Debussy composed four sets of works under the title of Images of which three composed for piano are featured in this album.

"For the second time in a matter of weeks, here we have an opportunity to hear more from guitarist Derek Bailey, this time performing with John Stevens. Neither man should need much by way of introduction: both were seminal figures in the world of free improvised music as it took shape in the 1960s and 70s. Thanks to Michael Gurzon’s recording, here they are, in 1989, performing together at The Duke of Wellington in London. The first track, ‘I’m Alright Actually’, begins with a series of slippery shapes, the noise-elements of Bailey’s guitar merging with those of Stevens’ percussion in a non-stop stream of invention. The music reaches a point of stasis before moving off into a series of angular shapes which give way to a stream of more slow-moving ideas. There is always a sense of restlessness though, a feeling that, at any moment, things might get more chaotic, which, inevitably, the do. The music ebbs and flows, but the inventiveness and the sense of restless energy is always there. A few seconds of applause have been left in at the end, which really captures the ambience of the venue (the same goes for both the other tracks, too). The second, ‘What’s the Time?’, begins with more spacious, harmonic-dominated ideas from Bailey, in dialogue with Stevens’ ‘pocket trumpet’. Almost seven minutes in, the music becomes more dense and agitated.

Women were not always allowed to compose – often due to restrictions imposed by their families or for social reasons.

An acclaimed virtuoso on the European stage, French pianist Marie Jaëll was also a renowned composer in her own time.

Jack Ladder has been waiting his whole life to make this record.

This year, we conclude our Skymasters trilogy with the release of The Vocal Years. After Remembering The Skymasters and Legacy, we now pay tribute to the singing tradition of this legendary orchestra. The lead role on this album is reserved for Anna Serierse, whose warm voice bridges the gap between past and present. She honors the great vocalists who once performed with The Skymasters, including Greetje Kauffeld, Rita Reys, Rachel Gould, and Marjorie Barnes, and gives their repertoire a fresh, contemporary flair.

Singer, guitarist, and high-voltage showman, Manu Lanvin, has become a driving force in French blues-rock.

Winner of the 2009 ARD International Music Competition, violinist Hyeyoon Park has made a name for herself as a soloist and chamber musician, performing with the likes of Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks, London Philharmonic Orchestra, NHK Symphony Orchestra, Kian Soltani, Timothy Ridout and Benjamin Grosvenor. On her first album for Linn, Silenced, she partners Gergely Madaras and WDR Sinfonieorchester in a beautiful programme that showcases two composers who were at odds with the system in place.

A world removed from the grand and awesome visions of the Last Judgement that so often characterize settings of the Mass for the Dead, Brahms conceived a work of ‘consolation for those who are suffering’. Having spent more than ten years absorbing this German ‘humanist’ Requiem, Pichon and Pygmalion have meticulously shaped every bar of this compact work, achieving a form of polyphonic transparency that confounds the senses and transcends the universality of the Requiem's message.

"The Voice of the Beloved" is a forthcoming choral album by the Netherlands Radio Choir (Groot Omroepkoor) featuring 20th-century works by Frank Martin (his Mass for Double Choir), Jean-Yves Daniel-Lesur (his Le Cantique des cantiques), and Olivier Messiaen (O sacrum convivium).

Alain Altinoglu and the Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra have begun to record the complete symphonies of Shostakovich, starting with his Fourth and Fifth symphonies. Shostakovich dared to express human suffering, passion, fear and catastrophe in his music, but always asking the same nagging question: what is man? In this sense, these two symphonies open with a question — an idea of martyrdom that was to become one of the central ideas of his later symphonies and, of course, of his Lady Macbeth of Mzensk. Both symphonies are dated between 1935-1937 when Shostakovich was in his thirties; this was one of the darkest and most difficult phases of his life, marked as it was by the repercussions of some of his writings and the arrest of many people close to him, including members of his family.

Other Lives is an American band formed in Stillwater, Oklahoma, by multi-instrumentalists Jesse Tabish, Jonathon Mooney, and Josh Onstott.

This captivating new release from PENTATONE celebrates the glittering world of 19th-century opera and the timeless beauty of the golden age of bel canto.

For the third volume of their complete Mozart series, Maxim Emelyanychev and Il Pomo d’Oro bring together the Haffner and Linz symphonies, composed in 1782 and 1783. At this point, Mozart had fully established himself as a composer of opera and dramatic works, and he conceived these symphonies with the mindset of a man of the stage – boldly!

Ain't Got Time To Die began as recorded songs in the WW2 installation on Waiheke Island called Stoney Batter by Nick Abbott onsite in 2023 ( Call My Maker, Apocryphal Flood Blues) ALL other tracks were recorded between then and Dec 2024 at Vanguard Studios Waiheke Island.