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Hot Heros is a trio from Tampere, Finland, that combines jazz, folk music and improvisation in their music. The band's sound is recognizably Nordic: often passionate, naturalistic and melodic, but...

If this premiere recording of Stephen Hough's String Quartet No. 1 can be considered definitive – the work is dedicated to the Takács Quartet – the quartets by Ravel and Dutilleux are equally...

Norwegian composer SVEIN HUNDSNES has composed a considerable number of works, ranging from concertos to pieces for young musicians. His piano music is wide-ranging in style and occupies a significant...

Violinist Ilja Gringolts, who is fond of giving interviews, has chosen two very different concerts for this collaboration with Copenhagen Phil, but in both the melody is emphasized. Young Finnish...

November 11, 2006, was a very emotional evening. After nearly 20 years together and thousands of concerts around the world, the Finnish trio Töykeät, led by pianist Iiro Rantala, performed live for...

Dieter Ilg, one of Europe's most renowned double bassists, with twelve timeless musical tributes to his most revolutionary influences and personalities.

InTime Quintet Markku Lindeman, accordion Henrik Perelló, violin Jari Salmela, piano Jorma Salmela, guitar Hannu Siiskonen, bass Marcelo Nisinman, bandoneon Tampere Philharmonic Jaana Haanterä...

On this recording, the Wang-Zadra duo, consisting of saxophone and guitar, explores the diverse tonal possibilities of this unique and unusual chamber music ensemble. All of the works on the CD were...

Ingá-Máret Gaup-Juuso, yoiku Jukka Eskola, trumpet and flugelhorn Jaakko Jauhiainen, conductor Oulu All Stars Big Band A delightful symbiosis of world music and jazz. The album has been produced by...

Ismo Alanko album Kevyt ja kohtuuton (Light and Unreasonable), produced by his long-time collaborator Riku Mattila. The band El Mosquito, who have been playing with me for thirteen years, are featured...

Steven Isserlis has once again curated a typically imaginative recital, with all the works coming, in one way or another, from a particularly fruitful decade in the history of the cello....

Charles Ives' Concord Sonata is often described as one of the greatest American piano works. Published in 1920 at the composer's own expense, the work contains radical experiments in harmony...

The Essential Notes Collection album discovers a musical landscape where guitele is accompanied with string quartet and live electronics. Compositions flow in the borderline of modern classical and...

Jason Mraz's fifth studio album, YES!, was the artist's first full-length recording and songwriting collaboration with indie rock-folk band Raining Jane (Mai Bloomfield, Becky Gebhardt, Chaska...

The jazz saxophonist had achieved legendary status at a time when pop music dominated the record industry. However, it was important for the music press and its readers to emphasize Coltrane's...

William Jackson (1730–1803) from Exeter – a painter, writer, and composer – has been something of a hidden treasure until now. As Timothy Roberts writes in the preface to this first album of...

On the album Once Around The Room, ECM artists and key jazz musicians from different generations join forces in a small ensemble to celebrate the musical legacy of drumming icon Paul Motian in...

Jan Lehtola: J.L. van den Heuvel Organ in Mänttä, Finland Saint-Saens, Camille (1835-1921) Trois Préludes et Fugues opus 99 (Durand ) Fantaisie (without opus number) (Billaudot ) Fantaisie opus 101...

Jan Lehtola, on the Wegelius Organ (1933) in Kuusankoski, Finland Bach, Johann Sebastian Chaconne D minor (bearb. Wilhelm Middelschulte) Prelude & Fugue B flat minor (arr. Oskar Merikanto) Chromatic...

Naji Hakim (b. 1955) Påskeblomst (Easter Flower) for strings Concerto No. 1 for organ and strings Esquisses Grégoriennes Concerto No. 3 for organ and strings Mikkeli City Orchestra Petri Komulainen...

Jan Lehtola, organ Touko Lundell, trumpet The Guards Band Elias Seppälä, conductor Einojuhani Rautavaara: Annunciations, Concerto for Organ, Brass Group and Symphonic Wind Orchestra Hymn, for...

Leoš Janá?ek's 15-part piano cycle On an Overgrown Path is presented here in a new form, arranged for string orchestra and performed by Camerata Zürich under the direction of solo violinist...

This album by Dutch violinist Janine Jansen, Finnish conductor Klaus Mäkelä and the Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra contains two cornerstones of violin literature: Jean Sibelius: Violin Concerto in D...