Of her latest album, saxophonist and BBC Radio 3 broadcaster Jess Gillam says, “I had one ambition with this project: to make an album that would make people smile. I wrote down an album manifesto about a year ago and it simply said: BIG ENERGY. BEAUTY. MUSIC TO MAKE PEOPLE SMILE. MUSIC TO LIFT PEOPLE UP.” Spanning 900 years of …

In her latest album, celebrated violinist and composer Esther Abrami presents her own large-scale work, a nine-part suite for violin and orchestra exploring love in all its forms. The Amour Suite captures the full spectrum of emotions, from tenderness and passion to longing and heartbreak, and is the centerpiece of a program that blends original music with new arrangements of …

Rumon Gamba and the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra present an album of works by Sir Granville Bantock, featuring his Hebridean Symphony, Prelude to The Bacchae of Euripides, and English Scenes. Born into a wealthy family in central London in 1868, Granville Bantock studied music at both Trinity College and at the Royal Academy of Music. Early conducting engagements took him …