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Orkney and Shetland folk, deriving from the northernmost reaches of Scotland, are rich traditions imbued with the rugged beauty and cultural crosscurrents of these island communities. Characterized by sprightly fiddle tunes, soulful slow airs, and vivacious dance sets that respond to both the sea's surges and the tranquility of pastoral life, this genre emanates a distinctive blend of Norse and Scottish influences. Reflective of the region's history of insulation and exchange, the music often features collaborative group performances, where reels and jigs echo the community's kinship and oral storytelling. Artists within this genre, such as Aly Bain and Jenna Reid, demonstrate virtuosic fiddle mastery, while groups like Fiddlers' Bid and The Chair introduce contemporary dynamism without straying from the essence of tradition, ensuring the genre's resonance and evolution to new generations.

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Classical Music Masterpieces

London Symphony Orchestra•

Alexander Borodin•

Aram Khachaturian•

Arthur Sullivan•

Camille Saint-Saëns•

Claude Debussy•

Dmitri Shostakovich•

Edvard Grieg•

Edward Elgar•

Felix Mendelssohn•

Frederick Delius•

George Frideric Handel•

George Gershwin•

Gioachino Rossini•

Giuseppe Verdi•

Gustav Holst•

Henri Vieuxtemps•

Igor Stravinsky•

Joaquín Rodrigo•

John Tavener•

Joseph Haydn•

Jules Massenet•

Ludwig van Beethoven•

Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov•

Olivier Messiaen•

Ottorino Respighi•

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky•

Ralph Vaughan Williams•

Richard Rodgers•

Richard Strauss•

Richard Wagner•

Samuel Barber•

Sergei Prokofiev•

Sergei Rachmaninoff•

Album - 87 Tracks - Released October 31, 2026

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October 31, 2026

Classical Music Masterpieces
London Symphony Orchestra•
Alexander Borodin•
Aram Khachaturian•
Arnold Bax•
Arthur Sullivan•
Camille Saint-Saëns•
Claude Debussy•
Cole Porter•
Dmitri Shostakovich•
Edvard Grieg•
Edward Elgar•
Eric Coates•
Felix Mendelssohn•
Frederick Delius•
George Frideric Handel•
George Gershwin•
Gioachino Rossini•
Giuseppe Verdi•
Gustav Holst•
Henri Vieuxtemps•
Igor Stravinsky•
Joaquín Rodrigo•
John Tavener•
Joseph Haydn•
Jules Massenet•
Ludwig van Beethoven•
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov•
Olivier Messiaen•
Ottorino Respighi•
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky•
Ralph Vaughan Williams•
Richard Rodgers•
Richard Strauss•
Richard Wagner•
Samuel Barber•
Sergei Prokofiev•
Sergei Rachmaninoff•
William Walton
87 tracks
October 30

Were You There When They Crucified My Lord
Traditional•
Libera
1 tracks
October 28

Antiphonarium Nidrosiense — Gregorian chant from Nidaros
Traditional
66 tracks
October 24

Anand Sahib Kirtan (Raag Ramkali)
Traditional
1 tracks
October 23

Layers
Traditional•
Páll Ragnar Pálsson
17 tracks
October 23

Coventry Carol (Arr. for Piano by Leah Arbor)
Traditional
1 tracks
October 16

Auld Lang Syne
Traditional
1 tracks
October 16

Mémoires vivantes
Traditional
15 tracks
October 9

Guest: Suo Gân
Traditional•
Huw Williams•
The Choir Of Bath Abbey
1 tracks
October 7

Greensleeves
Traditional
1 tracks
October 2

Through the Looking Glass
Traditional
8 tracks
October 2

Palestrina: Song of Songs
Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina•
Traditional•
The Sixteen
29 tracks
October 2

Ave Maria: Marian Chants for the Liturgical Year
Traditional
12 tracks
September 29

Defend Us In Battle (Chants for Spiritual Warfare)
Traditional
18 tracks
September 28

Molfar's Rhapsody
Traditional
1 tracks
September 25

Palestrina: Song of Songs: No. 6, Pulchrae sunt genae tuae
Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina•
Traditional•
The Sixteen
1 tracks
September 25

Massey: Now Tell Us, Gentle Mary
Traditional•
Huw Williams•
The Choir Of Bath Abbey
1 tracks
September 22

La Rosa de los Vientos. Un Mar de Melodías
Traditional
17 tracks
September 18

Kolo Vivo (Arr. for String Quartet by Eric Mouret & Raphaël Maillet)
Traditional•
Quatuor Zaïde
1 tracks
September 11

