Songs of love from the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, performed with the gentle accompaniment of the lute. Violin solos and harpsichord and viol consort music complete this programme of 'delightes', chosen to be a gentle musical 'portrait of a lady'.

A charming album which combines music evoking children and childish things with music for moments of repose for a tired mum! a perfect gift for Mother's Day or any occasion, the album includes works by Mozart, Haydn and Brahms.

The magic of the dance in music, with an emphasis on Paris towards the end of the nineteenth century. Orchestral works by Ravel ('La Valse'), Offenbach, Berlioz and others capture the mood of Renoir's beautiful portrait of dancers. Music for dancing and dreaming.

Opera Highlights - BIZET, G. / LEONCAVALLO, R. / PUCCINI, G.

Joyful medieval songs and dances. Lively medieval music from England, France and Italy, from 'Mi very joye' and the 'Agincourt Carol' to the 'Montard Brawl'. Period instruments and voices combine to create a complete musical portrait of the late medieval world.

Ballads and songs from the time of Chaucer. Lively and cosmopolitan, these songs and ballads are performed in an authentic style using period instruments. The songs including 'Sumer is icumen in' and 'Angelus ad Virginem' would have been familiar to Chaucer's pilgrims as they journeyed to Canterbury.

Vintage classics. A glug of opera with a twist of piano and some of the classical world's best-known drinking songs are placed in a soothing ambience of refined melodies. Not much for the nose in this CD, but plenty for the other senses including Mozart and Strauss and even some Brahms and Liszt.

Spirit of Discovery

Soothing and uplifting music for a goddess (domestic or otherwise). An album of music to help get away from it all, bathed in orchestral bliss with works by Mozart, Puccini and Beethoven inspired by feminine perfection.

The monarchy remains as popular as ever. Here is a programme of music for royal occasions, from coronations to weddings. Choirs, orchestras, military bands, organs and fanfare trumpets perform stirring music with plenty of good cheer, in a hearty programme of great British tunes.

IN THE MOOD - Big Band Magic

A Family Christmas - Songs and Music for the Festive Season

The Irish have always known how to write a good tune, and from 'The banks of the Bann' to 'Paddy's green shamrock shore', this album presents a selection of beautiful, atmospheric Irish songs and cheery dances with a truly Celtic flavour. Superb instrumental playing from musicians who include the BBC's Folk Musician of the Year.

Keyboard music by Haydn, Mozart and Beethoven played on period instruments Three pianos, two from Vienna and one from London, bring to life the original sounds which these great Classical composers would have known and expected. Mozart is played on a Hofmann from 1790, Haydn on a Broadwood of 1801 and Beethoven on an 1820 Bohm.

The soaring sounds of choral music. Soaring anthems and motets from the golden age of English choral music, by Byrd, Taverner, Gibbons, Tallis and others, composed in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries to be sung in the glorious acoustics of Britain's greatest cathedrals and churches.