Discover the musical wealth of Spain’s Golden Age with Missa super octo tonos, the newest release from Salamanca Cathedral’s Cathedralis label. This recording forms part of an ongoing and important effort to bring renewed attention to the works of Sebastián de Vivanco (c. 1553–1622), a distinguished composer and former chapelmaster whose music has long been neglected. Vivanco’s compositions—and indeed all his printed output—were issued by the printer Susana Muñoz, who, together with her husband Artus Tavernier, established one of the leading presses for sacred music in Golden Age Spain. In this sense, the album also pays homage to her as a key figure in sixteenth-century Spanish music printing.

Tomoki Sakata is a talented pianist who has attracted worldwide attention since winning the first prize at the Franz Liszt International Piano Competition in 2016, and has captivated audiences with his overwhelming technique and rich expressiveness. This second album, to be released in 2020, contains eight pieces selected by Mr. Sakata based on the concept of "projecting to the listener an 'Illusion' of various compositions, including symphonies, concertos, songs, and operas. Sakata is interested in not only piano works but also orchestral works, songs, and operas. The recording of Tchaikovsky's Symphony No. 5 "Waltz" (world premiere recording) and No. 6 "Pathetique" (world premiere recording), both arranged by Feinberg, are extremely difficult pieces that could be described as theoretical. The performance of these pieces, which embody the phrase "10 fingers x 1 piano," will fascinate you not only with Sakata's technique, but also with his rich musicality. And then there is Liszt, a work that is synonymous with Sakata. The performance of Rigoletto Paraphrase and Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2 is a masterpiece, sung freely but intelligently constructed.

Chunga's Revenge is the third solo album by Frank Zappa, released on October 23, 1970. Zappa's first effort of the 1970s marks the first appearance of former Turtles members Flo & Eddie on a Zappa record, and signals the dawn of a controversial epoch in Zappa's history. Chunga's Revenge represents a shift from both the satirical political commentary of his 1960s work with The Mothers of Invention, and the jazz fusion of Hot Rats.

Murals is a studio album by Sun Kil Moon (the moniker of singer-songwriter Mark Kozelek), released on April 21, 2026. The album consists of four tracks with a total runtime of approximately 37 minutes. It follows a string of prolific releases from Kozelek, including 2025's All the Artists and the collaborative volume Sun Kil Moon and Amoeba, Vol. II.

Mitsuru Sawamura is a one-of-a-kind saxophonist. Musicians who have collaborated with him on past albums and experienced his unique studio work have unanimously remarked, "This is Mitsuru's world," which is the origin of the name "Mitsuru World" for his creative work. This time, two albums—"Mitsuru World II," the second installment following the 2016 album "Mitsuru World," and "Mitsuru World Jazz Standard I," a jazz standard cover album—have been simultaneously released worldwide. Kazumi Watanabe, who participated in "Mitsuru World Jazz Standard I," recorded in 2019, left the following comment at the time: "It has a strangely mysterious ambient feel. And yet, it's thrilling, which is what makes it interesting!"

The Best of Chesky Songwriters Vol. 1 is now available on Chesky com! It features a selection of some of our favorite songs written by the same artists who recorded them.

Mitsuru Sawamura is a one-of-a-kind saxophonist. Musicians who have collaborated with him on past albums and experienced his unique studio work have unanimously remarked, "This is Mitsuru's world," which is the origin of the name "Mitsuru World" for his creative work. This time, two albums—"Mitsuru World II," the second installment following the 2016 album "Mitsuru World," and "Mitsuru World Jazz Standard I," a jazz standard cover album—have been simultaneously released worldwide. Kazumi Watanabe, who participated in "Mitsuru World Jazz Standard I," recorded in 2019, left the following comment at the time: "It has a strangely mysterious ambient feel. And yet, it's thrilling, which is what makes it interesting!"

"Rejoicing" is an album by the guitarist Pat Metheny that was released in 1984 by ECM. It features the guitarist in a trio with Charlie Haden on bass and Billy Higgins on drums, both of whom played and recorded with Ornette Coleman in the late 1950s and early 1960s. In addition to his own compositions, Metheny plays three compositions by Coleman, and Horace Silver's Lonely Woman (not to be confused with the Coleman composition of the same title, which Metheny does not play on the album).

This project is funded in part by FACTOR, the Government of Canada and Canada’s private radio broadcasters. Ce projet est financé en partie par FACTOR, le gouvernement du Canada et les radiodiffuseurs privés du Canada. We acknowledge the support of Ontario Creates, the Ontario Media Development Corporation, and the Government of Ontario.

Renowned pianist Pierre-Laurent Aimard’s recording of Olivier Messiaen’s Catalogue d’Oiseaux created a sensation when first released on PENTATONE in 2018, and now returns to the market in an attractively-priced stereo re-issue. Aimard had intimate ties to the composer himself and his wife, Yvonne Loriod, for whom Messiaen wrote the Catalogue, a grand hymn to nature from a man who never ceased to marvel at the stupefying beauty of landscapes or the magic of bird song. With his Catalogue, Messiaen tried – in his own words – “to render exactly the typical birdsong of a region, surrounded by its neighbours from the same habitat, as well as the form of song at different hours of the day and night,” suggesting an almost scientific approach to his subjects.

Following the series devoted to Korngold's string quartets, here is the first instalment in a new project by Alma Quartet and Challenge Classics. In five CDs the Alma Quartet will bring out the late string quartet output by Beethoven and Shostakovich. Each volume will couple a late quartet by the two composers, who shared a "late style" on this medium.

The End is Not the End is undeniably Atreyu’s heaviest album ever and their most adventurous. “We realized what made Atreyu great in the beginning was that we didn’t sound like anyone else,” frontman Brandon Saller explains. “We didn’t really make sense anywhere.

The Czech Philharmonic is renowned for its interpretations of Gustav Mahler’s Symphony No. 9 in D Major, notably under conductors Karel Ančerl (a "searingly intense" classic recording) and Václav Neumann. More recently, Semyon Bychkov conducted the orchestra in 2019.

Czech Philharmonic & Semyon Bychkov present Symphony No. 7 in E minor (1904–05), a work of striking contrasts and dissonances.

Symphony No. 6 in A minor (1903–04) stands as a tragic case in point.