Palestrina: Song of Songs: No. 28, Guttur tuum sicut vinum optimum
Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina•
Traditional•
The Sixteen
1 tracks
September 11

Traditional Gaelic Songs In English
Minim•
Traditional
10 tracks
September 10

Late Summer Languidness
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart•
Frédéric Chopin•
Johann Sebastian Bach•
Ludwig van Beethoven•
Claude Debussy•
Aaron Copland•
Adolphe Adam•
Alban Berg•
Albert Roussel•
Alberto Ginastera•
Alessandro Scarlatti•
Alexander Borodin•
Alexander Glazunov•
Alexander Scriabin•
Alexandre Tansman•
Anatoly Lyadov•
André-Ernest-Modeste Grétry•
Anonymous•
Anton Arensky•
Anton Bruckner•
Anton Rubinstein•
Anton Webern•
Antonio Caldara•
Antonio Lotti•
Antonio Salieri•
Antonio Vivaldi•
Antonín Dvořák•
Antônio Carlos Jobim•
Aram Khachaturian•
Arcangelo Corelli•
Arnold Schoenberg•
Arthur Honegger•
Arthur Sullivan•
Arvo Pärt•
Astor Piazzolla•
Bedřich Smetana•
Benjamin Britten•
Bohuslav Martinů•
Béla Bartók•
Camille Saint-Saëns•
Carl Maria von Weber•
Carl Nielsen•
Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach•
Carl Stamitz•
Charles Gounod•
Charles Ives•
Charles Koechlin•
Christoph Willibald Gluck•
Claudio Monteverdi
200 tracks
September 5

Sri Ganesha Ashtottara Shatanamavali
Traditional
1 tracks
September 4

Spirit, Body and Soul: Concert Spirituals for Solo Piano
Traditional
9 tracks
September 4

Monteverdi: Vespers of 1610, SV 206
Claudio Monteverdi•
Traditional•
I Fagiolini
24 tracks
August 28

Monteverdi: Vespers of 1610, SV 206: No. 5, Pulchra es
Claudio Monteverdi•
Traditional•
I Fagiolini•
Julia Doyle
1 tracks
August 25

Sharanu Sharanu
Traditional
1 tracks
August 22

Luigi Boccherini for Gaming
Traditional
9 tracks
August 17

Khachar Bhitor Achin Pakhi - Pakhi Kokhon Jani Mashup
Iman Chakraborty•
Traditional
1 tracks
August 8

The Feline Beat - A Classical Cattitude
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart•
Aaron Copland•
Alan Rawsthorne•
Alberto Ginastera•
Anonymous•
Arthur Sullivan•
Benjamin Britten•
Camille Saint-Saëns•
Carl Loewe•
Claudio Monteverdi•
Domenico Scarlatti•
Erik Satie•
Felix Mendelssohn•
Francis Poulenc•
Franz Lehár•
Gabriel Fauré•
George Frideric Handel•
Georges Bizet•
Gioachino Rossini•
Giuseppe Verdi•
Heinrich Ignaz Franz von Biber•
Henry Mancini•
Igor Stravinsky•
Jerome Kern•
Johannes Ciconia•
Karlheinz Stockhausen•
Louis Ganne•
Maurice Ravel•
Modest Mussorgsky•
Nino Rota•
Philippe Sarde•
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky•
Samuel Barber•
Sergei Prokofiev•
Traditional
38 tracks
August 8

The Feline Beat - A Classical Cattitude
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart•
Aaron Copland•
Alan Rawsthorne•
Alberto Ginastera•
Anonymous•
Arthur Sullivan•
Benjamin Britten•
Camille Saint-Saëns•
Carl Loewe•
Claudio Monteverdi•
Domenico Scarlatti•
Erik Satie•
Felix Mendelssohn•
Francis Poulenc•
Franz Lehár•
Gabriel Fauré•
George Frideric Handel•
Georges Bizet•
Gioachino Rossini•
Giuseppe Verdi•
Heinrich Ignaz Franz von Biber•
Henry Mancini•
Igor Stravinsky•
Jerome Kern•
Johannes Ciconia•
Karlheinz Stockhausen•
Louis Ganne•
Maurice Ravel•
Modest Mussorgsky•
Nino Rota•
Philippe Sarde•
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky•
Samuel Barber•
Sergei Prokofiev•
Traditional
38 tracks
August 7

