Pianist Marc Copland and guitarist John Abercrombie have known each other for over four decades - and now they celebrate their collaborative CD debut as a duo practicing the highly sensitive art of c...More

As a tribute to the artistry of Lorraine Hunt Lieberson (1954-2006), this retrospective gathers together many of the finest recordings of arias and duets made during her acclaimed association with ha...More

Gangeshwari belongs, along with Kameshwari and Jogeshwari, to my original Raga Parameshwari which I created in the early 1960s... performed with Kamala Chakravarty on Tanpura and Ustad Alla Rakha on...More

• Shai Wosner’s second release for ONYX after his critically acclaimed Brahms and Schoenberg debut disc (ONYX4055) of 2010. For his all Schubert programme Wosner has chosen two late sonatas. The monu...More

Women in love, in pain and in emotional turmoil – such is the subject matter of most of the songs that Miah Persson and Joseph Breinl have chosen for this recital of works by Mr. and Mrs. Schumann – ...More

"Since arriving in New York five years ago, Mr. Hekselman has set himself roughly up in the line of Pat Metheny and Kurt Rosenwinkel, with a warm and clean guitar tone, clear articulation, crazily ex...More

The songs sung by 2011 Grammy-finalist Freddy Cole speak of love and life to people all over the world in a voice that is as comforting as it is familiar. His is a well seasoned sound, which while b...More

This programme offers a vivid and varied cross-section of English song, ranging from the Edwardian aesthetic of Quilter and early Vaughan Williams to the intensely expressive style of Howells and Fin...More

Reviews ‘the LSO’s playing is inspirational, both individually and corporately seemingly at one with its great conductor, virtually beyond criticism … Nothing can detract from the excellence of this...More

Saxophone player, composer, pianist, singer, politically committed poet, playwright, Archie Shepp is a legend. Archie Shepp was born in 1937 in Fort Lauderdale in Florida. He grew up in Philadelphi...More

This is a welcome new disc from the brilliant Leopold String Trio, one of the stars in Hyperion’s chamber-music galaxy. The Goldberg Variations stands as one of the greatest keyboard works ever writ...More

To issue a CD of Poulenc's most important choral work is to make a huge statement, and to take something of a risk. Why does one do it? Aren't there enough recordings already? Having said that, in my...More

Emulators of Django – that we've known since their very first album Y va tomber des cordes! under the patronage of Tchavolo Schmitt, that most invincible of Manouche guitarists. Followers of Brassen...More

Tenor Mark Padmore and pianist Paul Lewis conclude their acclaimed Schubert triptych with this revelatory account of Schwanengesang, the third and last of the great Schubert cycles, collected and pub...More

• Pieter Wispelwey and his gut string cello partner for a second time with Paolo Giacometti in a programme of Chopin and Mendelssohn. But there is a another great musical figure on this disc – the ce...More

"Barbaric Beauty hovers between compositions of Telemann and the popular music that inspired him to write them" Miloš Valent on Barbaric Beauty It goes without saying that Telemann had a thorough ...More

In spite of sharing the same city streets during the same epoch and making acquaintances with many of the same people, Schubert and Beethoven never had any direct contact. By the time Schubert was be...More

The multi-award-winning pianist Jean-Efflam Bavouzet continues his great survey of Haydn’s piano sonatas. This is Volume 3 in a series, of which The Times wrote: ‘Who is the best composer for refresh...More

One of the seminal American musical traditions, the spiritual is dramatic, powerful, and profoundly beautiful - the bedrock for much of American music that was to follow. Craig Hella Johnson and Cons...More

The 'INITIALES' series is an invitation to discover the artists of harmonia mundi. Of course there is no need to present Alexandre Tharaud, whose ‘Baroque' trilogy (Rameau, Bach, Couperin) has deligh...More

The 'INITIALES' series is an invitation to discover the artists of the new generation on harmonia mundi. Ten years after a Schubert disc recorded in the ‘New Musicians' series, this double album cele...More

Hailed as ‘the Jascha Heifetz of our day’ (The Globe and Mail, Canada), the violinist James Ehnes is widely considered one of the most dynamic and exciting performers in classical music, appearing re...More

"On Luso Noir, eleven major voices from Angola, Cape Verde and Mozambique sing praises to various forms of the Saudade, a poignant musical expression of weltschemerz inherited from the Portuguese con...More

Söndörgö, lead by the Eredics brothers, is one of the most active and interesting world music groups in Hungary. They play a style of music that is hugely attractive, but little known and quite diff...More

Among his teachers, Mike LeDonne lists the great jazz theoretician and pedagogue John Mehegan but yet there certainly is nothing academic about his playing on KEEP THE FAITH. Mike has held court at ...More

The new recording project of guitarist and composer Chema Vilchez is a fusion of different musical styles and languages such a jazz, flamenco and world music. In it, contemporary jazz harmonies embra...More

At the dawn of a new century when André Campra was busy writing his Carnaval de Venise (1699), was the composer aware that he would be passing onto the Académie Royale de Musique a fabulous and legen...More

Last year’s Mahler in Manchester festival was “A sensory experience like no other,” according to The Sunday Times, not least for the Manchester Camerata’s revelatory performance of Das Lied von der E...More

Joel turned around the world with the show "Salut Brassens" with his partner Jean-Jacques Franchin accordion. It brought new light to the songs of Brassens brings out the extraordinary musical richne...More

The eminent Berlin Philharmonic Wind Quintet (BPWQ) has recorded a number of discs for BIS, including programmes focusing on composers from France, Hungary, America (North and South) and Germany. The...More