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Cellist Mikayel Hakhnazaryan, of the Kuss Quartet, delivers a very personal musical exploration of the emotions of a musician, away from their homeland, discovering new worlds, and searching for...

British-German tenor, Rufus M?ller, was acclaimed by The New York Times following a performance in Carnegie Hall as "... easily the best tenor I have heard in a live Messiah". His unique dramatic...

The three works that make up this highly attractive program from Trio Isimsiz's Michael Petrov and Erden Misirlioglu span a century. Franck's sonata, in it's officially sanctioned transcription for...

Alessio Pianelli's debut album is a beautifully curated, affectionate, and eclectic musical tribute to his native land, the island of Sicily. "For A Sicilian Traveller, I investigated the richness of...

Until recently we were unaware of the rich output of Irish composer Ina Boyle. She was the only woman composer to be published in the Carnegie Collection of British music with her atmospheric...

Debussy was seriously ill at the outbreak of World War I, and struggled to compose. A wartime performance of the Saint-Sa?ns Septet prompted the composer to consider writing chamber music for the...

2021 release. Montgeroult, Viotti, Mendelssohn and Weber: Violin Sonatas.1. Viotti: Violin Sonata No. 10 in E Major, G. 38 2. Montgeroult: Violin Sonata in a Mnor 3. Mendelssohn: Violin Sonata in F...

How composers draw their creative lives to a close continues to fascinate. Are their final works the culmination of all that has gone before or suggest what might have come next? Did illness enhance...

This recording from Owain Arwel Hughes and the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra is the first in a cycle of all seven of Sibelius's symphonies. Symphony No.1, from 1899, is coupled with No.3, from 1907...

Sibelius's Symphony No.2 of 1902 represents a big step forward in his development as a symphonist. It's thematic fragments are driven by harmonic tensions through which the composer takes the...

The final volume of the complete Sibelius Symphonies from the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and Owain Arwel Hughes contains the ever popular 5th coupled with the beautiful less well known 6th, and the...

Pianist Karim Said came to the public spotlight as the subject of Christopher Nupen's celebrated 2008 documentary Karim's Journey. The film traces the development of an exceptional musical talent...