"Clubhouse", recorded in 1965 on a visit home to the US while Dexter Gordon was living and working in Europe, went unreleased for 14 years. It's possible that Blue Note felt the market was saturated with Gordon product in the mid 1960s; the problem certainly wasn't the music itself or the players. Finally unveiled in 1979, this is now considered one of Gordon's best albums, a lost treasure. The musicians on the session include Freddie Hubbard on trumpet, Barry Harris on piano, Bob Cranshaw and Ben Tucker sharing bass duties and Billy Higgins on drums.

A bestseller in Anne-Sophie Mutter’s Deutsche Grammophon catalogue since its first release more than 20 years ago, this album is a feast of lollipops with a varied and well-balanced mix of flavors. It combines highly virtuosic works by Sarasate and Tartini with lyrical pieces like Fauré’s Berceuse and Massenet’s well-known Meditation from “Thaïs”.

The classical guitar is a magical treasure for the Norwegian guitarist Kristina Vårlid.

Alvaro Henrique releases the first volume of O Violão de Villa-Lobos, with the participation of the Cláudio Santoro National Theater Symphony Orchestra, conducted by conductor Cláudio Cohen.

Composers are often tasked with creating from a void, an emptiness.

The Sieben Lieder, composed in 2014, are the outcome of reflection on the poetics of Paul Celan, an author who in my experience has been a powerful catalyst for musical ideas.