Recognised internationally as a conductor of the highest calibre, Stéphane Denève took up the post of Music Director of the Royal Scottish National Orchestra in 2005, and has since attracted attention from audiences and critics alike. This May, the conductor bids a fond farewell to Scotland and the RSNO with a series of ‘Au Revoir’ concerts, and of course, this disc of orchestral works by Debussy.

The colourful folk melodies and rhythms of Spain knit seamlessly with twentieth-century French compositional sophistication in Joaquín Turina’s chamber works. Born in Seville, Andalucia, the young composer went to study in Paris in 1905, where he was greatly attracted to the forward-looking style of the likes of Debussy—however, his musical course was altered when he encountered countrymen Falla and Albéniz, who encouraged him to write in a style that fully embraced his Andalucian musical heritage. Later in life the composer himself explained ‘my music is the expression of the feeling of a true Sevillian who did not know Seville until he left it’. The acclaimed Nash Ensemble here demonstrate what a satisfying artistic homecoming he made.

Tudor and Jacobean music by Tomkins, Campion, Byrd, Tallis, Dowland, Gibbons and others from the Golden Age of early English music. Described as 'an ensemble of breathtaking freshness, vitality and balance (The New York Times), Stile Antico joins the equally renowned ensemble Fretwork on this ravishing selection of Renaissance music composed for domestic devotion drawn from collections prepared for that purpose.

4 CDs for the price of 3! Alongside his much-loved five piano concertos and the stirring Choral Fantasia, this magnificent set includes two exciting rarities: Beethoven’s own arrangement of his Violin Concerto and the world premiere recording of Howard Shelley’s reconstruction of one of Beethoven’s earliest works, a piano concerto written in 1784 when he was only 13 years old for which the piano part alone has survived.

Chandos Records has signed an exclusive contract with the Brodsky Quartet to coincide with the renowned ensemble's 40th Anniversary in 2012. On their debut Chandos CD, they are joined by acclaimed young British pianist Philip Edward Fisher and violist Bob Smissen to perform a delightful selection of music arranged by past or current members of the quartet. This is a superbly enjoyable and original collection.

Brand new release on Tafelmusik's own label! Tafelmusik's The Galileo Project toured to widespread acclaim for Musica Viva Australia during March 2012. This path-breaking DVD/CD package celebrates Galileo's first public demonstration of the telescope with stunning celestial images from the Hubble Space Telescope, NASA and Canadian astronomers accompanied by beautiful music from the 17th and 18th centuries. The DVD includes two bonus tracks of original animated films of Tafelmusik. Actor Shaun Smyth narrates a compelling script while the musicians weave in and around a magical stage set.

CD - The Galileo Project: Music of the Spheres Vivaldi Double Violin Concerto in A major Op 3 No 5, Lully Phaeton excerpts, Monteverdi Ciaccona, Merula Ciaccona, Michelangelo Galilei Toccatas, Marini Passacaglia from Op 22, Monteverdi Moresca (Orfeo), Purcell Rondeau (Abdelazer), Rameau Entree de Jupiter (Hippolyte et Aricie), Handel Allegro (Concerto Grosso in D major Op 3 No 6), Rameau Entree de Venus (Les Surprises de l'Amour), Telemann Allegro (Concerto for 4 Violins in D major), Zelenka Adagio ma non troppo (Sonata in F major), Rameau Entree de Mercure (Platee), Lully Air pour les suivants de Saturne (Phaeton), Weiss Allegro (Lute Concerto in C major), Bach Sinfonia 'How Brightly Shines the Morning Star' BWV1, Sinfonia from Cantata BWV29

DVD - The Galileo Project: Music of the Spheres Music by Monteverdi, Vivaldi, Bach and Handel, with images from the Hubble Space Telescope narrated by Shaun Smyth

Limelight 2011 Best Classical Album Award-winners for Mozart Violin Concertos Vol 2 (BISSACD1755), Richard Tognetti and the Australian Chamber Orchestra, present a glorious new release featuring the popular Holberg Suite, two of Grieg's own arrangements of his best-loved songs (Elegiac Melodies), and Richard Tognetti's exciting arrangements of Grieg's First String Quartet and the ravishing Erotikk. Hugely popular across Australia and internationally, the ACO has been acclaimed by Gramophone as 'an outstanding band', while The Observer praised their 'gloriously exciting, tangy edged, alert and playful sound'. A must-have!

String Quartet No 1 Op 27 (arr. Tognetti)
Two Elegiac Melodies Op 34
Erotikk Op 43 No 5 (from Lyric Pieces Book III arr. Tognetti)
Holberg Suite Op 40

Three stories of love and loss, expressing human fragility at its most beautiful and painful moments, veiled within a glorious world of sound' is how Australian mezzo-soprano Fiona Campbell describes these ravishing cantatas. Fiona won the Limelight Award for Best Solo Performance (Haunting Handel with the Australian Brandenburg Orchestra) in 2010 and, with admired colleagues, here presents a varied program of intimate and highly emotional Baroque and Classical masterpieces.

A Scarlatti Bella madre de' fiori
Haydn Arianna a Naxos
Handel La Lucrezia

Clarinetist Martin Frost is an intrepid adventurer who challenges conventional notions of how classical music should be presented. Together with the acclaimed Australian Chamber Orchestra, whose recording of Mozart Violin Concertos Vol 2 (BISSACD1755) was a 2011 ARIA Award finalist, he plays an impressive variety of music with stylish verve.

Exclusive Chandos artist and BBC TV Classical Star Karen Geoghegan joins pianist Philip Edward Fisher (whose Chandos album Piano Works by The Mighty Handful CHAN10676 was a Collectors Corner album in May 2011). Hailed for her 'phenomenal brilliance and precision' (BBC Music) and tipped as one of today's leading bassoonists by Gramophone, Karen Geoghegan ranges from deep melancholy to excited ebullience on this new album.

‘Ouvertures' or Orchestral Suites were among the most popular large-scale instrumental works of the Baroque Era. A grand French Overture introduces a series of dance movements in each of Bach's magnificent compositions, the third of which features the famous 'Air on a G String'.  In the 3rd and 4th Suites trumpets and timpani add a splendidly martial touch, while the 2nd Suite showcases solo flute.

First volume in a beautiful new series from Chandos. The Norwegian composer Johan Svendsen was a contemporay of Edvard Grieg and is best known for his Norwegian Rhapsodies. Open to the new musical trends launched by Berlioz, Liszt and Wagner, he also wrote a significant body of other joyful, lyrical and Romantic music from the pomp-and-ceremony of Festival Polinaise to the charming folkloricism of Ifgol gjett e gjeitin (When I Was Tending The Mountain Goats).

Eloquent singing  by ‘one of America’s leading vocal ensembles’ (International Record Review). Spirituals are the bedrock of American music - moving, expressive and much-loved by people of all ages and musical tastes. Theses Spirituals range from celebratory and defiant to heart-breaking and mournful. This uplifting CD is a Collectors Corner album and has also received extensive airplay on many ABC Classic FM programs.