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Composer Magnus Lindberg (b. 1958) is one of the leading names in today’s contemporary music. This album by the Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra together with its chief conductor Hannu Lintu includes three works by the composer, including Aura,…

Symphonic thinking dominated Mieczysław Weinberg’s final decade, and these chamber symphonies are part of an interrelated sequence that reworks and cites earlier pieces. The Second Chamber Symphony draws on a string quartet from 1944, reflecting the sombre and…

With this album, created during lockdown, Daniel Hope presents a personal collection of timeless classics by Schubert, Elgar and Pärt, several beloved traditional songs and a brand new arrangement Misa Criolla, a mass by Ariel Ramírez that is…

“Recording the complete Preludes is like painting notes with an unlimited palette of sound!’ writes pianist Fanny Azzuro in the notes to her debut album for Rubicon. ‘Playing this music is exhilarating. The danger is that you lose…

“So so much thanks to Ulysses Arts, James Ross, John Croft and Tom Hammond who are the best team ever”, says Poppy Beddoe.

“Through the music of this album, we have endeavored to juxtapose two narratives: one of lost memories and anguish, and one of openness and potential. As these narratives battle before our eyes in the real world, may this…

Transmission by Edgar Moreau, recorded with the Lucerne Symphony Orchestra and conductor Michael Sanderling, unites music by Bloch, Korngold, Bruch, and Ravel. All five works on the album have a connection with Jewish culture and factored into the…

This is Lucile Boulanger’s first solo recital. The French gambist, universally praised for her natural and moving playing – BBC Music Magazine even described her as ‘the Jacqueline du Pré of the viola da gamba’ – juxtaposes Bach…

The communion with a confidential soul, the discovery of indescribable colours, the admiration of a remarkable message whose ideas never cease to evolve and inspire… This is part of a distinctive journey that will leave an everlasting mark…

The French oboist Gabriel Pidoux, voted ‘Instrumental Soloist of the Year’ at the Victoires de la Musique Classique in 2020, has made a name for himself in both early and modern repertories. He now records his first solo…

Théotime Langlois de Swarte continues his exploration of the violin repertory of the early eighteenth century. In this programme, he highlights the links between three leading composers for the instrument, whose popularity was burgeoning at the time: Vivaldi,…

Bruno Philippe conceives Bach’s Suites for solo cello as a veritable existential journey, from life to death and resurrection. Forgoing metal strings for their historical gut equivalents, the young French artist offers us an inward, deeply moving reading…

A major, iconic figure of the romantic period, the inventor of the piano recital, Franz Liszt, with his twelve Transcendental Études, brought technical virtuosity up to a level never reached before him. Beyond technically challenging the performer, these…

Gabriel Fauré composed more than a hundred art songs, spanning sixty years of his life, and he was the key figure in the evolution of the genre: he was instrumental in its blossoming, through the lyricism and extreme…

“For me and for all of our mutual friends and acquaintances, Alois Mühlbacher’s voice is as natural as it is unmistakable. Even if it naturally developed both in terms of pitch and vocal perfection since his time as…

Some people may think – and perhaps not unjustly – that certain types of music are better suited to the rehearsal room than the concert hall. But, as Andreas Brantelid’s selection shows, this is not always ‘applied music’,…