DONNA VOCE, a series of recordings focused on female composers from the last three centuries, has become Anna Shelest’s ongoing musical project.

El Sistema is the largest social and musical organization in the world, founded in Venezuela 50 years ago. To celebrate the anniversary the Simón Bolívar Symphony Orchestra of Venezuela and their Music & Artistic Director Gustavo Dudamel released a new CD called, “Odyssey,” described as a sonic journey through Latin America.

Guitar arrangements of video game music NEW at NOON this week!

Kharkiv-born composer Sergei Bortkiewicz, lived through the turmoil and horrors of the early 20th century: the First World War, the Russian Revolution, and the Second World War. HIS elegant, dreamy music is—a stark contrast to the chaos that surrounded his life and career.

“This is a story about our family and the sources of our music,” writes pianist/violinist/author Konya Kanneh-Mason.

Yo Yo Ma, Emanuel AX and Leonidas Kavakos Present Beethoven for Three!

As the principal English horn of the Metropolitan Orchestra in New York City, multi-instrumentalist Pedro Diaz stands distinguished as one of the pre-eminent contemporary English horn performers.

With La Kobsa, cellist Matt Haimovitz pays tribute to Ukraine through Thomas de Hartmann’s haunting exile work – embodying the resilience and spirit of a nation at war.

This recording is inspired by Margaret Tung’s decade long project of commissioning horn solos by various composers, highlighting diverse composers, in an effort to bring more new music to the horn repertoire. There are four pieces on this album that she commissioned in addition to two solo pieces that have become a staple in her own solo repertoire. The music is energetic, playful, and hopeful.

Founded in 2010 by students of the Lviv National Music Academy, The Vivere String Quartet is a Ukrainian ensemble that brings to the world the music of contemporary Ukrainian composers as well as masterworks of the classical chamber music tradition and everything in between, telling stories of Ukraine past and present.