The chanson “Malheur me bat” (Misfortune strikes me) exerted a tremendous appeal on composers of the High Renaissance, inspiring them to write a large number of works that take this fascinating material as their starting point. Paul Van Nevel and his Huelgas Ensemble attempt to shed light on this mystery and offer listeners a gripping insight into the compositional technique of polyphony and the world of Renaissance counterpoint.

Ever since people have been falling in love, songs or poetry have been written and addressed to the heart of the beloved. It’s been like this for millennia and hopefully will never change. In the past, the authors of these love songs and poems have been kings, male and female troubadours, vagrant minstrels, maestri di cappella, impoverished poets and countless others of whom unfortunately all traces have been lost. They have all have left us with an inexhaustible wealth of poetry and music, whose earliest traces go back to the Middle Ages.

Simone celebrates the time-honoured link between France and America through 3 different composers - Maurice Ravel, George Gershwin and Philip Lasser.

The Nashville duo Hammock – celebrated by Pitchfork, NPR, the BBC, The Atlantic, and Ricky Gervais – returns on August 25 with Mysterium, the band's eighth album since its founding in 2003.

Ten tracks. Ten locations. Ten field recordings. One piano. Eusa, the brand new album from Yann Tiersen comprises 10 new solo piano pieces, each relating to a specific location on the island of Ushant off the coast of Brittany ('Eusa' in Breton), where Tiersen lives. The album, recorded in Studio 1 at Abbey Road features Yann on piano accompanied by field recordings from the exact spot referred to in the piece of music.

Martin Stadtfeld und Bach gehören zusammen. Alle seine hochgelobten Bacheinspielungen waren Bestseller- bei diesem Komponisten hat der mehrfache ECHO-Klassik-Preisträger immer etwas ganz Persönliches zu sagen. Das Album 'Wie schön leuchtet der Morgenstern' widmet Stadtfeld dem jungen Johann Sebastian Bach. Benannt ist die CD nach dem gleichnamigen berühmten Orgelchoralvorspiel, welches eines der frühesten Werke im Bachverzeichnis ist und welches von Stadfeld selbst für Klavier bearbeitet wurde.

Dorothea Röschmann releases her new recital album including well known songs by Schubert, Schumann, Strauss and Wolf. She is accompanied by Malcolm Martineau who is recognized as one of the leading accompanists of his generation.