Tchavolo Schmitt was introduced to the guitar at the age of 6 by his mother; his father played the violin. He developed, with time, a virtuosity in the manouche style and his renown rapidly exceede...More

The best recordings by guitar virtuoso Jon Larsen, one of the original pioneers from the renaissance of the Django Reinhardt music. Here together with Babik Reinhardt (Django's son), a 13 year old Ji...More

Susanne Heinrich’s first solo release for Hyperion was a deliciously atmsopheric award winning disc of music by Abel. She continues her exploration of the world of the viol with this fascinating sele...More

It was Rembrandt’s engraving The Three Crosses (1653) that inspired Frank Martin to conceive his oratorio Golgotha, sweeping aside his reluctance to write music on religious themes. In daring to co...More

The acclaimed Borodin String Quartet’s second recording for Onyx. Borodin’s remarkable 1st quartet with its references to Beethoven’s op131 is coupled with Stravinsky’s wonderfully concise Concertino...More

Hamburg, 1674: to his contemporaries, the death of Matthias Weckmann seemed to herald the end of a glorious period. In his post as organist of the Jacobikirche since 1655, the composer had breathed...More

GIMELL RECORDS AND THE TALLIS SCHOLARS CELEBRATE 30 YEARS OF RECORDINGS IN 2010 "The rock stars of Renaissance vocal music" New York Times Victoria’s nine Lamentations contain some of his most ...More

“These are the finest versions of Mozart's greatest symphonies to have appeared on disc in years.” The Guardian (on ‘Mozart Symphonies 38-41’) “Mackerras and the SCO triumph in the finest accounts...More

A serene and warm feeling of beauty takes hold of the listeners while listening to « Soul Dancers ». With obvious naturalness, the melodies are about hope and love. The band plays with such intensi...More

This new Handel collection features two great singers alongside the English Concert, arguably the best baroque orchestra in the UK. Duets play a key role in Handel’s stage works. A master of the Baro...More

Oswald von Wolkenstein (literally ‘Oswald of the castle in the clouds’) is one of the greatest enigmas of the history of western music. This key figure of German literature travelled all over 15th-ce...More

Juan Carmona belongs to that generation of musicians who cannot resign themselves to working alone, in solitary confinement, even inside the gilded cage of a superlative musical tradition. His stat...More

Orange Mountain Music presents a sampler which surveys the great variety of Philip Glass’ music drawn from the label’s expansive catalog. This 21-track disc presents Glass’ music written for an incr...More

Jean-Efflam Bavouzet’s complete Debussy cycle has proven to be among the best-selling recordings for Chandos in recent years and an award-winning collection across the world. He now embarks on the Ha...More

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Winner of the 2009 Midem Classical Award for Artist of the Year - Instrumental. The mercurial partnership of Angela Hewitt and Daniel Müller-Schott brought ‘overwhelming intensity and emotional gr...More

A heritage of impeccable taste... This recording by Alexandre Tharaud follows in the tradition of his earlier CDs devoted to Rameau, Ravel and Bach. Once again the young French pianist revisits in...More

With her soulful and riveting interpretation of her land’s captivating fado style, Portuguese singer Ana Moura has become a leading exponent of this poetic, deeply expressive idiom which personifie...More

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"This 14 CDs boxed set features the Complete Django Reinhardt recordings from 1938 to 1947. The Century special edition delivers #8 to #14 volumes of Fremeaux & Associés' ""Complete Django Reinhardt"...More

Neeme Jarvi conducts the Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra in the launch of a revealing orchestral series; the works of Johan Halvorsen. Volume one of this four volume series, features a mixture of we...More

These hymns to Shiva, performed by the oduvar cantors, are sung at daily rituals and for calendar feasts in temples of Tamil Nadu: based on the raga and pan, these short hymns rise for the pleasure o...More

9 audio CDs + 1 CD-ROM for the price of 6 CDs! When Allen Lowe’s previous CD documentary, Minstrel to Mojo [American Pop] was released, it was acclaimed as one of the ten best boxed sets of the ye...More

Described in the BBC Music Magazine as ‘the finest Shostakovich interpreter of his generation’, Mark Wigglesworth began his cycle of Shostakovich’s symphonies with the BBC National Orchestra of Wales...More

This disc constitutes the memoir of the concerti of Vespro della Beata Vergine (Vespers of the Blessed Virgin) of Claudio Monteverdi which took place in Palermo in the church of Santa Maria dello Spa...More

As the composer that Johann Sebastian Bach at the age of twenty walked more than 400 kilometres in order to meet, Dietrich Buxtehude holds a place of honour in the history of music. Luckily, an impor...More

In 2008, to great acclaim, Thomas Dausgaard and the Swedish Chamber Orchestra completed their 3-disc cycle of Schumann’s symphonies. Gramophone described it as ‘riveting’ while the German website kla...More

Yet again giving proof of her great versatility, Sharon Bezaly's latest release consists of four concertante works, composed between 1980 and 2007. Each work has been recorded with a different orches...More

...behind D’Amor ragionando there is another, more fundamental aim: that of bringing the texts into a closer relationship with the music and giving new life and depth, from both the literary and dram...More

It has been conjectured that the eighteen-year old Mozart wrote his earliest concerto for wind instruments, the Bassoon Concerto K. 191, to fulfill a commission from Baron Thaddäus von Dürnitz, a wea...More