Monteverdi: Vespers of 1610, SV 206: No. 3, Nigra sum
Claudio Monteverdi•
Traditional•
I Fagiolini
1 tracks
August 1

Summer Solace
Traditional•
Anonymous
41 tracks
August 1

Wildflowers Sleep
Traditional•
Anonymous
53 tracks
August 1

Quiet Blossoms
Traditional•
Anonymous
39 tracks
August 1

Relaxing Blue
Traditional•
Anonymous
45 tracks
August 1

Coastal Calm
Traditional•
Anonymous
40 tracks
July 31

Chiri Chuki Pahu Phuti
Traditional
1 tracks
July 31

Relax Summer Sounds
Traditional•
Anonymous
39 tracks
July 31

Soft Canopy
Traditional•
Anonymous
40 tracks

October 31, 2026

Classical Music Masterpieces
London Symphony Orchestra•
Alexander Borodin•
Aram Khachaturian•
Arnold Bax•
Arthur Sullivan•
Camille Saint-Saëns•
Claude Debussy•
Cole Porter•
Dmitri Shostakovich•
Edvard Grieg•
Edward Elgar•
Eric Coates•
Felix Mendelssohn•
Frederick Delius•
George Frideric Handel•
George Gershwin•
Gioachino Rossini•
Giuseppe Verdi•
Gustav Holst•
Henri Vieuxtemps•
Igor Stravinsky•
Joaquín Rodrigo•
John Tavener•
Joseph Haydn•
Jules Massenet•
Ludwig van Beethoven•
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov•
Olivier Messiaen•
Ottorino Respighi•
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky•
Ralph Vaughan Williams•
Richard Rodgers•
Richard Strauss•
Richard Wagner•
Samuel Barber•
Sergei Prokofiev•
Sergei Rachmaninoff•
William Walton
87 tracks
October 28

Antiphonarium Nidrosiense — Gregorian chant from Nidaros
Traditional
66 tracks
October 23

Layers
Traditional•
Páll Ragnar Pálsson
17 tracks
October 16

Mémoires vivantes
Traditional
15 tracks
October 2

Palestrina: Song of Songs
Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina•
Traditional•
The Sixteen
29 tracks
October 2

Through the Looking Glass
Traditional
8 tracks
October 2

Ave Maria: Marian Chants for the Liturgical Year
Traditional
12 tracks
September 29

Defend Us In Battle (Chants for Spiritual Warfare)
Traditional
18 tracks
September 22

La Rosa de los Vientos. Un Mar de Melodías
Traditional
17 tracks
September 11

Traditional Gaelic Songs In English
Minim•
Traditional
10 tracks
September 10

Late Summer Languidness
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart•
Frédéric Chopin•
Johann Sebastian Bach•
Ludwig van Beethoven•
Claude Debussy•
Aaron Copland•
Adolphe Adam•
Alban Berg•
Albert Roussel•
Alberto Ginastera•
Alessandro Scarlatti•
Alexander Borodin•
Alexander Glazunov•
Alexander Scriabin•
Alexandre Tansman•
Anatoly Lyadov•
André-Ernest-Modeste Grétry•
Anonymous•
Anton Arensky•
Anton Bruckner•
Anton Rubinstein•
Anton Webern•
Antonio Caldara•
Antonio Lotti•
Antonio Salieri•
Antonio Vivaldi•
Antonín Dvořák•
Antônio Carlos Jobim•
Aram Khachaturian•
Arcangelo Corelli•
Arnold Schoenberg•
Arthur Honegger•
Arthur Sullivan•
Arvo Pärt•
Astor Piazzolla•
Bedřich Smetana•
Benjamin Britten•
Bohuslav Martinů•
Béla Bartók•
Camille Saint-Saëns•
Carl Maria von Weber•
Carl Nielsen•
Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach•
Carl Stamitz•
Charles Gounod•
Charles Ives•
Charles Koechlin•
Christoph Willibald Gluck•
Claudio Monteverdi
200 tracks
September 4

Monteverdi: Vespers of 1610, SV 206
Claudio Monteverdi•
Traditional•
I Fagiolini
24 tracks
September 4

Spirit, Body and Soul: Concert Spirituals for Solo Piano
Traditional
9 tracks
August 22

