Last Night I Heard the Dog Star Bark is a hybrid of the ancient and the futuristic, where the arcane etchings of occult folk horror fuse with the unfathomable equations of the cosmos. A big bang, yes, but also an atom cleaved. On her latest album, this celebrated new champion of the finger-picked guitar looks upwards, outwards. somewhere beyond. Now the landscape is mapped – its knotted woodlands, its aurora-crowned mountains, its tangled undergrowth – Gwenifer Raymond hears the stars call.

Steven Harlos: Benniana; Robert Nelson: Suite of Characteristic Dances; Balentine: Strange Loops; Douglas, Bill: Suite cantando; Wolking: Trane's Thang.

Yusuf/Cat Stevens has announced a definitive and first ever career-spanning collection. On the Road to Findout: Greatest Hits presents highlights from a nearly 60-year recording career with songs from his debut 1967 LP, Matthew & Son, through to his 2023 King Of A Land album. The collection features timeless tracks like “Where Do The Children Play?,” “Wild World,” “Moonshadow,” “The Hurt,” and “Father And Son.”

Mezzo-soprano Anna Lucia Richter interprets Gustav Mahler's Wunderhorn Lieder and Kindertotenliederwith great emotional depth and subtle creative power - two cycles that illuminate human fate in all itsfacets like few others.In the Wunderhorn Lieder we encounter tender childhood memories and bizarre stories - a worldbetween irony, folk song and deep melancholy. The harrowing contrast is provided by theKindertotenlieder, in which Mahler sets the pain of the loss of a child to music with poignant clarity andtouching restraint.Together with the Gürzenich Orchestra Cologne under the baton of Jordan de Souza, Anna Lucia Richtergives these songs a new, very personal dimension with her highly nuanced voice.

All the works on this CD are either arrangements of vocal repertoire or inspired by song in the course of their composition.Whether because they owe their origin to that period or on account of their style, the pieces are closely related to the Romantic era, when cantabile character was an essential element of musical expression. All these pieces were recorded on a Spanish guitar built in 1925 in Málaga by Antonio de Lorca Ramírez (1875–1929), a representative of one of the most notable guitar-building dynasties. This instrument is thus celebrating its centenary in the year this CD was made.

Ten years. Ten years of listening, searching, digging, sharing. Ten years of putting out records we felt mattered—because they told a story. Of a place, a moment, an impulse. Ten years of believing that music, especially the kind that doesn’t fit into any box, deserves more than just attention: it deserves care, time, and deep listening.

Mike del Ferro and Femke Smit have known each other for a long time, but a special musical connection was forged during a meeting in Rio de Janeiro in April 2023. Their shared passion for Brazilian music, combined with a classical background (both have opera singers as fathers) and a foundation in jazz and improvisation, formed the ideal foundation for an inspiring collaboration.

A quick recap on Louise Farrenc: she started to learn piano aged six, studying with Hummel and Moscheles, two great Romantic piano virtuosi. It was Anton Reicha who taught her composition, though. and provatey as females could not at that time enter the Paris Conservatoire to study composition. She went on to become Professor of Piano at that very institution, the first woman to hold the chair - a position she held for three decades.

The Yale Symphony Orchestra was founded in 1965 by a group of students who saw the growing potential for a large orchestral ensemble to thrive on campus. With a spirit for promoting new music and performing underrepresented composers alongside works of the standard Western canon, the orchestra has become a destination for students who wish to perform orchestral music at the conservatory level while taking advantage of all that Yale - a liberal-arts institution -has to offer.

Norwegian trumpeter and sonic architect Nils Petter Molvaer presents Khmer Live in Bergen – a charged reinvention of his era-defining 1997 ECM release KHMER – recorded in concert in 2024. Fused with live trip-hop beats, ambient haze and Nordic lyricism, KHMER Live in Bergen amplifies a new energy with deeper grooves, sharper edges and greater dynamic intensity, pushing the music into a rawer, driven by experience, control and creative vision.

Tennant and Lowe of Pet Shop Boys’ celebrated score, remastered and released on vinyl for the first time by Parlophone Records to mark the centenary of Sergei Eisenstein’s legendary silent film Battleship Potemkin.

This recording marks an important addition to the discography of Grażyna Bacewicz, a composer whose growing recognition stems from the exceptional quality of her music and its direct resonance with listeners. The String Quartet No. 4 (1951) and Piano Quintet No. 1 (1952) embody these qualities, offering a clear testimony to such qualities and an ideal path to approach Bacewicz’s distinctive voice. The performances are no less than idiomatic, delivered with conviction and freshness by a young, leading Polish-Belgian string quartet: the inspiring enthusiasm conveyed by the members of the Karski Quartet has a communicative drive that inevitably infects the listener.

In August 2022, Joe Henry, a seasoned but unconventional songwriter, taught at a Nashville songwriting camp, feeling out of place among more commercially successful instructors. On the first night, he met fellow instructor Mike Reid—former NFL star and acclaimed songwriter. Despite Henry’s initial awe, Reid immediately engaged him in a heartfelt conversation about poetry, sparking a deep connection. Months later, inspired by a rhyming couplet, Henry reached out to Reid with a note suggesting they write together. Reid’s enthusiastic reply—“Let’s push off the dock and into the fog and see what we find”—led to an unexpected and organic collaboration. Henry sent lyrics; Reid responded with fully formed recordings. This seamless exchange repeated, producing a body of songs that felt inevitable and deeply shared, as if accessing something beyond either man’s individual reach.

Sophia Oster is one of the most promising newcomers on the German jazz scene and has already performed on stage with renowned musicians such as Nils Landgren, Bill McHenry and Jorge Rossy. She has also been nominated twice for the prestigious IB.SH JazzAward. With her Sophia Oster Quartet, featuring American-German bassist Paul Imm, saxophonist Konstantin Herleinsberger, and Brazilian drummer Rafael Müller, she performs regularly in Germany and beyond. Her new album “Praise” features a mix of originals and covers.

With works by Franz Schubert and Robert Schumann, this CD is dedicated entirely to the magic of musical romanticism. Two composers, two worlds of sound - united by emotional depth, imagination and a love of the piano.Lei Meng interprets Schumann's filigree Arabesque op. 18 and his passionate C major Fantasy op. 17, a musical confession full of inner drama.