Magic Thread is Susumu Yokota’s deeply soothing and delicate debut release on the Skintone label. With a spartan palette of sounds and textures, Yokota taps into a fundamentally human need to fuse and connect disparate fibres, magically forming work which glistens and pulsates with life.

Steinway & Sons is proud to present an album by one of Canada’s most exciting young talents, pianist Jaeden Izik-Dzurko. Winner of the 2022 Hilton Head International Piano Competition and the 2024 Leeds International Piano Competition, Izik-Dzurko’s playing has been praised for its exemplary precision & clarity, exceptional artistic maturity, and deep musicality.

This release focuses on a unique selection from Beethoven's late period: works for piano with an optional flute part - ad libitum - that reveal a rarely explored, yet all the more fascinating side of the composer. Framing Beethoven's monumental Hammerklavier Sonata, the two sets of folk song variations form the greatest conceivable contrast to this pianistic summit work. While the sonata, with its formal and technical radicalism, is considered the epitome of Beethoven's late style, the surrounding pieces are characterised by cantabile lines, accessible virtuosity and a sense of chamber-like lightness.

Zymphonica is a symphony orchestra redefining classical music with bold, contemporary vision. Under the direction of Johan Landqvist and Rasmus Fors, we reimagine timeless symphonies and modern hits, transforming them into cinematic, anthemic performances that are uniquely our own. Strategically based near Sweden’s prestigious Royal Music Academy and The Royal Opera, Zymphonica draws from a rich musical heritage while embracing cutting-edge innovation. Their unique approach to orchestral music has gained recognition in major cities across the globe, including Chicago, Dublin, London, Sydney, and Seattle.

Although he had famous students (amongst whom Szymanowski) and a famous teacher, Moniuszko, few listeners know much, if anything, about Zygmunt Noskowski. And yet, for most of the 19th century, he was the primary exponent of modern symphonic music in Poland. His Third Symphony and his symphonic poem The Steppe, Op. 66 blend sweeping Romanticism with Polish folk spirit. The symphony is a journey through the seasons while The Steppe evokes Poland's vast landscapes with colourful hints of Borodin's In the Steppes of Central Asia.

Sueye Park is no stranger to solo violin recitals. After her recording of the Paganini Caprices (BIS2282) and a recital entitled Journey through a Century (BIS2492), both critically acclaimed, she brings us another solo project, Echoes of Exile, an undertaking that finds its raison d'etre in today's very turbulent times.

Greg Foat, Moses Boyd and Jihad Darwish in a classic piano trio setting. Three Superb musicians skillfully performing Foat's distinctive and endearing compositions.

One of the leading sarod players of India from Kolkata, Partho Sarothy will be joining sitarist Paul Livingstone for a tour of the Americas in the Spring of 2025. Paul and Partho have been performing together for more than 15 years performing in India, US and Mexico. They offer an extension of the tradition of dynamic interactive improvisation exemplified by their guru the legendary Pandit Ravi Shankar and his groundbreaking work with Ustad Ali Akbar Khan. Paul and Partho have a new record release of pure alap jor duet in Raga Jogeshwari a raga creation of their illustrious guru. Listening link above. Paul and Partho along with tabla virtuoso Abhijit Banerjee bring a cohesive and 21st century approach to the Maihar Gharana legacy of ensemble playing known as jugalbandi.

To mark the 50th anniversary of Dmitri Shostakovich’s death on August 9, the Oliver Schnyder Trio—joined by violinist Julia Fischer and violist Nils Mönkemeyer—has recorded Shostakovich’s Piano Quintet in G minor, Op. 57. This cornerstone of his chamber output is complemented by both of his piano trios.

Listening, in its truest sense, is a dying art, but it's one The Wood Brothers are committed to practicing and upholding as a virtue.

Saint-Saëns, as Mats Lidström notes, did not have exclusive rights to draw inspiration from swans and this album presents twenty-four examples from a wide range of composers, written before and after the one featuring in Saint-Saëns’s menagerie. Most are heard in arrangements for cello made especially for the album by Mats, who is accompanied by his son, Leif Kaner-Lidström.

An unusual artist with an unconventional résumé, pianist and electroacoustic composer Nicolas Horvath is known for his boundariesless musical explorations. Horvath is both an enthusiastic promoter of contemporary, avant-garde, experimental & minimal music and a rediscoverer of forgotten or neglected composers.

The Gesualdo Six explore different aspects of light and shade—musical evocations of dawn and dusk, the seasonal and the sacred—by composers from Saint Hildegard, writing in the twelfth century, to Owain Park in the twenty-first. The participation of trumpeter Matilda Lloyd, whether soaring above or blending with the voices, makes this a G6 album like no other. Matilda Lloyd is an exclusive artist of Chandos Records and appears here with their kind permission.

By the mid 70s, the New York Latin scene was boomin' so large it could easily fill venues like Yankee Stadium – as you'll hear on this excellent live set from the Fania All-Stars, a monster record that easily ranks with the best live Latin sides of the time – like Eddie Palmieri at Sing Sing, the Tico-Alegre All Stars at Carnegie Hall, or Mongo Santamaria at Yankee Stadium!

The follow-up to 2024's acclaimed 'Obsessed', Wade continues the intense exploration of her psyche's recesses across 11 songs that she again wrote solo.