Celebrate this magical decade with 60 of the biggest and best hits from the world of 90s pop, rock, RnB, dance and reggae. This hit-packed 3CD set features a host of chart-topping pop stars that took the world by storm in the decade including George Michael, Whitney Houston, Celine Dion, Wet Wet Wet and Robbie Williams. The 90s were famous for spawning some of the coolest guitar music ever produced and it's represented here by the likes of Lenny Kravitz, Paul Weller, Manic Street Preachers, The Cranberries and Suede. Adamski, Olive, N-Trance and Robert Miles remind us of some of the biggest dancefloor smashes while Usher, Soul II Soul, Jamiroquai, P.M. Dawn, Salt-N-Pepa and Run D.M.C. highlight the strength and eclecticism that urban music went though in this great decade.

Ian Page and The Mozarists bring us a new album of Arias by the celebrated composer Christoph Willibald Gluck including works from operas such as Il trionfo di Clelia, Wq. 31, Orfeo ed Euridice, Wq.30 and Il Parnaso confuso, Wq.33. The soloist is the Swedish mezzo-soprano Ann Hallenberg, with Ian Page once again conducting his award-winning period-instrument ensemble.

A singular pianist, Bruno Rigutto blends a keen sense of colour, lyricism, and refinement in an intense and heartfelt playing style.The sole disciple of Samson François – who passed on to him the gift of artistic freedom – he now presents his most personal album to date: Ricordi. This double album features 26 pieces spanning 13 countries, each evoking memories from a rich career that has taken him to the four corners of the world. Adding to these are two of his own compositions – audience favourites at his concerts – which he now shares for the first time on record.

In the end, if the musicians have brought their hearts, souls, and years of mastery, if the recording team has entered into the space with wisdom, tools, patience and good will, if the executive producer is saying, “Sure, let’s book one more session to make this the very best it can possibly be” then the opportunity exists for the listener to hear it all — the breath, the intention, the ensemble, the soloist, the fingers on the strings, the air as it comes out of the recorder, the hands on the regulators of the uilleann pipes, the tipper as it touches the head of the bodhran, the rosin on the fiddle’s bow, and feathered end of the note on a viola da gamba. It is all there.

The Romantic Room is an expansive six-volume set exploring the rich and often overlooked chamber music of Louis Spohr, brought vividly to life by the WDR Sinfonieorchester Chamber Players. Once hailed as the “German Paganini” and revered across Europe, Spohr was a pivotal figure of early Romanticism – an innovator who shaped the transition from Classical refinement to Romantic expression. This collection showcases his elegant string quintets and sextets, daring double quartets, and characterful potpourri, offering a portrait of a composer whose expressive range and artistic integrity remain strikingly relevant today.

Chief Conductor Sir Antonio Pappano and the LSO build upon their stunning performances of Ralph Vaughan Williams’ Fourth and Sixth Symphonies with a magnificent interpretation of his beloved Fifth and the enigmatic Ninth.

With more than 125 concertos to his credit, Telemann was one of the pioneers of this genre that had flowered in Italy. Combining daring, humour and emotion, he particularly delighted in exploring the virtuosity of the violin, its gift for imitation and its lyricism… Alongside other works of his where the violin also takes centre stage, Isabelle Faust and the Academie für Alte Musik Berlin showcase several jewels from his output of unimagined opulence.

Recorded in the middle of a European tour in December 2024, this release marks the Monteverdi Choir and English Baroque Soloists debut of acclaimed French conductor Christophe Rousset. Rousset brings his Gallic elegance and refinement to Charpentier’s Baroque Christmas music – the motet In Nativitatem and the Messe de minuit pout Noël, along with the instrumental noëls, or Christmas carols, that form the basis of Charpentier’s unique mass.

