Without dispute Teodor Currentzis is todays hottest & most sought after conductor- alongside his orchestra & choir MusicAeterna. The Greek-Russian conductor who has taken the classical music world by storm (The Times) This is Currentziss first ever recording of Mahler. Mahlers symphonies feature heavily in their tour programme but this is the first time Currentzis has gone into the studio with this composer. His last recording of major symphony repertoire (Tchaikovsky 6) is the highest shipped single album for Currentzis repertoire to date. The album won Japanese Recording Academys highest accolade Gold Award, received 5-star reviews from The Times, NRC Handelsblad, a Diapson Dor Award and was named in many Top albums for 2017 including Best classical recording in Spiegel Online and appeared on the New York Times Best Classical Music Recordings for 2017.

"Puccini In Love" is the first album by the award winning operatic tenor superstar Roberto Alagna and his wife, soprano Aleksandra Kurzak. Together they are the golden couple of the opera world. The album features some of Puccini’s greatest love duets including Madama Butterfly, La Bohème, Manon Lescaut as well as lesser known duets including Il Tabarro and La Rondine. Puccini in Love showcases some of Puccini’s most emotional and passionate operatic work. Puccini’s command of melody is truly unique to his time and combined with his orchestration creates cinematic and passionate compositions. Roberto Alagna has transcended genre’s through his music—not only is he an opera superstar but he has crossed over into other genre’s of music making his work easily accessible to many types of audiences. Aleksandra and Roberto have performed at some of the greatest opera houses across the world including The Royal Opera House in London, The Metropolitan Opera and La Scala.

Probably the only classical singer to also maintain an active career as a break-dancer, Poland’s Jakub Józef Orliński has a stunningly beautiful countertenor voice, which he uses to heart-stopping effect. Supported by one of the go-to Baroque period bands of the 2000s, Il Pomo d’Oro, Orliński serves up a program of sacred arias (many of which are premiere recordings) by composers both well-known (Hasse, Heinichen, and Zelenka) and rarely encountered (Fago, Sarro, and Terradellas). Whether firing off stunning coloratura or spinning an exquisite long line, he delivers music to nourish your soul and fire your imagination.

“My subject is War, and the pity of War. The Poetry is in the pity” – Wilfred Owen (1920). Marking the 100th anniversary of the end of World War I, Ian Bostridge and Antonio Pappano have assembled Requiem, a programme of songs offering historical and poetic perspectives on this momentous event. Composed over a period of some 50 years, the songs are by Gustav Mahler, Kurt Weill and two creative musicians of promise and achievement whose lives were cut short by the Great War, the Englishman George Butterworth (1885-1916) and the German Rudi Stephan (1887-1915).

A rising star on the European early music scene, violinist Elicia Silverstein is rapidly garnering praise for her nuanced, bold and insightful performances of repertoire ranging from the 17th to the 21st century. A performer on both historical and modern instruments, she made her London debut at the 2015 Spitalfields Summer festival in a sold out concert that featured some of the music featured on this, her debut album which spans repertoire from over 400 years from Biber to Sciarrino, Berio to Bach via Pandolfi Mealli. This is a fascinating, haunting and thought provoking debut from an extraordinary young talent.

MIG Music presents this 5 disc set (3 CD & 2 DVD) of the Big Country shows at Rockpalast from 1986 (Essen) and 1991 (Bonn).

It’s long been due, but Amaranthe have finally found themselves at a crossroads. The Swedes’ previous four have all been worthy, if lacking a little in confidence, but on Helix time they’ve finally embraced all aspects of their artistic tendencies…

There is no other true American rock band quite like Lynyrd Skynyrd. The iconic Rock & Roll Hall of Fame inductees are one of the most influential rock and roll legends of our time…

The Ideal Bread is a tribute to the late soprano saxophonist Steve Lacy , who mentored Ideal Bread's leader Josh Sinton . Here, Sinton reworks the arrangements on Lacy's 1979 record NY Capers & Quirks and uses unusual instrumentation (his baritone sax and Kirk Knuffke 's trumpet replace Lacy's soprano sax) to honor Lacy's compositional genius and his ability to inspire brilliant, probing improv…

TRÄD, GRÄS OCH STENAR (Trees Grass and Stones) evolved in 1969 from the bands PÄRSON SOUND (1967), INTERNATIONAL HARVESTER (1968) and HARVESTER (1969), which were all playing important role in the Swedish experimental rock scene…

HATE ETERNAL's new full-length doubles down on their patented, high-velocity assault of dizzying ferocity combined with wide-range dynamics, outstanding songwriting and skull-crushing brutality. HATE ETERNAL delivers extreme music at the highest level. There can be no doubt that 'Upon Desolate Sands' will be regarded by many as the best death metal record of 2018!