Cellist Camille Thomas celebrates Philip Glass’s upcoming 90th birthday with a deeply personal project. It began with a unique exchange: impressed by her recordings, Philip Glass shared with her the scores of his two cello concertos, sparking the idea for this album. Thomas brings fresh attention to these rarely performed works, from the raw, lyrical power of the First Concerto …

Under the leadership of music director Tim Keeler, the Grammy Award-winning ensemble Chanticleer presents an all-Machaut program juxtaposing the fourteenth century composer’s Messe de Notre Dame with his court chansons. The Messe de Nostre Dame reflects the fact that Guillaume de Machaut (c. 1300–77) spent the last four decades of his long life as canon of Reims Cathedral. A seminal …

Fuga Latina, a branch of the Fuga Libera label, is a new series launched by the independent classical music group Outhere Music to celebrate the music, composers, and performers of Latin America. The series’ inaugural album, recorded live at the 2023 Festival PAAX GNP in Mexico’s Mayan Riviera, brings together three concertos under the baton of conductor Alondra de la …

Cavatina Duo (Bosnian guitarist Denis Azabagić and Spanish flutist Eugenia Moliner) presents five new works that draw inspiration from Romani culture and musical traditions written for them by Clarice Assad, Sergio Assad, Matthew Dunne, Stacy Garrop, and Atanas Ourkouzounov. The duo aims to break down inherited negative cultural stereotypes of the Romani people. Azabagić and Moliner believe that the artificial …