French multi-instrumentalist and producer Gautier Serre has been operating under the name Igorrr for twenty years, yet each new record still resonates with startling freshness and radical vitality. His steadfastly unclassifiable fifth album, Amen, maintains this impact, blindsiding listeners with a new set of exploratory curveballs and continuing to surprise and unnerve even the most attuned enthusiasts.

Synthpop, minimal wave, post-punk, goth, new romantic — fans and critics alike have dug deeply into their vintage thesauruses to describe the beguiling work of Nation of Language.

As a boy, Francesco Cavalli was a member of San Marco Basilica’s Chapel, then directed by Claudio Monteverdi, from whom he probably received tuition. In time Cavalli’s fame as an operatic composer spread across Europe and he succeeded Monteverdi in San Marco to reach the apex of success in Venice. He also wrote sacred music, published in two great printed collections. The first collection, published in 1656, contains his Missa a 8 voci Concertata, an imposing and magnificent work of exceptional complexity for eight soloists, two four-voiced choirs and many instrumentalists. In this recording it is performed in the context of an All Saints’ Day liturgy by Ensemble Locatelli, directed by Cavalli scholar, Bruno Gini.

François and Sylvain Rabbath have turned six years of touring into a joint album that patiently and intensely distills a variety of musical flavors gathered from around the world.

Born in Montreal, French-Canadian baritone Olivier Bergeron made his stage debut at Opéra de Montréal at the age of 16, singing the role of the Younger Brother in Dead Man Walking.

Max Bruch's Violin Concerto No. 1 in G minor, Op. 26, is one of the most popular violin concertos in solo violin repertoire and, along with the Scottish Fantasy, the composer's most famous work. It has been recorded often.

Pianist Nicolas Stavy, who has already made recordingsdevoted to works by Boris Tishchenko (BIS-2189) andDmitri Shostakovich (BIS-2550), now presents the firstinstalment of a complete survey of Alfred Schnittke'scompositions for solo piano. This recording presentsworks from various periods of the Russian-Germancomposer's career - from the 1950s, which thecomposer described as the 'years of obscurity', to the1990s, a time shaped both by world fame and seriousillness. While Schnittke wrote relatively little music forthe piano, each work reflects - or sometimes anticipates- the phases of the composer's creative development.

In this debut album, baritone Jonas Müller and the Tomasi Musso Guitar Duo have recorded Schubert’s Winterreise.

Alfonso Rendano was at the forefront of Italy’s instrumental composition renaissance in the late 19th-century but remains less well known than his near-contemporaries Giovanni Sgambati and Giuseppe Martucci. He was also a prominent pianist who performed with the illustrious violinist Joseph Joachim. The rhapsodic Piano Concerto, recorded here for the first time in its original edition, was premiered in a version for two pianos in which the composer was joined by Franz Liszt who called it ‘a vigorous, remarkable work, one I greatly appreciate’. The Allegro in A minor was rediscovered in 1969 and dates from Rendano’s artistic maturity. The Piano Concerto is performed in Vito Cristofaro’s edition and performed by him with Rendano’s leading contemporary exponent, Daniela Roma.

This recording is based on a little-known manuscript for guitar and fortepiano held at the Glinka Museum of Music in Moscow. On one level, the album aims to support the revival of the Russian seven string guitar, an instrument with its own distinctive tuning (D–G–B–d–g–b–dʹ), rich history, and unique repertoire.

"Originally from Venezuela, Speranza Galez blends the traditional music of her country with jazz" (France Musique).

Best Western, the new self-produced album from Bones Owens, showcases the artist at his most restless and unfiltered. Released through Thirty Tigers (Sturgill Simpson, Smashing Pumpkins), this marks Owens’ third full-length with the label.

Emilia Quinn is a dynamic UK-based musician and singer-songwriter known for her raw, soulful voice and genre-blending sound that fuses Americana, Country, and Rock influences.

In 1984 the pianist Slava Kantheff met the Austrian chansonnier, guitarist and author Peter Horton and they fell in love. The very next year, for Thomas Gottschalk’s TV programme “Na Sowas”, they spontaneously came up in a live broadcast with Peter Horton’s “Freaky Fingers”, put together within a week. After that they were to be seen in just about all the celebrated TV shows at home and abroad. It was the start of a musical and personal journey that was to last for decades.

In a city that’s historically produced some fantastic keyboard players, Memphis musician Tony Thomas has proven to be one of its most venerable practitioners, both as pianist and organist.