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Kantele music, originating from Finland, is a genre deeply rooted in the tranquil and ethereal tones of the kantele—an ancient stringed instrument that holds a pivotal place in Finnish folklore and culture. The genre encompasses a wide range of musical expressions, from the solo and introspective pieces echoing the serene landscapes of Finland, to the dynamic and rich ensembles that fuse traditional kantele sounds with contemporary musical elements. Artists such as Okra Playground and the Vilma Timonen Quartet push the boundaries of the genre, integrating electronic elements and global musical influences, while traditionalists like Martti Pokela and Arja Kastinen delve into the pure, historic melodies of the kantele, preserving its timeless beauty. Whether through innovative explorations or the conservation of traditional styles, kantele music offers a unique sonic journey that is both meditative and invigorating, deeply connected to the Finnish soul.

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Tisserand: Valse vénézuélienne (Play Along)

Album - 9 Tracks - Released November 11, 2026

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November 11, 2026

Tisserand: Valse vénézuélienne (Play Along)
Traditional
9 tracks
November 6

Morales: Missa Ave Maria, Missa Si bona suscepimus & Magnificat tertii toni
Traditional•
Cristobal de Morales
15 tracks
November 6

The Latin Album
Traditional
12 tracks
November 6

Geschichten und Lieder zum St. Martins-Tag
Traditional
20 tracks
October 31

Thaz Sadayum Entamatramu (From "Divine Duet Sisters")
Traditional•
M. S. Subbulakshmi
1 tracks
October 30

Pages of a Biography
Gidon Kremer•
Arvo Pärt•
Kremerata Baltica•
Georgs Pelēcis
8 tracks
October 30

Were You There When They Crucified My Lord
Traditional•
Libera
1 tracks
October 30

Loru
Okra Playground
1 tracks
October 28

Antiphonarium Nidrosiense — Gregorian chant from Nidaros
Traditional
66 tracks
October 27

Pranavam - OM Chanting
Shankar Mahadevan•
Traditional
1 tracks
October 27

Tari Hari Na Na
Champa Nishad•
Traditional
1 tracks
October 24

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

Layers
Traditional•
Páll Ragnar Pálsson
17 tracks
October 23

Live in Venice
The Tallis Scholars•
Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina•
Peter Phillips•
Arvo Pärt•
Claudio Monteverdi•
Gregorio Allegri•
Komitas•
Antonio Lotti
16 tracks
October 23

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

Mémoires vivantes
Traditional
15 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
October 2

Through the Looking Glass
Traditional
8 tracks
October 2

Ave Maria: Marian Chants for the Liturgical Year
Traditional
12 tracks
October 2

Palestrina: Song of Songs
Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina•
Traditional•
The Sixteen
29 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 24

Sacred Music Jewels
Choir of King's College, Cambridge•
Aaron Copland•
Alexander Goehr•
Antonio Lotti•
Antonio Vivaldi•
Arnold Bax•
Arvo Pärt•
Basil Harwood•
Benjamin Britten•
Charles Ives•
Charles Villiers Stanford•
Christopher Tye•
Claudio Monteverdi•
César Franck•
Domenico Scarlatti•
Edgar Leslie Bainton•
Edward Bairstow•
Edward Elgar•
Felix Mendelssohn•
Francis Poulenc•
Francisco Guerrero•
Franz Schubert•
Franz Xaver Gruber•
Gabriel Fauré•
George Frideric Handel•
Gerald Finzi•
Giovanni Gabrieli•
Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina•
Girolamo Frescobaldi•
Giuseppe Verdi•
Gregorio Allegri•
Gustav Holst•
Hans Leo Hassler•
Hector Berlioz•
Henry Balfour Gardiner•
Henry John Gauntlett•
Henry Purcell•
Henryk Górecki•
Herbert Howells•
Hubert Parry•
Igor Stravinsky
170 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 18

Pärt: Passacaglia
Arvo Pärt•
Gidon Kremer•
Geneva Lewis•
Andrei Pushkarev•
Kremerata Baltica
1 tracks
September 15

The Pianists' Workshop
Georges Pludermacher•
Aaron Copland•
Alexander Borodin•
Alexander Scriabin•
Anton Webern•
Antonín Dvořák•
Aram Khachaturian•
Arnold Schoenberg•
Arvo Pärt•
Bedřich Smetana•
Bohuslav Martinů•
Béla Bartók•
Camille Saint-Saëns•
Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach•
Charles Gounod•
Christian Petzold•
Claude Debussy•
Cécile Chaminade•
César Franck•
Dmitri Shostakovich•
Dmitry Kabalevsky•
Domenico Scarlatti•
Edvard Grieg•
Emmanuel Chabrier•
Enrique Granados•
Erik Satie•
Federico Mompou•
Felix Mendelssohn•
Ferdinand Ries•
Francis Poulenc•
Franz Liszt•
Franz Schubert•
François Couperin•
Frédéric Chopin•
Gabriel Fauré•
George Frideric Handel•
György Kurtág•
Heitor Villa-Lobos•
Henri Dutilleux•
Igor Stravinsky•
Isaac Albéniz•
Jean Sibelius•
Jean-Philippe Rameau•
Johann Sebastian Bach•
Johannes Brahms•
John Ireland•
Joseph Haydn•
Jules Massenet•
Leoš Janáček
188 tracks
September 11

For Arvo (Extended Edition)
Arvo Pärt•
Georgijs Osokins
27 tracks
September 11

Traditional Gaelic Songs In English
Minim•
Traditional
10 tracks
September 11

Palestrina: Song of Songs: No. 28, Guttur tuum sicut vinum optimum
Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina•
Traditional•
The Sixteen
1 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 31

