trombone, drums & lush vocal harmonies in a strangely beautiful mix of classical, jazz, chamber, tango, klezmer, sultry lounge, theatrical cabaret, and cinematic dreams.
Recommended if you like Rasputina, Kurt Weill.CD price: $14.97 / MP3 price: $14.97
INVERT: Invert
An "inverted" string quartet featuring 2 cellos, violin & viola playing dramatic, melodic, dark and driving new music composed by its members.
CD price: $10.00 / MP3 price: $5.00
JOHN R CARLSON: recollections EP
As the EP and song titles suggest, this release explores the realm of memory and the wistful melancholy of moments gone but still cherished, without descending into bland cliché.
ITEM price: $10.00
MICHELLE ENDE'/THE BAY AREA PHILHARMONIC/ANN SUMNER: SOLOIST: The Violin Concerto No. 1 And Other Works
This is passionate, vibrant music for the violin and orchestra in an almost traditional concerto form.
Recommended if you like Ives.CD price: $14.99 / MP3 price: $14.99
SIEBEN: Desire Rites
Beautiful layered and looped violin-based songs, sweetly carved, and toppped with Matt's mellow and hypnotic voice.
CD price: $18.00
CAILYN: New World In Blue
An eclectic mix of guitar driven blues-rock music including a blues interpretation of the second movement of the New World Symphony by Antonin Dvorak.
CD price: $5.00 / MP3 price: $5.00
MICHELLE ENDE' AND THE BAY AREA PHILHARMONIC: The Symphony Number 6 - The Autumnal
Symphonic Music in the Classical Tradition. Music of longing, endings, and beginnings. This is great music in the symphonic form. It is powerful, dynamic, and will stand among some of the great works of our time. Prepare yourself for a wonderful experienc
Recommended if you like Gustav Mahler.CD price: $12.97 / MP3 price: $12.97
STEVE BERK: Nature
A new age classical journey that takes you through seasons, on the wind, into the ocean and more.
CD price: $11.97 / MP3 price: $9.99
JOHN HUDSON: Piano Solo
Relaxing,melodic and meditative original. Gentle and meditative compositions for late night listening.
CD price: $9.00
ZEN FOR PRIMATES: Mary Ann's Dead Husband Was My Stella Novagratz
The latest creation from award winning masters of cabaret rock
CD price: $14.97 / MP3 price: $14.97
STEPHEN PHILIPS: The Sobbing Stone: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
Dark ambient and lush synthetic textures
CD price: $12.97 / MP3 price: $7.99
STEVE SLIMM: Pause for Breath
A Nick Drake - Leonard Cohen (-like) straight from the heart honest songwriting, with more than a touch of the spiritual.
CD price: $14.97 / MP3 price: $9.97
MOZAIKA: Follow in Me
Imagine being physically immersed in a cauldron filled with Jackson Pollock imagery, splashes of Bjork electronic beats and textures and angelic vocals of Portishead... this is the inspiration of moZaiKa.
CD price: $5.00 / MP3 price: $4.00
BRIGHT RED PAPER: Bright Red Paper
Pretentious cello music... without the pretension. (Okay, maybe with a little bit...)
JAMES DURKEE: J.S. BACH SUITE & PARTITA JAMES DURKEE GUITAR
..."tremendous depth and subtle love." earbuzz.com Solo Classical Guitar CD that includes a rare recording of Bach's BWV 1010 and the profound BWV 1004 from Bach's period of tragic loss, anguished grief and hope. Recorded 24/96 High Resolution Audiophile
CD price: $16.99 / MP3 price: $16.99
FORMS OF THINGS UNKNOWN: Cross Purposes
Eclectic, ambient art-rock melding such divergent influences as Radiohead, Sigur Ros, Dead Can Dance, Philip Glass, Psychic TV, Nurse With Wound, Zoviet France & more...
CD price: $9.99
ANDY MONROE: Rain
solo piano and voice - dark, meditative, brooding and intimate - music for late nights and rainy days
CD price: $15.00 / MP3 price: $15.00
TONY LONGWORTH: Beyond The Veil
Dark, brooding music. Always changing, always different & original, evoking pure emotion, inspiring yet foreboding.
