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The Blue Land

Melody Gardot - "Worrisome Heart" / Decca is proud to release a new reissue of Melody Gardot's debut album. Released when she was just 22, Worrisome Heart announced the singer-songwriter as the next, and brightest, jazz star of the 21st Century. Drenched in a...

A World Outside

Lost At Sea

Joe Hisaishi / Royal Philharmonic Orchestra - A Symphonic Celebration - Music From The Studio Ghibli Films Of Hayao - Hitchock and Herrmann, Spielberg and Williams, Zemeckis and Silvestri, Burton and Elfman, Fellini and Rota. There's a certain kind of magic that happens when...

Two CDs. 2023 release. Groundbreaking composer and pianist Ludovico Einaudi releases a collection of hidden gems from his rich and extensive back catalog. Following on from 2020's Vol. 1, Undiscovered Vol. 2 contains tracks hand-picked from Ludovico, including tracks previously unreleased physically and featuring...

One World

In a few short years, Bristol's The Longest Johns have gone from singing sea shanties in a kitchen to playing international festivals, tours, TV appearances, and gaining a huge online following. The success of their first album, Between Wind and Water, spawned the global...

Ludovico Einaudi - "Underwater" - A manifesto for life and a statement for this time when the world around was quiet and silent. The album is a place that is not our everyday life. It's a space to float without boundaries, to freely reflect....

BraniDisco 11.1. Allegro non troppo2.2. Adagio3.3. Allegro giocoso, ma non troppo4.Prelude5.Jesu Maria, I * near to death6.Rouse thee, my fainting soul7.Sanctus fortis, Sanctus Deus8.I can no more9.Profiscere, anima ChristianaDisco 21.Introduction2.I went to sleep3.My work is done4.Low-born clouds of brute earth5.I see not those false...

By 1750, the cello was an important and fashionable instrument in Paris and throughout France. Cellist-composers contributed dozens of works and the best performers throughout Europe were heard on Parisian stages. However, a newly-developed type of harp, the single-action pedal harp, was about to...

Ballet Edition

With an unrivalled catalogue of over 450 complete opera recordings produced over the last 60 years. EMI Classics, with its sister label Virgin Classics, can rightly claim to be the Home of Opera. Among the 21 releases launching a new series of complete operas...

Presenting two new additions to the 100 best series - the world's most respected classical label performances by great artists and orchestra's. The 100 best series sets new sales records, with international sales now in excess of 3 million across the 1st 5 titles.

Pergolesi's Stabat Mater is a setting of 13th century text that expresses the Virgin Mary's suffering as she stands by the Cross. Written for solo soprano and solo alto accompanied by strings, the two singers on this new recording Philippe Jaroussky and Julia Lezhneva...

After their multi-award-winning Virgin Classics debut with a CD of Debussy, Ravel and Faur?, a program of Brahms, and the pop-jazz collection `Fiction', the members of the ?b?ne Quartet turn to works that lie close to the very origins of stringquartet writing - Mozart's...

BRAND New CD on the Erato label

Klemperer and Brahms had much in common, which may go some way to explaining the empathy with which Klemperer conducts the works of the great composer. As Richard Osborne says in the accompanying liner notes: 'no detail was insignificant, yet none was allowed to...

Premiered at New York's Metropolitan Opera in 2022 - with Joyce DiDonato, Ren?e Fleming and Kelli O'Hara as it's stars - Kevin Puts's The Hours was praised by The New York Times as "sincere and persuasive... fervent... and soaringly lyrical". The opera returns to...

The Canadian contralto Marie-Nicole Lemieux, with the Orchestre Philharmonique de Monte-Carlo and it's Artistic and Music Director Kazuki Yamada, interprets the now 'traditional' recorded pairing of two sumptuous, escapist French song cycles: Berlioz's Les Nuits d'?t? and Ravel's Sh?h?razade. Complementing them both musically and...