Bbc Music 2025

She spent her childhood and youth in the Arctic Circle, looking out of the window at the polar sea with its clear air, observing the seemingly chiselled slabs of ice in the winter and enjoying the magical colours of the tundra in the summer.

Vox Luminis looks to the past and the future with this special digital reissue of its Kantaten recording comprising spiritual concerts and sacred cantatas by the ancestors of Johann Sebastian Bach.

“His Cavaradossi is as languid and heroic as you could wish for” – BBC Music Magazine

Christian Li signed to Decca when he was just 12 years old. Now 17, this album represents a ‘coming of age’ moment for the young violinist as he records Tchaikovsky’s Violin Concerto. With the winning combination of the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic and their Conductor Laureate, Vasily Petrenko, the album includes several transcriptions of popular Tchaikovsky works, arranged for violin and piano or string ensemble. “Whatever he touches, this young violinist emerges as an extraordinary wunderkind.” BBC Music Magazine.

Peter Donohoe's first album devoted to Busoni was enthusiastically received by the critics, and nominated for a BBC Music Magazine award.

This new album by the award-winning Latvian Radio Choir conducted by Sigvards Kļava – recently hailed by the New York Times as ‘astonishing’, ‘superlative’ by the BBC Music Magazine, and ‘perhaps the finest chorus singing today’ by NPR – is focused on the sacred choral works by one of the greatest composers of the Romantic era, Felix Mendelssohn (1809–1847).

Nicola Benedetti presents a major work of the violin repertoire, Beethoven's 'Violin Concerto'. Recorded with Nicholas Collon and the award-winning Aurora Orchestra.

The Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra and its chief conductor Karina Canellakis continue their Bartók journey with the composer’s only opera, Duke Bluebeard’s Cast le, starring mezzo-soprano Rinat Shaham (Judith) and bass-baritone Gabor Bretz (Bluebeard).

Their second album for Signum Classics, Christopher Gabbitas and the Phoenix Chorale present ‘Sun Moon Stars Rain’ – a new album of vocal works all linking how these pivotal elements shape our cultures, beliefs, and understanding of the world.

“Passionately played by the Tapiola Sinfonietta, under Janne Nisonen’s direction, these skillfully-crafted works emerge as noble rediscoveries,” wrote the BBC Music Magazine on the second volume in the ongoing Ferdinand Ries (1784–1838) complete symphony cycle by the Tapiola Sinfonietta and conductor Janne Nisonen.