Master pianist Christian Zimmermann joins young string players as collaborators on this Brahms chamber music album. The recording features Polish violinist Maria Nowak, violist Katarzyna Budnik-Garadzka, and Japanese cellist Yuya Okamoto. [Performers] Christian Zimmermann (piano), Maria Nowak (violin), Katarzyna Budnik (viola), Yuya Okamoto (cello) Recorded: June 2021, April 2023 Switzerland *This product will be available for purchase on Friday, and will be delivered after the day of release.

Japanese SHM-CD pressing. Universal. 2024.

Japanese SHM-CD pressing. Universal. 2024.

Japanese SHM-CD pressing. Universal. 2024.

Japanese SHM-CD pressing. Universal. 2024.

Japanese SHM-CD pressing. Universal. 2024.

Song, the 2022 album from cellist Sheku-Kanneh Mason, features music from across the entire spectrum of classical, folk, jazz and pop - all personally curated by Sheku. The eclectic mix of styles are tied together by one thing - the unique singing voice of Sheku's cello. On Song, Sheku collaborates with friends and family, including jazz pianist Harry Baker, singer-songwriter Zak Abel, and soprano Pumeza Matshikiza.

CHOPIN: 24 PRELUDES OP 28 ETC

EARLY RECORDINGS: MOZART / BEETHOVEN / PROKOFIEV

RAVEL: GASPARD DE LA NUIT / SONATINE / VALSES

Japanese SHM-CD pressing. Universal. 2024.

PIANO CONCERTOS FOR TWO & THREE PIANOS

Japanese SHM-CD pressing. Universal. 2024.

Japanese SHM-CD pressing. Universal. 2024.

Japanese SHM-CD pressing. Universal. 2024.

Japanese SHM-CD pressing. Universal. 2024.

The album In terra aliena (In foreign territory) includes songs that tell of exile and longing for the land that had to be abandoned due to war, expulsion and other dangers & threats. The songs also testify to a different kind of exile, the alienation that the unfamiliar new environment brings. Migration is off all times, and certainly not just a phenomenon of the present. This album's music addresses the mindset of people from another time, the 16th century. In 1492, Columbus arrived in America and Spain conquered the Nazare dynasty of Granada, putting an end to the Muslim rule on the peninsula. In that same year, the Jews were driven out of Spain or forced to convert to Christianity. All this caused Muslims and Jews to flee to the north of Africa. Roman Catholics from Castile and Aragon left for America. Large numbers of seafarers and invaders were never to return to the peninsula. Given all this, we can say that there were enough reasons for poetry, and consequently song, to introduce a new leitmotif, namely 'in foreign territory'. Those who are exiled, loose everything familiar and loved in one fell swoop. The same thing happens to anyone who knocks on a closed heart in vain: a lonely journey from everything to nothing. These are just some of the subjects of the songs recorded in the famous Spanish and Portuguese songbooks of the period such as the Cancionero Musical de Palacio and Cancionero Musical de Lisboa. On the album In terra aliena gems from these songbooks by composers as Juan del Encina, Francisco de Penalosa, Pedro de Escobar as well as anonymous composers, all of whom excellently expressed in sound the theme of alienation and the fragility of life 'In foreign territory'.

BOCCHERINI / DITTERSDORF: CHAMBER MUSIC WITH

GIOACHINO ROSSINI: SONATAS FOR FOUR I III V

PUCCINI: LA FANCIULLA DEL WEST- GIRL OF THE GOLDEN

DREAM

TALIN: CONCERTO FOR CLARINET AND STRING ORCHESTRA

Japanese UHQCD pressing. Universal. 2025.

Mats Lidstr�m / Leif Kaner-Lidstr�m - "Swans". Inspired by Saint-Sa�ns's iconic piece "The Swan (Le cygne)" from the Carnival of the Animals, cellist Mats Lidstr�m and his son Leif Kaner-Lidstr�m present no fewer than 24 "Swans" from across the world and down the ages. Featuring composers as diverse as Fanny Mendelssohn, Orlando Gibbons, Ravel and Villa-Lobos, the album offers up two-dozen musical reflections on the unmistakable and much-loved Saint-Sa�ns original.

Luke Howard/Juliano Nunes - "Interlinked" / Interlinked is a ballet scored by Luke Howard with contemporary choreographer Juliano Nunes, commissioned by the Birmingham Royal Ballet for the Commonwealth Games in 2022 and performed at the legendary Pyramid Stage at Glastonbury Festival in 2024. Verve Label Group; Mercury KX; Classical Crossover.