David Goode performs a grand selection of some of Bach’s best organ works – including the famed Passacaglia and Fugue in C minor – providing modern listeners with a unique chance to hear Bach’s musi...More

The three composers represented on this disc have all had different approaches to their respective works for saxophone quartet and string orchestra. With Bach’s Brandenburg Concertos in mind, Sally B...More

The grammy-award winning artist Hila Plitmann is known worldwide for her astonishing musicianship, light and beautiful voice, and the ability to perform challenging new works. On this disc she bring...More

The London Sinfonietta combine two works from Thomas Adès, one of the most distinctive and popular voices in modern composition. Both works feature accompanying films (by Tal Rosner and Sophie Clemen...More

Jamie Walton and Daniel Grimwood continue their performance partnership with this recording of sonatas for cello and piano by Shostakovich, Britten and Prokofiev. Both Walton and Grimwood are accompl...More

Michael Rabin: The first, last and hidden recordings The release of these recordings in 2011 coincides with the 75th anniversary of Michael Rabin’s birth. His musical voice may have been quiet the p...More

Johann Caspar Kerll (1627-1693) worked mainly in Vienna, during the 17th century. He was pupil of Carissimi and teacher of Pachelbel, thus belonging within the line of succession culminating in Johan...More

The Psalms of David are arguably the portion of the Old Testament that has been enfolded most completely within the Christian tradition and its liturgies. Their messages of strife and joy, prayer and...More

Jean-Philippe Rameau’s modest output of works for keyboard (around 50 in total) are a crowning influence in French 18th-century instrumental music – summed up by one commentator as being “a paradigm ...More

Born in Odessa, the pianist and conductor Boris Bloch has long been regarded as one of the most important interpreters of classical and romantic piano music. After studying at Moscow’s Tchaikovsky Co...More

There is no doubt that Richard Wagner was an anti-Semite; Adolf Hitler was also greatly enamoured of his music and a frequent and very welcome guest to the green hill at Bayreuth. For this reason, Wa...More

Shared Ground is a set of works by the British composer Alec Roth, featuring several poems and sung texts by the Indian writer Vikram Seth. The title piece of the same name is inspired by Seth’s poet...More

Gaetano Nasillo is one of the most renowned baroque cellist. He regularly collaborates as a soloist with the most prestigious European ensembles on historic instruments, among them Ensemble 415, Conc...More

“The descriptions which have come down to us today about Scarlatti the performer are small in number, but revealing. When the Irish musician and composer Thomas Roseingrave was in Venice he was invit...More

On February 26, 2010 a historic concert took place in Warsaw, the birthplace of Fryderyk Chopin: during the course of that single evening all the works written by this composer for piano with orchest...More

Elman was not a frequent broadcaster, even in America, but he worked occasionally for the BBC from 1932, when he played the Tchaikovsky Concerto with Adrian Boult on 26 October and a studio recital t...More

Arcangelo Corelli, described as the "vero orfeo di nostri tempi” by his pupil Francesco Gasparini, produced the most popular printed music of his time with his Violin Sonatas Opus 5 published in Rome...More

Girolamo Frescobaldi can justifiably be considered as the grand master of harpsichord and organ music during the Italian Baroque. His toccatas are impressive firework displays of emotion and untramme...More

Born in 1960, the Japanese composer Mari Takano studied in Japan and then Germany, where György Ligeti became a mentor to her, providing liberating impulses. Ligeti is also a near-constant presence t...More