The flute, one of the most versatile instruments of all, is the focus of the new GENUIN CD by Japanese flutist Atsuko Koga. The winner of international competitions presents a distinctive mixture of original compositions and arrangements together with cellist Georgiy Lomakov that range from Telemann and Beethoven to Villa-Lobos and world premiere recordings by Minako Tokuyama.

The release of Blessed Repair is a grand experiment for the Baldi/Gerycz Duo. The duo consists of Dylan Baldi and Jayson Gerycz, both of whom are members of the acclaimed rock band Cloud Nothings. With Baldi on saxophone and Gerycz on drums, they deliver an album that steers away from the process of slowly crafting lyrics and instrumental components. This time, their project is grounded in the gravitational pull of both of their instruments; two people creating and releasing tension in real time. Blessed Repair is an album that romps with the spontaneous energy of free-form jazz.

Schubert's lieder offer a whole universe of sensorial representations of the four seasons and their characteristics, images, and symbols. Sharon Carty, one of Ireland's best internationally successful mezzo-sopranos, has taken on this enchanting repertoire with her piano partner Jonathan Ware.

This is my debut solo album “Even in Arcadia: a deserted person’s guide to mountain life”. It consists of 10 original space folk songs and ditties, as well as a couple of covers. It was recorded in a week during May 2016 at Rhoino, Arcadia, Greece

SUMMARY On The Austrian Connection, pianist Sarah Beth Briggs traces an arc through three decades of compositional tradition from Franz Joseph Haydn, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Franz Schubert through to Hans Gl.

CHROMB! is a quartet with strings, reeds, 88 keys and drums in, wired on 220volts, making rock with no guitar, distorted jazz or chamber music for sick kids and emotive adults.

Safe in the Hands of Love marked the vanguard arrival of Yves Tumor. Unclassified and unannounced, the release received widespread acclaim and cemented itself as a landmark in the hallowed Warp catalog. The experimentalist voiced a new generation, creating a surreal pop stratosphere for outsiders and the masses alike.

Ranaldo and Refree worked together Ranaldo’s last solo album, Electric Trim (Mute, 2017), and soon after the pair returned to the studio to record the follow up they realised that Names of North End Women would become what Ranaldo describes as “the beginning of a new partnership, a new configuration”.

18 years after the duo’s debut California, Norfolk, Tim Bowness (No-Man) and Peter Chilvers (Brian Eno/Karl Hyde) return with the exquisite melancholy of Modern Ruins. Mixed by the legendary Peter Hammill, the album alternates between fragile piano-led songs and atmospheric Electronica-infused pieces which take the duo’s music to new levels of accomplishment.

The Orchestre symphonique de Montréal, together with Music Director Kent Nagano, perform Kryzstof Penderecki​’s St Luke Passion in Canada, Poland and Austria.

A “landmark” is an object in a landscape or a turning-point, a milestone, symbol, or orientation point. Calmus performs ten “vocal landmarks” on its new CD – works by ten composers from ten different countries.

A common desire to shake up the conveniences, and to train the dancers in a breathless round !.. A mixture of strong personalities, a colorful storm on stage … Concerts and balls, electrifying music, hypnotic, from neo-trad to current music.

In an effort to arrange the first performance of his Seventh Symphony, Gustav Mahler declared it to be his best work, ‘preponderantly cheerful in character’.

Western Sons released a new country album, First Timers… One More Time, which was released on the label of the same name on may 27, 2020.

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Two highly awarded German musicians present themselves on GENUIN with a powerful Shostakovich album: The sisters Anouchka (cello) and Katharina Hack (piano) combine the early Cello Sonata, Op. 40, and the late work of the Viola Sonata, Op. 147. It is a fascinating experiment that not only takes into account the life of the Russian composer but also focuses on his vital, rousing music.