The San Francisco Symphony and Music Director Michael Tilson Thomas release a live recording of Mahler’s Symphony no. 8 plus the Adagio from Mahler’s Symphony no. 10, the eleventh installment of thei...More

Bach Collegium Japan was founded in 1990 by Masaaki Suzuki, who remains the ensemble’s music director. Five years later, BCJ and BIS Records launched a complete cycle of Bach’s church cantatas – a cy...More

Bach Collegium Japan was founded in 1990 by Masaaki Suzuki, who remains the ensemble’s music director. Five years later, BCJ and BIS Records launched a complete cycle of Bach’s church cantatas – a cy...More

Bach Collegium Japan was founded in 1990 by Masaaki Suzuki, who remains the ensemble’s music director. Five years later, BCJ and BIS Records launched a complete cycle of Bach’s church cantatas – a cy...More

It’s been five long years since East-West fusion blues artist Harry Manx released an album of original material. His ninth CD, titled “Bread and Buddha” is quite prescient for these uncertain times. ...More

Bach Collegium Japan was founded in 1990 by Masaaki Suzuki, who remains the ensemble’s music director. Five years later, BCJ and BIS Records launched a complete cycle of Bach’s church cantatas – a cy...More

Igor Stravinsky is arguably the most important composer of the twentieth century. In this 1967 program from the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, he is seen in rehearsal and performance segments, le...More

Chandos Movies, with conductor Rumon Gamba has developed quite a reputation for re-discovering music from the halcyon days of British cinema. In this latest instalment, Chandos Movies welcomes the fi...More

Irish-born singer SUSAN McKEOWN and THE KLEZMATICS’ New York-based lead vocalist LORIN SKLAMBERG consolidate the cross-cultural collaboration begun on Wonder Wheel (2006), which garnered a GRAMMY® fo...More

As their beloved city gradually rebounds from Hurricane Katrina, the New Orleans Jazz Orchestra’s World Village début, Book One, reflects upon and champions the Big Easy’s indomitable spirit. Bandl...More

Paul Lewis performed all the Beethoven piano sonatas on tour in the USA and Europe between the 2005 and 2007 seasons, in parallel with his complete recording of the cycle for harmonia mundi. His in...More

As well as being a virtuoso soloist and improviser on the piano, Beethoven was also a competent violinist – an experience he put to good use in his ten sonatas for violin and piano. Isabelle Faust ...More

Bach Collegium Japan was first noticed internationally for undertaking the huge project of recording the complete church cantatas of J. S. Bach. Although the ensemble’s discography consists of predom...More

Gramophone Record of the Month - Sept 2009. Winner of the 2009 Midem Classical Award for Artist of the Year - Instrumental. Recorded and released in the ‘anniversary year’ of both Handel and Hayd...More

Discovery of the year and veritable phenomenon of virtuosity and sensibility Frédéric Demers on trumpet, cornets and fluegelhorn proposes his brand new CD consisting of original arrangements. Disc...More

The scene is a small club about 20 minutes west of Manhattan in West Orange, New Jersey. For six years the club's proprietor, drummer Cecil Brooks III has been dedicated to bringing spirited jazz per...More

Buzz Brass and the organist Mélanie Barney gather to present The Planets in a personalized version. This symphonic repertoire icon, which made Gustav Holst famous, portrays the astrological temper of...More

A graduate of the University of North Texas's legendary jazz program and an alumnus of such A-list ensembles as the Toshiko Akiyoshi Big Band, the Mel Lewis Orchestra, and the small combos of Jack Mc...More

Two inventors of instruments meet and dialog in the atmosphere of Wuppertal, Germany. Hans Reichel, maker of the Daxophone and Ganesh Anandan, maker of the Shruti Stick and the metallophone. The Daxo...More

In 2004, Darren Lowe and Suzanne Beaubien formed a new ensemble, the Trio Frontenac. Descending from a similar musical tradition, in addition to being one of the rising stars among Canadian musicians...More

French puns can be diabolical: the title “Doudou à feu doux” not only rhymes and alliterates, but the meaning is the opposite: literally “Doudou on the back burner”, what the title really means is th...More

“Les Malheurs de Sophie” is one of the most famous books in French’s children literature. Written by the Contesse de Ségur, it tells the story of this funny and cheerful Sophie, a young girl whose ev...More

Pierre Labbé finally delivers his follow-up to 2003's Risque et pendule in the form of Manivelle. "I have been trying to make music both organic and spiritual for several years now. Music that sweats...More

Signed to Linn Records via an anonymous demo, the quality of which immediately drew the attention of the A&R team, Mark Moraghan and Nicky Campbell have created a first-class album of original swing....More

This 3 CD boxed set delivers a Luc Ferry special production for Fremeaux & Associes, in which the philosopher explains its own way of thinking modernity and philosophy, renews our way to think in a r...More

Rainer Wiens offers an album of solos and duets entitled Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors. Drawing inspiration from his work on African rhythm, Wiens has written complex pieces, marvelously performed b...More

Christine Tassan et les Imposteures once again bundle their energy, humor, and creativity in this second album. Rich vocal harmonies, slick arrangements, their manouche jazz flows gleefully between s...More

"The "Album d'Or de la Biguine" had considerable success throughout the Caribbean with its selection of dance-music from Guadeloupe; its recordings of this heritage used Sixties & early Seventies stu...More

"Not only a form of expression unique to black America, the blues is one of the major musical elements of jazz. Great jazzmen are often also great bluesmen with the gift of adapting the sound of the ...More

"This set brings together all the recordings by Taos Amrouche originally released on the Arion label. The 5CDs propose an unrivalled synthesis of our knowledge of the artistry and oral culture contai...More