Following his acclaimed recordings of Bach’s Sonatas and Partitas, concertante works by Stravinsky, Bartók and Martinů, and chamber music by Bartók and Szymanowski, Frank Peter Zimmermann now turns to one of the towering works of the violin repertoire: Edward Elgar’s Violin Concerto.

A year after “Live in NYC” (2025), the album that won a Latin Grammy in the Best Latin Jazz/Jazz Album category, the Hamilton de Holanda Trio is releasing another album on 20 May, “Nova”.

Appearing like a flash, Jimi Hendrix burst onto the international music scene of the mid 1960's like nothing ever seen before or since. Born in Seattle in 1942, early life experiences both in the United States Army and as a backing musician for the likes of the Isley Brothers and Little Richard on the Chitlin' Circuit helped serve as formative groundwork for what was to come.

Celebrating 75 years of musical activity! A long-awaited new studio recording album, the first in two years, from living legend Sadao Watanabe, who continues to perform on stage as an active saxophone player! Still performing around 70 live shows annually across Japan, Watanabe remains at the forefront as a leading saxophonist. This highly anticipated new album follows his previous release "PEACE," which was released in 2024, nominated for Best Jazz Album at MUSIC AWARD JAPAN 2025, and received high acclaim both domestically and internationally.

On September 20, 1988, the Grateful Dead performed an energetic, highly regarded concert at Madison Square Garden in New York, NY. This performance was the third night of their historic nine-night autumn run at the arena.

Analogue Productions (Atlantic 75 Series) Celebrating the 75th Anniversary of Atlantic Records! 1975 was a banner year for superstar Alice Cooper with the release of the groundbreaking concept album Welcome To My Nightmare. This album showcases Cooper's theatricality, storytelling prowess, and ability to create an immersive world of horror and fantasy.

The two Sonatas for violin and piano by Gabriel Fauré - Op. 13 and Op. 108 - together with Leone Sinigaglia’s Sonata for violin and piano Op. 44 trace a musical journey spanning the transition from the nineteenth to the twentieth century. They reflect the passage from late Romanticism into the musical language of the early twentieth century, while still retaining the legacy of the great Romantic masters such as Johannes Brahms, Antonín Dvořák, and César Franck.

The overwhelming presence of one of Japan's leading pianists, Michie Koyama, is now available in a live recording of her memorable 40th anniversary debut performance at Suntory Hall on October 12, 2025! Koyama is the first Japanese pianist to win both the Tchaikovsky and Chopin competitions, and is well known for her Russian repertoire. He has released Rachmaninoff's Piano Concerto No. 2 (BBC Symphony Orchestra, conducted by A. Davis, recorded in 1992) and No. 3 (Moscow Radio Symphony Orchestra, conducted by V. Fedoseyev, recorded in 2002), and this is his second recording of No. 2 after 33 years since his first recording in London in October 1992. This is the second recording of Tchaikovsky No. 2 after 33 years since the first recording in London in October 1992.

‘We ultimately know very little about Domenico Scarlatti,’ said Scott Ross in 1987, in an interview with Jean-Michel Damian broadcast on France Musique to mark his recording of the Neapolitan composer’s complete 555 sonatas. And what if this ‘little’ did not concern so much the musician’s biography, which we know included travelling throughout Italy during the first half of the 18th century, until he entered the service of Maria Barbara of Braganza, a Portuguese princess whom he followed to Spain, and her marriage to Ferdinand VI, and to Madrid, where Scarlatti died in 1757, at the age of seventy-one? We also know that a significant number of his 555 sonatas were never performed during his lifetime. Innovation was very much at work here. For Scott Ross, Scarlatti had become ‘overspecialised in the keyboard, in keyboard performance, and in writing for the keyboard’. What was extraordinary about him ‘was his obsession with the keyboard above all else’. And yet, what amazes us is the wide variety of instruments that emerge from Scarlatti’s keyboard.

Analogue is A-Ha's eighth studio album, originally released in late 2005. To celebrate its 20th anniversary, a deluxe 2-CD edition will be released featuring 21 bonus tracks—15 of which are previously unreleased—including b-sides, remixes, demos, and alternate versions. Includes the hit singles, Celice, Analogue (All I Want) and Cosy Prisons. It charted internationally, hitting #1 in Norway and top 30 in several other countries. The album was produced by a-ha and Martin Terefe, mixed by Flood, and features backing vocals from Graham Nash. The audio has been remastered by Bill Inglot, and this release marks the album's first appearance on vinyl.

The Grateful Dead's performance on May 13, 1977, at the Auditorium Theatre in Chicago, Illinois, is widely celebrated as a foundational part of the legendary Spring '77 tour. The evening features signature performances, including a highly praised "Scarlet Begonias" > "Fire On The Mountain" transition and the band's first-ever performance of "Jack-A-Roe". The concert was broadcast live in Chicago by local radio station WXRT, and it was later officially released in its entirety as part of the May 1977 box set.

Composed in 1680, Proserpine marks the reunion of Lully and Quinault after the scandal surrounding Isis (1677). Set in the splendour of Saint-Germain, the work offers a mythological mirror to the Dauphin's wedding. In it, Lully revolutionises his art: the orchestra becomes the driving force of the drama while the voices gain in expressive intensity. Under the baton of Christophe Rousset, Les Talens Lyriques revive this gem in which the fate of a captive queen and the splendour of restored peace unite in immortal harmony.

On May 22, composer Nathan Henninger releases Romanza, a luminous new orchestral album and a deeply expressive continuation of his acclaimed debut Five Scenes for Orchestra.

The Endless Dance is the first collaborative album from Northern Irish producer and composer Hannah Peel and Chinese percussionist Beibei Wang. The record is grounded in the strength of ancient concepts, but comes alive with the joy and freedom of play as together, Peel and Wang travel through the 24 solar terms of the Chinese calendar with a cornucopia of sound in tow – synths and prepared piano alongside traditional and unconventional percussion.

This album offers an intimate journey into Schumann’s world through three emblematic works. At its heart stands the original 1841 version of the Fourth Symphony, a rarely performed score whose transparency and almost chamber-like clarity reveal a Schumann of striking immediacy, far from the heavier later revision.