Eight days remaining before César Franck’s awaited bicentenary! Here is a throwback to his major pieces, as Jeanne-Marie Darré and the Quatuor Pascal team up to play an historical version of Franck’s piano quintet.

Toshifumi Hinata’s new original album in 13 years.

Paul Kelly’s first Christmas album is an extraordinary 22-song double collection that travels across the centuries, from a Latin hymn to well-known carols, from a traditional Irish folk ballad to new Kelly music written for Christmas poems.

El nuevo álbum de India Martínez se llama Nuestro mundo y se trata de un proyecto en el que Melendi ha tenido una participación fundamental. Desde que ambos comenzaron a colaborar en el tema Si ella supiera, basado en uno de los poemas.

LA-based singer and multi-instrumentalist Kadhja Bonet announces ‘California Holiday’ - a holiday themed EP in which, across 6 Charlie Brown inspired tracks, we see the talented artist channel her newfound appreciation of the festive season in what she describes as a ‘modern take on the typical magical Christmas story’. Released on the 2nd December on Ninja Tune, Kadhja today shares lead single “Little Christmas Tree”.

Aleksis Liukko Trio will release their debut album "The Sonic Sessions".

The T.P. Orchestre Poly-Rythmo de Cotonou hail from the West African nation of Benin. T.P. stands for the french "Tout-Puissant" which means "All Mighty". The band formed in 1966 and have released around 50 albums and well over 100 singles. Though legendary back in the day and long sought after by crate diggers and vintage African pop fans the band had not played outside of African until 2009.

Martin Rummel is much more than just a cellist: "musician, cultural manager, academic, pleasure person" is how he describes himself, even if playing the cello has of course remained his "core business".

New World is the fourth album by Danish vibraphonist Martin Fabricius and his trio.

Brazilian organist Walter Wanderley was one of the true masters of his instrument, both in Brazil and throughout the world.

British-American violist Peter Sulski superbly demonstrates his instrument’s true expressive potential on BOWED COLORS from Navona Records.

The Canadian-Mexican pianist Arturo Nieto-Dorantes is an impetuous virtuoso who ignites the stage the second he merges with his instrument.

The title track of Victor Haynes' forthcoming album "Love Is The Answer" was posted last week and we have the privilege of receiving the full album in advance of release on Friday (2 Dec '22) to give you a preview.

In a modern age crowded with distractions, one quickly learns to appreciate the little oases of peace. Andrew Anderson’s 2022 Navona Records release, CHAMBER WORKS, might just be such an oasis – written with replenishing qualities, great clarity, and a sense of purpose.

In the monastic life of the Cistercian order, as in the case of the female monastery of Santa María la Real de Las Huelgas (Burgos), a royal pantheon, the seat of coronations and the epicentre of a very intense musical life in which singing played an extremely important part, the nuns were called upon to live a life of simplicity, silence, prayer and contemplation. Flavit auster, which is part of the Las Huelgas Codex, is a Marian text inspired in the Song of Songs in which the most powerful symbols of femininity appear, such as the honeycomb, milk and honey, and protectiveness described as “mother of mercy, port of hope for the shipwrecked and virgin mother purified.”