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  • Gounod: Piano Works
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    Gounod: Piano Works

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    During his time in Italy and later in Leipzig, Charles Gounod was drawn by the balance of sonic beauty and proportion to be found in the music of Palestrina and J.S. Bach. He developed an...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: October 10, 2025

  • Carrara: Voci da Hebron
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    Carrara: Voci da Hebron

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    Cristian Carrara is one of the most original Italian composers of his generation. The opera Voci da Hebron ('Voices from Hebron') is set during the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Carrara's expressive depiction of this scenario is one...


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    Release Date: October 10, 2025

  • Shostakovich: The Human Comedy; The Nose; The Shot
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    Shostakovich: The Human Comedy; The Nose; The Shot

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    Shostakovich was known for his fun-loving attitude during his early years as a composer. The colourful incidental music for The Shot - reconstructed by Mark Fitz-Gerald from the original piano scores - vividly evokes the...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: October 10, 2025

  • Shield: 6 String Quartets
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    Shield: 6 String Quartets

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    William Shield rose from relatively humble beginnings to become the 'house' composer to Covent Garden, for which he wrote stage works full of panache and tunefulness. He met and befriended Haydn who was to prove...


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    Release Date: October 10, 2025

  • Price: Organ Works
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    Price: Organ Works

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    Florence Price had worked for some years as a silent film organist before she won admiration in 1932 for her Symphony No. 1 in E minor. Works for organ form one of the largest parts...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: October 10, 2025

  • Scarlatti: Complete Keyboard Sonatas, Vol. 31
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    Scarlatti: Complete Keyboard Sonatas, Vol. 31

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    No one redefined the limits of contemporary keyboard writing in the 18th century more radically than Domenico Scarlatti, whose formal innovation, harmonic daring and virtuosic brilliance set him apart from his contemporaries. In this selection...


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    Release Date: October 10, 2025

  • Still Glides the Stream - Contemporary Works for Euphonium a
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    Still Glides the Stream - Contemporary Works for Euphonium a

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    This programme showcases the euphonium's warmth, emotive quality and astonishing agility with a vibrant tapestry of contemporary chamber music that amply demonstrates it's unique character. From the jazz-inflected grooves of Simon Parkin's Skunk to meditative...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: October 10, 2025

  • Boulez: Piano Works
    Boulez: Piano Works

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    Pierre Boulez's early ambitions to become a concert pianist provided the impetus to write piano music as a composition student at the Paris Conservatoire. The Theme et variations pour la main gauche and Trois Psalmodies...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: September 26, 2025

  • Clyne: Abstractions; Within Her Arms; Abstractions; Restless
    Clyne: Abstractions; Within Her Arms; Abstractions; Restless

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    Anna Clyne, described as a 'composer of uncommon gifts and unusual methods' by The New York Times, is one of the most in-demand composers today, working with orchestras, choreographers, filmmakers and visual artists around the...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: September 26, 2025

  • Wagner: Der fliegende Hollander
    Wagner: Der fliegende Hollander

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    The Flying Dutchman was Wagner's breakthrough opera. Though Wagner still employed independent arias and choruses, his operatic concept transcended earlier works such as Rienzi, which was influenced by French grand opera. The supernatural tale of...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: September 26, 2025

  • Chopin: Preludes, Ballades & Scherzos
    Chopin: Preludes, Ballades & Scherzos

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    The extreme delicacy and finesse of Chopin's pianistic style was unusual in an era when star pianists such as Liszt and Anton Rubinstein were developing more virtuosic and experimental effects. It led some performers of...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: September 26, 2025

  • Smith Brindle: Complete Works for Solo Guitar, Vol. 2
    Smith Brindle: Complete Works for Solo Guitar, Vol. 2

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    Reginald Smith Brindle pursued a distinguished academic career with numerous scholarly publications, but as a composer it was the impact of Italy and his studies with Pizzetti and Dallapiccola that coloured much of his music....


    Format: CD

    Release Date: September 26, 2025

  • Mozart: Piano Concertos Nos. 18 & 22 (arr. I. Lachner)
    Mozart: Piano Concertos Nos. 18 & 22 (arr. I. Lachner)

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    Ever mindful of the accessibility of his works for amateur musicians, Mozart wrote, in a letter to his father, that his Piano Concertos Nos. 11-14 could be performed 'a quattro', with the accompaniment of string...


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    Release Date: September 26, 2025

  • Taubert: Piano Sonatas Nos. 1, 2, 4 & 6
    Taubert: Piano Sonatas Nos. 1, 2, 4 & 6

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    Wilhelm Taubert was a significant composer and teacher in Berlin during a period when the city began to rival Vienna and Paris as a European musical powerhouse. Though it was also a time when the...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: September 12, 2025

  • The French in Spain
    The French in Spain

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    This album presents orchestral works by three French composers who saw Spain as a paradise of warmth, fragrance and colour, whether real or imagined. From the vivid evocations of Debussy's Images and Ibert's Escales, to...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: September 12, 2025