The Bennewitz Quartet is one of the top ensembles on the international chamber music scene. After winning two prestigious competitions – Osaka Chamber Music and Festa 2005 and Prémio Paolo Borciani, Italy 2008, they quickly gained the acclaim of the critics. The ensemble has received various awards and in 2019 the four musicians won the Classic Prague Award for the Best Chamber Music Performance of the year.In the 2022/23 season the Bennewitz Quartet will return to Laeiszhalle Hamburg, Mozartfest Würzburg, Wigmore Hall London, Stadtcasino Basel and it will tour again in the United States. The ensemble will represent the Czech Republic in Madrid at the closing ceremony marking the end of its presidency of the Council of the European Union. The quartet will take part in the complete performance of the six quartets by Béla Bartok in Leuven and will continue its engagement in Dvořák’s integral string quartet performance within the Dvořák’s Prague Festival. The ensemble is currently preparing the release of its new CD featuring the string quartets by Joseph Haydn.

Daniel Speer was a Stadtpfeifer (a “town piper” – in fact a multi-instrumentalist with a repertoire dedicated in particular to functional music), and he was also a composer, music theorist, teacher, political commentator, writer, and one of the most astonishing – and mysterious – figures of musical Baroque.

Karl-Heinz Schütz and Frédéric Chaslin met at the Vienna State Opera, where Schütz is principal flutist and Chaslin appears regularly as conductor.

The queen of this fiery quartet, whose name refers to a Wayne Shorter composition, is Delphine Deau, pianist and composer, the pivot of this group of former students of the Paris Conservatoire, as close-knit as they are complementary.

Already a presence to be reckoned with by his early 20s, James Ehnes has risen steadily to claim a place among the finest violinists of the day. Critics were impressed with both his immaculate technique and his musical integrity, each of an order rare enough in a musician of any age. Ehnes has continued to consolidate his strengths, bringing audiences a brand of music-making that transcends the present and draws upon the richest traditions of ages past. Born into a musical family, Ehnes was exposed to a variety of instruments as a child, but found himself attracted to the violin.

Nico Santos meldet sich nach mehr als 1 Milliarde globaler Streams mit seinem dritten Album zurück: „Ride“ ist nicht nur eine faszinierende, sich an keine Regeln haltende Songsammlung, ein Werk, dessen Bestandteile wie Puzzlestücke ineinander greifen.

Nottingham based Senegalese composer and kora player Seckou Keita is proud to present African Rhapsodies: an epic project created in collaboration with Italian composer and musician Davide Mantovani, due to be released via Swiss label Claves Records on 26th May 2023.

Founded in 1987, The Ramsey Singers have performed in many of England's most famous cathedrals and churches including Canterbury Cathedral, York Minster, St. Paul's Cathedral, Westminster Abbey and St. George's Chapel, Windsor Castle.

Armide, Clorinde, Procris, Lucrèce : les Héroïnes peuplent la tragédie lyrique et la cantate dans la France musicale baroque, de Lully à Montéclair, et même dans la chanson populaire. Guerrières ou magiciennes, amoureuses ou victimes, leurs destinées fascinèrent les compositeurs et le public. Camille Delaforge réunit un florilège de musiques exaltantes, où ces femmes hors du commun sont élevées sur le piédestal de la gloire et de l’amour.

The four great concertos on this new album span the years 1785 - 1791, Mozart’s last year.

Possessing a broad repertoire, Finnish flutist Sami Junnonen is an international soloist and orchestral musician with a growing recording career. He attended the Lyon Conservatory, the Royal Danish Academy of Music, and the Sibelius Academy, where in 2008 he earned his Master's degree with distinction. Significant events in his career include his 2012 recital at the Helsinki Music Centre, and his tour of Russia in 2017. He has appeared with many orchestras, including the Houston Symphony Orchestra, the Hong Kong Sinfonietta, the Royal Northern Sinfonia, and the Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra.

With their new album “Code Red” the German Hard Rock act DEVICIOUS from Karlsruhe, Germany starts a new chapter. Founded back in 2017 they now release their 5th album in five years. After some sound experiments on the previous album “Black Heart”, they now go back to their roots, to what they can do best. Big Arena melodies combined with bombastic choir arrangements and a big production.

The long-awaited third album from Seven Impale is finally here, seven years after “Contrapasso”.

Kevin Morby writes (and records, and imagines) at an almost incomparable clip, and his most recent album, This Is A Photograph, studies life, time and mortality through myriad lenses. It’s a dynamic, buoyant record on big, heavy themes, so it only makes sense that Morby found he wasn’t quite done with it on its completion. More Photographs (A Continuum) finds new nooks, corners and vantage points. “If This Is A Photograph is a house that you have been living inside of,” says Morby, “then More Photographs is, perhaps, the same home just experienced differently. As if you, its inhabitant, have taken a tab of something psychedelic and now, suddenly, you’ve replaced your eyeglasses with kaleidoscopes.”

Exploring a new style like never before – symphonic metal icons SIRENIA revolutionize their melodic darkness on the brand new studio album, 1977, out May 26, 2023 via Napalm Records. Transporting the listener to a retro auditory arcade harking back to when groovy synthwave melodies dominated the world of music, the international band merges late 70’s and 80’s pop rock stylings with synthwave elements and their remarkable, hard-hitting symphonic melodies - shaking the listener to the core.