Mahan Esfahani continues his mission to bring contemporary dazzle to the most seminal of repertoire, unleashing his turbo-charged harpsichord on the The Complete Keyboard Concertos of Johann Sebastian Bach. For this eighth instalment of his cycle, Mahan is joined by a team from the Britten Sinfonia, a deliberate choice to employ modern instruments for this most ground-breaking of repertoire.

Taking its title from a thrilling new piece by Joby Talbot, Wishing Tree is the latest album from The Gesualdo Six. As ever, director Owain Park has put together a sequence of music which effortlessly juxtaposes familiar folksong arrangements with new works by a host of up-and-coming composers, creating a whole which has been a popular concert programme for the group over many years. It’s our Record of the Month for June.

A welcome new boxed-set from Hyperion brings us The Complete String Quartets of Joseph Haydn on 20 CDs. These acclaimed performances from The London Haydn Quartet combine historically informed performance practice with performing editions published during Haydn’s own lifetime: ‘No one who loves this glorious music could have hoped for a better finish … the more I returned to these performances, the more I found myself warming to their fantasy, their disciplined spontaneity and their cumulative insights’ (Gramophone).

New releases from Signum Classics this month bring us a second instalment from Peter Donohoe in his Haydn Keyboard Works series: two discs with nine Sonatas, the G major Partita and more. And Nigel Short and Tenebrae have recorded In between & other choral works by Jessica Ulusoy-Horsley, vibrant new compositions which effortlessly reach across different musical traditions and cultures.

Naruhiko Kawaguchi has recorded a programme quietly entitled A journey with Beethoven, deliberately eschewing the canonic sonatas in favour of the wealth of shorter character pieces Beethoven wrote throughout his life. These then become the showcase for three remarkable fortepianos, the Signum engineers travelling with Kawaguchi down to the Finchcocks Collection in Kent for the privilege.

Mahan Esfahani continues his mission to bring contemporary dazzle to the most seminal of repertoire, unleashing his turbo-charged harpsichord on the The Complete Keyboard Concertos of Johann Sebastian Bach. For this eighth instalment of his cycle, Mahan is joined by a team from the Britten Sinfonia, a deliberate choice to employ modern instruments for this most ground-breaking of repertoire.

Taking its title from a thrilling new piece by Joby Talbot, Wishing Tree is the latest album from The Gesualdo Six. As ever, director Owain Park has put together a sequence of music which effortlessly juxtaposes familiar folksong arrangements with new works by a host of up-and-coming composers, creating a whole which has been a popular concert programme for the group over many years. It’s our Record of the Month for June.

A welcome new boxed-set from Hyperion brings us The Complete String Quartets of Joseph Haydn on 20 CDs. These acclaimed performances from The London Haydn Quartet combine historically informed performance practice with performing editions published during Haydn’s own lifetime: ‘No one who loves this glorious music could have hoped for a better finish … the more I returned to these performances, the more I found myself warming to their fantasy, their disciplined spontaneity and their cumulative insights’ (Gramophone).

New releases from Signum Classics this month bring us a second instalment from Peter Donohoe in his Haydn Keyboard Works series: two discs with nine Sonatas, the G major Partita and more. And Nigel Short and Tenebrae have recorded In between & other choral works by Jessica Ulusoy-Horsley, vibrant new compositions which effortlessly reach across different musical traditions and cultures.

Naruhiko Kawaguchi has recorded a programme quietly entitled A journey with Beethoven, deliberately eschewing the canonic sonatas in favour of the wealth of shorter character pieces Beethoven wrote throughout his life. These then become the showcase for three remarkable fortepianos, the Signum engineers travelling with Kawaguchi down to the Finchcocks Collection in Kent for the privilege.

Mahan Esfahani continues his mission to bring contemporary dazzle to the most seminal of repertoire, unleashing his turbo-charged harpsichord on the The Complete Keyboard Concertos of Johann Sebastian Bach. For this eighth instalment of his cycle, Mahan is joined by a team from the Britten Sinfonia, a deliberate choice to employ modern instruments for this most ground-breaking of repertoire.

Taking its title from a thrilling new piece by Joby Talbot, Wishing Tree is the latest album from The Gesualdo Six. As ever, director Owain Park has put together a sequence of music which effortlessly juxtaposes familiar folksong arrangements with new works by a host of up-and-coming composers, creating a whole which has been a popular concert programme for the group over many years. It’s our Record of the Month for June.

A welcome new boxed-set from Hyperion brings us The Complete String Quartets of Joseph Haydn on 20 CDs. These acclaimed performances from The London Haydn Quartet combine historically informed performance practice with performing editions published during Haydn’s own lifetime: ‘No one who loves this glorious music could have hoped for a better finish … the more I returned to these performances, the more I found myself warming to their fantasy, their disciplined spontaneity and their cumulative insights’ (Gramophone).

New releases from Signum Classics this month bring us a second instalment from Peter Donohoe in his Haydn Keyboard Works series: two discs with nine Sonatas, the G major Partita and more. And Nigel Short and Tenebrae have recorded In between & other choral works by Jessica Ulusoy-Horsley, vibrant new compositions which effortlessly reach across different musical traditions and cultures.

Naruhiko Kawaguchi has recorded a programme quietly entitled A journey with Beethoven, deliberately eschewing the canonic sonatas in favour of the wealth of shorter character pieces Beethoven wrote throughout his life. These then become the showcase for three remarkable fortepianos, the Signum engineers travelling with Kawaguchi down to the Finchcocks Collection in Kent for the privilege.