The Brodsky Quartet give us the opportunity to hear three of Bach's legendary sonatas for solo violin in an entirely new way, in these world-première recordings of Paul Cassidy's arrangements for string quartet..

This collection from Dame Emma Kirkby is just a small snapshot of a career that started back in 1971. Renowned for her flawless tone and expression, her recordings have been the gold standard in Renaissance, Baroque and Opera...

The City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra and conductor Mirga Grazinyte-Tyla present evocative and dramatic accounts of four works by Elgar, Vaughan Williams, Britten, and Walton.

Following the success of their previous album, English Music for Strings, John Wilson and his Sinfonia of London turn their attention to the music of Henri Dutilleux. His ballet Le Loup was composed as a commission for Roland...

A new and intriguing sampler features a selection of pieces from Hyperion's extensive and varied choral collection.

The third of three volumes featuring The Tallis Scholars' finest recordings

Mozart's creative power literally exploded in the Viennese years 1785 and 1786 - Leif Ove Andsnes investigates this phenomenon in his project Mozart Momentum, together with the Mahler Chamber Orchestra.

This set presents the complete Concerti Grossi by Pietro Antonio Locatelli, modelled on the popular concerti grossi of his teacher Corelli. The writing as might be expected from Locatelli the devil violinist, is highly virtuosic...

Chosen to reperesnt the superb range of Mozart's output and recorded over a period of two weeks at the European Music Festival Stuttgart in September 2006, the more than 20 symphonies in this set range from Mozart's earliest to...

Ligeti's vertiginous studies are breathtaking: extraordinary explorations of the modern piano which test the instrument (and its player) to the limit.

Warner Classics' final release for Beethoven's 250th anniversary year is a charming programme of chamber music with flute.

To mark its 75th anniversary, the Zurich Chamber Orchestra has recorded a selection of favourite masterpieces as a gift to both the musicians and their audiences

Arvo Pärt has succeeded in bringing sacred music back to a broader audience, and away from the confines of the church service, more than almost any other contemporary composer. Pärt's tintinnabuli style of composition...

Charles Ives was an American original, an artist ahead of his time who explored novel combinations of traditional classical forms and American vernacular music, pioneering and exploiting techniques of polytonality, polyrhythm and...

The coronavirus pandemic has really shown music's ability to bring us together and provide comfort in difficult times: whether it's through singing on balconies during lockdown to entertain our neighbours, professional musicians...

Stile Antico launches a trilogy of recordings on the Decca label with a portrait of Josquin des Prez, marking the 500th anniversary of the composer's death

The so-called “Anna Maria Partbook” consists of an elegantly bound volume in red leather containing the violin parts of 31 violin concertos, of which 26 are by Antonio Vivaldi. 

The four works on this disc, all composed in the 1940s, embrace the lingering end of one musical tradition and the vigorous upsurge of another. Richard Stamp unites some of the finest instrumentalists from the UK and Europe in...

This studio recording was made following the acclaimed production at Grieghallen, in Bergen, in 2019 (repeated in Oslo and London and reviewed above). Luxuriant playing from the Bergen Philharmonic and a stellar cast under...

New work from one of the best vocal ensembles currently active anywhere in the world

MacMillan's viola concerto was written for Lawrence Power, who brings a unique authority to this, its first recording. The fourth symphony - a major addition to the repertoire - is a generous and appropriate coupling, both...

The young British soprano Louise Alder traces her family history through a programme of Rachmaninov, Grieg, Medtner, Sibelius, Tchaikovsky and Britten, with superb support from Joseph Middleton.

Joe Hisaishi is one of Japan's most beloved and prolific composers. Best-known as the go-to composer for Studio Ghibli and Hayao Miyazaki (including the Academy Award-winning Spirited Away, My Neighbor Totoro, Princess Mononoke),...

Berlin Philharmonic french horn player Sarah Willis combines her passion for Cuban music with that of one of classical music's most famous composers, Mozart.

Inspired by Ravi Shankar's own wife and based on a tale from the Mahābhārata, Sukanya seamlessly blends Western and Indian musical traditions to tell an epic and magical love story which transcends time and space.

Latvian composer Peteris Vasks (b. 1946) has earned much international acclaim through his deeply spiritual works of choral music, symphonies and concertos. Vasks list of works also includes several pieces of chamber music. This...

In this new recording Phantasm make no excuses for arranging some of Bach's remarkable keyboard music for a consort of viols. The repertoire chosen for this recording has an uncanny way of forging Bach's links with the old English...