"Every song is built around this one chord progression—every track is like a variation on a theme," Mackenzie continues. "But I don’t know if we had the musical vocabulary yet to complete the idea at that time. We recorded some of it then, including the version of 'Exploding Suns' that’s on the finished album. But when the sessions were over, it just never felt done. It was like this idea that was in our heads, but we just couldn’t reach. We just didn’t know yet how to do what we wanted to do." The frontman adds: "It’s not necessarily our most complex record, but every little piece and each sound you hear has been thought about a lot." — Under the Radar Magazine, Sep 07, 2022.

The vocal group VIP presents a diverse concert program with sacred and secular vocal music from Great Britain. There is music of the Elizabethan age with works by Thomas Tallis, his pupil William Byrd and other masters of the English Renaissance.

Working this time as a trio, Unwind's fifth recording for Rattle offers a set of elegant, unabashedly lyrical new works that explore the open, contemplative landscapes they have coursed since their self-titled debut in 2017. The space-conscious compositions on EMBERS are serene meditations resonant with a plaintive universal awareness that is undeniably personal.

Kerala Dust’s new album, An Echo of Love, is a dynamic blend of art rock, electronica, and Americana, reflecting constant change and musical experimentation. The album’s fluidity is mirrored in both its shifting lineup - adding keyboardist Tim Gardner and drummer Pascal Karier - and its diverse recording locations, including Tuscany, Austin, Berlin, Zurich, and Rome. Lead member Edmund Kenny describes the album as capturing a state of mind, shaped by his personal experiences, especially after a tumultuous period following the band’s 2023 tour.

Double Wish makes dark-sunshine-pop. Multi-instrumentalists Philippe Andre and Adam Sabolick have weaved in and out of different musical projects throughout the Los Angeles region since 2007. In 2020 bedroom demos became studio recordings and Double Wish began.

Camille Saint-Saëns was only fifteen years old when he composed his first symphony in 1850, which is known as his Symphony No. 0 — his official Symphony No. 1 would not arrive for another three years.

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…"