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On 17 July 2011 over 800 peformers gathered in London’s Royal Albert Hall to give a rare performance of Havergal Brian’s Symphony No 1 in D minor—‘The Gothic’. Tickets for this Prom sold out within 2...More

“Think about a young man in love – this is what they are about,” wrote Dvořák to his publisher when he was preparing Cypresses for string quartet. The title is taken from a volume of poems by Gustav ...More

Martin Fröst isn’t just one of the major clarinettists of our time – he is also an intrepid adventurer who challenges conventional notions of how classical music should be presented in the concert ha...More

For his 3rd album on Phi, his new label published by the group Outhere, Philippe Herreweghe has brought together a splendid set of artists in the Lutoslawski hall in Warsaw. Ann Hallenberg, whose voi...More

After the triumphant success of the King’s Singers last Christmas Album released in 2003 entitled ‘Christmas’, this new disc sets an eclectic assortment of modern Christmas classics with special arra...More

Vivaldi joined the staff of the Ospedale della Pietà in September 1703 as Maestro di Violin. Established in the 14th century, the Pietà was one of four charitable Venetian orphanages for women suppor...More

After the triumphant success of The King’s Singers last DVD ‘Live at the BBC Proms’ in 2008, this new video performance recorded at LSO St Luke’s in London sets an eclectic assortment of modern Chris...More

The Irem Bekter Quintet is a polymorphic band, both by the multiplicity of its expression and by the diversity of its cultural origins. Formed around the singer, dancer and actress Irem Bekter, this ...More

The tabla is the most popular percussion instrument of Northern India. It can be heard in Indian dance, devotional, folk and film music. The tabla is an integral part of North Indian classical music,...More

Brass Noir presents some of the most renowned artists of the Balkan, seleced by DJ Robert Soko the inventor of the popular BalkanBeat Party, featuring Boban i Marko Marković Orkestar, the undisputed ...More

Free-Flow and Form Pianist Kevin Hays with „Variations“, his solo album on Pirouet: an improviser’s inexhaustible flow of ideas imbedded in form – music that appears to be classical yet deeply breat...More

On five previous discs the astonishing tuba player Øystein Baadsvik has demonstrated his incredible versatility as a musician, while at the same time establishing that ‘anything a violin can do, a tu...More

Andrew Neill writes in his note: “Edward Elgar became an early star of the gramophone and the recordings he made (and supervised) between 1914 and 1934 remain among the great contributions to the rec...More

The three composers represented on this disc are all resident in the USA, but have their roots across the Pacific Ocean, in China. Philosophical, musical and literary aspects of this Chinese heritage...More

As the internationally-renowned pianist Stephen Hough writes in his liner notes to this composer portrait, he began composing at the age of six, around the time he began to play the piano. Until the ...More

For their second release on BIS the Trio Zimmermann has chosen to record Beethoven’s String Trios Op.9 – a set of three that the composer himself upon their completion described as ‘la meilleure de m...More

24 Frames [Scatter + Trance] ::: 24 compositions pour guitare électrique ::: 24 ambiances, 24 scénarios ::: 24 pièces à écouter ou jouer, séparément ou en séquence ::: 24 manières de jouer de la guit...More

Wigmore Hall Live’s unrivalled reputation for capturing the world’s best song recitals is continued in its forthcoming October release from the distinguished lyric tenor, Matthew Polenzani. Often re...More

• Released in the summer of 2011, Viktoria Mullova’s genre defying recording The Peasant Girl was released to critical acclaim and much media coverage. A world tour for the album is now underway. Thi...More

In another life, before becoming a musician, Joane Hétu was a weaver. She has decided to pour her knowledge of yarn and loom into her latest composition, thus giving herself a new musical challenge. ...More

Ring in the season with Rejoice!: Christmas at The Sage Gateshead, with resident orchestra Northern Sinfonia conducted by Simon Halsey and joined by the amassed Newcastle-based choirs Northern Sinfon...More

A vibrant portrait of the state of the art in Canadian new music. “À chacun sa miniature” is the first disc of the Bozzini Quartet dedicated entirely to emerging artists. This collection of miniature...More

Andreas Haefliger’s provocative and trend-setting Perspectives series – juxtaposing the seminal sonatas of Beethoven within the context of works by other composers – reaches its fifth volume with two...More

Cordâme’s 3rd and most recent recording, Imagined places comes from Jean Félix Mailloux’s imagination. Without visiting the places mentionned in the composition’s titles, Jean Félix imagined musicall...More

Recorded live at Studio 270 in November 2010 by a group of 11 musicians - seven French and English 4 - 7 pieces make up this musical presentation of spatial-temporal elasticity of body and of the sta...More

6 duos pour guitare électrique et autres instruments, 12 compositions pour guitare electrique (avec ou sans pédales d’effets) It’s two compacts discs: the first: 6 duos for electric guitar with othe...More

• ‘In Stimme der Sehnsucht, a poem by Carl Busse, the voice of longing is depicted as a mysterious whispering sound, a dark and confused spirit from Thule, a mythical island beyond the boundaries of ...More

Jack Kerouac's book On the Road saw the light of day in 1957. It was to become the cult book of the beat generation. To be forever-on-the-road was a new attitude to life, a present-day interpretation...More

What a brilliant idea! Well played and beautifully produced, this CD is great for inspiring people to carry on or even take up the oboe.”...More