The BBC Young Musician of the Year winner talks to Katherine about his debut solo recording on Warner, which takes its title from a work by Granados and also features music by Bach, Schumann, Liszt and Prokofiev.
Our 25 best-selling titles across all formats for May, with Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla's recording of Weinberg with Kremerata Baltica and the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra in first place...
An almost indecently seductive French song programme from Sandrine Piau, a thought-provoking debut album from young British pianist Martin James Bartlett, and a rare outing for Granados’s one-act opera *Goyescas*, which crackles with Mediterranean heat.
Stan Getz's *Focus* gets a reappraisal, that rare thing, a jazz *with strings* album that challenges, thanks to Eddie Sauter's sophisticated arrangements.
New recordings from Sandrine Piau, Angela Hewitt, Francesco Piemontesi, Trio Zimmermann, and Sakari Oramo, plus the world premiere DVD release of Samuel Barber's 1958 opera *Vanessa*.
Ahead of his appearance as Ottone in Handel’s *Agrippina* at the Barbican tomorrow evening, the Catalan countertenor talks to Katherine about his recent album exploring baroque representations of Alexander the Great.
The bass-baritone talks to Katherine about recording the Finnish composer's song-cycle on texts by Ralph Waldo Emerson, Seamus Heaney and Mahmoud Darwish, written for him in 2014 and released on Ondine earlier this month.
To celebrate his 75th birthday this year, prolific composer Sir Karl Jenkins has released a new album with Decca titled *Karl Jenkins: Piano*. To go alongside the album, Boosey & Hawkes have published a book of sheet music featuring all of the pieces from the album.
A discussion of the relationship between faith and music; analysis of the compositions of nineteenth-century violin virtuoso, Joseph Joachim; an examination of the collaboration between Alfred Hitchcock and Bernard Herrmann; and books about Elton John in celebration of *Rocketman*, the new film starring Taron Egerton.
Matt bends an ear towards some of this week's jazz related releases, from the slowcore guitar of Chris Brokaw, through the upbeat soul jazz of Beatifik to Paolo Russo's Mediterranean musings.
Andrew Manze and the Liverpool Philharmonic round off their Vaughan Williams series with vivid accounts of the majestic seventh and pensive ninth symphonies.
New releases from Korean-born violinist Joo Yeon Sir, James Ehnes and Sir Andrew Davis, and Josep Pons and the BBC Symphony Orchestra, plus a landmark *Gioconda* from the archives.
Thelonious Monk roughed up some of his best known tunes on these exciting and spiky trio sessions, recorded during a troubled period in the pianists life, just before he would break through with some of his definitive albums.
The charismatic American tenor talks to Katherine about his debut solo recording on Pentatone, centring on two composers who have played a pivotal role in his career to date.
Chris introduces this month's selection, headed by Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla’s ‘revelatory accounts’ of two symphonies by Mieczysław Weinberg with the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra and Kremerata Baltica.