Contemporary jazz, funk, swing: How much is possible with just 3 musicians? How little? The trio "Bird's Free Funk" plays calm and melody followed by groove and beats in original compositions, so that a new world opens up in a minimal line-up. Intense and gripping, with the search for beauty of sound, in which each musician bears maximum responsibility, the trio plays its way from bebop to Latin jazz to modern compositions. The three young musicians from Hanover and Berlin try to give jazz their own flavour, away from too much and towards the most necessary, the most musical, the most beautiful.

The classical decoder! Clément Lebrun is a born pedagogue: in just a few words, this inspired all-rounder makes the greatest works of classical music accessible.. In this programme intended for all ears, he tells the story of Berlioz’s Symphonie fantastique , movement by movement, with the enthusiastic participation of the Orchestre de Paris (conducted by Quentin Hindley), which we also hear perform the work in its entirety under the direction of its eminent former music director Paavo Järvi. Classical is Fantastic!

Arseniy Gusev's performances have been described as a blend of superb technical proficiency and lyrical romanticism seldom found in equal measure, especially in one so young.

Il Viaggio is an offering, a quest for musical, physical, and spiritual renewal, born from an emotional memory awakened. Joining the concrete and ambient, it drifts from the natural sounds of a new day towards a dreamed world. Taking to the road to reinvent oneself is the common thread running through this album, which is organized as a sonic journey in two parts, Lay Your Ear To The Rail (Disc 1) and The Chaos Azure (Disc 2).

Following the critically acclaimed "10 Reasons To…" (2019) and "Far And Distant Things" (2021), versatile British keyboard virtuoso Benjamin Croft returns with his third album "We Are Here To Help". An epic blend of progressive rock and metal pushing further the boundaries of musical and sonic excellence.

In March of 2010, XL Recordings released Titus Andronicus’ epic second album THE MONITOR, immediately elevating the upstart New Jersey rock band to legendary status.

On her third PENTATONE album Nostalgia, Magdalena Kožená presents Bartók’s Village Scenes, Mussorgsky’s The Nursery and a selection of Brahms songs, together with acclaimed pianist Yefim Bronfman. Sung in Slovak, Russian and German, these songs on love, longing and innocence show three master composers transforming folk traditions into their unique musical styles.

Based on August Strindberg’s celebrated 1888 play Miss Julie, chamber opera Juliana (2018) unites composer Joseph Phibbs and librettist Laurie Slade in a modern tale about the power of money, immigration politics, drugs and the blurring of sexual boundaries. In confronting these issues head-on, the power of aristocracy is replaced by that of plutocracy.

‘There are works that are like a bridge built across the absolute, an attempt to go beyond Time’. So wrote - signing his name with the initials V.H. - the author of the article that appeared on 1 April 1941 in Le Lumignon, the newspaper of Stalag VIII A in Görlitz, Silesia, the labour camp where Olivier Messiaen was held prisoner, and where, on the frigid 15 January 1941, that masterpiece ‘beyond time’ that is the Quatuor pour la fin du Temps saw the light of day.

Aretha Franklin's youngest sister, Carolyn Franklin wrote some moderately successful songs for both herself and her other sister Erma.

Following on from his formidable complete recording of the Preludes, Nikolai Lugansky now immerses us in two more major cycles by Rachmaninoff, the Études-tableaux.

"Where are you going to get original arrangements of the Grateful Dead, Eddie Harris, The Beatles, Bessie Smith, Ellington, and Charles Mingus, and not played as novelties but, like, this is our music?"

In the Night is a 1958 album by the jazz pianist George Shearing and the singer Dakota Staton.

"The music of the Edinburgh composer William Beaton Moonie (1883–1961) is as good as unknown.

Die kanadische Pianistin Francine Kay wird von der Fachpresse für die Schönheit ihres Klangs sowie für die Intensität und Tiefe ihrer Interpretationen gelobt.