Alpha Classics proudly presents "Baroque Stories", a new series of recordings devoted to young talents in early music; its first recording introduces Louise Acabo, a French harpsichordist and winner of several international competitions who divides her time between Paris and Basel.

The Italian conductor Ottavio Dantone breathes new life into Cesare in Egitto, an opera by Geminiano Giacomelli (1692-1740) based on a libretto written by Domenico Lalli with the assistance of a young collaborator not yet in his thirties: Carlo Goldoni.

A visionary composer, Domenico Scarlatti pushed back the frontiers of keyboard writing, fusing radiant melodies with spirited rhythms and daring technical feats. In this compendium of his most attractive sonatas, Javier Perianes employs his consummate virtuosity with audible enjoyment, revealing all the richness and inventiveness of his adoptive compatriot’s musical language.

PENTATONE proudly presents Richard Blackford’s powerful new Cello Concerto, commissioned by Czech Philharmonic for the acclaimed virtuoso cellist Alisa Weilerstein.

London, 1760. Handel had just died and George III acceded to the throne. During the reign of this monarch and his queen Charlotte, both discerning musicians, musical life in the British capital was to enjoy an exceptional revival. Virtuosos and composers from all over Europe flocked there, vying with each other in originality and modernity. Now La Rêveuse invites us to sample the creative whirlwind of the age, spinning from viol concertos to airs for musical glasses . . .

"Bouquet de Cinéma" is the name of an upcoming album by Cocomi, set to be released on August 20, 2025. The album will feature a collection of classical pieces inspired by cinema, including works from films like Breakfast at Tiffany's, Kiki's Delivery Service, The Wizard of Oz, and La La Land.

Following 2024’s ESFAHÂN, THE DARKNESS OF FURY is Navona Records’ second album of cross-cultural compositions by Iranian-American composer Reza Vali. The five pieces for large ensemble are a stunning display of impeccable study paving the way for something new, as Vali’s scholarly knowledge of Iranian folk music and Persian forms combine with Western temperaments to create music with epic, immersive, and tale-telling qualities. As traditional Persian sound intermingles with orchestral flourishes, listeners are transported back and forth between worlds, which ultimately unite in a marriage of musical cultures.

Once a year, we invite you to join us for a musical experience as special as the Tanabata Star Festival.

At once sensual and existential, this collection of songs—composed across 125 years—meditates on nature and nostalgia, sex and love, the ephemerality of the human spirit, and the eternal, transformative power of art. These song cycles of Edvard Grieg, Claude Debussy, George Crumb, and Robert Spano coalesce into a testament to the limitless potency and fragility of love—both its resplendent joys and its tender sorrows. Despite love’s transience and riskiness, the album compels us to ruminate on Rilke’s witticism that “for one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks…"

With their dramatic history, the Peterhouse Partbooks are among the most significant collections of English sacred music manuscripts from the 16th and early 17th centuries. Including several world premiere recordings, this programme presents a survey of the rich variety in the Peterhouse manuscripts, from the Venetian splendour of Croce's eight-part anthem Omnes gentes plaudite, to the penitential intimacy of Tallis's O God be merciful unto us.

International sensation Federico Colli continues his personal exploration of the music of Mozart with this second volume of works for solo piano. Colli opens his programme with the Adagio in B minor, K. 540, from 1788, toward the end of Mozart’s short life. The only piece on the album not to involve variation form, this Adagio instead adopts sonata form, and is an extremely rare case in Mozart’s output of its chosen key.

Reference Recordings proudly presents the debut release of Ukrainian piano duo Anastasiia Larchikova and Mykhailo Diordiiev in Four Hands. Two Hearts. One Hope: Ukrainian and American Music for Piano Duo. Producer Sergei Kvitko says, “this is a labor­-of-­love album with a young and very talented Ukrainian piano duo presenting a contemporary, but VERY accessible program of Ukrainian and American music — Americans are John Corigliano‘s Gazebo Dances, Ricky Ian Gordon‘s Ring-­A­-Ding­-Ding, and a world premiere recording of Lowell Liebermann‘s Romance, Etude and Chorale, Op. 134, which is the centerpiece of the album — a stunning and deeply moving work that was commissioned by Steinway as a wedding present to Lang Lang.

“Exciting news! You can now stream all three albums from the Royal Albert Hall 2024 box set on your favorite streaming platforms.

“Exciting news! You can now stream all three albums from the Royal Albert Hall 2024 box set on your favorite streaming platforms.

“Exciting news! You can now stream all three albums from the Royal Albert Hall 2024 box set on your favorite streaming platforms.