The baryton is almost exclusively associated with Joseph Haydn. It was a much older instrument, though.

Essential: a masterpiece of progressive rock music
Premiata Forneria Marconi (PFM for short) is one of the legendary Italian prog rock bands, they made a sery of beautiful albums in the Seventies.…

Essential: a masterpiece of progressive rock music.
'Appena Un Po' ' instantly grabbed my attention in 1972, and PFM has been one of my favourite bands ever since.

Essential: a masterpiece of progressive rock music
The debut album “Storia di un minuto” has strong echoes from early King Crimson, especially the ‘feminine’ side.

Daniel Hope's new double album Belle Époque, initially released as a Limited Deluxe Edition, combines popular and rare repertoire, which was written in the equally named "golden" period between the Franco-Prussian War and the beginning of World War I in 1914 in major European music nations.

In 1824, while waiting for the the ninth symphony it commissioned from Beethoven, the Philharmonic Society of London ordered a backup symphony in D major from the Italian-turned-French composer Luigi Cherubini. The Society had been founded ten years earlier to perform music by ‘the greatest masters’, notably Beethoven, Cherubini and Carl Maria von Weber.

Saxophonist Ken Fowser reflects upon the ephemeral aspects of nature to uncover a series of inspirations hidden in the broken fragments of our cultural existence on his latest release Morning Light. Prepare to be intrigued and delighted, as Fowser unveils a captivating program of new compositions featuring the suitably swinging assistance of his working band featuring Tadataka Unno on piano, Vince Dupont on bass, Joe Strasser on drums and Josh Bruneau on trumpet. Fowser continues to demonstrate a strong and well refined vision for his own music as a leader and composer that is both emotionally engaging and entertaining. With a delicate balance of modernity and classic aesthetics, Morning Light is insightfully straight forward, refreshingly melodic and full of bright moments for the ears of jazz fans everywhere.

Violinist Fabio Biondi has a singular capacity for finding something new and exciting in the music of Antonio Vivaldi whenever he considers it, a prodigious feat which he demonstrates with "Concerti per La Pietà", a new collection of works calling for a variety of demanding solo challenges, superbly met by Biondi and his colleagues from Europa Galante.

After more than 30 concerts and many excellent reviews about their first trio albums "Tales From The Unexpected" and "European Trio", the Italian pianist Enrico Pieranunzi and the Dutch double bassist Jasper Somsen recorded their third trio album with the Catalan drummer Jorge Rossy: "Common View".

LOUIS LEWANDOWSKI, conductor, choral director and organist at Berlin’s Oranienburger Strasse synagogue, was a pioneer of modern Jewish liturgical music, whose reforms led to the creation of a new liturgy for Jewish synagogue services, a liturgy that combined classical Western music with traditional synagogue singing and restored an important role to organ music introducing a Romantic style influenced by Mendelssohn, whose family fostered Lewandowski’s career.

There is an indisputable historical link between Beethoven and Indian culture: in his quest to fathom the depths of this culture, and captivated by the translation of the Upanishads that was published in Germany in 1816, he immersed himself well and truly in these ancient texts, just as Schopenhauer did, or like Goethe discovering the great Persian poet Hafez when writing his last major collection, the 'West-Eastern Divan'. We see here a mystical Beethoven, scrutinising man and the cosmos and especially curious about other cultures.

Grammy-winning and BRIT and Mercury-Prize-nominated artist La Roux returns with her first new album since 2014's 'Trouble In Paradise'. From the cover to the contents, this is unequivocally the album Elly Jackson always wanted to make a claim that with some artists might ring alarm bells, but in this instance simply means that Supervision sounds precisely, unmistakably, gloriously like La Roux.

Acclaimed jazz pianist Michael Wolff has confirmed a February 7th, 2020 release date for his joyful new album, ‘Bounce’. Exuberant, beautiful and able to convey a range of emotions, ‘Bounce’ reflects Wolff’s upbeat state of mind following his ‘miraculous’ recovery from aggressive cancer. He comments, “Isn’t it great to be alive? I’m celebrating life every day. This album is dedicated to that celebration. Come Bounce with us!!!!!! I have the good fortune to play with these fantastic musicians: Ben Allison on bass and Allan Mednard on drums. Their playing, ideas and vibes imbue this music with creativity and soul. It's really a listenable album. I thought about what I'd like to listen to at home, and tried to make that album.”

“If you’d never heard anything about the Mayflower and the birth of the modern USA these words and music could be your primer.” – Seth Lakeman

Isobel Campbell is a Scottish singer-songwriter, cellist and composer who rose to prominence in the Scottish indie pop band 'Belle and Sebastian' before releasing 3 albums with Mark Lanegan (Mark Lanegan - ex Queens Of The Stone Age, Screaming Trees). Belle & Sebastian's album "Ballad of the Broken Seas" shortlisted for 2006 Mercury Music Prize and was one of NME's top 100 albums of the decade.Isobel Campbell achieved 9 UK top 40's with the 'Belle & Sebastian', spanning 12 weeks in the top 40.B & S's third LP 'The Boy with the Arab Strap' reached No.12 in the UK charts.An impressive 130k album sales across 3 albums in the UK alone.