Jean-Paul Gasparian, a brilliant pianist who graduated from the Paris Conservatoire and already internationally rewarded, devotes his first album to three giants of Russian music from the beginning of the 20th century: Rachmaninoff, Scriabin and Prokofiev. In this repertoire that suits him perfectly, a strong and bright sound blossoms thanks to his impeccable technique. He also knows how to highlight the typical and colourful harmonies of the Russian composers.

There are plenty of choirs and handclaps in verse and chorus, the guitars are allowed to whine from the background, the singers pour out a whole sack of emotions in front of the ears of the inclined audience. In other words, he does what Robbie Williams can not do today. You could call that emo-pop. Talisco tells of "Kiss In LA" (synthesizer singing, one voice whistles), he encounters "Monsters And Black Stones" in a wide piano room and throws us into the land of his dreams, we sit there in the dark, "Before The Dawn" , That's an approach to a stadium anthem. In "Sitting With The Braves", the guitar tympani is replaced by the guitar noise, soon the melody remains, the large drawn. Gossip and "Yeah Yeah Yeah" later. Happy ending at a gallop.

This album documents a rarified journey,” writes pianist Ethan Iverson in the album’s liner notes. “Charlie Haden and Jim Hall knew each for over a half century, played more than a few concerts together, and shared many ideals, but this is their first concert-length recording. It is a major addition to the discography of both artists. Upon hearing the recording guitarist Pat Metheny remarked “What a treat it is to hear two of my heroes and my two favorite personal duet partners playing in a setting like this! This is a recording for the ages.”

It's not often that you stumble across a songwriter whose lyrics both sound and read like poetry. When those lyrics are set to music that balances burning indignation with lilting tenderness, and delivered in a voice imbued with the spiritual passion and yearning of gospel and the blues, you figure you've chanced upon something special. And so it is with 23-year-old Andrew Hozier-Byrne, an Irish singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist from County Wicklow who goes by the name of Hozier.

Affectus is a kaleidoscopic selection among some of the most renowned pieces and collections written for harpsichord by J. S. Bach. Works such as the superb Chromatic Fantasia and Fugue in D minor BWV 903, the serene Contrapunctus I from The Art of Fugue BWV 1080, the striking Fantasia in C minor BWV 906 or the majestic Fugue in C-sharp minor BWV 849 from Well-Tempered Clavier show us the immense expressive power of his music.

Dutch cellist Pieter Wispelwey teamed up with pianist Paola Giacometti to pay tribute to great works by Brahms and Schubert on this album. Listeners will hear this classical duos brilliant musical interpretation of these well-known Romantic-era works.

A primer on London’s bright-burning young jazz scene, this new compilation brings together a collection of some of its sharpest talents. A set of nine newly-recorded tracks, We Out Here captures a moment where genre markers matter less than raw, focused energy. Surveying the album’s running order, it could easily serve as a name-checking exercise for some of London’s most-tipped and hardworking bands of the past couple of years. Recorded across three long, fruitful days in a North West London studio, the results speak for themselves: they’re a window into the wide-eyed future of London’s musical underground.

Compositeur et guitariste subtile, le Dakarois Hervé Samb a multiplié les collaborations prestigieuses (Jimmy Cliff, Meshell Ndegeocello, Oumou Sangaré, Amadou & Mariam, David Murray, Marcus Miller, Salif Keïta, Lisa Simone et bien d’autres). Il a participé à plus de 100 albums, sorti des pépites saluées par la critique Cross Over (2009), Kharit (2012) et Time To Feel (2013) et vous fait découvrir aujourd’hui Teranga et son concept “Jazz Sabar”, un projet qui lui tenait à cœur .

As the last completed symphony that Mahler wrote, the Ninth has often been heard by audiences as the composer’s swan song: a nostalgic, moving farewell from a composer conscious of his own mortality. This interpretation is of course easily justifiable, as etched into the musical fabric of the symphony are references to the tragedies that befell the composer in the years before his death. Furthermore, it is wholly plausible that for a man as melodramatic as Mahler, the idea of a symphony that centres around themes of loss and finality would surely have been an appealing prospect.

With Journey to Mozart, Daniel Hope turns to core classical repertoire again, exploring the world of Mozart, as well as composers that inspired him and vice versa.

This is Kian Soltani’s Debut album on DG with duo partner Aaron Pilsan.

Alexander Melnikov imagined this programme where four monuments from the piano repertoire are interpreted in their original instrumental environment. The four pianos chosen have characteristics corresponding to those of the instruments on which these virtuoso pieces were first performed. A journey where the horizons of sounds expand to dizzying new heights.

The two-time ECHO classical winner Nuria Rial is not only one of the most important singers of early music, but has long been thrilled with her velvety and expressive voice also with compositions from the 20th and 21st centuries. These are on the program of their album "Vocalise" with the renowned 8 Cellists of the Sinfonieorchester Basel.

Living legend of the piano Murray Perahia records two benchmark sonatas by Beethoven for the first time in his career. Long renowned for his performances of this composer comes Perahia’s brand new recording that pairs together two of the most radically ground-breaking of Beethoven’s 32 piano sonatas.

L’album se dit certes « présenté par Nathalie Manfrino », mais on y trouve d’autres stars de la scène lyrique française, à commencer par le ténor Jean-François Borras, qui voit désormais sa carrière se développer au Met de New York, à l’Opéra de Vienne, à celui de Munich, bref, les plus prestigieuses scènes planétaires.