Dave Valentin enjoys a fine reputation as a composer, arranger, and band leader in addition to being the most celebrated Latin flutist today. He won a Grammy nomination in 1985 and in 2006 was a fina...More

For those customary of Parisian clubs, Lifescape is not really a revelation any more. From the very start, this quartet with its classic set-up for vocal-jazz - a trio piano-bass-drums and a singer- ...More

This recording presents music by the Czech composers Janáček, Martinů, and Haas, all of whom were prominent figures in their country’s musical history during the early twentieth century. The works ar...More

The cult of the dead has always been important in Corsican tradition. For more than thirty years now, many ensemble from the island have brought to public notice traditional requiems sung in polyphon...More

Marking the end of their unanimously-praised series, “star-kissed young performers,” [The Times] Alina Ibragimova and Cédric Tiberghien, release the third and final volume in their live recordings of...More

On the death of Anne of Brittany, her husband King Louis XII honoured her with exceptional funeral ceremonies lasting forty days, which sealed forever her image as Queen of France and Duchess of Brit...More

Acclaimed baritone Christopher Maltman will release the complete Schubert song cycles – Die Schöne Müllerin, Winterreise and Schwanengesang, on Wigmore Hall Live during 2011-12. Recorded over a serie...More

This repertoire finds its roots in Scottish 17th century manuscripts. Rob Mackillop is THE specialist of this repertoire; he transmits all its beauty both as researcher at Edinburgh University and as...More

This recording is devoted to the works of a composer about whom we know practically nothing — meither his date of birth nor even his origins. All that we do know is that Giorgi held the position of m...More

Inspired by the rural beauty of the surroundings at his country retreat in 1917, Edward Elgar embarked on the composition of some of his most inspired and imaginative chamber works. Both the String ...More

Adrian Chandler and La Serenissima, winners of the 2010 Gramophone Award in the Baroque Instrumental category for Vivaldi: The French Connection (AV 2178), present the sequel, The French Connection 2...More

Record of the Month The BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra under the baton of Martyn Brabbins give invigorating and authoritative performances of William Walton’s masterful symphonies. The musicians ba...More

This new album is co-produced by Stuart Bruce (Frankie goes to Hollywood, Yes, Loreena McKennitt, Maxime Le Forestier, Kate Bush) and Clara Ponty and is the first to feature Clara mainly as a singer....More

Steve Lacy born Steven Norman Lackritz in New York City, was a jazz saxophonist and composer recognized as one of the important players of soprano saxophone. Coming to prominence in the 1950s as a p...More

Anthony Braxton is an American composer, saxophonist, clarinettist, flautist, pianist. He has released well over 100 albums since the 1960s. Braxton's music is difficult to categorize, and because ...More

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"Babik Reinhardt’s reunion with Romane, together with the irresistible talent of new-arrival Florin Niculescu on violin, made the New Quintette du Hot Club de France a genuine reference in French jaz...More

David Murray is an American jazz musician. Murray plays mainly tenor saxophone and sometimes bass clarinet. He has recorded prolifically for many record labels since the mid-1970s David Murray was i...More

Lee Konitz is an American jazz composer and alto saxophonist. Generally considered one of the driving forces of Cool Jazz, Lee Konitz has also performed successfully in bebop and avant-garde setting...More

A live recording of Alexander Kobrin performing some of Brahms’s great works for piano. Alexander Kobrin is a winner of several international piano competitions. He toured extensively throughout Eu...More

J.S. Bach and Alfred Schnittke may not immediately strike the listener as obvious musical companions. Yet there are numerous important parallels between the works on this disc. Alfred Schnittke was f...More

Leonid Desyatnikov is one of the most successful living Russian composers. The release of The Leaden Echo with words by Gerard Manley Hopkins is one of the disc’s six works which the composer conside...More

A disc of ground-breaking new works for oboe by the exciting, young oboist James Turnbull...More

In his essay "Über Instrumentalkomposition" of 1963 Hans Werner Henze states: 'Everything moves toward the theatre and comes back from there. (…) In the orchestral pieces it is visibly close, althoug...More

Prince Nicolas Esterhazy, in whose service Haydn spent a large part of his life, was an enthusiastic champion of an instrument that was in the process of disappearing: this was the baryton, a type of...More

The pianist and teacher Carl Reinecke whose pupils included numerous well-known musicians such as Bruch, Grieg, Karg-Elert and Albéniz was held in great esteem by Liszt and Berlioz. As a composer, Re...More

For the second “Glossa Portrait” release the spotlight falls upon a singer who, since the 1990s, has been excelling in broad swathes of Italian Baroque music, whose qualities had remained under-perfo...More

Trouvères is the name given to mediaeval singer-poets in the North of France whose colloquial lyricism was influenced by the “Trobadors” from Occitania in the south of France. The Trouvères composed ...More

A great team of soloists – needless to introduce them- united by their love for chamber music, two masterpieces in the rare repertoire of sextets for piano, wind and strings: this is a regal menu. Do...More

The three orchestral scores gathered here are certainly among Paul Hindemith’s most well-loved works, and for good reason. If his style in the 1920’s at times had struck listeners as sparse and utili...More