CD price: $9.99 / MP3 price: $6.99
GALT AUREUS: Heralds to the Sun
Galt Aureus is an incendiary group fusing original rock elements with a classical flair to create a highly dramatic music.
Recommended if you like Trans-Siberian Orchestra, Evanescence.CD price: $12.99 / MP3 price: $12.99
JAY SANTO: Espiria
An emotional adventure for Classical Guitar. Espiria is over 70 minutes of music full of integrity. Jay Santo combines the styles of Classical, Jazz, Metal, Avant Garde, Flamenco, Middle Eastern Music and more all on one instrument.
CD price: $10.00 / MP3 price: $10.00
BLACK TAPE FOR A BLUE GIRL: remnants of a deeper purity (10th anniversary 2-CD edition)
"Like Dead Can Dance, black tape for a blue girl dramatically flirts with symphonic decay." The Philadelphia City Paper
Recommended if you like Dead Can Dance, Gavin Bryars.CD price: $14.98
CORDIS: Here On Out
six-string electric cello, electric cimbalom, vintage keys, double percussion - instrumental quintet - darker edge meets dramatic energy.
CD price: $12.97 / MP3 price: $12.97
LOU CAPRI FRATTO: Love From The Heart
These are love songs they are powerful they can make you cry
CD price: $12.97 / MP3 price: $12.97
ALLICORN: Emancipation
Ghostly orchestral and world-influenced melodies.
CD price: $12.97 / MP3 price: $12.97
LUCIEN DESAR: Dead Lovers Society
A neo-classical blend of pieces dedicated to the Victorian era with piano, cellos, and violin composed by Lucien Désar.
Recommended if you like Ludwig van Beethoven, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.CD price: $14.95
ALIAS ALAISE: Großen Bären
The music of Bären; an unsung opera for an unsung hero. Classical "orchestral" soundtrack-like pieces. the true story of großen bären is forgotten now, but this was großen bären's wish because he knew he would be remembered for war and not for lo
CD price: $15.97
DARK DAY: Darkest Before Dawn
Medieval Pagan processionals, dirges and dances for the 21st century on pipe organ, rattles, bells and drums (with cello). For fans of Moondog, Penguin Cafe Orchestra and Dead Can Dance.
CD price: $14.00 / MP3 price: $10.00
ARKANE: Arcane Elitism
Eight hymns of dark ambient and neo-classical environments remember the ancient Hellenistic past and inspire various moods ranging from the ritualistic to the melancholic. Packaged in a slimline "DVD" case with card insert.
Recommended if you like raison d'être, Death in June.MP3 price: $12.00
MICHELLE ENDE'/THE BAY AREA PHILHARMONIC/ANALISE CEPTER: The Cello Concerto And Other Works
Dedicated to the memory of Jacqueline Du Pres', this is a dark foreboding piece of orchestral music for cello and orchestra in the classical genre'. This is a powerful, albeit atypical piece of classical work in three movements. You will love it.
CD price: $15.99 / MP3 price: $15.99
PATRIC STEEL: These Dark Skies
Background music for a dimly lit room.
Recommended if you like Bruce Springsteen, Nick Drake.CD price: $13.97 / MP3 price: $9.97
TIM OBERT: Melodys Got Th
The blues runs through my veins with the rhythm of my pulse and the beat of my heart. For fans of BB King and Elmore James
CD price: $12.00 / MP3 price: $12.00
CYBERCHAMBERMUSIC: Siegfrieds Funeral Music
Wagner according to cyberchambermusic.
Recommended if you like Richard Wagner, Ormandy.CD price: $8.99 / MP3 price: $4.99
STEVEN W. RODGERS: Peter the Great (original cast recording)
a Broadway style soundtrack. memorable showtunes with light rock, pop, jazz and classical influences
CD price: $12.00 / MP3 price: $12.00
XYNFONICA: A Feast for Famished Ravens
Orchestral Metal: Guitar synthesizer generated symphonic music accompanying sinister growled vocals, lyrics based on Norse mythology
Recommended if you like Anton Bruckner, Jean Sibelius.CD price: $12.97
