This week's round-up includes a career-spanning boxset from Alan Skidmore plus new releases from John Carroll Kirby, Soft Machine, Vincente Archer and Svaneborg Kardyb, as well as an adventurous final recording from Peter Brötzmann.
For his third solo album since collaborating on David Bowie's *Blackstar*, saxophonist Donny McCaslin ramps up the energy in a boisterously unrestrained race for space.
Revealed in advance of October's ceremony at the Konzerthaus Berlin, the winners of this year's 'Deutscher Musikpreis' awards include Asmik Grigorian, Víkingur Ólafsson, Sean Shibe and Abel Selaocoe.
Jazzwise Editor's Choices from the July 2023 issue include new music from Laila Biali, Avishai Cohen, Lorenzo De Finti, Louis Hayes and Meshell Ndegeocello, as well as reissues and archival releases from Malombo Jazz Makers, Joy and The Jazz Doctors.
Our 25 best-selling titles across all formats for June, with British conductor Alpesh Chauhan's debut recording of Tchaikovsky's symphonic fantasias on Chandos in first place...
With multiple albums and tours across the globe, Chris Woods has certainly mastered the art of fingerstyle guitar playing. Chris spoke to us recently about his latest publication *First 50 Fingerstyle Patterns*, fingerstyle and percussive acoustic guitar technique, his music education podcast, and more. Read the full interview here.
Soprano Keri Fuge and baritone Roderick Williams join the Singapore Symphony Orchestra under Mario Venzago to perform highlights from a neglected work by a composer known mostly for his film scores, based on the novel by Emily Brontë.
CPE Bach from Keith Jarrett, choral works by the late Kaija Saariaho, Vaughan Williams from Andrew Manze and the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, and Rachmaninoff from Yannick Nézet-Séguin and the Philadelphia Orchestra.
Depicting a concoction of memories and personal experiences drawn from his own life so far, the Israeli pianist's latest album is a keenly sensitive affair that also features the talents of trumpeter Itamar Borochov.
An eclectic album exploring temptation and taboo from Benjamin Appl and James Baillieu, high-octane Khachaturian from the Robert-Schumann-Philharmonie and Frank Beermann, and a beguiling recital of Lieder from fin-de-siècle Vienna from Robyn Allegra Parton and Simon Lepper.
In the wake of the release of his debut album featuring a bold new translation of Britten's *Michelangelo Sonnets* (plus music by Tippett, Gipps and Thomas himself), the Welsh tenor discusses queer representation in opera and song - and why he feels that 'it's about time we started adding other stories into the mix'...
This month's heavyweights include two boxes celebrating Antal Doráti's legacy on Mercury, Otto Klemperer's symphonic recordings on EMI Columbia, HMV, Electrola and Parlophone, and Matthias Goerne's survey of Schubert Lieder on Harmonia Mundi.
Piano music by Satie; new additions to the *WIN! WIN!* series; violin and viola duets from Aleksey Igudesman; guitar music edited by Alexandra Whittingham; pop music by Metallica, Miley Cyrus, and Lewis Capaldi; Eric Whitacre's *Sleep for String Orchestra*; Schumann's first version of Symphony No. 4, Op. 120; and more.
The violinist discusses her new album featuring works by composers including Thea Musgrave, Errollyn Wallen, Howard Blake and the late Joseph Horovitz.
Jeneba Kanneh-Mason and Chineke! present benchmark new recordings of two major works by Florence Price – capturing both the sweep and grandeur of her large-scale movements and the lively fun of her dance-like conclusions.