The second of Ella Fitzgerald's famed Songbook series features her singing 34 of the best songs co-written by Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart. The arrangements by Buddy Bregman for the string orchestra and big band only border on jazz but she manages to swing the medium-tempo numbers and give sensitivity to the ballads. With such songs as "You Took Advantage of Me," "The Lady Is a Tramp," "It Never Entered My Mind," "Where or When," "My Funny Valentine," and "Blue Moon," it is not too surprising that these recordings (originally released on a two-LP set) were so popular.

A tight, responsive trio devoted to sonic clarity. Anchored by the deep groove of Michelangelo Scandroglio on bass and lifted by the dynamic pulse of Jeff Ballard on drums, Zampini unfolds a broad palette of clean-toned possibilities, using just a trace of reverb to open up space and let every melodic and harmonic extension breathe. The Tuscan guitarist does not imitate Bill Frisell, Umberto Fiorentino, or John Abercrombie – names that suggest the album’s general atmosphere – but has absorbed their lessons so thoroughly that what emerges is a distinctly personal improvisational voice.

Bach’s St Johannes Passion is the earliest surviving Passion, or Oratorio by J.S Bach and was first performed in 1724. This version consists of two sections and retains this structure in the versions and revisions that followed in 1725, 1730, 1736 and 1749. Bach added several numbers in the 1749 version, but several arias from the revisions are found only in the appendices of modern editions.

Zhu Xiao-Mei ranks among the greatest pianists of our times and is one of the most renowned interpreters of J. S. Bach’s music. The Goldberg Variations stood at the beginning of her international career and represent the ‘greatest musical encounter’ of her life. “It is a universal piece of music that knows no frontiers” - this is the message of her extraordinary playing. At the Leipzig Bach Festival 2014, Zhu Xiao-Mei played the Goldberg Variations at Bach's final resting place in St. Thomas Church Leipzig. The critically acclaimed and award-winning live recording of this concert was previously published on DVD and is now released for the first time as an album.

The XX UK programme presents works for clarinet and piano by British composers of the 20th century. It explores the stylistic diversity of the era: from late Romanticism to modern and jazz-influenced idioms, all within a geographically focused framework.

Schubert’s final year was marked by growing public acclaim, but also by the gradual deterioration of his health, so that any idea of him becoming Beethoven’s musical successor was to be short-lived. Schubert’s final three piano sonatas of 1828 were completed only weeks before his death, and the last of these, the Sonata in B flat major with its ‘heavenly length’, stands at the summit of Schubert’s works for piano, bringing together the lyrical and monumental characteristics that are most cherished in his music.

After fifteen years of a career that has been driven at breakneck speed around the world, Zaz has released the album of her dreams. A collection of highly personal songs whose subject matter is sure to reach a universal level, as it contains biographical narratives.

The Max Roach 4 Plays Charlie Parker is an album by American jazz drummer Max Roach featuring tracks associated with Charlie Parker recorded in late 1957 and 1958 and released on the EmArcy label. It is also the first album to feature Roach playing without a piano.

Armando Anthony "Chick" Corea was an American jazz pianist, composer, bandleader, and occasional percussionist. His compositions "Spain", "500 Miles High", "La Fiesta", "Armando's Rhumba", and "Windows" are considered jazz standards.

West Coast Wailers is an album by American jazz trumpeter Conte Candoli and pianist Lou Levy released on the Atlantic label in 1958.

Tye’s Peterhouse Mass has survived only in an incomplete set of partbooks preserved in Peterhouse, Cambridge, and, like much music of its time, requires a good deal of creative detective work to reconstruct what has been lost in the intervening centuries. Sympathetic editing and Cinquecento’s idiomatic performances restore to life a major work from the mid-sixteenth century.

Cyril James Touff was an American jazz bass trumpeter. He was one of the few jazz musicians known as a bass trumpeter. He was also associated with West coast jazz although he spent most of his life in Chicago.

In the hands of Courtney Barnett, fragments of everyday life become rich and riveting. A deft lyricist and virtuosic guitarist with inimitable musicianship, Barnett first found critical acclaim with 2013's The Double EP: A Sea of Split Peas and broke into the mainstream in 2015 with her debut album, Sometimes I Sit and Think, and Sometimes I Just Sit. Garnering a coveted Best New Artist Grammy nomination and numerous other accolades, the album stands as a generational classic. Barnett followed her debut with 2017's Lotta Sea Lice, an acclaimed collaborative record with Kurt Vile, and eschewed the vignettes of her early records on 2018's Tell Me How You Really Feel, her humid, political sophomore record. In 2021, she released Things Take Time, Take Time, a remarkable artistic step forward. On March 27th, 2026 Courtney will release her 4th studio album, Creature of Habit.

To explore the complete orchestral works of Sergei Rachmaninoff is to plunge into a world where the music seems to speak directly to the soul. Behind the virtuosity, behind the passionate outbursts, a profoundly human voice is revealed, imbued with doubt, nostalgia, and faith in beauty. Under the direction of Mathieu Herzog, with Nikita Mndoyants at the piano and the Appassionato Orchestra, this complete cycle seeks to restore to this immense body of work a coherence, a unity of tone, a continuity of vision. Rather than a succession of recordings, these recordings are conceived as a journey: five discs, five stages of the same inner path. This first volume opens the way. It brings together Symphony No. 1, written by a young composer of twenty-two, Piano Concerto No. 3, a pinnacle of maturity and mastery, and the Scherzo in D minor, a luminous sketch of a genius in the making. Three works in which one can hear the passion, the youth, and the promise — that moment when everything begins, with the fervor of a first gesture.

The tracks of this album contain equally as many sensitive palimpsests (elaborations on an earlier composer's style) through which other emotions vibrate. The transcriptions they present only depart from the letter to better reveal - and revere - its spirit. Our greatest wish would be that what these admirable pieces lose in authenticity, they recover it thanks to the enthusiasm, fervor, and love that have guided us throughout our work. Because, in this field, precisely, it is less a question of proving than of experiencing.