Hélène de Montgeroult, one of the founder members of the Paris Conservatoire, was a key figure in the development of the piano and piano technique in the early romantic period. She became the institution’s first professor of piano and toured Europe extensively with violin virtuoso Giovanni Battista Viotti. Montgeroult’s Études influenced Mendelssohn and Schumann and she also partnered with virtuosos such as Kreutzer and Baillot.

Antenna Fuzz is a music group inspired by rock, jazz, pop, chamber, computer, and experimental music. Formed in 2015, the group comprises of alternating members and is directed by Hassan Estakhrian. Antenna Fuzz has performed two original sci-fi rock operas.

Francesco Geminiani (1687-1762), son of the violinist Giuliano Geminiani. After a season at the Teatro dei Fiorentini in Naples and a two-year spell at the Cappella Palatina in Lucca, Francesco left his homeland for good in 1714 to pursue a career in London, Dublin and Paris.

In Germany, Matt Andersen has been known at least since his impressive performance (and appearance) on Inas Nacht on 22 July 2017, but the prototype of the powerhouse performer, blessed with a god-like soul voice and an awe-inspiring stage presence, is also fully convincing with his mates, the 10-piece band The Mellotones.

King Leontes of Sicilia is crippled with an all-consuming jealousy when his friend, King Polixenes of Bohemia, stays with him and his wife Hermione. What follows is a tale where a marriage is destroyed, a child is abandoned and all hope is seemingly lost for two lovers.

An album of firsts - all these works are receiving world premiere recordings, and this is the only album devoted to music for strings by Welsh composers.

"Moving Target" is a 2025 release by a trio Smooth Elevator led by guitarist Will Bernard.

Gloria Angélica Simonetti Mazzarelli​ (Santiago, 5 de enero de 1948) es una cantante chilena (de ascendencia italiana) de baladas. Ganó el certamen internacional del Festival de la Canción de Viña del Mar en 1969.

Gilbert & Sullivan’s penultimate opera, Utopia, Limited, was written immediately after The Gondoliers. Here, with an updated libretto by director Stuart Maunder and a revised musical version by Scottish Opera’s Head of Music Derek Clark, it is given its Scottish Opera premiere and the airing it so deserves.

Van Halen Taps into a Mean Streak on Fair Warning: The Darkest and Fiercest Album of the Band's Career
Double-Platinum 1981 Record Sounds Unrelenting on Mobile Fidelity's Numbered-Edition Hybrid SACD: Audiophile Reissue Plays with Stunning Dynamics. The song titles on Van Halen's aptly titled Fair Warning don't lie. The likes of "Unchained," "Mean Street," "Push Comes to Shove," "One Foot Out the Door," and more indicate the mood the band channels on its double-platinum 1981 record — the nastiest, darkest, and fiercest album of the group's storied career. For the fourth time in four years, Van Halen throws down the gauntlet to all challengers and emerges victorious.

In its fascination with Italy, nurtured by all that was best in Florence, Rome and Venice, 17th-century France saw the blossoming of a new national art. Though Lully in his pomp might seem to have subdued the musical world of his time, the ensemble La Palatine has helped us to restore it in a quite different constellation – one that is far more diverse, overflowing with imaginative riches.

In the summer of 1717, after performing his Water Music during a royal cruise on the Thames, Handel began composing for James Brydges (1674-1744), who became the first Duke of Chandos and created the Cannons Concert at his estate in Cannons (near Edgware), with ten instrumentalists and three singers.

“Une Question d’Enfant” is the debut album of French guitarist and composer Emma Giulia (aka Emma Feld-Mugnaini). Emma is a 2025 winner of the prestigious Made in New York Jazz Competition.

Cellist Matt Haimovitz, together with the MDR Leipzig Radio Symphony Orchestra and conductor Dennis Russell Davies, continues to spotlight rarely heard and powerful cello concerti, brought to life through dynamic recordings. Following the acclaimed release of Thomas de Hartmann’s Cello Concerto, the series now presents a landmark work of 20th-century music—Alfred Schnittke’s Cello Concerto No. 1, a deeply personal and transformative work born from the composer’s near-death experience.

Lowlives isn't so much about carefully stoking the embers as pouring on gasoline with merry impetuosity. Vocalist Lee Downer, drummer Luke Johnson, guitarist Jaxon Moore and bassist Steve Lucarelli, share a love of '90s alternative and grunge, and the desire to make music for little more than the love of doing so.