Prices in blue include & red exclude Value Added Tax. VAT deducted at checkout if non EU

Please note that orders for pre-release titles will be despatch on, or as soon as possible after the release date. If you order pre-release titles with items that have already been released we will ship the items that are available and the pre-releases when available. We do not charge extra for part shipments.

There is surely no more quintessentially English sound than that of the Choir of King's College, Cambridge, its unaccompanied voices - evocative of immemorial sandstone, of cool cloisters, of evensong in church, chapel and cathedral - serene in the music of Shakespeare's contemporaries Byrd and Gibbons, ethereal in Delius heard of a summer's night across the Backs of the River Cam.

Jirí Bárta, who for a number of years has been considered one of the finest cellists both at home and abroad, has certainly not chosen the three concertos on this CD at random. Bohuslav Martinù’s first concerto, in the definitive 1955 version, is among the works Bárta most cherishes and performs most frequently.

In the 40 years since the 16-year-old Sokolov was awarded first prize at the Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow in 1966, the world has been blessed with what one American critic recently called "a kind of pianism, musicianship and artistry one thought had vanished forever".

L'Amour de loin was described by the New York Times as the Best New Work of the Year in 2000. Kaija Saariaho's first opera follows a 12th-century troubadour's search for love across a constantly changing theatrical landscape.

Amsterdam Sinfonietta has combined a romantic masterpiece of the string orchestra repertoire with two wild compositions from the inter-war period. Dvorák, Haas, and Schulhoff hardly make a conventional mixture, but all three of these composers had their roots in a region which was known for many centuries as 'Bohemia'.