There is a spirit that passes through all the folkloric music of the world. The sounds may differ from region to region and from people to people, but folk music holds deep truths that speak to the connective tissue of humanity. There is something mysteriously universal in the way peasants or, for that matter, jazz musicians approach music.

There is a spirit that passes through all the folkloric music of the world. The sounds may differ from region to region and from people to people, but folk music holds deep truths that speak to the connective tissue of humanity. There is something mysteriously universal in the way peasants or, for that matter, jazz musicians approach music.

An electrified meeting of minds, Candy Girl is a lost 1975 session by jazz pianist Mal Waldron, recorded in Paris with core members of the mighty Lafayette Afro Rock Band, the American funk unit who had made France their home and whose deep grooves would later be mined by generations of hip-hop producers.

"Silence & Movement" is an album by the renowned Dutch flutist Chris Hinze, released under his moniker, The Storyteller. This project is a musical response to the ever-increasing noise and chaos of the modern world. The album is specifically designed for meditation, mindfulness, relaxation, and inner contemplation. The music consists of minimalist and calming soundscapes, centered around the sound of various flutes (including bamboo and c-flute), and complemented by ambient textures. "Silence & Movement" offers the listener a space to find peace and harmony, providing an escape from the hustle and bustle of daily life.

This CD is a part of a project which consists of recording all the chamber music pieces with soloistic instrumental parts for which Brahms has made viola versions. This first CD includes a Horn trio (Op. 40) and two Clarinet Sonatas (Op. 121). The 2nd CD (which will be released in 2026) features the Clarinet trio (Op. 114), Clarinet Quintet (Op. 115), Two Songs (Op. 91) and the Scherzo from FAE Sonata. It is quite a common opinion that the last works of Brahms inspired by the meeting with clarinettist Richard Mühlfeld belong to Brahms’s deepest, most beautiful and impressive works.

Composed between 2006 and 2010, Frederic Rzewski’s Nanosonatas are a cycle of 56 brief piano pieces, structured into eight books. Conceived after his vast work The Road, these sonatas focus instead on concision, restraint, and the poetics of incompletion. Each nanosonata offers a fleeting glimpse—suggesting larger ideas, then stopping abruptly, like a character in Tolstoy evoked in just a few lines.

Among the notable musicians born in the city of Pavia, Franco Vittadini is undoubtedly one of the most significant. The city’s Istituto Superiore di Studi Musicali is named in his honor, and he served as its director from 1924 until his death. Maria Cecilia Farina uses historical organs on which to perform the author's organ music in a precise and philological manner. Rarely – and always in deference to the liturgical context – does Vittadini employ a grand and solemn language, using organo pleno sonorities or indulging in virtuosic displays. His stylistic hallmark is instead a gentle melancholy: a crepuscular atmosphere – comparable to the poetry of Guido Gozzano or Sergio Corazzini – and a contemplative, idyllic/nostalgic attitude pervade his pages, expressing his sense of faith.

Cellist Louise Dubin's new collection of French cello works include pieces by masters Debussy, Faure and Koechlin, side by side with rarities by the lesser known Auguste Franchomme (1808-1884), and contemporary composer Philippe Hersant (b. 1948). Ms. Dubin's last award-winning album was devoted to the compositions of Franchomme. This new recording features both Franchomme's arrangements and original compositions.

Kimatika, the 3rd album by the Slovenian audio-visual trio Etceteral, is a visceral plunge into the raw undercurrents of futuristic jazz, motoric propulsion, free improv and elastic compositions.

Composing music for pictures is about the same as setting a text to music or expressing a poetic-lyrical idea: it is about looking “behind the façade” of a situation, capturing the spiritual and psychological aspects behind a situation or thing. Good and independent film music is never just an external description and duplication of the image: it must capture the essence, the “right vibration”, touch the deep inner core of an invisible world that remains hidden to the visual eye, which is only focused on the external.

Concerto Koln goes on a journey of discovery in their next album and contrasts the famous composer Johann Sebastian Bach with the today unknown Johann Adolph Scheibe\u200B - two rivals featured sharing a first name but apart from that, their life, work and subsequent reception could not be more different, even though their paths crossed when they were alive. The Concerto Koln is accompanied by the excellent soprano Marie Sophie Pollak\u200B on this album, which alternates instrumental and vocal works by the two composers.

This is the debut album of an outstanding baroque violinist coming from the renowned Schola Cantorum Basiliensis. The recording is the fruit of an in-depth scholar work, of a virtuoso violinist accompanied by a raising star of the harpsichord - to which the expertise of a top sound engineer and producer is added. The release contains a selection of the sonatas drawn from Pisendel's library, the best of Italian and German violin schools, and includes world premiere recordings.

Rome 1839, Palazzo Poli: one of Liszts Roman concerts has gained significance in the history of music. A prominent audience of high ecclesiastical and secular dignitaries listened to Liszts performances. Strangely enough, it was at this concert that Liszt took the risk of introducing a new type of program, as he decided for the first time to dispense with the participation of other artists and to conduct the evening entirely on his own. This was the first solo piano recital or, as Liszt jokingly put it: The first of my boring musical monologues, which I now want to give everywhere in future. Le Concert cest moi! This album by Kateryna Titova presents live recordings as well as recordings made as part of an eponymous exhibition at the museum at Liszts birthplace Raiding, featuring, among others, the so-called Dante Sonata, Liebestrume Nos. 2 & 3, two Paganini tudes as well as the first Mephisto Waltz.

Born in Naples in 1903, Mario Pilati belonged to the generation which included such disparate personalities as Petrassi, Dallapiccola, Salviucci, Rieti, Mortari, Scelsi and Rota. Pilati was a prolific composer of chamber, vocal and orchestral music. Like many of his contemporaries, he was drawn to the instrumental music of the past, especially that of his own country.

Recorded live at Bostons magnificent Symphony Hall, CORO brings together on one album the Handel and Haydn Societys recordings of Haydns early Symphonies Nos. 6, 7 & 8. Known as Le matin, Le midi and Le soir, the three works, written shortly after Haydn joined the court of Prince Paul Anton Esterhzy, are amongst the most striking of the composers early symphonies. Characterised by unusual virtuoso writing across the orchestral ensemble, all three works feature extensive solo passages for the wind, horn and strings, including rare solo writing for thedouble bassandbassoon, and demonstrate Haydn's emerging skill as a master of symphonic writing.