Shiver is the exciting and boundary pushing second record from LA-based Icelandic musician Jónsi, co-produced by A. G. Cook (PC Music, Charlie XCX) and comes a decade after his debut, Go, was released.

If a chamber music ensemble can stand together in the same lineup for 25 years, it must be doing something right. The Fauré Quartett can be assumed to be doing so: As one of the world's leading piano quartets, the for musicians are at the zenith of chamber music, touring the world's most important venues and breaking down musical boundaries with their recordings.

Minco Eggersman and Theodoor Borger started collaborating under the moniker UNIFONY. For this project they invite various guest musicians to find the pure essence of music with them. Together, they wander off the beaten track and rediscover purity by experimenting. They do not compose music based on musical notes but they use carefully crafted layered sounds instead.

Serbian pianist Mirjana Rajić and clarinetist Ognjen Popović serve up an exciting program of duo compositions on their new GENUIN CD, the second by Mirjana Rajić. Both prizewinners of numerous competitions travel musically throughout Europe and perform music by Camille Saint-Saëns, Norbert Burgmüller, Malcolm Arnold, and, last but not least, original compositions by Ognjen Popović.

The Doobie Brothers announced a new box set, Quadio, set for an early September release via Rhino. The collection contains quadrophonic and high-resolution remixes of four of the band’s essential early albums: Toulouse Street (1972), The Captain & Me (1973), What Were Once Vices Are Now Habits (1974) and Stampede (1975).

The concept lying behind pianist Elisabeth Leonskaja’s new recording entitled “Saudade” stems from no set of musicological ideas; nor does it have any programmatic basis.

That Frederik Köster belongs to Germany's leading jazz trumpeters is well known. The award-winning Cologne (two jazz echoes, new German jazz prize, WDR Jazz prize) has been highly praised by the media and the public for years and celebrates success on International Festival and club stages.

Composed in the summer and autumn of 1781, Haydn’s Op. 33 Quartets were dedicated to the Grand Duke Paul of Russia and premiered on Christmas Day that year in the apartment of the Duke’s wife, the Grand Duchess Maria Feodorovna. Nicknamed ‘the Russian quartets’, Op. 33 were some of Mozart’s favourites among Haydn’s works, and inspired Mozart to write his own set of six quartets, of 1785, dedicated to Haydn.

Some of the greatest song writing talents of the fifties, sixties and seventies wrote for the legendary singer Elvis Presley. Barb Jungr, regarded as Britain's foremost chansonnier and song stylist takes these songs and embarks on a journey through love, loneliness, obsession and finally, faith. ‘Love Me Tender' is a tribute to Elvis Presley in the real sense of the word. She is not impersonating him. These tracks are real covers - deconstructions and reinterpretations - making the listener forget the original. ‘Love Me Tender' falls into the dark sound world usually inhabited by Nick Cave and Tom Waits; unforgettable and highly original.