“Good news for lovers of Brazilian music: the cult-album by the Trio Camara, first released in 1968 on Pierre Barouh’s Saravah label, has finally been reissued. The music made by the trio of Fernando...More

Four voices in polyphony supported by percussion. Chet Nuneta is exploring voice through traditonal singings and musical creation. An unrecognized language, a soon to be extinct dialect, the history ...More

Composed of four female singers and a percussionist, the group interprets traditional songs from many countries. Chet Nuneta picks up songs thanks to people they meet, or journeys they make. The mus...More

When modern jazz arrived after the war, the swing bands allowed young people to continue dancing to the sounds of jazz before they’d ever heard of Rock & Roll! Thanks to Pierre Carlu's choice of hits...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

Marin Marais and Antoine Forqueray (1671-1745) represent the two leading figures from the world of the French viola da gamba with – in the opinion of a contemporary in Hubert Le Blanc – the former pl...More

"Brazilian, exuberant, mocking, Mônica Passos plays with her voice's assets : it is full, strong and with a natural artistic elegance. Demanding actress, the singer alleviates the most severe melodie...More

Tide Harmonic is a new work for small ensemble by vthe contemporary British composer Joby Talbot. With a compositional aesthetic that threads through his classical and concert works, this disc was bo...More

Mozart’s songs are surprisingly varied in many ways. Although there isn’t a great number of them, they date from all periods of the composer’s short life and are widely diverse in character, from sim...More

It is obviously a considerable event to find two old accomplices on a scene. Indeed Siegfried Kessler and Archie Shepp have known each other during the 70s, during European tours, between Italy and F...More

It is a sad fact that the reputation and fame of many composers, built up over a lifetime, evaporates on their death bed. Si mes vers avaient des ailes, a short song written when the composer was jus...More

• The four Baroque instrumentalist super stars are reunited in ‘Henry Purcell: Twelve Sonatas in Three Parts’. • Recorded at St George’s, Chesterton, the recording beautifully captures the timeless ...More

This re-release is another addition to David Hill and Westminster Cathedral Choir’s glorious Victoria catalogue. In these exemplary performances the choir demonstrate their sublime musicianship, sens...More

Continuing the series ‘Bach’s Contemporaries’, this volume concentrates on the wonderful music of Johann Schelle—a cousin of Kuhnau (another composer featured in this series). This immensely strikin...More

The Yorkshire Baroque Soloists and Yorkshire Bach Choir were formed in 1973 as the basis of the famous York Early Music Festival, and have built a firm reputation as one of the finest ensembles in th...More

Brucker’s Mass in F minor is his largest and greatest Mass, classical in form but injected with a new vitality. Inspired by the composer’s recent studies of Mozart and Haydn, the Mass is symphonicall...More

Primarily a renowned music critic and conductor and composer of ballets, Constant Lambert wrote very few choral works. Summer’s Last Will and Testament is an extensive cantata of stylistic diversity ...More

Sebastian Knüpfer is yet another Baroque composer whose reputation and popularity have been overshadowed by J S Bach. Little of Knüpfer’s music has previously been transcribed from its many manuscrip...More

Archie Shepp, great musician of the free-jazz, and the group of Dar Gnawa, native of Tangier. In June, 2000, to the festival of Essaouira in Morocco, took place a first meeting between the saxophonis...More

Rachmaninov’s Études-tableaux explore a plethora of colours, textures and sonorites and demonstrate the emotional range of the composer’s expression. Howard Shelley gives authoritative performances o...More

Tomás Luis de Victoria was the greatest composer of the Spanish sixteenth-century ‘golden age’ of polyphonic music. This recording is of the six-voice Missa Dum complerentur, the five-part motet on w...More

This beautiful and iconic re-release from the award winning Gothic Voices is an illuminating journey through medieval Italy. GRAMOPHONE AWARD WINNER ‘The Hyperion recording is a model of its kind’ ...More

The texts sung here recount the principal events of Orlando Furioso. The epic poem of the war between Muslims and Christians lies at the heart of the entire narration and concludes with a Christian v...More

Paz, Salam & Shalom journeys music at the crossroads of the Middle Ages, intersecting Jewish, Christian and Islamic influences. Touching the heartbeat, the lost harmony, of a constantly evolving hum...More

Born on 19th September 1911, Allan Pettersson was a singular voice in Swedish, and indeed European, 20th-century music. Raised in a poor neighbourhood in Stockholm, his first instrument was a fiddle ...More

An almost exact contemporary of François Couperin and only some 15 years older than Rameau, Michel Pignolet de Montéclair taught the children of the first-named and debated music theory with the latt...More

Hailed for his "revelatory" account of Bach's "Well- Tempered Clavier" (The New York Times), Richard Egarr turns to one of the least known collections for solo harpsichord. This complete recording of...More

Neeme Järvi conducts the Royal Scottish National Orchestra in the fourth album of their Wagner series. Their performances on the previous three volumes have received high critical acclaim. American R...More

It was in 2004 that Annette Dacsh recorded this collection of songs composed during the Thirty Years War. Listening to it, we discover that Baroque poets become more accessible when they speak of the...More

The nineteen madrigals Heinrich Schütz published in Venice in 1611 at the age of twenty-six occupy a fundamental position in his career as well as in the history of music. For it was in Italy that th...More