Die Puppe hinter dem Vorhang ist eine Oper des iranisch-dänischen Komponisten Amir Mahyar Tafreshipour und des Librettisten Dominic Power, die auf der gleichnamigen Kurzgeschichte von Sadeq Hedayat (1903-51), Irans erstem modernistischen Schriftsteller, basiert.

Rumon Gamba leads the BBC Philharmonic in this collection of lesser-known pieces by the British composer Sir Malcolm Arnold. Born in 1921, he was inspired by Louis Armstrong to take up the trumpet at the age of twelve.

The repertoire of KLANGKOLLEKTIV WIEN with it’s conductor Rémy Ballot is focused on a core of famous and lesser-known works of the First Viennese School.

The critically acclaimed Italian composer Vito Palumbo has had works performed all over the world by leading orchestras.

Young Ukrainian pianist Tetiana Shafran is the First Prize Winner of the 2019 Olga Kern Competition.

He takes Schumann’s Allegro molto vivace marking to heart and drives the first movement at a stimulatingly brisk pace.

The debut album of pianist Friederike Sieber Seelenübervoll is featuring lieder from the late Romantic period and works by Alma Mahler, Erich Wolfgang Korngold, Richard Strauss, and Alexander von Zemlinsky are performed.

"Der lettische Komponist Arturs Maskats (geb. 1957) steht seit Jahrzehnten im Zentrum des lettischen Kulturlebens, insbesondere im Bereich Theater und Oper.

The Clarion Choir and its Artistic Director Steven Fox make their Pentatone debut with a recording of Sergei Rachmaninoff’s choral masterpiece, the All-Night Vigil, demonstrating their exceptional proficiency in Russian repertoire.

The orchestral songs by the now almost forgotten Viennese composer and late Romantic Karl Weigl date from 1916, while the Rhapsody for String Orchestra, although dating back to the String Sextet composed in 1906, was composed together with the Piano Concerto only in 1931 and, like the latter, betrays a progressive and yet completely organic, natural development.

At last I have fulfilled a wish: The production of melody-saturated overtures and waltzes by Paul Lincke. It is also an overdue rehabilitation of the composer Lincke, who certainly wrote more than just the "Berliner Luft".

"Nimbus is delighted to release a stunning debut album of violinist Clarissa Bevilacqua performing a complete collection of mainstay composer Augusta Read Thomas’s works for solo violin, as well as the world premier recording of her Violin Concerto No. 3 'Juggler in Paradise' in conjunction with the BBC National Orchestra of Wales, conducted by Vimayi Kaziboni. Each and every piece has a different character and tells its own story, and these seemingly unrelated, abstract pieces of a puzzle come together during the course of the album to create a dream-like journey.

There are masterpieces of music history that are simply forgotten for a while before they are rediscovered in a later era as a mirror of one's own sensitivities. The reasons for this forgetting are manifold - in the case of Paul Dessau's fairy-tale opera Lanzelot, they are probably clearly political.

Within the realm of Romantic piano music, where new discoveries are constantly just around the corner, the contribution of Robert Schumann has always played a major part.

Inexplicably, Paranoid Visions have managed to survive 40 years apart from the music industry (as opposed to being a part of the music industry). Fiercely independent and embracing the DIY ethos of early punk rock, the band has existed through stubbornness and will continue to do so until the desire to express themselves and their music, opinions, lyrics and art has ceased.