Focus on the Flute - An Essential Classical Stopover
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart•
Albert Roussel•
Alessandro Scarlatti•
Antonio Vivaldi•
Aram Khachaturian•
Arcangelo Corelli•
Arthur Honegger•
Arvo Pärt•
Astor Piazzolla•
Baldassare Galuppi•
Béla Bartók•
Camille Saint-Saëns•
Carl Maria von Weber•
Carl Nielsen•
Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach•
Carl Reinecke•
Christoph Willibald Gluck•
Claude Debussy•
César Franck•
Darius Milhaud•
Dmitri Shostakovich•
Domenico Cimarosa•
Edgard Varèse•
Erik Satie•
Fanny Mendelssohn•
Felix Mendelssohn•
Ferruccio Busoni•
Francesco Barsanti•
Francesco Maria Veracini•
Francis Poulenc•
François Couperin•
Frederick Delius•
Gabriel Fauré•
Gabriel Pierné•
Georg Philipp Telemann•
George Frideric Handel•
Georges Auric•
Giovanni Battista Pergolesi•
Giuseppe Tartini•
Heitor Villa-Lobos•
Henri Dutilleux•
Henry Purcell•
Jacques Ibert•
Jacques Hotteterre•
Jean-Marie Leclair•
Johann Adolf Hasse•
Johann Joachim Quantz
157 tracks
August 28

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

November 11, 2026

Tisserand: Valse vénézuélienne (Play Along)
Traditional
9 tracks
November 6

The Latin Album
Traditional
12 tracks
November 6

Morales: Missa Ave Maria, Missa Si bona suscepimus & Magnificat tertii toni
Traditional•
Cristobal de Morales
15 tracks
November 6

Geschichten und Lieder zum St. Martins-Tag
Traditional
20 tracks
October 30

Pages of a Biography
Gidon Kremer•
Arvo Pärt•
Kremerata Baltica•
Georgs Pelēcis
8 tracks
October 28

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

Live in Venice
The Tallis Scholars•
Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina•
Peter Phillips•
Arvo Pärt•
Claudio Monteverdi•
Gregorio Allegri•
Komitas•
Antonio Lotti
16 tracks
October 23

Layers
Traditional•
Páll Ragnar Pálsson
17 tracks
October 16

Mémoires vivantes
Traditional
15 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 24

Sacred Music Jewels
Choir of King's College, Cambridge•
Aaron Copland•
Alexander Goehr•
Antonio Lotti•
Antonio Vivaldi•
Arnold Bax•
Arvo Pärt•
Basil Harwood•
Benjamin Britten•
Charles Ives•
Charles Villiers Stanford•
Christopher Tye•
Claudio Monteverdi•
César Franck•
Domenico Scarlatti•
Edgar Leslie Bainton•
Edward Bairstow•
Edward Elgar•
Felix Mendelssohn•
Francis Poulenc•
Francisco Guerrero•
Franz Schubert•
Franz Xaver Gruber•
Gabriel Fauré•
George Frideric Handel•
Gerald Finzi•
Giovanni Gabrieli•
Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina•
Girolamo Frescobaldi•
Giuseppe Verdi•
Gregorio Allegri•
Gustav Holst•
Hans Leo Hassler•
Hector Berlioz•
Henry Balfour Gardiner•
Henry John Gauntlett•
Henry Purcell•
Henryk Górecki•
Herbert Howells•
Hubert Parry•
Igor Stravinsky
170 tracks
September 22

La Rosa de los Vientos. Un Mar de Melodías
Traditional
17 tracks
September 15

The Pianists' Workshop
Georges Pludermacher•
Aaron Copland•
Alexander Borodin•
Alexander Scriabin•
Anton Webern•
Antonín Dvořák•
Aram Khachaturian•
Arnold Schoenberg•
Arvo Pärt•
Bedřich Smetana•
Bohuslav Martinů•
Béla Bartók•
Camille Saint-Saëns•
Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach•
Charles Gounod•
Christian Petzold•
Claude Debussy•
Cécile Chaminade•
César Franck•
Dmitri Shostakovich•
Dmitry Kabalevsky•
Domenico Scarlatti•
Edvard Grieg•
Emmanuel Chabrier•
Enrique Granados•
Erik Satie•
Federico Mompou•
Felix Mendelssohn•
Ferdinand Ries•
Francis Poulenc•
Franz Liszt•
Franz Schubert•
François Couperin•
Frédéric Chopin•
Gabriel Fauré•
George Frideric Handel•
György Kurtág•
Heitor Villa-Lobos•
Henri Dutilleux•
Igor Stravinsky•
Isaac Albéniz•
Jean Sibelius•
Jean-Philippe Rameau•
Johann Sebastian Bach•
Johannes Brahms•
John Ireland•
Joseph Haydn•
Jules Massenet•
Leoš Janáček
188 tracks
September 11

Traditional Gaelic Songs In English
Minim•
Traditional
10 tracks
September 11

For Arvo (Extended Edition)
Arvo Pärt•
Georgijs Osokins
27 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

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

October 31, 2026

Thaz Sadayum Entamatramu (From "Divine Duet Sisters")
Traditional•
M. S. Subbulakshmi
1 tracks
October 30

Were You There When They Crucified My Lord
Traditional•
Libera
1 tracks
October 30

Loru
Okra Playground
1 tracks
October 27

Pranavam - OM Chanting
Shankar Mahadevan•
Traditional
1 tracks
October 27

Tari Hari Na Na
Champa Nishad•
Traditional
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 18

Pärt: Passacaglia
Arvo Pärt•
Gidon Kremer•
Geneva Lewis•
Andrei Pushkarev•
Kremerata Baltica
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