Piazzolla from Lucienne Renaudin Vary, Bartók from Thomas Dausgaard, Brahms from Antoine Tamestit and Cédric Tiberghien, and French theatre music from Neeme Järvi.
Jazz-rock trio Elephant9's *Arrival of the New Elders* is a carefully composed hard-rocking romp, offering a healthy blend of the rawness of rock, the improvisatory chops of jazz and the spacey, outer-space sounds of psychedelia.
A superb volume comprising of a selection of twenty pieces by Charles Villiers Stanford, the hugely influential composer, conductor, and teacher from the late-Victorian and Edwardian age. Providing the repertoire-hungry organist with preludes, postludes, and shorter descriptive works, suitable for either liturgical or recital use. Find out more here.
Cameron Graves' 'thrash-jazz', experimental vocal jazz-meets-pop, and a series of singles from up-and-coming Russian jazz talent are among our picks for this week's new release round-up.
Chris introduces this month's selection, with a 'sexy, sparkling' account of John Eccles's *Semele* from the Academy of Ancient Music and Julian Perkins in pride of place.
An introduction to Western musical notation; a new translation of Richard Wagner's essays on the art of conducting; a biography of blues singer, Bessie Smith; an encyclopedia of historical performance practice; a look behind the scenes at the Ballets Russes; a guide to piano fingering; a study of concert life in nineteenth-century America; an exploration of music in Ancient Greece; and the history of the ballad singer in Georgian and Victorian London.
The French baritone is on spine-tingling form in a high-octane programme of arias from operas including *La forza del destino*, *Otello*, *Don Carlos*, and *Falstaff*.
Saxophone/drum duo Binker Golding and Moses Boyd give us a raw reinterpretation their debut album, 2017's *Journey to the Mountain of Forever*, in a fiery live recording.
Along with violinist Daniel Hope and mezzo Sasha Cooke, the American composer talks to Katherine about his song-cycle, inspired by and written for a group of instruments which survived the Holocaust.
Julian Bliss playing Gershwin, a new project from nu-jazz keys player Robert Glasper and chamber jazz from saxophonist/composer Aaron Irwin are among our picks for this week's new release round-up.
Introducing Edition Peters' new Urtext edition of Chopin’s *Trois Nouvelles Études*, the latest publication from *The Complete Chopin: A New Critical Edition*. Originally published in 1840 in the multi-composer *Méthode des Méthodes*, the *Trois Nouvelles Études* are Chopin’s least overtly vituosic studies, but they are arguably the most quietly sophisticated of all. Find out more here.