In the overdue rediscovery of Emilie Mayer, hardly any text can do without the predicate "female Beethoven", which had already been bestowed upon her by her contemporaries.

The Inventions and Sinfonias, BWV 772–801, also known as the Two- and Three-Part Inventions, are a collection of thirty short keyboard compositions by Johann Sebastian Bach (1685–1750): 15 inventions, which are two-part contrapuntal pieces, and 15 sinfonias, which are three-part contrapuntal pieces. They were originally written as musical exercises for his students.

The sonatas for viola da gamba and basso continuo by the Magdeburg Cathedral Kapellmeister Johann Friedrich Ruhe are a real discovery! Georg Zeike performs them on the viola da gamba together with Bernadett Mészáros on the harpsichord and - this is the special feature of this recording - with the fortepiano, which was highly modern in Ruhe's time.

For the 200th anniversary of the birth of Belgium's greatest composer, the international Eliot Quartet has combined César Franck's only string quartet and his famous Piano Quintet on one CD.

Baritone Daniel Blumenschein, together with the Leipzig Symphony Orchestra under Robbert van Steijn, pushes open the gate to a vast musical land: together they embark on a journey through the most beautiful German folk songs in new orchestral arrangements by Stephan König.

Opulent and imaginative Telemann oratorios In the church year 1730/31, Telemann performed a year of a special conception: in the divine service, downright oratorios were to be sounded.

Here the diva is the viola! How did the viola move from the status of ‘dramatic contralto among instrumental voices’ (to quote the critic Henri Blanchard) to ‘a character of nobility and languor’, according to Georg Kastner’s treatise on instrumentation (1837)?

Six feather-light divertimenti by Joseph Haydn are presented by flutist Anna Zhitnukhina on her new GENUIN CD. The works are miniature gems that deserve to be distributed more widely! Moreover, it is remarkable that the young flutist has recorded all six trios twice, one time on historical, one time on modern instruments, respectively.

Łódź Baroque Orchestra Altberg Ensemble is an early music ensemble founded in 2017 by cellist Jakub Kościukiewicz, who specializes in historically informed performance of baroque music.

Everything seems to indicate that Metallica is the first show victim of the extended arrangements at the National Stadium. As La Tercera reported over the weekend, the dilation of the completion of the works around the Ñuñoa Coliseum (the so-called ‘Sports Park’, under construction for the 2023 Pan American Games) have jeopardized the agreed date for the Californian show, postponed since 2020 due to the pandemic and now set for April 27.

In the 23rd year of the ensemble's history, "Bach for five" is the first pure Bach album that Calmus releases.

Between 2010 and 2014, the British Emperor Quartet released the three discs gathered here, with all of Benjamin Britten’s published music for string quartet – as well as his one work for string quintet, the Phantasy in F minor. Their performances of the three numbered quartets, undisputed masterpieces of 20th-century chamber music, were variously described by the critics as ‘stupendous’ (Classic FM Magazine), ‘a wonderful homage’ (Ensemble), and ‘a complete cosmos of colours and nuances’ (Fono Forum), and the discs received top marks and distinctions in magazines such as Fanfare, Diapason and International Record Review.

Although born in Sweden, Klas Torstensson has spent most of his working life in the Netherlands following his studies in Utrecht in the early 1970s. Stylistically, he may call to mind Varèse, Xenakis and – perhaps more distantly – Stravinsky. First and foremost, however, Torstensson’s music is personal and distinctive. It is often nourished by his experiences of nature: rough granite, the sea, ice in the frozen Baltic inlets, the polar ice cap. His Lantern Lectures were composed in the aftermath of his opera The Expedition, about an ill-fated journey to the North Pole.

Mozart’s piano concertos form a set that is not just exceptional but absolutely unique in the history of music: from No. 9 to No. 27, all are definitive masterpieces. According to H.C. Robbins Landon, an eminent specialist in the composer’s life and work, ‘It is above all their immense stylistic diversity that places Mozart’s piano concertos above and beyond those of his contemporaries’.

Initially enjoying popularity first in Germany-speaking lands and then in France, the genre of the piano duet (four hands, one piano) went on to blossom in England during the 20th century. On this album Emma Abbate and Julian Perkins present the complete works for piano duet by each of the composers selected. Palm Court Waltz, the Sonatina and Theme and Variations from Lennox Berkeley display Gallic traits, the consequence no doubt of his studies in France and his keen interest in the music of Satie, Ravel and Poulenc. While showing an evolution in the composer’s approach to tonality, every hint of seriousness is constantly balanced by elegant playfulness and diaphanous textures.