A highlight of Khatia's recording career where she reunites with Paavo Järvi for her first orchestral recording in four years. The recording includes Rachmaninoff 2 & 3 - rarely combined on one CD and two blockbuster concertos of the late-romantic repertoire - especially the 2nd concerto was featured in many famous movies such as Billy Wilder's The Seven Year Itch (1955) or Clint Eastwoods' film Hereafter (2010). The 3rd concerto was prominently featured in Shine (1996) with David Helfgott. This album was recorded with the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra, at Rudolfinum, Dvorak Hall, Prague.

William Carter's exemplary musicianship is showcased to its fullest on this new recording of Bach's own transcriptions for the lute. Almost unplayable in parts, many musicians take certain liberties with the music so that it glows more naturally but William Carter's determined approach to authenticity sees the lutenist achieve the near impossible: playing the music as it was originally written. Carter very subtly enhances BWV 1001, originally for unaccompanied violin, in keeping with Bach's own perceived style, namely to only add ""as much harmony as he found necessary"". The final piece undergoes the most extensive reimaginging as Bach expertly transforms the Fifth Cello Suite into a ""new"" lute work: so successful is it that Carter considers it to be, interms of understanding the essential nature and expressive qualities of the lute, ""the most perfect piece of lute music in existence"".

Recorded live in Los Angeles at the Walt Disney Concert Hall in 2008, Gustavo Dudamel brings new life to Berlioz's eternal classic the Symphonie fantastique as he leads the Los Angeles Philharmonic on this highly-praised performance. Includes a brief pre-concert lecture by the conductor.

In the autumn of 1851 Schumann composed, in rapid succession, the two violin sonatas and, in the space of just seven days from 2 to 9 October, the Piano Trio no.3, Op.110. As always during his work, Schumann was oblivious to everything around him, neglected social obligations, and isolated himself even from Clara. Robert is working very assiduously on a trio for piano, violin, and cello, she confided to her diary, but he won t let me hear anything of it until he has quite finished it all I know is that it s in G minor.

Vladimir Ashkenazy adds another title to his enormous catalogue of recordings for Decca which embraces his work as one of the most acclaimed pianists of his generation as well as over 25 years as a conductor. Ashkenazy devotes this solo album to Bach, on which he performs works including the French Overture and the Italian Concerto.

The great Russian virtuoso Nikolai Lugansky presents his recording to mark the 200th anniversary of the birth of Franz Liszt (1811-1886) – an album of popular piano pieces including La Campanella, Valse oubliée, his version of Isolde’s Liebestod by Wagner, some of the Douze études d’exécution transcendante, and several gems from Années de pèlerinage, among them Vallée d’Obermann, Sposalizio, Les jeux d’eau de la Villa d’Este and Sonnet de Pétrarque 123.