Most Western music—and a lot of non-Western music, too—is rhythmically organized into groups of two, three or four beats each. You get one strong beat and a couple of weaker ones to follow it and your body understands intuitively how to respond. Start messing with fives and sevens and elevens and so forth and you’re into trickier territory. The gravitational simplicity of the smaller numbers is so strong that five is easily pulled into three and two; seven into four and three. You’re constantly switching between two different possibilities for the way the music could feel, like a room whose color quietly shifts each time you walk in anew. It can be difficult to get into a flow, because it keeps getting interrupted as soon as it begins.

The Flemish Music Heritage series is a journey of discovery, reviving remarkable pieces of musical heritage. Forgotten scores are brought to light, and familiar compositions are given a fresh perspective. In close collaboration with the Study Centre for Flemish Music, the recordings are founded on intensive research in libraries and archives and meticulously prepared score editions.​

On his new double album, court organist Stéphane Mottoul juxtaposes Franz Liszt's most important organ works with transcriptions of famous works by Richard Wagner, thereby revealing exciting connections between the compositional work of both composers. The giant organ of the Hofkirche St. Leodegar, built by Friedrich Haas (1858-1862) at the same time that Aristide Cavaillé-Coll created his organ in St. Sulpice in Paris, then expanded by Goll and Kuhn, is one of the largest instruments in Switzerland with five manuals, Fernwerk and Echo sections, and 103 stops.

Niño De Elche and Raül Refree have just released a joint album. Niño De Elche combines flamenco, free improvisation, krautrock and electro-acoustic music with poetry, performance, dance and theatre. Raül Refree’s profile ranges from experimental musician to producer of pop stars and composer of award-winning soundtracks.

There are only nine songs, but with a total running time of around 38 minutes, and six tracks running at more than 4 minutes the songs are allowed to breathe and stretch, her voice to swoop, soar or rumble, and her (sometimes fierce) lyrics to resonate, packed full of very direct couplets, but with no strung-out solos. Nature plays a big part in the framing of the songs, whether it be the earth, the mountains, the sky or the sea, and they reappear throughout.

Pianist Carla Corsino launches on digital platforms on October 9, “Alma Brasileira", an album that is a sensitive immersion in the diversity of Brazilian concert music.

Franziska first heard the dulcimer at the age of four and immediately fell in love with its clear, ethereal sound.

Ahead of the 80th birthday of one of Britain’s most singular compositional voices, this double album presents the complete organ works of Michael Finnissy—a body of music as rich in intellectual depth as it is in imagination.

The work, written for string quartet, is presented live for the first time at the Concert Hall, on October 11, in an evening dedicated to the musical languages ​​of today, where the dynamic L’ Anima String Quartet will perform two works that open windows into worlds of memory and transformation.

Melt is the debut solo album and "alternate reality" from María Zardoya, the lead singer and songwriter of the Grammy-nominated indie-pop band The Marías.

Metal Church has proven that greatness is “This Present Wasteland.” This album is so incredible, I encourage even Hard Rock fans to dive into it!

Works for Solo Trombone by Hugo Pinheiro in high-resolution audio.

“I’m looking for a note and, maybe, I’ll find it eventually. I may fail. Perhaps the piece is nothing more than an attempt to find it.”

Emily A. Sprague’s Cloud Time traces an audio-spiritual journey through time and place, recorded across a long-awaited debut tour of Japan in the fall of 2024. Compiled from environmental improvisations captured in and for the moment, material at once welcoming, responsive, and inimitable, the album distills a voyage guided by psychic wayfaring, unbound presence, and activating performance for a reciprocal exchange with space, listener, and each fully engaged instant. Cloud Time is a series of postcards penned to the energetic possibilities of each lived moment, deeply felt and in dialogue with the eternal now.

2x GRAMMY-nominated singer-songwriter Madi Diaz is known for searing explorations of romance and has created her most powerful statement. Raw and stripped down, Fatal Optimist is Madi at her most intimate and most bold. She and producer, Gabe Wax (Soccer Mommy, Zach Bryan), set out to strip these songs back, relying on her performance and her writing. The result is a classic and timeless indie-folk album.