Jordi Savall Guerre & Paix. 1614 1714 (2015) [official Digital Download 16 44.1] {alia Vox}

Couperin is too easily seen as the tender, graceful and somewhat melancholy composer, whose soft-toned palette was the same as that which served the brush of Watteau. There was another Couperin who was a master of humour and whose claws were sharp. And yet another who was a musician involved in the aesthetic battles of this time and in the avant-garde.

Jordi Savall leads La Capella Reial de Catalunya and Le Concert des Nations in Haydn's The Creation. The composer confessed that while composing he had "felt an extraordinary religious fervor." However, this work was also inspired by the spirituality of the Viennese Masonic lodges of his day. It is above all the first secular oratorio, in the sense that its message is addressed to all mankind, exactly like The Magic Flute, in operati.

After the critical success of the first volume of Beethoven’s symphonies, Jordi Savall now offers us from the Sixth to the Ninth.This latest publication crowns a nearly two-year world tour and confirms the extent to which the director renews our vision of these most famous works. The Concert des Nations shows that it also knows how to magnify the repertoire of the early 19th century, which will be confirmed by a forthcoming Schubert album.

As early as 1761, a year before his masterpiece Orfeo ed Euridice, Gluck largely renewed another musical genre, the ballet, with his adaptation of a work by Molière for Viennese audiences: Don Juan.

Angela Hewitt’s notes for this important new album describe a teenager’s moment of revelation when she first came to appreciate the epic masterpiece that is the Liszt Piano Sonata. Here we have a heart-felt recording where this palpable sense of wonder is manifest alongside Hewitt’s enthralling technical facility at the keyboard.

The performances at the Paris Hot Brass Club are among Steve Coleman's most important musical manifestos.

In celebration of the 80th Anniversary, The Count Basie Orchestra releases its first Christmas album, A Very Swingin' Basie Christmas!

The Black Keys will release a special tenth anniversary edition of their landmark seventh studio album El Camino via Nonesuch Records on November 5, 2021. El Camino (10th Anniversary Deluxe Edition) will be available in several formats including a Super Deluxe edition of five vinyl LPs or four CDs, featuring a remastered version of the original album, a previously unreleased Live in Portland, ME concert recording, a BBC Radio 1 Zane Lowe session from 2012 and a 2011 Electro-Vox session.

"Le nostre anime" is the title of a new Anthology collection of the multi-platinum selling artist Franco Battiato from 1972 until 2015. This is not a simple Best Of, as all tracks have been re-mixed and re-mastered to create new versions of every track. There are 2 brand new studio songs, 1 orchestra new song and a great duet with MIKA. Franco Battiato is a huge star in Italy - a creative genius with an output that spans full length Classical pieces as well as pop, rock and electronica albums., Battiato has been at the forefront of Italian music since the early 1970s. Loved by the critics, Battiato has been variously compared to diverse artists including Peter Gabriel, Brian Eno, Phillip Glass, Frank Zappa, David Bowie, Scott Walker and Jim O'Rourke.