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This series explores China's rich and diverse musical heritage. The songs featured on this recording are folk songs of three of the minority ethnic groups of Yunnan province - Wa, Blang, and De'ang. As with Chinese traditional visual arts, the song...

This September, 1957 Mode recording is one of the few un-released Mode sessions that survive. It showcases five great pianists - Carl Perkins, Jimmy Rowles, Lou Levy, Paul Smith and Gerald Wiggins performing four solo piano performances each of...

This selection of Armenian piano music reflects the national characteristics, influences and technical developments of it's composers over a 70-year period. The colourful dance element spiced with Armenian modes that is so distinctive is contrasted by...

This Romance" album contains a selection of popular tunes and encores that I am often asked to perform in my concerts. I have been incredibly lucky to perform all over the world, hence the inclusion of popular songs in Chinese, Japanese and Korean. My...

This richly rewarding album is Oksana Volkova's first solo album on Delos, though she appeared alongside the late, great Dmitri Hvorostovsky in Delos's GRAMMY½-nominated 2017 release of Verdi's complete Rigoletto. Here she delivers powerful, passionate...

This remarkable collection of music for solo piano takes one short-form piece (ranging in length from just under half a minute to just over five) by each of 50 composers, forming a cross-section of piano music spanning the centuries from Rameau, born in...

This release presents some of some of the best-known works from the Renaissance, recorded by Vox Luminis and originally included in various boxed sets on historical themes (Flemish Polyphony, Reformation and Counter-Reformation, Music in Europe at the...

This release presents music played at Charles University in Prague according to mid-15th-century sources, following the Hussite wars and the institution's renovation. The album provides a wide array of liturgical music, sacred pieces by young clerics, as...

This release presents a programme of chamber music for flute and piano from the last third of the 19th century and the early 20th century. With the exception of Max Reger and possibly Carl Reinecke, the composers of these works may not be familiar to the...

This release on PASSACAILLE with the exceptional baroque violinist Mayumi Hirasaki presents masterpieces of the virtuoso violin literature with scordatura, which had it's heyday between about 1600 and 1730. In addition to well-known names such as Biber...

This release is volume five of the re release of the iconic Matchbox Bluesmaster LP series from the 1980s with extensive notes from world authority on the blues, Paul Oliver. In any history of the blues the name of Blind Lemon Jefferson has to be...

This release is the newest from Swedish vocalist Isabella Lundgren. It features arrangements of classic Bob Dylan songs, sung with Isabella's exceptional artistry. "Isabella Lundgren has a seriousness and a gravity that is unique. It's like she makes...