The countertenor talks to David about his new album with Fretwork, playing off the juxtaposition of baroque works by Henry Purcell with works by contemporary composer Michael Nyman.
This year marks the 300th anniversary of the oldest music publisher in the world, Breitkopf & Härtel. Find out more about the company and their new publications here.
The British pianist and Royal Philharmonic Society Award-winner talks to Katherine about reconstructing and recording the piano concertos of the Czech composer with the Swedish Chamber Orchestra and Nicholas McGegan.
New albums from Christian Thielemann, Carolyn Sampson, Cappella Gabetta and Alban Gerhardt, plus a collection of Sir John Eliot Gardiner's Berlioz recordings.
Syrian clarinettist Kinan Azmeh talks to David about his new double album showcasing his own compositions and those of three other composers from his native country.
Chris introduces this month's selection, with the top spot going to a recording of Mahler's Symphony No. 7 which 'tells you not just how much Iván Fischer loves this work but how he loves it unconditionally'.
Let us journey back to the Newport Jazz Festival in 1956, to witness a demoralised Ellington Band find its mojo in realtime, thanks to a storming Paul Gonsalves solo that runs for 27 choruses, and caused a mini-riot.
The Croatian violinist talks to Katherine about his recent recording of the volatile violinist-composer's 'London' concertos, released on Delphian last Friday.
A guide to the life and works of Janáček, a study of Stravinsky's time spent living in the USA, an analysis of the Requiem by Tomás Luis de Victoria, books on Schenkerian analysis and music research, a discussion of the social history of jazz, and a collection of essays on popular American music from Tin Pan Alley to to hip hop.
Our 25 best-selling titles across all formats for March, with Isabelle Faust's Bach violin concertos with the Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin on Harmonia Mundi in first place...
Fazil Say’s appropriately epic *Troy Sonata*, the Italian version of Moniuszko’s *Halka*, Richard Rodney Bennett’s vivid depiction of the signs of the zodiac, and a glorious Paris recital from Stéphane Degout and Simon Lepper.
Martyn Brabbins conducts the Huddersfield Choral Society and the Orchestra of Opera North in a stirring new recording of Elgar's rarely-performed cantata, *Caractacus*.
New albums from Yvgeny Sudbin, Bojan Čičić, Eric Le Sage, and Vasily Petrenko and the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, plus a bicentenary tribute to Clara Schumann from Howard Shelley and the Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra.