The Ariel Quartet (Alexandra Kazovsky, violin; Gershon Gerchikov, violin; Jan Grüning, viola; and Amit Even-Tov, cello) – distinguished by its virtuosity, probing musical insight, and impassioned performances – will release the complete Beethoven String Quartets over two years on the Orchid Classics label, culminating in 2027, the 200th anniversary of Beethoven’s death. The Quartet released the first volume of the series on April 4, 2025, and will release volume two on November 7, 2025, with volume three arriving in June 2026 and a special box set release in March 2027.

Venice – the ‘incomparable city, the most beautiful queen, this paradise’ – is how the Englishman Thomas Coryat describes the lagoon city that deeply impressed him on his trip to Europe in 1608. But in addition to the architecture, the canals and the people from a wide variety of cultures, it was the music in particular that fascinated Coryat: ‘It was so beautiful, so delightful, so unique, so admirable, so unsurpassable that it enchanted and amazed all the strangers.’

This album features four Austrian composers from the late 19th to the early 20th century: Alban Berg, Arnold Schoenberg, Franz Schreker, and Erich Wolfgang Korngold.

Khruangbin have re-recorded their debut album, once a cult classic, now to be known as The Universe Smiles Upon You ii. The recording reinvents the familiar songs, bringing the band’s masterful live show and a decade of touring the world to this genre-defining work.

Following the success of The Copenhagen Session Vol. 1, hailed by critics worldwide as a vital rediscovery of the late Polish trumpeter Tomasz Stańko, Scandinavian Art Ensemble now presents the second and final chapter: The Copenhagen Session Vol. 2, set for release on November 7th, 2025 on April Records.

Circles Around The Sun returns with “Interludes For The Dead: Volume 2,” ten years since “Interludes For The Dead,” the music that resulted when Neal Casal was asked to create the set-break music for the now-legendary “Fare Thee Well” shows celebrating the Grateful Dead’s 50th anniversary, and assembled a team of musicians now known as Circles Around The Sun.

The USSR Radio Symphony Orchestra was
the official radio orchestra for the Soviet Union's All-Union Radio network, founded in 1930. Its name changed several times over the years, including the Moscow Radio Symphony Orchestra and the USSR State Radio and Television Symphony Orchestra, before becoming the Tchaikovsky Symphony Orchestra after the fall of the USSR.

Purcell embodies a glorious chapter in the history of his country, the Restoration, which saw the return of the monarchy after the bleak years of Olivier Cromwell’s regime.

Born 1949 in Kingston, Jamaica, Alberga decided at the age of five to be a concert pianist. Five years later she was composing works for the piano.

The album is a complex mixture of works, built around hymn tunes by Vaughan Williams, but involving ten composers and arrangers.

This release captures the January 2025 concert from Manchester’s Bridgewater Hall. Rapturously received by the capacity audience and acclaimed by the critics, the Hallé’s performance of this monumental work marks a significant milestone in Kahchun Wong’s tenure as Principal Conductor. Thought of as being the composer’s most ambitious search for the meaning of life, the Second Symphony is conceived and delivered on an epic scale, featuring soloists, choir and an enlarged orchestra. The music offers a directness of expression which transports the listener through a series of climaxes and reflections, culminating in a Last Judgement in which the composer said, ‘an overwhelming love illuminates our being’. The release is accompanied by a personal introduction from Kahchun Wong, reflecting on what the music of Mahler means to him, and a programme note by Mahler expert, composer David Matthews.

This coming Friday, Endectomorph Music will release the album Prawntail.

Polyhedral artist, versatile musician, he has been exploring different types of music, instruments and musical approaches since the beginning of his musical path.

SIMMONS has been a “fringe fixture” – his words, we at Big Stir Records see him in the centre of the spiral! – on the power-pop scene since his band sparkle*jets u.k. made its first splash in 1998 at LA Pop festivals International Pop Overthrow and Poptopia.

A musical statement full of soul, suspense, and cinematic grandeur.