Greg Foat, Moses Boyd and Jihad Darwish in a classic piano trio setting. Three Superb musicians skillfully performing Foat's distinctive and endearing compositions.

One of the leading sarod players of India from Kolkata, Partho Sarothy will be joining sitarist Paul Livingstone for a tour of the Americas in the Spring of 2025. Paul and Partho have been performing together for more than 15 years performing in India, US and Mexico. They offer an extension of the tradition of dynamic interactive improvisation exemplified by their guru the legendary Pandit Ravi Shankar and his groundbreaking work with Ustad Ali Akbar Khan. Paul and Partho have a new record release of pure alap jor duet in Raga Jogeshwari a raga creation of their illustrious guru. Listening link above. Paul and Partho along with tabla virtuoso Abhijit Banerjee bring a cohesive and 21st century approach to the Maihar Gharana legacy of ensemble playing known as jugalbandi.

To mark the 50th anniversary of Dmitri Shostakovich’s death on August 9, the Oliver Schnyder Trio—joined by violinist Julia Fischer and violist Nils Mönkemeyer—has recorded Shostakovich’s Piano Quintet in G minor, Op. 57. This cornerstone of his chamber output is complemented by both of his piano trios.

Listening, in its truest sense, is a dying art, but it's one The Wood Brothers are committed to practicing and upholding as a virtue.

Saint-Saëns, as Mats Lidström notes, did not have exclusive rights to draw inspiration from swans and this album presents twenty-four examples from a wide range of composers, written before and after the one featuring in Saint-Saëns’s menagerie. Most are heard in arrangements for cello made especially for the album by Mats, who is accompanied by his son, Leif Kaner-Lidström.

An unusual artist with an unconventional résumé, pianist and electroacoustic composer Nicolas Horvath is known for his boundariesless musical explorations. Horvath is both an enthusiastic promoter of contemporary, avant-garde, experimental & minimal music and a rediscoverer of forgotten or neglected composers.

The Gesualdo Six explore different aspects of light and shade—musical evocations of dawn and dusk, the seasonal and the sacred—by composers from Saint Hildegard, writing in the twelfth century, to Owain Park in the twenty-first. The participation of trumpeter Matilda Lloyd, whether soaring above or blending with the voices, makes this a G6 album like no other. Matilda Lloyd is an exclusive artist of Chandos Records and appears here with their kind permission.

By the mid 70s, the New York Latin scene was boomin' so large it could easily fill venues like Yankee Stadium – as you'll hear on this excellent live set from the Fania All-Stars, a monster record that easily ranks with the best live Latin sides of the time – like Eddie Palmieri at Sing Sing, the Tico-Alegre All Stars at Carnegie Hall, or Mongo Santamaria at Yankee Stadium!

The follow-up to 2024's acclaimed 'Obsessed', Wade continues the intense exploration of her psyche's recesses across 11 songs that she again wrote solo.

The National Philharmonic (NatPhil) at Strathmore is an orchestra with over fifty professional musicians based at the Music Center at Strathmore in North Bethesda, Maryland. Founded in the mid-1980s as the Montgomery Chamber Orchestra by principal conductor Piotr Gajewski, it became the National Philharmonic in 2003 after merging with the Masterworks Chorus.

Crematory is a German metal band formed in 1991. The band became recognizable in the mid-1990s, performing on tour as an opening act for such bands as My Dying Bride, Tiamat and Atrocity. The band started with a traditional death metal style, then adopted industrial and gothic metal styles in the recordings of later albums.

Was mir behagt, ist nur die muntre Jagd (The lively hunt is all my heart's desire), BWV 208.1, BWV 208, also known as the Hunting Cantata, is a secular cantata composed by Johann Sebastian Bach, belatedly for the birthday of Duke Christian of Saxe-Weissenfels on 27 February 1713. A performance lasts about forty minutes. The aria "Schafe können sicher weiden" ("Sheep May Safely Graze") is the most familiar part of this cantata.

The name of Domenico Ferrari (1722-1780) was well known throughout Europe in the second half of the 18th century. He was considered one of the finest violin virtuosos as well as a sublime composer.

Das Programm des Albums Schönheit & Staatsversagen mit dem Ensemble Almanach reichert die Musik von Lindpaintner, Schumann, Lachner und anderen mit Texten an und erzählt von einer sehr vertrauten und doch auch völlig fremden Welt: Bayern um 1800. Im Mittelpunkt stehen große menschliche Gefühle und die Realitäten des Lebens in zwei Welten – Stadt und Land, reich und arm, klassische Bildung und traditionelles Analphabetentum. Für das heutige Publikum halten die Kompositionen und Erlebnisberichte eine ganze Fülle an Neuentdeckungen bereit, vor allem in dieser Kombination.

Twice nominated for a Latin Grammy, the grande dame of Brazilian piano records re-readings of waltzes by Chopin, Sibelius, Debussy, Mignone, Ronaldo Miranda and Cristovão Bastos.