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There was much to celebrate at the Scottish Awards for New Music 2018, as a number of Delphian artists scooped awards across a variety of categories. Delphian’s 2017 release with The Hebrides Ensemble, The Last Island: Chamber Music by Peter Maxwell Davies was winner of theEVM Award for New Music Recording of the ...

Music Web International – the largest non-commercial classical music resource on the web – has named Delphian release María de Buenos Aires (DCD34186) as Album of the Month, with a superb write-up by Richard Hanlon. It’s not the first accolade to be enjoyed by the release, which features Valentina Montoya Martínez,...

It may come as a surprise to many that Brahms’s German Requiem, which for well over a century has been one of the most popular pieces in the Romantic choral repertoire, first became known in the UK in an English translation. What’s more, Brahms himself created an alternative version of the original score, swapping t...

In 2016, Hebrides Ensemble were met with a torrent of praise for their debut release on Delphian — the premiere recording of James MacMillan‘s setting of the Resurrection story, Since it was the day of preparation…. Now, they turn their attention to another of their close Scottish contemporaries, the late Sir Peter ...

It’s fair to say that the public has fallen in love with the music of Giovanni Stefano Carbonelli. Long neglected, thanks to Bojan Cicic and The Illyria Consort this extraordinary figure – composer, violinist and sometime vintner – is now well-known to many, as the tens of thousands of streams his Sonate da camera ...

Already described as ‘umissable’ (Herald), the debut solo release from Sean Shibe, Dreams & Fancies: English music for solo guitar, entered the Specialist Classical Chart this week at No. 3. This comes off the back of a FIVE STAR review in this month’s Classical Music magazine, and glowing reviews from both The ...