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James Gilchrist’s theme for this recital, Solitude, is reflected in varied and contrasting ways by the four works. In his booklet note, he describes solitude as ‘A state of being that we need, that perhaps we overlook too easily, that is harder to achieve and harder to endure and understand than we expect’.

Anna Prohaska asked Wolfgang Katschner and the Lautten Compagney at the outset of the coronavirus crisis whether they shouldn’t spontaneously organize a musical get-together in this period.

Bauchgefühl ist nicht ohne Grund der Titel des neuen Albums von Anna-Maria Zimmermann. Denn diese Entscheidungen aus der Emotion heraus, sind oft die Richtigen, wenn es um wichtige Lebensentscheidungen geht. Anna-Maria Zimmermann ist bekanntlich eine charaktervolle Frau, die selbst heftigste Schicksalsschläge nicht aus der Bahn werfen konnten. Diese Willensstärke, ihre Talente und ihre Intuition haben sie daher immer gradlinig ihren Erfolgsweg gehen lassen.

Anna Meredith is a composer, producer and performer of both acoustic and electronic music. Her sound is frequently described as ‘uncategorisable’ and ‘genre-defying’ and straddles the different worlds of contemporary classical, art pop, electronica, ambient installations and experimental rock - or as the Guardian said: "majestic bangers"…

Anna Meredith is a composer, producer and performer of both acoustic and electronic music. Her sound is frequently described as ‘uncategorisable’ and ‘genre-defying’ and straddles the different worlds of contemporary classical, art pop, electronica, ambient installations and experimental rock - or as the Guardian said: "majestic bangers"…

After two albums devoted to Italian music from the 17th and 18th centuries (BIS-2585 and BIS-2645), male soprano Nicolo Balducci now offers us a recital devoted to the greatest representatives of Viennese Classicism - Haydn, Mozart and Beethoven - in the company of the fortepianist Anna Paradiso, whom we recently heard in a recording devoted to the work of Caroline Ridderstolpe together with mezzo-soprano Kristina Hammarstrom (BIS-2675).

It’s impossible to imagine a musical training without Bach, from children’s music academies to conservatories. Bach is here to stay. When I started teaching children in the 1970s, quite a few of my colleagues were making fruitless attempts to (partially) replace Bach with Bartók’s Mikrokosmos. The children, however, had very little if any enthusiasm for Bartók’s music and their teachers eventually had to back down. Bartók, with all due respect, was no match for Bach.

The pianist Anna Zassimova offers us a musical journey through most of Chopin’s creative periods, bringing together miniatures and some larger scaled, highly structured works. We can thus follow the composer’s stylistic evolution: slightly whimsical at first, then works that are often tragic and violent, evolving in his final years towards great luminosity and relative calm.

Russian soprano Anna Netrebko made a well-publicized debut at New York's Metropolitan Opera in 2016, and this live concert performance from the Salzburg Festival, recorded the same year with many of the same forces, was perhaps intended to capitalize on the event.

With English charm, exceptional talent and creative openness, the young British musician Anna Lapwood not only inspires critics, but also an audience of millions on social media. On her Sony Classical debut album "Luna", which will be released on September 29, she gives an insight into her extensive musical cosmos.