British pianist Benjamin Grosvenor presents a new recording of two concerto favourites: Chopin’s Piano Concertos Nos.1 and 2, released on 21st February 2020 on Decca Classics. Recorded with Elim Chan and the Royal Scottish National Orchestra (RSNO), the record marks Benjamin’s fifth album on Decca Classics, following the hugely successful Homages in 2016, and is his first orchestral album since 2012.

Georges Prêtre, one of the greatest conductors of our era, and the Teatro alla Scala in Milan were bound together by an amicable and artistic relationship of more than fifty years.

This is the first time a French violinist has joined the line of prestigious solo virtuosi recording for the Vivaldi Edition. Violinist Julien Chauvin and his Concert de la Loge – founded in 2015, and modelled on one of the most celebrated orchestras of the late 18th century – here reveal all the discreet charms of an inventive concertante style rich in detail, featuring Vivaldi’s favoured instrument. This particular set of concerti highlight the consistently close links between Vivaldi’s instrumental and operatic works.

On the occasion of Ludwig van Beethoven's 250th Anniversary year one of the greatest pianist of our time, Maurizio Pollini, returns to the miracle and enigma of Beethoven's Last Sonatas: 42 years after the first recording of these masterpieces under studio conditions and with the fantastic acoustics of the Herkulessaal at the Residence in Munich, Maurizio Pollini came back to the very same place for this new and unique project.

The Mythos Suite is a unique project, with Audio Network bringing together Stephen Fry’s storytelling talents with Debbie Wiseman OBE’s celebrated skills as a composer. The music, composed by Debbie, was inspired by Stephen Fry’s work Mythos, an international bestseller that re-tells the Greek myths, and developed with him. This 5-track suite of long-form compositions showcases musical tales from the beginning of time (Chaos), together with those of Apollo and Marsyas, Persephone, Rhea and Sisyphus, performed by the National Symphony Orchestra. The release also contains an additional 5 tracks of instrumental only tracks.

Starting off the year with a 100-song marathon in Los Angeles on New Year's Eve, Robert Pollard is setting a mighty high bar for Guided By Voices in 2020. Following three acclaimed and stylistically distinct full-length albums in 2019, Surrender Your Poppy Field, is a headspinning tour de force: a bit of everything… plus more! And hands down the most adventurous GBV album ever.

Startling inventiveness, moment-to-moment creative sparks, and alchemical reactivity combine in always surprising ways throughout the work of cornetist and composer Kirk Knuffke. It may come as something of a surprise, then, to realize that he’s never released a live date as a leader. While Knuffke’s been an essential component of many a collaborator’s concert albums and of course logged countless hours on stages around the road, his own catalogue has been almost wholly crafted in recording studios.

Listeners will definitely enjoy a wide variety of Solid Moments when our beloved producer Marc Free enlists the able assistance of a few trusted Idle Hands for the next release in a visionary series of demand building records. Highlighted by the handiwork of a carefully curated group of Posi-Tone artists, this engagingly entertaining album features front line performances from guitarist Will Bernard, vibraphonist Behn Gillece, and saxophonist Sam Dillon playing over the solid harmonic foundation of pianist Art Hirahara, bassist Boris Kozlov and drummer Donald Edwards.

La publication quasi encyclopédique que le label français harmonia mundi a entamée pour le double anniversaire de naissance et de mort de Beethoven, entre 2020 et 2027 se révèle déjà passionnante par sa mise en regard d’œuvres contemporaines du début du XIXe siècle. Elle nous offre aussi la démonstration d’un Beethoven en prise directe avec les œuvres et les préoccupations de son temps, hors de l’imagerie romantique du génie solitaire dans sa tour d’ivoire.

Carte Blanche is the second studio album by French record producer DJ Snake. The album includes the singles "Magenta Riddim", "Taki Taki" (featuring Selena Gomez, Ozuna and Cardi B), "Try Me" (with Plastic Toy), "SouthSide" (with Eptic), "Enzo" (with Sheck Wes featuring Offset, 21 Savage and Gucci Mane) and "Loco Contigo" (with J Balvin featuring Tyga), as well as other collaborations with Zhu, Anitta, Gashi, Majid Jordan, Bryson Tiller, Zomboy, Tchami, Malaa, and Mercer.

Smooth Jazz saxophonist Vincent Ingala is the hottest young rising star on the scene today. Still in his early 20s, he already has 15 Top 10 Smooth Jazz radio singles to his credit, including seven #1s! He has shared the stage with a "who's who" of Smooth Jazz royalty, from Dave Koz to Boney James! Echoes Of The Heart features Vincent's uplifting remake of Amy Grant's '90s smash "Baby Baby" plus nine inspired originals such as the driving "What's Option B?", the sensuous "Echoes Of The Heart" and much more!!

Yacht Rock Revue's first original record, Hot Dads in Tight Jeans, aptly embodies the band in both title and in essence. An album of ten songs inspired by the smoooooth sounds of the Seventies and Eighties, Hot Dads in Tight Jeans is as plush and shiny as Kenny Loggins' beard. Produced by Ben Allen (Animal Collective, Kaiser Chiefs, Gnarls Barkley), it returns Yacht Rock Revue to their roots in original music while paying homage to the genre that granted them esteem in a fresh, modern way.

Banoffee is a Melbourne-born, Los Angeles-based singer/songwriter and producer with a transgressive and deeply vulnerable approach to music. She has toured with Taylor Swift on a worldwide stadium tour as part of Charli XCX's troupe, and represents the new wave of mutant pop bubbling up from the queer club underground. She has been described as one of pop music's 'recent great forward thinkers' (FACT) and is known for infectious melodies that belie more unsettling, experimental textures and beats.

A brave step forward, Hyacinth is an album full of poetry, light and warmth of heart, and presents a band holding nothing back. It registers a number of changes for the group since their debut LP Permo in 2017: personnel changes, geographical changes, a new context, an ever-changing world outside.

Names of North End Women is a collaborative record from Lee Ranaldo + Raül Refree. "If you live long enough, you see a lot of people drift in and out of your life," says Lee Ranaldo, explaining one of the loose themes linking the adventurous pieces that compose his and collaborator Raül Refree's electrifying new album: that of the ineffable course of time, and the lives that pass in and out of one's own.