Clémence de Forceville is considered one of the most promising French violinists of her generation. Her numerous activities as a soloist, chamber musician, concertmaster and teacher make her an accomplished and versatile musician. Prizewinner of numerous national and international competitions, she collaborates as a soloist with various orchestras such as the Baden-Baden Philharmonic Orchestra, the Orchestra of New Europe, the Südwestphalia Philharmonic Orchestra, the Orchestre de Chambre de Paris or the Chamber Orchestra of Catalonia, in the great classical and romantic concertos as well as contemporary creations.

NOVO Quartet – like novo, “new.” The name reflects the curiosity and spirit of discovery that has already carried these four musicians, trained by Tim Frederiksen, to the podiums of the Geneva and Carl Nielsen competitions. Their debut album, Track 1, returns to their roots: Shostakovich’s String Quartet No. 8, the very first piece they studied together; HJERTEBLAD (literally “heart-leaf,” the seed’s first leaf) by Matias Vestergaard, which opened the door to contemporary repertoire; and Carl Nielsen’s First Quartet, a tribute to the “great Danish hero” and the starting point of an upcoming complete cycle.

After a first album (Because, Alpha 936) devoted to African American spirituals that won several awards (Opus Klassik, Edison Klassiek, GRAMMY® Award nomination), the American countertenor Reginald Mobley devotes this new recording to English repertoire with a simple combination of primarily voice, lute, and viola da gamba.

Everything in the world—whether it is life, a piece of art, a scientific discovery, a revolution, or even a simple idea—has its own starting point. For composers, it is the work that marks their first step into the world. 'Opus 1' is an exploration of those beginnings, where ambition meets uncertainty and raw ideas take shape. In this album, pianist Anna Geniushene, whose career highlights include being a Silver Medalist at the 2022 Van Cliburn International Piano Competition and being named Young Artist of the Month by Musical America, explores the early creative voices of great Romantic composers such as Chopin, Schumann, Brahms, Berg and Tchaikovsky, uncovering the ambition, curiosity, and individuality that shaped their musical identities. Was an Opus 1 a declaration of will or just a sketch of what was to come?

Don’t Trust Mirrors marks one of the most transformative chapters in New York-based composer and producer, Kelly Moran’s career. In 2019, fresh from touring her Warp debut Ultraviolet, she began shaping a more rhythmic follow-up inspired by late nights on the dancefloor. But personal upheaval and the halted tours of the pandemic redirected her path, leading first to 2024’s Moves in the Field, praised by The New York Times as “softhearted but steel-skinned.” Now Moran returns to the project she once paused. Don’t Trust Mirrors explores distortion, reflection, and the slow work of piecing yourself back together. Featuring Warp labelmate Bibio, its 10 tracks shimmer with textural refractions — an immersive journey towards self-reconnection and focus.

In the world of Nu Art Orchestra, big band music takes an adventurous trip. This is not your average big band, but an ensemble that hits the road with brand new, original music written by band members. Nu Art Orchestra was initiated by saxophonist and composer Marike van Dijk (you may know her from the North Sea Jazz composition assignment ‘Stranded’ from 2022), to create a contemporary and fresh big band sound. The ‘Nu’ in Nu Art Orchestra stands for 'new' and 'uncompromising'. Line-up includes some of Europe's most inspiring jazz musicians: Tineke Postma, Suzan Veneman, Franz von Chossy, Maxine Troglauer, Nabou Claerhout.

Following the critically acclaimed reception of Canadian born bassist and composer Zack Lober’s debut album NO FILL3R, hailed by the Jazz press as “quietly adventurous” (Downbeat Magazine) and “deceptively intense and seductive” (All About Jazz), the trio featuring Dutch wave-makers Sun-Mi Hong (drums) and Suzan Veneman (trumpet) returns with a new album: So We Could Live with special guest Dutch tenor master Jasper Blom.

Uncompromisingly, the composers of Latin America pay a no-holds-barred tribute to their peoples, enhancing the melodies and rhythms that drive their lives. From romantic influences to innovating languages, each work testifies to a tradition. For Vittorio Forte, this record is also the snapshot view of a reflection which crystallises an urge to explore a unique realm, to delve into it and embark on a journey, to retrace an entire history, going back to the very origins of what inspires artistic creation.

As a Japanese cellist, Michiaki Ueno wishes to introduce the world to the remarkable body of music composed in his homeland. At first glance, this might seem like a conventional statement - something anyone might say. Yet, when we consider his background, the words take on a different weight.

Born of a friendship formed at London's Royal College of Music over 10 years ago and boasting a discography of seven recordings, the Busch Trio takes its name from the legendary Adolf Busch, whose G.B. Guadagnini violin Mathieu van Bellen has the honour of playing. Van Bellen and the Epstein brothers — Omri on piano and Ori on cello — now launch their ambitious project of recording the complete Beethoven piano trios.

Carlo Mazzoli e Silvia Rambaldi, studiosi appassionati degli strumenti storici e della prassi esecutiva della musica antica, sono stati docenti per molti anni – rispettivamente di Pianoforte e di Clavicembalo – al Conservatorio «G.B. Martini» di Bologna, dove hanno realizzato numerosissimi progetti didattici e concertistici. Hanno avuto un riferimento costante nel maestro Luigi Ferdinando Tagliavini, con il quale hanno collaborato assiduamente all’attività del Museo di San Colombano di Bologna che dal 2010 ospita la sua collezione di strumenti storici; sono entrambi presenti con alcune esecuzioni, solistiche e in duo, nel dvd Il vibrar dell’aria dedicato al Museo. Proprio con esecuzioni su tali antichi strumenti ha preso il via lo studio delle opere di Clementi per duo che ha portato a questa registrazione integrale.

The first album of Postcards from Ukraine gave a potted history of Ukrainian music in the form of a series of miniatures for piano and violin. In this second instalment four representative chamber works demonstrate how quickly music in Ukraine developed its own identity – although all four composers here had to contend with repression by the authoritarian regime to the north. One of them, Vasyl Barvinsky, even spent ten years in the Gulag, with his manuscripts destroyed by the Soviet authorities. Upon his release, unbowed, he set about reconstructing those lost scores, though he died before he could complete the task. His glorious A minor Piano Trio gives an indication of what was nearly lost – and how much remains to be discovered.

From the early 17th century onwards, the polyphonic motet that had dominated sacred music in previous centuries found itself complemented in both liturgical and devotional contexts by a new, more stream– lined form: the solo motet.

This anthology of unknown American violin sonatas – the first of a series – reveals music of astonishing craftsmanship and energy. All three composers – Rossetter Gleason Cole, Henry Holden Huss and Henry Schoenefeld, born less than ten years apart – went to Germany to study before returning to enrich American musical life at the turn of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The sheer confidence of their writing, for both violin and piano, in these sonatas, in a bold Brahmsian style, indicates how much more fine music still has to be discovered, in the output of these three men and from their ‘lost generation’ of American composers more generally.

The 1977 Voyager I and II spacecraft contained, among other things, two “Golden Records” that each carried a representation of life and culture on Earth into deep space. The records included the sounds of nature, greetings in 50 languages, and an assortment of music from around the world.