Le Triple Concerto est ici enregistré en concert, gage évident de spontanéité pour une œuvre de grande ampleur symphonique – quelque trente-cinq minutes – qui tient autant de la musique de chambre que de la symphonie concertante.

The New York Philharmonic and Decca Gold launch new partnership with release of Beethoven Symphonies Nos. 5 & 7 conducted by Jaap van Zweden.

This is Adam Laloum’s debut album with Sony Classical. Laloum tackles both of Brahms’s two piano concerti in this recording - a demanding task for even the most seasoned performer, and so, this record-ing stands as a testament to the confidence and abilities of the young French pianist. Laloum is the recipient of a number of prestigious awards including first prize for the Clara Haskil Piano Competition in 2009 and more recently the Victoire de la Musique Classique (Instrumental Soloist of the Year) in 2017.

Raphaël Pichon has invited Stéphane Degout to make his recording debut for harmonia mundi in a multifaceted exploration of the Underworld. The French baritone reincarnates the figure of Henri Larrivée, the famous tragedian of Rameau and Gluck. Around a reconstruction of an imaginary Mass of the Dead, sacred and secular merge, revealing some of the most extraordinary pieces from the operatic repertory of the Enlightenment. Music of death and mourning on an epic scale that inspires Pygmalion to overwhelming heights of pathos.

Sonatas for violin and obligato harpsichord by Guillemain, Mondonville, Corrette, Duphly, Marchand, Balbastre and Clément. Powerful, elegant, and refined - In 1740, with the op. 4 of Jean-Joseph Cassan a de Mondonville, a new genre appeared on the scene in France, a genre that was to fundamentally overturn the relationship to the harpsichord - until then a continuo instrument when it was not playing alone: the Pieces de clavecin en sonates avec accompagnement de violon.

This reverie offered by Brice Sailly in homage to François Couperin is presented in the guise of a trip to Arcadia, that utopian land which lies hidden in the heart of European geography. The selected harpsichord pieces, most of them evoking childhood and the birth of love, sit beside excerpts from the Concerts royaux that set the scene rather as Watteau might have done, leaving to the less well-known airs de cour the task of describing sentiments in words. Couperin discreetly whispers the most luminous of truths. Here all is benevolence, a smile on the lips, a light heart, and melancholy is gently dismissed in favour of consolation.

The 5-track EP will include two new original tracks, a guitar-driven cover of “A Teenager In Love,” as well as acoustic versions of “Hey Now” and “A Living Human” Girl,” off their 2017 debut. Writing songs that proudly bear a brazen and unabashed attitude in the vein of acts Courtney Barnett or Karen O - with a pop aesthetic reminiscent of 50's and 60's acts a la the Temptations or Buddy Holly - the LA based four piece create infectious, punk driven tracks.

Acoustic Garden release their second album "Concept Emotional". The band, which was founded on an idea by the founder Frank Bülow, a songwriter for dance acts like ATC or Culture Beat in the 1990s, also makes their name on the new "Concept Emotional" album. A long time ago, Frank Bülow dedicated himself to the acoustic - certainly due to the fact that the electronic effusions in the songwriter era were rather monotonous and unimportant to him - so he uses this reduced idea with his men on "Concept Emotional" very well around.

The Elias Quartet has already recorded a complete cycle of Beethoven quartets at Wigmore Hall that was extremely well received by the critics. Now Sara Bitlloch, Donald Grant, Martin Saving and Marie Bitlloch present on Alpha an album devoted to Schumann:"We have always had a special affection for Robert Schumann’s Third Quartet. It’s one of the first works we played together. Since then we have often come back to it, as if to a splendid and familiar region that we think we know thoroughly, but which yields up new secrets with each visit.

“The idea to record our debut album emerged when we met Maestro Evan Christ in Ingolstadt, where we performed two concerts together. We were also honored to perform together with Evan in Israel. Thanks to his suggestion of making the recording with the Cottbus Philharmonic Orchestra, we are now privileged to hold our first album in our hands.

The word "gypsy" carries the full weight of a history filled with ostracism and deadly hate. However, the word "gypsy music" has always been a promise of happiness. And it still is: it sounds so wild and spicy, it sounds like blazing minstrelsy, melodic blessedness and a rousing passion for dancing. In their search for 18th century "gypsy music" the musicians around Vittorio Ghielmi found not only rare manuscripts but also pieces by master composers, which were inspired by travelling musicians.

The brainchild of Antoine Tamestit, this recording stems from a long-standing collaboration with his recital partner, Jörg Widmann. Over the course of his new viola concerto, Widmann the composer lets his soloist move freely about the stage, producing fresh orchestral colours within a novel structure: combining humour with earnestness, ferocity with delicacy, Widmann's unfailing sense of theatre serves to highlight the work's haunting beauty. Whether embedded in the orchestral fabric or exploring the more intimate pieces on this programme, the violist comes out a hero, hands down!

Even frequent concertgoers will find it difficult to imagine what to expect under the heading “English viola music”. A few symphonic works by Elgar, Vaughan Williams and Britten have found an established place in our German concert repertoire; violists also know William Walton’s concerto. Other composers of the British Isles, however, have remained unknown to the German public in spite of their prolific output: names such as York Bowen (1884-1961), Benjamin Dale (1885-1943) or Frank Bridge (1879-1941).

The Nuremberg trio A Tale Of Golden Keys naturally places a dove on the cover of their second LP "Shrimp". This humor probably does not open up to every observer right away. The musical direction is different: the ten pop-songs of the album, which are often driven by the piano, nestle comfortably and move quite a bit into louder guitar performances with cheerfully drumming drums. The band acts best when it crashes properly, as in "Will I Be The Last". You feel transported back to the Emo's wedding - Death Cab For Cutie, The Weakerthans or Jimmy Eat World may have been the godfather.

Nation of Two is the second studio album by Australian singer-songwriter Vance Joy. The album was announced on 3 November 2017, with Vance Joy explaining: "Nation of Two describes a perfectly self-contained couple; their world beginning and ending at the bed they share, the car they ride in, or any other place where they're together… the idea that their love for each other gives them their bearings; a point of reference that makes sense of life."