Gault And Millau 2021

Following up on the incredible success of his recording of "Being" Michael Torke has a new work, about to be released on Ecstatic Records, "Psalms and Cancticles". Featuring the talented singer Lydia Brown, this promises to be a new major work in Torke’s catalogue.

Ashley Banjo explores the negative reaction to his dance on Britain's Got Talent and meets supporters like actor David Harewood and critics like Jim Davidson.

Swiss flutist, Helena Macherel, is a versatile musician who enjoys her career as a chamber musician and soloist. At the age of nineteen, she was awarded the Paul Streit Prize of the Concours de Genève (Switzerland).

The River Clyde is one of Britain's most important rivers with an incredible history. It has been a source of wealth and a symbol of pride for the great …

In that golden age of British choral music half a millennium ago, when polyphonic voices soared in the vaulting of the great late-Gothic churches and chapels that seemed to have been built for them to fill, one composer was in especial favour with the royal family: Robert Fayrfax.

The album for the festival: Christmas classics by Nat "King" Cole, technically refreshed and with current guest stars!

You know a band mean business in this day and age of singles and throwaway fads when they come out the other side of a global pandemic that has ravaged the live music industry and decide to create a double album. MASTODON don’t do things by halves, and Hushed And Grim is presented as a massive feast for fans new and old.

Recognised as one of the world’s leading viola players, Philip Dukes has enjoyed a career spanning over thirty years as an accomplished concerto soloist, recitalist, and chamber musician. He joins forces with Peter Donohoe, acclaimed as one of the foremost pianists of our time, for this extraordinary recording of works by Brahms and Schumann.

Belonging to the generation of Respighi but dying several decades later, Gian Francesco Malipiero (1882-1973) is a far more varied composer than listeners to his post-Romantic chamber and orchestral music would guess. This album is both the most comprehensive publication ever issued of his song output on record, and a valuable opportunity to reappraise an often under-rated 20th-century composer.

For Russian musicians, the romances of Tchaikovsky and Rachmaninov have always been a test of their artistic maturity. Even the name of the genre has many shades of meaning in Russian and sometimes denotes very different forms of musical expressions. The vocal chamber music works of these two composers, who are usually mentioned in the same breath as the luminaries of Russian music, indeed show the enormous range of artistic expression of their creators.