There's no question that the 18th century was entirely focused on the vocal achievements of the great singing stars, both male and female - on both sopranos like Bordoni and Cuzzoni and on castrati like Farinelli and Carestini.

Tea Polso's album "Folkcembalo" interweaves the oldest folk music melodies of Ostrobothnia and Sweden with Italian and English basic tones and piano dances of the early Baroque, which have the same harmonic and rhythmic background and intertwine into an organic whole.

Hailed for his “wonderfully warm, pliant, spontaneous playing” by the Washington Post, award winning pianist David Korevaar is in demand as a soloist, chamber musician and collaborator.

VLMV IS X Anniversary Edition with Spatial remixes, live remasters, acoustic versions, original demos, new recordings and a new remix by Robin Southby (Maybeshewill).

The trio on GLOW features Adé on piano, the legendary Andrew Cyrille on drums, and acclaimed bassist Mark Helias with Iqua performing on four tracks.

A veteran sideman whose keyboard artistry has graced the recordings and live performances of everyone from Enrique Iglesias, Thievery Corporation and Fishbelly Black to Everything But the Girl, David Bach struck indie artist gold quickly after sending his self-released contemporary instrumental debut album Window on the West to 40 radio stations in 1997.

Pee Wee Ellis gilt als „The Architect of the James Brown Sound“ (James McBride). Er hat nicht nur Funk Klassiker wie Cold Sweat, Say It Loud! I am Black and Proud und The Chicken komponiert und Meisterwerke von Van Morrison und Maceo Parker wesentlich mitgestaltet, er war bereits als Teenager von Sonny Rollins protegiert worden.

BIG STIR RECORDS presents a very special new album from power pop legends THE SPONGETONES, celebrating the band's illustrious past, their live onstage present, and the promise of future recordings yet to come: THE 40th ANNIVERSARY CONCERT… AND BEYOND.

From Anat Fort's "The Dreamworld of Paul Motian" (8-15-25) on Sunnyside Records.

Wishbone is the upcoming fourth studio album by American singer-songwriter Conan Gray. It is scheduled to be released on August 15, 2025, through Republic Records.

SOMM Recordings celebrates the wealth of popular concert music produced in Vienna in the 19th and early 20th centuries with a release called Dancing in Vienna, an exhilarating collection of waltzes to set your feet tapping.

SOMM Recordings marks the 150th Anniversary of the great French-American conductor Pierre Monteux (1875-1964) with his live performances of Claude Debussy's Images pour orchestre and Igor Stravinsky's Symphony of Psalms.

This new reissue of the Pretenders' 1987 compilation features the 2018 remasters by Chris Thomas for tracks from the first three albums and brand-new remasters for the singles from GET CLOSE.

Bruce Liu, winner of the 2021 International Chopin Piano Competition and famous for his distinctive mix of "feline agility and lightness of touch" (New York Times), breaks new ground with the supposedly well known. Following his enormous success with WAVES, a tribute to French composers and nature themes, The Seasons now focuses on Tchaikovsky's and Liu's relationship with music. "For me, this is a moment to explore some personal emotion," the pianist says of his latest album, which envelops the Russian composer's intimate and profoundly poetic language with musical breathing space.

We continue our exploration of Carlo Maria Giulini's discographic legacy with a lesser-known aspect of his career, one that was nevertheless decisive in shaping his future as a conductor: opera. He recorded relatively few, apart from a few legendary recordings such as his Don Giovanni, and for a long time refused to conduct from the late 1960s onwards, tired of the constant ego clashes that undermined opera houses.