As to the music, these orchestral arrangements by Arthur Harris are all boisterously spirited, almost driving into coarseness on some occasions, but each are quite different from one another, providing a well-rounded program.

Sophie Lloyd is one of the most prolific guitarists on the world wide web, a trailblazer who is redefining the concept of a "bedroom" guitarist.

For almost 1,000 years, Nidaros Cathedral has made a strong impression on people.

Today, Austin-based songwriter, filmmaker, and one-man tour de force Mobley releases his highly-anticipated new album "We Do Not Fear Ruins" via Last Gang Records (LISTEN).

Marking Ravel's 150th birthday and the one-year anniversary of Seiji Ozawa's death, Deutsche Grammophon presents Ozawa's recordings with Boston Symphony Orchestra of the composer's orchestral works. This 4 LP set is limited and numbered. The Original Source Series from Deutsche Grammophon features celebrated recordings reissued on vinyl. All recordings have been newly mastered from the original tapes and mixed by Rainer Maillard and cut by Sidney C. Meyer from Emil Berliner Studios. Pressed on 180g virgin vinyl by Optimal, presented in a deluxe gatefold with original artwork and housed in a rigid slipcase. Featuring photos and facsimiles of the recording documentation on the inner sleeve. Each gatefold also contains a note detailing the technical procedure of the Original Source Series.

Adrianne Lenker follows her astonishing Grammy- and BRIT-nominated solo album, Bright Future, with a 120-minute immersive album entitled Live at Revolution Hall. This sonic documentary combines audio from 3 days of the 2024 Bright Future tour and features live performances of fan favourites, deep cuts and unreleased gems, including ‘happiness’, which is available today. A collection of performances and moments captured from Lenker’s 2024 headline tour, the 43 tracks have a delicate fidelity that laces warble with clarity. Engineer Andrew Sarlo’s recordings lift the listener’s feet to float cinematically, at times onstage with Lenker, Nick Hakim (piano) and Josefin Runsteen (violin), then over the crowd, through walls, and even out the door.

An album entitled Renaissance is long overdue for the widely acclaimed Renaissance Man Marcus Miller. In among the most enviable careers in music, Miller is a two-time Grammy-winner and the composer/producer of ten critically acclaimed and genre-defying albums (seven studio and three live). Even the most devoted follower may be astonished to realise that Renaissance is only his eighth studio project since his 1983 debut,

Together with its artistic director Julian Azkoul, the United Strings of Europe develop engaging programmes with the aims of finding threads between different works and epochs, musical cultures and backgrounds, of blending the familiar with the new and of encouraging people to listen to works in different ways and discover new repertoire.

Giovanni Legrenzi (1626–1690) today does not enjoy the fame he deserves, but he must have been esteemed in his lifetime considering he left his Bergamasque hometown of Clusone and – despite a somewhat tortuous path – managed to culminate his career as capellmeister of the ducal Basilica of St Mark in Venice.

Mariani Klavier quartett returns with Vol 3 of their critically acclaimed Brahms & Gernsheim series for Audax Records, pairing Johannes Brahms' dramatic Piano Quartet in C Minor, Op 60, a masterpiece of rich textures and emotional depth, with the lush Piano Quartet in E-flat Major, Op. 41, by Friedrich Gernsheim-an exquisite, yet underappreciated gem of the Romantic repertoire.

Goffredo Petrassi’s reputation was established in 1932 when his Partita (available on Naxos 8.572411) won critical acclaim. Petrassi then composed his Concerto for Orchestra, the first of eight, which, upon its 1935 premiere, secured his reputation outside of Italy.

A portrait of the Soviet-era Armenian composer Arno Babajanian through a trio of his most significant chamber works.
The Russian piano-trio repertoire is dominated by Tchaikovsky, Rachmaninoff and Shostakovich.

From his time as a student at the Leningrad (today’s St Petersburg) Conservatory, Dmitri Shostakovich (1906-1975) developed a strong connection with cinema, earning a living in the 1920s as a pianist for silent films.

The grandeur of Mozart’s Missa solemnis in C minor ‘Waisenhausmesse’ caused Viennese scholars to doubt how it could have been composed by a twelve-year old boy.

Violinist Arabella Steinbacher, the Luxembourg Philharmonic (previously called Orchestre Philharmonique du Luxembourg) and conductor Gustavo Gimeno present violin concertos by Beethoven and Lentz.