One of the year’s most hotly anticipated classical releases by an Australian artist, this disc features Australia's favourite violinist Richard Tognetti in Dvorak’s virtuosic, highly melodic Violin Concerto. The work is the perfect showcase for Tognetti’s world-famous technique, precision and passion. The ARIA-winning ‘National Treasure’ teams with Christian Lindberg to bring this gorgeous Romantic work vividly to life. The last collaboration between the two masterful musicians (with Lindberg on Baroque trombone) was an extremely popular ABC Classic FM CD of the Week. Now Lindberg appears as conductor for this thrilling disc of Dvorak’s spirited music for violin and orchestra. Watch an excerpt of Tognetti’s dazzling performance on YouTube.

The soprano Clara Rottsolk joins Tempesta di Mare Chamber Players for a disc of cantatas and instrumental music by Alessandro Scarlatti. Though his cantatas and operas are little known today Scarlatti was a titan in his time, closely associated with Rome’s Arcadian Academy and an inspiration to the much younger Handel, a frequent visitor to the Academy. Scarlatti’s specialty was the cantata, the operatic equivalent of the short story, in which music and narrative are distilled to their core, resulting in beautiful and moving yet succinct multi-movement vocal work. This disc includes two rarely performed love cantatas, ‘Quella pace gradita’ and ‘Bella dama di nome Santa’, exquisite jewels of the Italian baroque.

One of Britain’s leading lyric sopranos, Susan Gritton here performs a unique programme of works by three English composers, with the BBC Symphony Orchestra under Edward Gardner (the Musical Director of the English National Opera). She performed to much acclaim in Opera Australia’s new 2009 production of Britten’s Peter Grimes and shines in this recording of the composer's Four French Songs and his later song cycle Les Illuminations.Gritton also premieres Delius’s A Late Lark in the version for soprano voice.

Perhaps the brightest, most vibrant and virtuosic disc of recorder music ever released! This disc features charming baroque gems arranged by English contemporaries of Corelli from the Italian master’s visionary Violin Sonatas Op. 5. Lauded as ‘the world’s leading recorder virtuoso’ (The Independent), Maurice Steger is an esteemed regular guest of Antiqua Köln, Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin and Europa Galante. Mr Corelli in London offers a fantastical view of where England meets Venice in a sumptuous program played by acclaimed British Baroque ensemble The English Concert.

In this swinging collection of ‘symphonic jazz’, Steve Richman and the Harmonie Ensemble New York recreate the original Gershwin orchestrations made by Ferde Grofé for the Paul Whiteman Orchestra. The programme features Gershwin’s immortal Rhapsody in Blue (with legendary clarinettist Al Gallodoro, an original member of the Paul Whiteman Orchestra in the 1930s!), the I Got Rhythm Variations, and a selection of George’s Broadway tunes, including 'Summertime'.

The Romantic Piano Concerto series reaches Volume 50. Rarely in the history of recorded music has such a rich seam of undiscovered delights been mined to such consistently dazzling effect. The performers include some of the greatest pianists, orchestras and conductors in the world, including Australians Piers Lane and the Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra. Stephen Hough played Tchaikovsky Piano Concertos in thrilling performances during his 2009 Australian tour, just after having recorded this disc. His Saint-Säens recording for the series (CDA673312) garnered the Gramophone Gold Disc and Record of the Year awards.

Stephen Hough joins the celebrations for Chopin’s 200th birthday with a disc containing much of the composer’s most extraordinary music, written in the last years of his life where the expressive possibilites of his art were constantly unfolding as he imbued his favoured forms with previously unknown levels of complexity and emotional depth. This disc includes the intoxicatingly ornamented Berceuse Op 57 and the sublime Barcarolle in F sharp major as well as the Polonaise-Fantasy in A flat major and the towering Piano Sonata No 3 in B minor. Also included are two late Nocturnes which demonstrate how Chopin’s art had evolved since he first composed in that genre in his youth. The programme is completed by a selection of Mazurkas, each a tiny jewel, containing no less mastery than their larger counterparts, and providing moving sonic evidence of the contemplative profundity of Chopin’s late style. Stephen Hough’s extraordinarily sensitive playing is informed by his limitless technique and engaging musical imagination. This is the Chopin of a true Romantic.

The finest Pavarotti boxed set on the market, an ideal gift for collectors! This beautifully presented 'signature' edition (in a matte-finish clamshell box with silver-embossed detail) features almost 150 superb tracks from the world's most beloved tenor, on 9 DVDs with a bonus live concert DVD from the Gran Teatre Del Liceu in 1989. The set also includes Pavarotti's famous performance of 'Nessun Dorma', soon to captivate a huge audience during The World Cup.

Dominic Dromgoole’s production brings refreshing clarity to one of Shakespeare’s most famous and best-loved tragedies, drawing out the contemporary relevance of this passionate teenage love story. Ellie Kendrick, a truly youthful Juliet, and Adetomiwa Edun, a boyish Romeo, head an excellent cast whose period costumes point to the timelessness of parental disapproval, adolescent temperament, rivalry and violence. Filmed before a live audience at Shakespeare’s Globe in the heart of London, its intimate and atmospheric setting adds immediacy and vitality to the humour and passion of Shakespeare’s verse. Filmed in High Definition and true surround sound (also available on Blu-Ray disc: OABD7062D). Watch the trailer on YouTube.