Dallas Symphony Orchestra chief conductor Jaap van Zweden was the former chief conductor of the Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra, with whom he made this recording. Van Zweden is one of the world s leading contemporary conductors, and recipient of an award for Best Conductor of 2012 from Musical America. As one of the specialists on Anton Bruckner s works, Van Zweden is a true Bruckner leader!

Sony Classical is pleased to announce the second solo album by exceptional young American organist, Cameron Carpenter, All You Need is Bach. Bach s great keyboard masterpieces provide an ideal platform for Carpenter s formidable creative gifts and the seemingly limitless possibilities of his dream instrument his signature International Touring Organ. The album takes is cue from The Beatles classic All You Need is Love , where Bach s Invention No. 8 in F major proudly rises out of the coda s collage-like texture.

Together for the first time in the recording studio, the sisters Mari and Momo Kodama are on scintillating form in these lively arrangements of music from Tchaikovsky’s ballets Swan Lake, Sleeping Beauty and Nutcracker. In another first, the release contains the first ever recording of Arensky’s transcription of the timeless Nutcracker together with notable arrangements by Debussy and Rachmaninov.

One of today's most sought-after conductors, Jaap van Zweden was named recipient of Musical America's Conductor of the Year Award in 2012. He has been Music Director of the Dallas Symphony Orchestra since 2008, and is also Honorary Chief Conductor of the Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra and Radio Chamber Philharmonic (having been Chief Conductor from 2005 2011). In September 2012 he took up the post of Music Director for the Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra, with an initial contract of four years. This new disc from Challenge Classics showcases Bruckner's impetuous Symphony No. 6, which the composer himself considered his 'keckste,' or 'boldest.'

«L’histoire d’une cocotte qui est… trop chère… ou trop chérie!» Quatre messieurs de trente, quarante, soixante et quatre-vingts ans se pressent sur le palier d’une cocotte, se mesurent, s’affrontent puis refusent de se battre pour finalement s’associer et s’offrir la demoiselle « au prorata » de leurs moyens et des jours de visite qu’elle consent à répartir. Petit chef d’œuvre d’élégance et de raffinement musical, cette intrigue cocasse et coquine est servie par la plume brillante de Sacha Guitry.

The Alehouse Sessions – curated and devised by Bjarte Eike, is an ever changing and evolving insight into the music of the English 17th Century tavern. It gives audiences a window into this tumultuous period through Purcell overtures, English sea shanties, and Scandinavian folk songs thrown in for good measure. The atmosphere of a raucous port city pub in the 1690s is brilliantly evoked by Barokksolistene. These sessions have already been hailed as ‘irresistible’ (The Times), ‘superb’ (The Scotsman) and ‘fabulously unrestrained’ (The Guardian), and they have diverted away from the traditional concert model by ‘creating the effect of a late night jamming session“ (BBC Music Magazine).