Hornist Alan Civil is a true legend of his instrument, as first soloist of the main British orchestras (Royal Philharmonic, Philharmonia and BBC Symphony) but also as session musician on famous songs by the Beatles! During his tenure at the Philharmonia, he left us a reference recording of Mozart's lively concertos conducted by Otto Klemperer. They are coupled with two Mozart symphonies, and all these recordings are made available for the first time in high-resolution remasterings.

We continue our exploration of Sir Thomas Beecham’s recording legacy with a quite rarely recorded piece of music, Balakirev’s first symphony. It is a work that took a long time to mature, often interrupted by the vicissitudes of Balakirev's life and that of the Five, and is typical of his style, with a very beautiful slow orientalist movement.

Matt Block is a trumpeter, composer and songwriter from Philadelphia, based in NYC. Matt's grandfather introduced him to the trumpet and jazz when he was just three years old sparking his initial passion for music.

Rising figures in the NYC jazz scene led by saxophonist Jacob Chung featuring Tyler Henderson
recorded a live album, Live at Frankie's Jazz Club, at the end of a cross-Canada tour after weeks of harnessing group synergy. Filled with dynamic NYC jazz energy, Live at Frankie's Jazz Club captures the jazz heavyweights of tomorrow burning down the bandstand with blistering tempos, melting hearts on ballads, and making you tap your toes on classic jazz songs.

The Ballad of Wallis Island follows Charles (Tim Key), an eccentric lottery winner who lives alone on a remote island and dreams of getting his favourite musicians, McGwyer Mortimer (Tom Basden and Carey Mulligan) back together. His fantasy quickly turns into reality when the bandmates and former lovers accept his invitation to play a private show at his home on Wallis Island. Old tensions resurface as Charles tries desperately to salvage his dream gig.

Because of Yates’s lifelong, intense dedication to blues and roots music, he has developed a direct line from his soul to whatever instrument he holds. When he sings and plays, you don’t just hear it, you feel it…deeply.

Despite the outright denial in its title, death is present in every one of the songs on Never Die, the collaborative album from Midwife’s Madeline Johnston and Matt Jencik (of Implodes, Don Caballero, and Slint’s live band). Jencik held the tenderest thought imaginable when he came up with that phrase—Never Die—the fact that the people he loves eventually would, a certainty that feels impossible and remote, until the day it absolutely doesn’t.

I Want My Loved Ones to Go with Me is the upcoming second studio album by the American singer Noah Cyrus, scheduled to be released on July 11, 2025, through Records Label and Columbia Records. T

Carl Teike achieved great success at the beginning of his career with Alte Kameraden (available on Naxos 8.574317), renowned as the German ‘march of marches’.

New album from acclaimed pianist William Hobbs presents works by Greek-Canadian composer Christos Hatzis and the enigmatic Indian-English composer Kaikhosru Shapurji Sorabji.

Close harmony singing is the vocal equivalent of a jazz big band, and this programme is the Vasari Singers’ personal tour of a style in which they have excelled for years.

Il diluvio universale (‘The Great Flood’) was premiered in Naples in 1830 but is better known in the much-revised version performed four years later in Genoa and Paris.

Mastered by Bernie Grundman from original analogue tapes. Personally overseen by Donald Fagen.

Famed throughout musical Europe from the 1720s onwards for his extreme prowess on the violin, Pietro Antonio Locatelli (1695-1764) bequeathed to posterity an admirable if relatively small body of work, the publication of which he himself largely oversaw following his move to Amsterdam in 1729. Here Fabio Biondi draws on it to paint a unique portrait. Rather than immersing himself in L’arte del violino, op.3 - the best-known opus of a composer to which they already devoted an initial album in 1995 (Opus 111, OPS30-104) - Biondi and his friends in Europa Galante opt for a more intriguing Locatelli: the six Introduttioni teatrali (Theatrical Introductions) which constitute the first part of the Opus 4.

Volume 11 of Mathieu Gaudet’s complete Schubert piano sonatas cycle brings us the fascinating second book of Impromptus D. 935, including the immortal Theme and Variation in B flat major. The youthful Sonata No. 2 in C major D. 279 and the "Noble": Waltzes D. 969 round up this spectacular album, full of singing melodies, contrasting atmospheres and romantic drama.