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The third installment in Navona Records' series for orchestra is here: DIMENSIONS VOL 3, featuring the work of contemporary composers Michael G. Cunningham, Andre' Godsey, Miguel Matamoro, Paul Osterfield, and Eric Simonson. Harnessing the power of a...

The third in a series of three presenting Jazzpar winners, a prestigious Danish jazz award. Geri Allen is one of the most modern and original pianists and composers in contemporary American jazz. She has been as important to modern jazz as Nobel-prize...

The term ?tude first started to turn up in musical literature in the late 1700s, and came into common usage in the first half of the 19th century. The notion of a piece of music exactingly engineered to promote some specific aspect of technique was...

The technical challenging of balancing a choir singing at full volume and a guitar, renowned for it's gentle sound, has tended to discourage composers from pairing these resources. Handled sensitively, however, the combination yields a seductive...

The Te Deum is a Latin Christian hymn that dates to the third centuries A.D. It's name is derived from it's incipit, Te Deum laudamus, Latin for "Thee, O God, we praise." Originally ascribed to Saint Ambrose or Saint Augustine, the hymn has been...

The TANGOSTORIA album is a continuation of one of BANDONEGRO's projects, in which the musicians focus on the traditional tango. The album refers to the greatest creators of this genre and is a response to the constantly growing interest in Argentine...

The tango is known to have originated in the suburbs of Buenos Aires, a casserole of local and foreign influences, full of brothels, knives, scoundrels and a few broken-hearted heroes. Lesser known is the facet it developed later on and out of this...

The Syrian singer Dima Orsho has recorded lullabies of different provenance for DREYER-GAIDO. In addition to traditional songs from her homeland, her own compositions as well as Aramaic and Azerbaijani songs can be heard - even a work by the Spanish...

The SWR archives house around 125 recordings of the conductor Carl Schuricht (1880-1967) and thus most of his artistic legacy. This 30-album box set is a re-release of earlier SWR bestsellers and comprises Schuricht's recordings between 1950-1966. The...

The Swedish pianist Lars Sellergren (1927-2008) studied with Olof Wibergh in Stockholm 1946-1952 and Bruno Seidlhofer in Vienna 1952-1954. In 1952 he received the Jenny Lind Award and also made his d?but as a pianist. He was an experienced piano...

The sublime Choir of St. John's College, Cambridge return with the second volume in their Advent series - celebrating the advent season from within the Christian tradition; a season celebrated since at least the sixth century. This splendid live...

The string quartet is at the very heart of 20th century British music, encompassing some of the quintessential works of the chamber music repertory. This compendium features fine examples of the genre, revealing the precocious talents of Benjamin Britten...