Anastasia Kobekina, Vincent Boccadoro, Emmanuel Arakélian, Thibault Cauvin, Tristan Pereira

The best collection of classics in 2024, a selection of 100 tracks of the most advanced music.

The best collection of classics in 2024, a selection of 100 tracks of the most advanced music.

Spain may be the ancestral home of the guitar, but Italy has produced wonderful guitarists and guitar music – witness Italian virtuoso Emanuele Segre and his new release on Delos, Italian Guitar Concertos. Segre brings his “rhythmic buoyancy,” “delicate touch,” and “persuasive playing” to a delightful programme ranging from Vivaldi and Giuliani concertos to new creations.

"What do I hear? My first harmonies, my first sounds, my first notes… snuggled up.e in my mother's womb, I discover music, her emotions, her chills.

Schoenberg’s early String Sextet ‘Verkläte Nacht’ (Transfigured Night) op.4 dates from 1899. He made the arrangement for string orchestra in 1943. It is a work heavily indebted to Wagner, and especially ‘Tristan und Isolde’ although the unique voice of Schoenberg is already apparent. ‘Gurrelieder’ and ‘Pelleas und Melisande’ would bring the curtain down on his late romantic period and the daring atonal music that has caused him to remain a musical bogey man for many would follow. Verkläte Nacht is a wonderful, intensely moving work and the ideal introduction to this great composer.

The music is improvised and inspired by the book of Judith Schalansky. The music is an echo of her writing, of inspiration by islands, entities with different and changing characteristics. Judith Schalansky: "Atlas of Remote Islands, 50 islands I never set foot on and never will" Original: "Atlas der abgelegenen Inseln" (2009, Mare Verlag)a

Make and remake… but also create and compose in a directory where they are few to engage on new tracks, on new themes. Benjamin Bobenrieth dares, develops and proposes. Admiring and adept at the gypsy gesture, he carries high the legacy of his masters and is deeply impregnated to translate a first personal impression, invigorating, full of virtuoso tension.

Tom Bourgeois embarks for the first time on a double album as a leader and composer. Each track highlights the formation in the form of a duo, trio or quartet, to explore the richness of sound. The bewitching timbres of voice, saxophone, guitar, and accordion bring a poetic, soft and melancholic atmosphere.

The music is improvised and inspired by the book of Judith Schalansky. The music is an echo of her writing, of inspiration by islands, entities with different and changing characteristics. Judith Schalansky: "Atlas of Remote Islands, 50 islands I never set foot on and never will" Original: "Atlas der abgelegenen Inseln" (2009, Mare Verlag)a