An album of firsts - all these works are receiving world premiere recordings, and this is the only album devoted to music for strings by Welsh composers.

Nachdem Howard Carpendale in den vergangenen zwei Jahren mit »Symphonie meines Lebens« und »Symphonie meines Lebens 2« zwei Karriererückblicke mit dem Royal Philharmonic Orchestra veröffentlichte, die beide in den Top 10 der deutschen Charts landeten, präsentiert der deutsch-südafrikanische Schlagersänger und Komponist 2021 ein neues Weihnachtsalbum und vollendet damit die Trilogie mit dem Londoner Orchester.

The Signature Collection is a brand new series from EMI Classics featuring the finest catalog recordings released for the first time ever in high resolution format. The expert engineers at Abbey Road Studios who remastered the original EMI recordings for Hybrid Super Audio CD series have breathed new life into these iconic catalog recordings. Each title in the Signature Collection is beautifully presented in a full-color illustrated hardback book. The liner notes explore mot only the rich music but also the story behind original LP covers. Also included are never before seen photographs of the original master tapes.

Acclaimed pianist and organist Jae-Hyuck Cho, one of the most active concert artists in South Korea, returns to Orchid with an album of piano concertos by Mozart, partnered by Hans Graf and the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra.For this new album Cho has created a programme which draws on two unique works featuring piano.

This album of some of the 20th century’s most captivating songs and standards are heard here in dazzling new arrangements by Richard Balcombe. With a perfect marriage of words and music, these classic songs have a timeless appeal. Whether written for movies, revues or musicals, or specifically for the most renowned singers of the day, all the greatest composers and lyricists of the time are represented in this outstanding new collection.

SOMM Recordings is thrilled to announce Pierre Monteux Live, a two-CD set comprised entirely of first releases including never-before-issued performances led by the legendary conductor. Among these is a spectacular 50th Anniversary performance of Stravinsky’s Rite of Spring with the composer in attendance, given a half-century to the day after Monteux himself conducted the storied Paris world premiere!

The tragedy of du Pré’s brief career is still fresh in the public memory and can be summarised here. She was born in Oxford on 26 January 1945 into a middle-class family in which music was important: her mother was a fine pianist and a gifted teacher. The French-sounding name came from her father’s Channel Islands ancestry. Just before her fifth birthday, when she was already showing musical promise, she heard the sound of a cello on the radio and the course of her life was set.

Although most often associated with solo piano works, Frédéric Chopin also wrote two notoriously challenging piano concertos - and appeared as soloist at each premiere. Celebrated French pianist Elizabeth Sombart joins the London's Royal Philharmonic Orchestra to perform Chopin’s First Concerto under the baton of Pierre Vallet. Elizabeth Sombart totally unique interpretation of the two famous and only Chopin's concertos.

Liya Petrova presents here the first instalment of a double diptych, featuring two rarely recorded works: Walton’s Violin Concerto (1938) with a prestigious British orchestra, the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Duncan Ward, and Respighi’s Violin Sonata (1917) with her regular keyboard partner Adam Laloum. The shimmering harmonic palette and the vigorously phrased lyricism of these two works respond almost instinctively to each other and make them a natural coupling.

2015 release from the German pop/classical crossover violinist. David Garrett returns with an explosive combination of pop hits, classical greats and his own, unique compositions with 11 originals being included on the album. Contemporary pop hit covers include 'Dangerous' (David Guetta), 'Lose Yourself' (Eminem) and 'Thinking Out Loud' (Ed Sheeran). The album was recorded at Electric Lady Studios in New York which was previously used by AC/DC, Jimi Hendrix, Guns n' Roses and John Lennon and key words David uses to describe the album are "energetic, unusual, emotional and explosive".

Chamber soloists of the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra showcase the best of W.A. Mozart's delightful "Wind Serenades" – music composed to accompany lavish eighteenth-century banquets.

Deep Purple, one of the pioneers of hard rock, integrated classical elements into their 1970 masterpiece "Concerto For Group And Orchestra". Each movement is an innovative display of raw orchestral power blended with an exhilarating rock band. The work composed by keyboardist Jon Lord found the band joined by the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. This undeniable masterwork will have listeners at the edge of their seats.

Christopher Gunning is best known for his film and television work, for which he has won four BAFTA awards (for La Vie en rose, Agatha Christie’s Poirot, Middlemarch, and Porterhouse Blue) and three Ivor Novello awards (for Rebecca, Under Suspicion, and Firelight).

Concertante orchestral works for more than one keyboard instrument saw a revival after the First World War with the neo-Baroque trends of the time helping to revitalize the neglected concerto grosso genre. Recorded here in a new version with three pianos, Martin’s Petite symphonie concertante reflects the dark tensions of the Second World War, while Poulenc’s delightful Concerto for Two Pianos is infused with the spirit of Mozart in its rich and eclectic stylistic tapestry.

The final volume of the complete Sibelius Symphonies from the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and Owain Arwel Hughes contains the ever popular 5th coupled with the beautiful less well known 6th, and the ground breaking single movement 7th, the composer’s final word on the symphony. His 8th, apparently completed, was consigned to the fire by Sibelius.