"While avoiding the more gimmicky extremes [in The Four Seasons], there is no lack of character as soloist or conductor from Renaud Capuçon…These galant style pieces [by Chevalier de Saint-Georges] are just as virtuosic as the Italian’s, but emphasising elegant joie-de-vivre more than drama.

Dvořák: Symphony No. 9, Op. 95 "From the New World" captures the iconic blend of European classical traditions and American inspirations in a stunning performance by the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra under the baton of Nikolaus Harnoncourt.

Beethoven: Violin Concerto & Romances is a masterful recording that highlights the lyrical and virtuosic beauty of Beethoven's works for violin.

It has long been a Philharmonic tradition at the New Year to present a program consisting of the lively and at the same time nostalgic music from the vast repertoire of the family of Johann Strauß and its contemporaries.

Digitally remastered edition of this 1978 classic album from the acclaimed percussionist Bill Summers.

Norma Jean's last album for RCA is up to her usual standards. Highlights include " The Lord Knows I'm Drinking" and the title song.

Trumpeter Jun Iida's warm, inviting tone, astute composition choices and his sublime sense of melody lead the way on his debut recording.

Iida Antola's debut album "The truth about love", with Kirill Kozlovski on piano.

At the start of the 60s, a new wave of gospel-influenced jazz started to emerge, with hits such as Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers' "Moanin'" and Cannonball Adderley's "Work Song" epitomizing this evolution in the genre. The terms "soul jazz" and "funky jazz" were coined as a way to describe this new sound that was making an impact in the US and also on the other sides of the Atlantic and Pacific oceans.

La bohème is an opera in four acts, composed by Giacomo Puccini between 1893 and 1895 to an Italian libretto by Luigi Illica and Giuseppe Giacosa, based on Scènes de la vie de bohème (1851) by Henri Murger. The story is set in Paris around 1830 and shows the Bohemian lifestyle (known in French as "la bohème") of a poor seamstress and her artist friends.

The Cure’s new album, Songs of a Lost World, is set for a live release called Songs of a Live World Troxy London MMXXIV.
Released at the start of November, Songs of a Lost World is the band’s first album in 16 years, and their first number one album in the UK since 1992’s Wish. On the day of release, The Cure performed the album in full at London’s Troxy venue, and it’s this live performance which makes up Songs of a Live World. Whilst the performance on the night also saw The Cure play a number of hits and fan favourites, Songs of a Live World is limited to the tracks from the new album.

Step into the world of rising indie pop vocalist NIA NADURATA with her debut EP Still Living With My Parents - a musical journey through the highs and lows of emerging adulthood.

Surrounded by violinists Sarah Nemtanu, Deborah Nemtanu and Yibin Li, Christophe Giovaninetti, eminent chamber musician, presents his compositions to us for the first time. Six solo, duo, trio and quartet pieces make up this album. They were composed over the last ten years and draw their inspiration in part from the minimalist and repetitive American school of music. Four of them have the particularity of being constructed from motifs borrowed from works by Vivaldi, Bach, Paganini and Bruckner. “My inspiration lies mainly in a general idea capable of freeing itself from time, a more or less suspended atmosphere, a floating state of being” (C.Giovaninetti).

The Russian musician of French descent, Grigory L'vovitch Catoire (1861-1926) is little known outside his country. However, this composer who was passionate about the French and German music of his time left to posterity a deeply touching work. Completed in 1921, his Quintet in G minor is considered his testamentary score. It expresses with passionate tenderness, the twilight of a romanticism that draws on Slavic as well as French and Germanic aesthetics.

This energizing collection of alternative rock songs fuses hard-hitting guitar riffs, grooving bass lines, slamming drum grooves, and catchy male and female vocals that explore themes of self-confidence, seized opportunities, and rediscovered freedom.