Internationally acclaimed mezzo-soprano and Grammy Award-winner Joyce DiDonato stars as Dido in this recording captured at Essen Philharmonie, part of a European tour that included prestigious venues such as the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées and Teatro Real de Madrid. The whole Dido & Aeneas team is a terrific ensemble featuring tenor Michael Spyres (Aeneas), soprano Fatma Said (Belinda), Beth Taylor (Sorceress),… and Il Pomo d’Oro, under the baton of Maxim Emelyanychev.

The ferocious swing and robust melodicism of 'Split Decision' is the third in a trilogy of blistering summit concerts captured in front of a live audience on stage at Smoke Jazz Club.

Come Live With Me represents a creative peak that sounds fresher in 2025 than it may have in 1974. The first album on his Crossover label, it lives up to the label’s name by showcasing the man’s singular ability to cross over to any audience by making songs from any time or genre undeniably his own.

Pino Palladino and Blake Mills return with their second collaborative album, 'That Wasn't a Dream'. This record follows their 2021 debut 'Notes With Attachments', which Pitchfork described as 'the sound of consummate collaborators imagining a world where there's no such thing as a lead performer'.

California-based rock powerhouse Robert Jon & The Wreck double down on their signature blend of hard-hitting rock and country influences with their Dave Cobb-produced ninth studio album, Heartbreaks & Last Goodbyes. Fourteen years into their celebrated career, The Wreck’s dynamic sound—steeped in blues, soul, gospel, country, and psychedelic rock—has never been sharper. Now, with nine-time Grammy-winning producer Dave Cobb at the helm, the band has pushed its artistry to new heights.

Written in Seven Sisters and recorded in LA with Grammy-winning, master producer Greg Kurstin last year, 'The Clearing' reveals where Wolf Alice stand sonically in 2025, delivering a supremely confident collection of songs bursting with ambition, ideas and emotion.

You're Exaggerating! features Cornish with the rhythm tandem of bassist Joshua Crumbly and drummer Jonathan Pinson, performing nine original compositions, most of them inspired by personal memories, reflections and idols. Helmed by a generous, uplifting bandleader, the trio chops up and reinvents the groove at will and embarks on unforeseen detours. Cornish's approach, in its even-keeled texture and shrewd harmony, is a sort of mastery that entices rather than merely impresses.

Laufey's third album, A Matter of Time, is a beautiful masterpiece of introspection about the anguish that comes with life and love.

Deftones have always defined boundless creativity in the music space. Across nine prior studio albums, they have carved out an unmistakable sonic identity — ferocious yet dreamlike, while making space for constant refinement and surprise. Now, decades on from the groove-forward sound of their era-defining debut, Adrenaline, and following a long line of masterpieces including 2000’s White Pony, 2010’s Diamond Eyes and 2020’s Ohms — an album that earned them their second and third Grammy nominations — they return with one of the most focused statements of their career: private music.

Music that makes the ears grow' -this is how lutenist David Bergmuller characterises the music he has chosen for his solo recital. The charm of this album lies in its complexity, in the quiet, near-silent tones, in its meditative character. This is precisely why this repertoire still fascinates us today, because it forms a calming counterpoint to our overstimulated world. French lute music combined with David Bergmuller's own arrangements.

Country and gospel singer/songwriter Barbara Fairchild recorded her first single when she was just 15 years old. She secured a songwriting contract with MCA right out high school, but continued to perform. She soon had a recording contract with Columbia Nashville and delivered the single "Love Is a Gentle Thing" in 1969.

A unique talent with a remarkable voice: Germany's Jazzthing magazine praised her "delicate, wonderfully clear voice with absolutely perfect intonation".

Kurt Elling – the two-time Grammy Award-winning performer and writer – will reinforce his status as a potent force in the arts world with a fall season encompassing an impressive range of projects, including making his Broadway debut starring as “Hermes” in Hadestown, the Tony Award-winning “Best Musical,” beginning on Tuesday, September 2. His new jazz recording Wildflowers, Vol. 3, will be released on Friday, August 22 as he continues to tour in major cities with concerts throughout the United States and Europe.

Poulenc (1899-1963) was a pianist himself, and composed solo piano pieces the whole of his artistic life, from the early Trois mouvements perpétuels of 1918, when he was 19 years old, to the third Novelette and last Improvisation of 1959, both included on this CD, not long before his death. When he was 15, his mother had found for him the ideal and congenial piano teacher in the Catalan pianist Ricardo Viñes, who became his mentor and encouraged the young Poulenc in every way.

Clarinetist Michele Marelli channels the visionary spirit of Karlheinz Stockhausen in this electrifying album of works for clarinet, bass clarinet, and basset horn. From the hypnotic textures of Harmonien to the cosmic transformations of Bassetsu and the dialogic expressivity of In Freundschaft, Marelli embodies the restless Harlequin Stockhausen saw in him. The album also features the luminous zodiac cycle Tierkreis, which is masterfully interpreted by Marelli and the celebrated pianist Gianluca Cascioli. More than performers, they become vessels – rendering Stockhausen’s cosmic spirituality and intricate structures with clarity, devotion, and otherworldly intensity.