Luigi Boccherini for Gaming
Traditional
9 tracks
August 8

The Feline Beat - A Classical Cattitude
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart•
Aaron Copland•
Alan Rawsthorne•
Alberto Ginastera•
Anonymous•
Arthur Sullivan•
Benjamin Britten•
Camille Saint-Saëns•
Carl Loewe•
Claudio Monteverdi•
Domenico Scarlatti•
Erik Satie•
Felix Mendelssohn•
Francis Poulenc•
Franz Lehár•
Gabriel Fauré•
George Frideric Handel•
Georges Bizet•
Gioachino Rossini•
Giuseppe Verdi•
Heinrich Ignaz Franz von Biber•
Henry Mancini•
Igor Stravinsky•
Jerome Kern•
Johannes Ciconia•
Karlheinz Stockhausen•
Louis Ganne•
Maurice Ravel•
Modest Mussorgsky•
Nino Rota•
Philippe Sarde•
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky•
Samuel Barber•
Sergei Prokofiev•
Traditional
38 tracks
August 8

The Feline Beat - A Classical Cattitude
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart•
Aaron Copland•
Alan Rawsthorne•
Alberto Ginastera•
Anonymous•
Arthur Sullivan•
Benjamin Britten•
Camille Saint-Saëns•
Carl Loewe•
Claudio Monteverdi•
Domenico Scarlatti•
Erik Satie•
Felix Mendelssohn•
Francis Poulenc•
Franz Lehár•
Gabriel Fauré•
George Frideric Handel•
Georges Bizet•
Gioachino Rossini•
Giuseppe Verdi•
Heinrich Ignaz Franz von Biber•
Henry Mancini•
Igor Stravinsky•
Jerome Kern•
Johannes Ciconia•
Karlheinz Stockhausen•
Louis Ganne•
Maurice Ravel•
Modest Mussorgsky•
Nino Rota•
Philippe Sarde•
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky•
Samuel Barber•
Sergei Prokofiev•
Traditional
38 tracks
August 1

Wildflowers Sleep
Traditional•
Anonymous
53 tracks
August 1

Coastal Calm
Traditional•
Anonymous
40 tracks
August 1

Quiet Blossoms
Traditional•
Anonymous
39 tracks
August 1

Relaxing Blue
Traditional•
Anonymous
45 tracks

October 30, 2026

Were You There When They Crucified My Lord
Traditional•
Libera
1 tracks
October 24

Anand Sahib Kirtan (Raag Ramkali)
Traditional
1 tracks
October 23

Coventry Carol (Arr. for Piano by Leah Arbor)
Traditional
1 tracks
October 16

Auld Lang Syne
Traditional
1 tracks
October 9

Guest: Suo Gân
Traditional•
Huw Williams•
The Choir Of Bath Abbey
1 tracks
October 7

Greensleeves
Traditional
1 tracks
September 28

Molfar's Rhapsody
Traditional
1 tracks
September 25

Palestrina: Song of Songs: No. 6, Pulchrae sunt genae tuae
Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina•
Traditional•
The Sixteen
1 tracks
September 25

Massey: Now Tell Us, Gentle Mary
Traditional•
Huw Williams•
The Choir Of Bath Abbey
1 tracks
September 18

Kolo Vivo (Arr. for String Quartet by Eric Mouret & Raphaël Maillet)
Traditional•
Quatuor Zaïde
1 tracks
September 11

Palestrina: Song of Songs: No. 28, Guttur tuum sicut vinum optimum
Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina•
Traditional•
The Sixteen
1 tracks
September 5

Sri Ganesha Ashtottara Shatanamavali
Traditional
1 tracks
August 28

Monteverdi: Vespers of 1610, SV 206: No. 5, Pulchra es
Claudio Monteverdi•
Traditional•
I Fagiolini•
Julia Doyle
1 tracks
August 25

Sharanu Sharanu
Traditional
1 tracks
August 17

Khachar Bhitor Achin Pakhi - Pakhi Kokhon Jani Mashup
Iman Chakraborty•
Traditional
1 tracks
August 7

Monteverdi: Vespers of 1610, SV 206: No. 3, Nigra sum
Claudio Monteverdi•
Traditional•
I Fagiolini
1 tracks
July 31

Chiri Chuki Pahu Phuti
Traditional
1 tracks
July 25

Main Mor Hoon
Traditional
1 tracks
July 24

Monteverdi: Vespers of 1610, SV 206: No. 1, Deus in adiutorium meum intende
Claudio Monteverdi•
Traditional•
I Fagiolini
1 tracks
July 18

Raga Yaman Kalyan
Traditional•
Ravi Shankar
1 tracks