For fifteen exciting years the manuscripts of Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach's keyboard concertos have held me in their thrall. Both delightful and challenging at the same time, a hitherto unpublished and therefore completely unknown world revealed it's hidden beauties.With an eighth CD, my series comprising around half of all the available keyboard concertos now comes to an end. This musical form - according to Emanuel Bach himself his 'most personal' - occupied the composer repeatedly throughout his lifetime.

An exciting new violin album from Yeyeong Jenny Jin, Winner of the 2023
Michael Hill International Violin Competition, with pianist Jeonghwan Kim, winner of the 2023 Sydney International Piano Competition. A Winners' Recital.

Heartworms is set to release a deluxe edition of debut album ‘Glutton For Punishment’ on 19th September via Speedy Wunderground, titled ‘Glutton For Punishment (The Poetry Edition)’, alongside a new video for album track ‘Celebrate’. The South London artist has also confirmed two UK winter headline shows in Manchester and London.

Incomparable virtuoso, called the Paganini of the harp, Felix Godefroid was also a composer and a teacher. This recording, performed by Sophie Hallynck, highlights the composer's studies in high virtuosity.

Francesco Piemontesi, conductor Manfred Honeck, and the Gewandhausorchester Leipzig come together in a new recording of Brahms’ Piano Concerto No. 2. This concerto transcends the traditional form, blending symphonic grandeur with virtuosic brilliance and moments of intimate chamber-like dialogue between piano and orchestra. Piemontesi’s sensitive playing and Honeck’s precise, passionate leadership create a richly detailed and moving interpretation of one of Brahms’s greatest masterpieces.

With the Goldmund Quartet's latest project, "Dahoam," we venture into the mountainous Alpine region: the quartet dedicates itself to the traditional melodies and pieces of this region and presents them in exciting arrangements for their instrumentation.

Despite his age, 25, Sebastiaan Visser is already a household name among jazz fusion guitar aficionados in the Netherlands, known for his rich sound and energetic playing. He is part of a new emerging generation of jazz musicians, who musically think outside the box. Nevertheless, fusion is his great passion, and he finds inspiration in jazz-rock icons like Allan Holdworth and John McLaughlin. “Always There” is his 2nd album with Deborah Slijkhuis on electric bass and Sebastiaan Cornelissen/Christopher Verweij on drums and Igor Herstel/Matthijs Geerts on keys. Guest is Sean Freeman on tenor sax.

In the first of several projects for Fuga Libera, Spanish double bassist Uxía Martínez Botana invites us to hear Mendelssohn as never before.

A leading figure of French piano, Jean-Philippe Collard has graced the world’s stages with rare elegance and unwavering dedication, from the Romantic repertoire to the subtleties of French music. A profoundly human interpreter, he combines the rigor of a craftsman with the inspiration of a poet, driven by a quest for inner beauty and sonic authenticity.

To mark the 150th anniversary of Arnold Schoenberg’s birth, the Berliner Philharmoniker have dedicated an edition to the composer in which they present five key works from all of his stylistic periods under the direction of chief conductor Kirill Petrenko.

Flugelhorn, double bass, and a drum kit played with brushes – the sound immediately puts you in the middle of it all, almost as if you were in the middle of it all. The closeness of trumpeter Quentin Ghomari's trio is immediately apparent. "The Peacocks," the classic by Jimmy Rowles, is a perfect vehicle for this.

Recorded at Abbey Road in autumn of 2024, Rainy Sunday Afternoon' nis The Divine Comedy's thirteenth album and their first studio album since 2019's Office Politics.

Regulars of Parisian jazz clubs have known Simon Chivallon for a few years already. Sideman very in vogue, the artist indeed lends his talents as a pianist to many formations - whether trio, quartet, duet… Today, the jazzman comes out of the shadows and allows himself to play in his own name.

To escape the loneliness and the winters in Moscow, Tchaikovsky traveled endlessly, crossing Europe in search of rare freedom. His stays in Paris and Florence resulted in the composition of two chamber music masterpieces – the moving String Quartet no. 3 and the celebrated string sextet titled “Souvenir de Florence”. The composer’s sensitive soul is revealed through the poetry of these works, brought to life by the Modigliani Quartet and their esteemed colleagues.

Following his first album of French lute music, Alban Tixier invites us to join him as he explores the byways of European music dating from the 13th to the 15th century.