GRAMMY® nominated saxophonist-composer and DownBeat Magazine Critics Poll winner Jimmy Greene is proud to release his latest album, As We Are Now. As We Are Now is a poignant musical statement addressing his personal wellbeing – and to some degree, the collective wellbeing of his household and community – more than twelve years after his daughter Ana’s life was violently taken at Sandy Hook School in Newtown, Connecticut.

A genre-defying new album, Salt unfolds as a ritual in movement—a sonic pilgrimage through loss, memory, resistance, and return. The album begins in stillness, in the suspended breath of a woman turning to look back, and from that moment it travels across centuries and sonic landscapes, carrying fragments of Baroque hymns, sacred chants, and contemporary lamentation.

Probably the most perfect version ever recorded of Mozart’s concertos with the incredibly difficult Natural Horn. The use of period instruments, a movement which began in the middle of the past century, is no longer a passing fad or something novel. Rather, it represents a fundamental part of our musical culture whose importance goes far beyond the simple nostalgic or poetic recreation of a score. The “archaic” technical characteristics of period instruments often force performers to seek solutions that, while resulting in a sound closer to historical reality, often surprise the listener. Technical constraints are even more evident in wind instruments, given that the significant evolution in their construction has accentuated the differences that emerged over the course of their development.

Tomorrow Held is the visionary new album by twenty-something mould-breakers and conservatoire-trained virtuosos, fiddle player Owen Spafford and guitarist Louis Campbell. Eight largely instrumental tracks that hold space, resolve into mystery, and fold in elements of jazz, post-rock and chamber music while raiding the folk music toolbox. Call it what you want: post-folk. Trad-noir. Folk nihilism. Then know that Spafford Campbell are blazing a trail that erases genre and finds gold in the embers. Forget about tomorrow, they say. Welcome to the now.

Composer Kay Rhie releases Cereus, a portrait album of chamber works, two including voice, featuring soprano Leela Subramaniam, Winsor Music and the Aperture Duo. Rhie's music draws on her experience as a South Korean born artist living in Los Angeles, responding to the lived environment in outward ways through text setting and thematic context, as well as inward impacts on her compositional process.

"Die Kunst der Fuge" (The Art of Fugue) is the fifth album in the Bach series by Jorg Halubek and his ensemble il Gusto Barocco - the think tank for the music baroque master Johann Sebastian Bach. The new recording is led by Jorg Halubek, who plays the historic German Silbermann Organ from 1737. Together with the Early Music ensemble il Gusto Barocco, they present a unique interpretation of the world famous Bach composition "The Art of Fugue".

Chamber music, in it's centuries-long course, presents the most varied and surprising instrumental combinations: strings, woodwinds, percussion and keyboard instruments have, over time, found almost infinite possibilities of combination. If we wanted to limit ourselves to music composed for three instruments, the differences in instrumentation that tradition allows us to know would even number in the hundreds. In spite of this, however, a trio consisting of guitar, piano and harp has never before been thought of or realised by anyone, in any sphere or in any era.

Simon Mulligan showcases Percy Grainger's diverse musical styles in Volume 2 of the Complete Solo Piano Music. The album features familiar tunes including The Sussex Mummers’ Christmas Carol alongside some overlooked treasures such as the To a Nordic Princess, an example of Grainger's lush Romanticism.

Marking 70 years since Enescu's death, celebrated violinist Charlie Siem returns to Signum Classics performing the Brahms Violin Concerto, and works by George Enescu with previous collaborators, conductor Oleg Caetani and the Philharmonia Orchestra. This release features a world premiere recording of the Brahms Violin Concerto cadenza written by George Enescu. PRAISE for Siem, Caetani and Philharmonia on Signum Classics: "Terrific performance there from Charlie Siem and the Philharmonia Orchestra and conductor, Oleg Caetani" - Classic FM Album of the Week

Martin Tingvall is on the road all over the world both as a solo pianist and with his trio. PA VÄG (English: on the way / on the way) is the program for this. The themes of the piece seem at the same time familiar, almost classical, but also groping, searching and full of surprises. The key of G sharp minor is unusual, but still lies well in the fingers. The jazzinotes edition authorized by Martin Tingvall is set note-for-note – with all the embellishments characteristic of the piece (especially the suggestion notes from the top of the main theme).

Nearly 30 years after its original release, Heatmiser’s last-ever record is back, remastered and reimagined as a two-LP opus containing a set of demos and unreleased tracks, bringing us right back to that DIY Portland studio where a quartet of tempestuous twenty-somethings created pure sonic magic.

Lauded for his “expressive and intense” playing (American Record Guide) which “packs an emotional punch,” (The Strad), Jacob Adams is Associate Professor of Viola at the University of Alabama. Since making his solo debut with the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra at age 17, he has performed at major venues throughout the United States and across four continents. His recordings have been released on the Centaur and Blue Griffin labels. He has premiered new works by celebrated composers, including William Bolcom and Caroline Shaw. Jacob is a regular performer with numerous orchestras, chamber ensembles, and festival series, appearing with A Far Cry (Boston), Camerata Pacifica (Southern CA), Manchester Summer Chamber Music (MA), Rocket City New Music (Huntsville, AL), Brevard Music Center (NC), and the Alabama Symphony Orchestra (Birmingham, AL). He serves as principal violist for the Mobile and Tuscaloosa Symphony Orchestras.

Munich’s Musica Viva concert series began in 1945 as an avenue for performances of new music, much of which had been banned during the Nazi regime. Today, in conjunction with the Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks (BRSO), it remains a significant, high-profile international forum for contemporary composition and includes a CD series.

Composer/poet Oscar Lorenzo Fernández was born in Rio de Janeiro in 1897. He went on to become a leading figure in the development of Brazil’s classical music scene, as a composer, conductor, musicologist, and a professor of harmony in the National Music Institute in Rio de Janeiro, as well as other institutions.

Baritone Will Liverman is an unusually versatile singer, performing both mainstream operatic repertory and music rooted in the African American tradition in which he grew up. He has performed in the premieres of several new works.