The famous British Library in London owes one of it's musical treasures to an English tennis player: A manuscript - probably written on the continent - with violin music around 1680 from faraway Vienna. Virtuoso sonatas by and from the circle of the devil's violinist Johann Heinrich Schmelzer. Veronika Skuplik, "prima donna" in the baroque violin firmament, has worked out some of these musical stories with virtuosity and incomparable sensitivity. Without going with the zeitgeisty fashion of lush continuo, she is accompanied by Jorg Jacobi on the historic organ of the Laurentiuskirche in Langwarden.

We got through Midnights, through 3AM and, now, we’ve arrived at dawn. Taylor Swift unveiled a second deluxe version of her 10th studio album on Friday (May 26), titled Midnights (Til Dawn Edition). This iteration of the project features a remix of “Karma” with Ice Spice, a different version of the Lana Del Rey collaboration “Snow on the Beach,” and a never-before-heard track called “You’re Losing Me.”

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.

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.

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.

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.

Recorded in association with a live performance from Birmingham’s Symphony Hall in 2022, this account of Stanford’s Requiem from Martyn Brabbins and massed Birmingham forces thrillingly captures all the grandeur and intimacy of a neglected choral epic.

11 is the eleventh studio album by Canadian singer-songwriter Bryan Adams. The album was released by Polydor Records on March 17, 2008.

Musically, the new album of the De Phazz guest singer moves between jazz and singer / songwriter pop. A groovy foundation, sometimes a bass solo or a syncopated piano: everything sounds very relaxed, a wonderful understatement.

Domestic music-making of a distinctly superior sort is lovingly recreated in a rare recording of the notebooks Bach presented to his second wife.

Piers Lane brings all his pianistic panache to this splendidly eclectic recital of works from the 1700s to 2019, in a programme exploring very different aspects of the dance.

When discussing the inexhaustible and gone-too-soon genius of pianist Bill Evans, it's easy to get overwhelmed by the mass of music released both before and after his tragic death in 1980.

Legendary Brazilian singer Astrud Gilberto presents her 1977 album That Girl from Ipanema, featuring her signature song of the same name.

John Williams & Anne-Sophie Mutter reunite for World Premiere Recording of the composer‘s Violin Concerto No. 2 – written especially for Mutter. Alongside three film themes in special new arrangements by Williams. New Single and Video of “Rounds” (from the Concerto) out 11 March.

James Brown had the Apollo. Jimi Hendrix had Monterey Pop. And Prince had Syracuse, New York’s Carrier Dome—the Purple Rain Tour performance that was beamed to millions live via satellite and captured for posterity in the Grammy Award-nominated concert film Prince and The Revolution: Live, and has since gone down in history as one of the most iconic live recordings in pop and rock history.