Friedrich Kiel enjoyed great prestige as a professor of composition in Berlin where his many students included Stanford and Paderewski. As a teacher he remained broad-minded and undogmatic. These elegantly poised works show a rather conservative craftsman but one who absorbed the influences of the best of his contemporaries – Chopin, Mendelssohn, Schumann and Liszt. The Suite is Beethovenian in style, while his approach in the Six Fugues is largely lyrical.

Celia Caridad Cruz Alfonso[a] (21 October 1925 – 16 July 2003), known as Celia Cruz, was a Cuban singer and one of the most popular Latin artists of the 20th century. Cruz rose to fame in Cuba during the 1950s as a singer of guarachas, earning the nickname "La Guarachera de Cuba". In the following decades, she became known internationally as the "Queen of Salsa" due to her contributions to Latin music. She had sold over 30 million records, making her one of the best-selling Latin music artists.

“Women Deserve Rage” marks Imany’s return. A powerful work that resonates like a manifesto of emancipation. Born from a vital need to reclaim her truth, it carries the voice of a woman who chooses to be reborn free. An album shaped by time, heart, and guts. It speaks of open and closed wounds, of healing as a legacy, of transmission as a duty, and of a lucid love. A love that doesn’t hide its face, but looks straight into the shadows and draws light from them.

Pianist Marc Cary, best-known for playing with Art Taylor's Wailers and Roy Hargrove, mostly sticks to originals on his debut CD as a leader. With the assistance of trumpeter Roy Hargrove, Ron Blake on tenor, bassist Dwayne Burno, drummer Dion Parson and guest shots from flutist Yarborough Charles Laws and vocalist Charlene Fitzpatrick, Cary constructs a well-paced program of adventurous but chordal-based jazz and he displays a fairly original voice on piano. This is a strong first step for the talented pianist.

There are moments in music when time seems to pause, and with Arcangelo Corelli’s music, I have experienced that enchanted stillness—where each note is not just heard but felt deeply. His music, elegant and radiant, is the gentle whisper of a bygone era, yet it breathes timeless warmth and light.

Known for their signature blend of Egyptian Shaabi, free jazz and improvisation, the Lebanese duo behind PRAED - Raed Yassin and Paed Conca - now assemble a full orchestra for the second time taking the music to a deeper, rooted level.

This CD is the result of the 12th International Competition "Franz Schubert and Modern Music" (FS & MM), which took place in February 2025 and was organised by the University of Music and Performing Arts Graz. The Trio Bronte won 1st prize in the piano trio category with the repertoire on the recording. The Trio was founded in Berlin in 2022 and consists of German-Italian violinist Chiara Sannicandro, Bulgarian pianist Lili Bogdanova, and American cellist Annie Jacobs-Perkins.

Galina Ustvolskaya was a profoundly original composer, unrivalled in the extremism of her style, who was largely ignored during her lifetime. Fiercely independent, Ustvolskaya created highly expressive, even violent music that sounds like the work of no other composer and reveals no distinct influences, while often being imbued with religiosity or spirituality. Her music has been described as having the ‘narrowness of a laser beam capable of piercing metal’.

Sámi poet-musician Niillas Holmberg and saxophonist-composer Pauli Lyytinen will release their long-awaited collaborative album Naarattu laulu on October 24, 2025 via Eclipse Music. The album will be available on streaming platforms, CD, and vinyl LP. The vinyl edition includes a 12-page poetry booklet featuring Holmberg’s poetry and photographs.

If the phrase “male a cappella group” conjures up an image of students in blue blazers, ties and khakis singing traditional college songs on ivied campuses…

Duran Duran continue to celebrate Halloween with a darker re-record of their 1983 track “Shadows on Your Side” [featuring Andy Taylor on guitar], which originally appeared on the album Seven and the Ragged Tiger.

With Stravagante pensiero, Rinaldo Alessandrini and the vocal soloists of his Concerto Italiano revisit the genre of the madrigal, spanning the vast landscape of musical Naples at the beginning of the seventeenth century. A host of musicians thus embraces a new, revolutionary, hyper-expressive, theatrical and feverish musical language. Intoxicating.

In 2023, the Armenian pianist Heghine Rapyan released on the Label Solo Musica her debut album featuring the complete piano sonatas of Stephan Elmas, presented as a world premiere. The international press and critics quickly showed immense interest in this beautiful and long-overlooked music. Stephan Elmas has often been referred to as the “Chopin of Armenia.”With this second CD, she continues this mission with great responsibility – bringing to light Elmas’s legacy as a true Romantic composer in the spirit of Chopin.

The illustrious French organ tradition is celebrated in this album of Toccatas and Méditations, including masterpieces drawn from across the repertoire. Charles-Marie Widor was the founding father of the French Organ School, and his Toccata from Symphony No. 5 is a cornerstone of the organ repertoire. The Méditation by his contemporary Louis Vierne is among the highlights of Romantic organ works. Duruflé, Boëllmann and Guilmant are also represented, as is a beautiful Ravel arrangement. They’re played on the magnificent Grenzing organ at Bauernkirche Iserlohn by Dariia Lytvishko – a Ukrainian-born virtuoso and one of the most lavishly gifted organists of her generation.

First Flight marks the debut album of saxophonist and composer George Kontomichalis. Rooted in jazz traditions like post-bop, hard bop, and modal jazz, it blends classic influences with modern improvisation and introspection.