Comment:Playing dangerously, violinist Martina Bacova is a striking new Czech talent!

Comment:The Czech Trio dates back to the 1890s. Its members on this CD are - Milan Langer, piano, Dana Vlachova, violin, Miroslav Petras, cello.

Comment:Cutting edge contemporary music from a quartet of Slovakia's leading composers. Opus 1 is a mind-blowing first work for orchestra by Rock musician Andrej Seban. There is superb playing from the Slovak Sinfonietta. Hevhetia's most important release!

Comment:World Premiere recording of Three Fragments from Juliette conducted by Sir Charles Mackerras. Martinu prepared these for French Radio in 1939, but never broadcast and which lay hidden until this performance given in Prague in December 2008.

Comment:Juraj Druzecky (1745-1819) composed these 32 pieces for a trio of bassett horns as a kind of background music. On this recording they are arranged into sets of Partitas. Lotz Trio take their name from Viennese instrument maker Theodor Lotz.

Comment:Norwegian composer Fred Jonny Berg (born 1973) is also active as a film maker, writer and singer. 2L surround you with Fred Jonny Berg's amazing sound world and precise orchestral settings with the Philharmonia conducted by Vladimir Ashkenazy.

Comment:Netania Davrath (1931-1987) was born to sing these songs in a quite unique and magical way that has never been surpassed. This legendary recording sounds like it was made yesterday!

Comment:Essential collection of wonderful music by Bohemian composers, beaufifully played by the Czech Chamber Philharmonic directed from the harpsichord by Vojtech Spurny. Buy all four CDs in this series for £19.99!

Comment:Jonathan Cohen, piano, Paul Clarvis, drums, Shanti Paul Jayasinha, trumpet, Richard Bolton, guitar, cello, Robert Townsend, sax, clarinet and flute, Alec Dankworth, bass, in this major Jazz work by Jonathan Cohen inspired by the poem of T S Eliot.