Bach’s four Lutheran Masses feature almost no Lutheran material at all. Sometimes called "Missa brevis", musically they are almost entirely made up of movements borrowed from Bach’s Cantatas. While often overshadowed by the more famous Mass in B minor, the beauty of these short Masses is that they represent Bach’s own choice of his finest Cantata movements.Despite their exquisite beauty, featuring splendid choruses and deeply moving arias, there are relatively few recordings of the Masses. This collection combines The Sixteen’s recordings into one collection. Just eight singers join The Sixteen’s orchestra to perform the Masses, allowing the beauty of the virtuosic vocal lines to be heard with absolute clarity.

The critically-acclaimed singer-songwriter will release the soundtrack on September 2 via EMI Records. Each song is woven into the film’s story, in which he stars alongside Will Poulter and Naomi Ackie. New versions of some of his older material have been recorded for the movie – featuring the vocals of his co-stars – while some are fresher, having only been part of his live sets before.

A l'été 1968, quelques jours après la répression brutale du "Printemps de Prague", le Tchèque en exil Rafael Kubelík a dirigé un concert captivant dans sa ville d'adoption, Lucerne : une Symphonie de Haydn pleine de vitalité et une Quatrième de Tchaïkovski passionnée encadrent le Concerto pour piano de Schönberg - c'est aussi la seule apparition de la légende britannique du piano John Ogdon au Festival de Lucerne.

The Handel and Haydn Society celebrates Haydn with a dazzling pairing of two of the composer’s masterpieces. In one of his final performances as Artistic Director of the Society, Harry Christophers leads the ensemble and a stellar cast of soloists in Haydn’s monumental Theresienmesse (Mass in B-flat major, Hob.XXII:12) and his Symphony No. 103 in E-flat major, Hob. I:103, "Drumroll" - one of Haydn’s twelve "London" symphonies composed between 1791 and 1795 when London was the indisputable musical capital of Europe.

'Mr. Saturday Night' marks the fourth album from the Multi-Platinum-certified West Coast/Lone Star country phenomenon Jon Pardi. With a pair of #1 Country Album debuts - the Country Music Association and Academy of Country Music Album of the Year nominated 'Heartache Medication' and his follow-up 'California Sunrise', containing the CMA Song and Single of the Year nominated 'Dirt On My Boots' - Pardi has refined and defined a country sound that's long on punch, power and the kind of honkytonk that gets people drinking, dancing and drowning their heartaches.

Hailing from Mongolia, The HU are unlike any other rock band in the world, introducing their new style of music they call "hunnu rock" - from the Mongolian root word for human being, "hu". Since their release, the band has been #1 on the Billboard World Albums Chart, #1 on the Top New Artist Albums, and Top 5 Globally on Hard Rock Music Album Charts (US, Canada, UK, and more). The Hu are back with Rumble of Thunder.

Set for release on 2nd September, Two Door Cinema Club have announced their fifth studio album ‘Keep On Smiling’, revealing first single ‘Wonderful Life’ alongside the news. ‘Keep On Smiling’ follows their 2019 album ‘False Alarm’. In our review of the record, we said, “Two Door Cinema Club have learnt how to harness their mainstream power while taking creative risks. They pay off almost every time.”

Continuing his landmark survey of the piano works of Elisabeth Lutyens, pianist Martin Jones delves deeper into the music of this undeservedly neglected composer. This second volume features further world premiere recordings including pieces from her early maturity such as The Check Book, a compelling collection of twelve miniatures for children; Piano e Forte that recalls Lutyens’s lifelong enthusiasm for the music of Debussy and explores the possibilities of the instrument in a way she had never attempted before; and Maybe–Encore Op. 159, which was Lutyens’s final work for piano composed in 1982. Also included is an early unpublished sonata movement (Allegro molto) possibly written as early as the 1930s.

Perhaps Mozart sings more, but Haydn speaks, he chatters, he rejoices and talks about the really important things in life”. After Matthias Kirschnereit’s exploration with the Radio Hesse Symphony Orchestra of the middle ground between the Classical and Romantic eras in works by Hummel, Weber and Mendelssohn, the pianist now turns to Haydn. And that means he is entering the terrain, somewhat neglected even now, of the great Austrian’s piano concertos. All nine keyboard concertos that were definitely written by Haydn are now being released with Matthias Kirschnereit and the Württemberg Chamber Orchestra of Heilbronn, which he directs from the instrument. Included is the Double Concerto in F major with Lena Neudauer on the violin. As a "chamber music treat", Matthias Kirschnereit also had the Piano Trio in G major arranged and recorded. The recording is a co-production with Deutschlandfunk Kultur.

Ivor Bolton has been principal conductor of the Basel Symphony Orchestra since the beginning of the 2016 / 17 season and has always had a special affinity with British music. The present album with rather unknown music by Benjamin Britten was therefore a very special concern for him from the beginning. The program consists of the early cycle Our Hunting Fathers (with the tenor Mark Padmore), the Quatre Chansons francaises (a stroke of genius by the only 14-year-old) and the suite from the unfortunately rarely performed opera Gloriana, which, by the way, was written for the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II.

Der wegweisende Bruckner-Zyklus Christian Thielemanns mit den Wiener Philharmonikern wird mit Bruckners Fünfter in der Edition Nowak fortgesetzt. Sony Classical veröffentlicht mit der Sinfonie Nr. 5 in B-Dur WAB 105 (in der Fassung von 1878 aus der Edition Nowak) den fünften Teil der Gesamtaufnahme aller Bruckner Sinfonien mit den Wiener Philharmonikern unter Leitung von Christian Thielemann, der erste Bruckner-Zyklus des Orchesters unter einem einzigen Dirigenten.

Un inconnu vous dévoile les fastes de la Chapelle Royale de Louis XV : Charles-Hubert Gervais en fut le Maître de Chapelle dès 1723, et représente donc parfaitement la splendeur de la musique sacrée à la Cour de Versailles. Héritier des grandes fresques de Lully et Lalande, Gervais est avant tout un compositeur d’opéra, et son style dramatique fait vibrer ses Grands Motets de couleurs italiennes. Chez ce protégé du Régent Philippe d’Orléans dont il fut le musicien favori durant deux décennies, puissance d’évocation et pompe versaillaise prennent aussi pour parure le style galant. Servi comme un Roi par des interprètes magnifiques, voici Gervais tout à la gloire de Versailles !

Nina Nesbitt is set to take her continuing rising star status to the next level with the news that she will release her eagerly anticipated new album ‘Älskar’ on September 2nd.

The God Machine is the upcoming twelfth studio album by German power metal band Blind Guardian, to be released on 2 September 2022 through Nuclear Blast. This will be the band's first "regular" studio album in seven years, following Beyond the Red Mirror (2015), marking the longest gap between two Blind Guardian studio albums (although a previous album was released three years earlier under the name "Blind Guardian Twilight Orchestra").

Whereas earlier editions cleanly wrapped up singles, EP tracks, compilations appearances, and other non-album effluvia of a specific era, Pulse of the Early Brain, the fifth installment of Stereolab's odds-and-sods series spans almost the entirety of the band's original, pre-2019 reunion existence, making for a notably less sonically cohesive collection.