With his 9th piano concerto, composed in 1777, Mozart entered a new world. The traditional long orchestral introduction is dispensed with, and the soloist enters after the second bar. Nothing as... more

After two albums devoted to Ireland and Scotland, Alix Boivert and The Curious Bards cross the North Sea to Sweden and Norway. Rejecting the artificial distinction between 'art' and 'folk' music,... more

The Quatuor Ellipsos tells us a family story through four iconic works firmly ingrained in the collective unconscious: Carmen, Casse-Noisette, West Side Story and Rhapsody in Blue. Like a small-scale... more

A Norman composer from the early 20th century and a little-known figure in French music, Gabriel Dupont was one of the last representatives of French post-romanticism, which died with him at the dawn... more

Performed using gut strings, the Dudok Quartet's Tchaikovsky String Quartet cycle is notable for the 'new' sound world gut strings reveal. There is a raw naturalness to the sound together with an... more

With Seigneur, Roberto Alagna delivers a most personal album, a tribute to faith and to the immense cathedral of lyric art to which the tenor regularly adds his stone. The result of the highly... more

Since winning the 2021 Song Prize at the Cardiff Singer of the World competition, South African Masabane Cecilia has been selected as a BBC New Generation Artist, and awarded the 2024 Herbert von... more

First prize winner of the prestigious Naumburg Competition in 2017, like Stephen Hough, one of his mentors, Albert Cano Smit is a pianist noted for his bold choices and his taste for atypical musical... more

The composer and soprano Liza Lehmann played a key role in revitalizing English song, writing several hundred vocal works. Acclaimed in concert halls around the world, she collaborated with the... more