Guardian Music — English Baroque Soloists/ Gardiner; Soloists, RIAS Kammerchor, Akademie für Alte Musik/ Rademann (SDG; Harmonia Mundi)Two members of the extensive Bach clan: the first Johann Sebastian's distant elder relative whose music he venerated, the other his... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — Hans-Joachim Roedelius (Hans-Joachim Rödelius, born October 26, 1934 in Berlin) is a German experimental, ambient and electronic musician. He is best known as a co-founder of the krautrock groups Cluster and Harmonia and his work in the ambient jazz... more info

DrownedInSound — In a nutshell, this record sounds like Can, Neu!, or Harmonia with the acid-freak ranting replaced by a torchsinger (which is a good nutshell to be in). Read the full story on DrownedinSound.com more info

Guardian Music — Hunt Lieberson/Philharmonia Baroque O/McGegan (Philharmonia Baroque)Philharmonia Baroque, San Francisco's resident period-instrument orchestra, launches its own CD label with a disc that pays wonderful tribute to one of the greatest singers of our t... more info

Guardian Music — Milanesi, Solvang, Pasichnyk, Rivera, Oro, Francis, Brutscher, Academia Montis Regalis/ de Marchi (Deutsche Harmonia Mundi)As the Olympics approach, there will be plenty of revivals of Games-related dramas (Garsington promises a Vivaldi opera next ye... more info

Guardian Music — Milanesi/Pasichnyk/Solvang/Rivera/Academia Montis Regalis/De Marchi(Deutsche Harmonia Mundi, 3 CDs)We owe the rediscovery of Pergolesi's 1735 opera about the Olympics not so much to the build-up to next year's games in London, but to the composer's ... more info

Guardian Music — London Symphony Orchestra's label, LSO Live, is an inspiration for other orchestras, but does more autonomy over releases mean too much of a good thing?On 12 April, the London Symphony Orchestra's LSO Live label picked up the Disc of the Year gong a... more info

Guardian Music — Ensemble La Sestina/Giardina(Deutsche Harmonia Mundi)Francisco Guerrero composed 19 masses, but only one of them, the Missa L'Homme Armé, based on the medieval song that provided inspiration to generations of composers from Machaut onwards, was scor... more info

Guardian Music — Versatile musician who was a founder member of the viol consort group FretworkRichard Campbell, who has died unexpectedly aged 55, was a multifaceted musician best known as a founder member of the viol consort Fretwork. From their London debut in 198... more info

Guardian Music — Watts/English Concert/Bicket(Harmonia Mundi)Elizabeth Watts's debut album for Harmonia Mundi is something of a puzzle. Watts is, of course, widely regarded as one of the finest British sopranos to have emerged in the last decade. We think of her, how... more info