The 'American dream' is the thread that connects these three works. Amy Beach was born in New Hampshire in 1867 and composed more than three hundred works, including a monumental suite for two pianos inspired by the Romantic tradition and based on ancient Irish melodies. Nadine Dana Suesse — nicknamed the "Gershwin Girl" — was born in Kansas City in 1909. She played her own compositions on the radio from the age of thirteen and composed hit songs, notably for Bing Crosby. She refused the attractions of Hollywood and studied with Nadia Boulanger in Paris. Her works disappeared from the repertory after her death, although the Berlinskaya Ancelle duo are keen to revive her music with this 1943 concerto, described as "romantic, but mixed with modern harmonies and chords straight from jazz". Victor Babin was born in Moscow in 1908 and emigrated to the United States with his wife Viktoria Vronskaya in 1937. Their piano duo was very successful there: they gave the first performance of Babin’s virtuosic Second Concerto under the direction of George SzelI in Cleveland in 1957.

This album presents a powerful symphonic exploration of heroism, memory, and legacy. Jakub Hra and the Bamberger Symphoniker bring to life three deeply expressive orchestral works, each offering a unique perspective on a heros journey. Strauss Ein Heldenleben is a sweeping portrait of triumph and struggle, while Dvoks A Heros Song, Op. 111 brims with fiery energy and lyrical depth. Glazunovs elegy To the Memory of a Hero provides a poignant, reflective contrast. Together, these works form a stirring meditation on the nature of heroism in music. Recorded at Konzerthalle Bamberg Joseph-Keilberth-Saal September 2023 - February 2025.

Carl Reinecke ist einer der lebendigen Beweise dafür, dass Konservatismus und Originalität sich nicht ausschließen. Sein Schaffen ruht auf den Schultern der vorigen Generationen und verlässt nirgends die harmonischen oder formalen Vorgaben, die im 19. Jahrhundert zum Lehrstoff der Konservatorien gehörten – und doch werden wir einer Persönlichkeit begegnen, die sich nicht hinter Formeln, sondern gewissermaßen zwischen den Zeilen und im Detail versteckte. So schwelgt er in seinem 1859 uraufgeführten Oratorium »Belsazar« ausgiebig im Spannungsfeld zwischen gottesfürchtigen Israeliten und brachial-blasphemischen Babyloniern, bevor ihm rund zwanzig Jahre später ein »Concert-Stück für Chor und Orchester« gelingt, in dem vokale Sätze und instrumentale Zwischenspiele auf neuartige Weise zu einer ungewöhnlichen und ungewöhnlich poetischen Folge entzückender Sommertagsbilder verknüpft sind. Ein atmosphärisches Erlebnis …

Remember this is a bootleg album and therefore the sound is not to the highest standards that you would expect from a major record label, but it is authentic and original.

Ekaterina Litvintseva's latest album features dazzling solo piano arrangements of iconic ballet scores by Prokofiev, Stravinsky, and Tchaikovsky. The album includes Prokofiev’s own selection from Romeo and Juliet, Guido Agosti’s version of Stravinsky’s Firebird Suite, and Mikhail Pletnev’s virtuosic take on The Nutcracker. The recital concludes with three lively encore pieces — a waltz from Delibes’ Copp鬩a, Les Sauvages by Rameau, and a Baroque dance by Lully. These arrangements transform the pianist into both narrator and interpreter, highlighting the music’s melodic, harmonic, and rhythmic subtleties in a more intimate form. Already acclaimed for her recordings of Chopin and Rachmaninoff, Litvintseva continues to impress with her blend of sensitivity and confidence, confirming her growing stature in the classical music world.

Phish The preeminent jam band of the 1990s and early 21st century, Phish have built not only a wide-ranging and inventive body of work, but also inspired a unique and devoted fan culture similar to that of their forebears, the Grateful Dead. Formed in Vermont in the mid-'80s, Phish nurtured an ever-expanding grassroots audience who were drawn to their sterling musicianship, quirky personality, and spontaneous free-form improvisations, which included elements of psychedelia, jazz fusion, funk, progressive rock, folk, country, and blues. Building on the Dead's template, the quartet placed a greater emphasis on live performance than studio work and encouraged fans to tape and trade recordings of their concerts.

Nikolaus Harnoncourt Perhaps no single musician ever achieved such high accomplishment across such a broad span of repertory as Nikolaus Harnoncourt. His first professional job was as cellist for the Vienna Symphony Orchestra. Almost immediately, however, Harnoncourt sought to specialize in performing music of the past upon historically correct instruments; he was one of the first professional musicians to do so. Over the course of a stunningly influential career, Harnoncourt gradually worked forward into more modern repertories.