For its first DVD release Glossa has chosen a veritable spectacular, combining the strong creative ideas represented by one of its established artistic teams in Hervé Niquet and Le Concert Spirituel,...More

“Quite simply some of the finest guitar playing you'll ever hear.” Gramophone “Nothing obscures the subtlety and beauty of his solo guitar.” The Times World-renowned guitarist William Carter pr...More

After Jean Cocteau had issued tracts such as Le Coq et l’Arlequin (1918) and Le Rappel à l’ordre (1926), arguing against French Impressionism and German Romanticism and in favour of art for art’s sak...More

The Mariinsky label's fourth release features the acclaimed Russian pianist Denis Matsuev joining Gergiev and the Mariinsky Orchestra for recordings of Rachmaninov's Piano Concerto No 3 and Rhapsody ...More

* The programme, entitled ‘Not Just Dowland’ sets the father of English song alongside his contemporary Robert Johnson, who notably composed for the plays of Shakespeare, and the Italians Monteverdi,...More

The composers of the 19th and 20th centuries were often passionate about popular musical traditions. Joseph Canteloube (1879-1957), Maurice Emmanuel (1862-1938), or Emmanuel Chabrier (1841-1894) who ...More

CORO is delighted to announce the release of the BBC’s groundbreaking Sacred Music series on DVD. Presented by renowned actor and former chorister, Simon Russell Beale, Sacred Music explores the flo...More

Leading baritone and dramatic interpreter of his generation, Gerald Finley is an artist who sets alight the stage and delights the ear, whatever the role he portrays. On this his first arias disc,...More

A disc which is a must for any pianophile. 2010 sees the 300th anniversary of Chopin’s birth, and among the many celebratory recordings, this disc will stand out as an historic record of the compo...More

Masaaki Suzuki and his Bach Collegium Japan have taken a short break from Bach’s cantatas in order to record the same composer’s Motets. Although few in number, these include such well-loved works as...More

In his extended liner notes Dejan Lazic explains against the historical background why and how he worked on this major project: ‘composing’ Brahms’s third Piano Concerto! (...) I started working on ...More

For their fourth recording, the young singers of stile antico explore the work of a neglected Tudor master: John Sheppard. The programme showcases his genius across the range of genres in which he ...More

Ceremony is a major new project, the fruit of pianist-composer Omar Sosa’s first big-band collaboration with composer-arranger-cellist Jaques Morelenbaum, Hamburg’s 18–piece NDR Bigband (North German...More

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The first breathes the past into his present ; the second, vice versa. Beyond their careers, what do these two soloists have in common, if not something greater than they are? It had to be two women,...More

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