World / International CDs

"A breath of fresh air, this recital... This is the best debut disc for a long time" - Opera magazine

For more than 30 years, the Kronos Quartet—David Harrington, John Sherba (violins), Hank Dutt (viola), and Jeffrey Zeigler (cello)—has pursued a singular artistic vision, combining a spirit of fearless exploration with a commitment to expanding the range and context of the string quartet. In the...

Magdalena Kožená’s silken mezzo delivers definitive interpretations of this luscious and enchanting orchestral-song repertoire. Magdalena Kožená, Sir Simon Rattle, and the Berliner Philharmoniker seduce in Ravel’s Shéhérazade, stir and awe in Dvorák’s austere Biblische Lieder, and render to the f...

From folk music to film music, the violin is the star of instruments. Millions of children all over the world learn how to play it and the top performers make it sound beautiful. They can also do clever things on it, with their fingers whizzing up and down, and the bow moving so fast you can hardly ...

In this delightful collection, I Salonisti has gathered together a variety of pieces from the White Star Line Songbook, a compilation of overtures, waltzes, marches and even sacred music used for the shipping company's "Olympic Class Liners," the most famous being the ill-fated Titanic. Not simpl...

Beautiful choral music from Paul Mealor, the composer of Ubi Caritas performed at the Royal Wedding of HRH Prince William & Catherine Middleton in 2011. Includes Ubi Caritas and the moving A Spotless Rose. Performed by the Tenebrae choir and the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. “Paul Mealor has the...

This unique, limited edition boxed set offers 50 CD's of the greatest choral masterpieces of the past 500 years, stretching from Renaissance Masses and the glories of the Baroque and Classical eras through to the major works of the Romantic era and the diversity of the 20th and 21st centuries, all i...

"Imaginative intelligence...Terfel is the most awake of singers" - Gramophone

Soprano Patricia Petibon showcases her dramatic flair and interpretive powers as she indulges her love of Luso-lberian music in her new album Melancolia - Spanish Arias and Songs. From zarzuela to art song, folk song, the Aria Cantilena of Brazil's Villa-Lobos, and the traditional Afro-Brazilian ...

This new recording couples Finnish composer Einojuhani Rautavaara’s latest concerto works with an orchestral piece from his early Modernist period (Modificata; 1957/2003) The virtuoso Percussion Concerto Incantations (2008) features the Scottish percussion soloist Colin Currie, who is the dedicat...

Sono Luminus is proud to release this first major studio release by the Los Angeles Percussion Quartet, Rūpa-khandha, as it promises a fantastic listening experience. As one of the new percussion recordings produced in surround sound, the listener is placed among a sonic landscape of sublime, viscer...

The Soviet Experience is the first Shostakovich quartet cycle to include works by other important composers of the Soviet era, adding variety and perspective to the listening experience. This superbly performed series of audiophile recordings, produced and engineered by multiple Grammy Award winn...

This programme brings the old world of festive Spain in Turina’s La Procession du Rocío into a meeting with Roger Nixon’s Californian ‘tonal fresco’ Fiesta del Pacifico. Chang Su Koh’s Korean Dances use exotic traditional rhythms, whereas Bernstein’s Symphonic dances refer to Cuban cha-cha and the M...

Includes the works of Ernesto Nazareth

Chamber Music for Flute, Guitar and Strings

Includes Movements 1-6.

Chamber Music at Schonbrunn

Music by Bellinati, Borges, Guimaraes, Lauro, Machado, Piazzolla, Baden Powell, Reis.

Award winning American composer, Richard Sierra, presents his second release as a Fleur de Son recording artist in this hauntingly beautiful collection of scores based upon ancient Sefardic texts of Spain and Latin America.

Israelievitch has a full tone and an engaging personality. He is very musical and never strives for virtuoso effect, and his playing is obviously from the heart...American Record Guide

The recording is warm and natural...chamber music should be just like this - intimate, bonding and conversational...American Record Guide

Includes works by Isaac Albéniz, Alfredo Vianna, Enrique Granados, Ernesto Nazareth, Agustin Barrios Mangore, Hugo Pfister.

Described as a ‘conductor who makes a difference’ (Daily Telegraph), and acclaimed for her artistic vision and commitment to accessibility in classical music, Marin Alsop founded String Fever in 1981. Its pioneering blend of jazz, pop and classical repertoire took critics and audiences by storm, bre...