All of Trevor Pinnocks unmissable Handel orchestral recordings with the English Concert on period instruments, collected for the first time in a single release: Classic recordings of Op. 3 and Op. 6; A must-have for anyone remotely interested in Handel.

2015 holiday release from the country/pop vocalist. Today Is Christmas is comprised of traditional and original songs with featured duets with Aloe Blacc and Gavin DeGraw. LeAnn Rimes is one of the most successful entertainers worldwide with a career spanning more than two decades. With 45 million albums sold, two Grammy awards, three Academy Of Country Music awards and 12 Billboard Music awards, she has made her mark in the world of music. This release includes yuletide favorites such as 'We Need A Little Christmas', 'Must Be Santa' and 'Holly Jolly Christmas/Frosty The Snowman' plus new classics like 'That Spirit Of Christmas' and the title track.

Almost everyone is familiar with Carl Orff's Carmina burana - this extremely popular work belongs to classical music programs all over the world. The work appears twice on this compilation: one version was conducted by Eugen Jochum, who devoted a great deal of his attention to Orff's music. The composer himself considered Jochum's interpretations to have set the standard for performances.

After his phenomenal success with Django Reinhardt in the pre-war Quintet of the Hot Club of France, violinist Stéphane Grappelli's recording career was a bit erratic until interest revived in his music in the late 1960s. So these 1962 studio sessions, initially released by Atlantic as Feeling + Finesse = Jazz are a rare opportunity to hear the master during this period in his career. Accompanied by guitarist Pierre Cavalli, rhythm guitarist Leo Petit, bassist Guy Pedersen and drummer Daniel Humair, Grappelli draws primarily from his repertoire of standards and originals previously recorded with Reinhardt.

The album consists of remixes of hits from her last three albums, Family, Lady & Gentlemen, and Spitfire, her 2006 international album, Whatever We Wanna, and new remixes of some older hits, "How Do I Live", "I Need You" and "Can't Fight the Moonlight".

The Piano Quintet in A minor is "grand" in more ways than one. It lasts more than 37 minutes. Each movement possesses its own fascination. The first offers heaving, swelling romantic music and engages all the instruments in daunting fashion. The second is a haunting, relentless scherzo that starts off with a lighter sound to build suspense. The slow third, major key movement starts off in rather saccharine style but turns persuasive in its own way.

The 20th century has not been kind to most standard classical music forms. The piano sonata, the concerto, the symphony – none of them have disappeared entirely, but none remain in a state that could be called even remotely healthy. The same was true of the string quartet until 1973, when violinist David Harrington got some friends together to play contemporary music and offered his old high-school composition teacher a bag of donuts if he'd write a piece for them…