Recommended

Suffused with serenity and poetry; look elsewhere for keyboard fireworks [DJB]

A very warm welcome to these complete digital recordings of Arnold’s finest ballet scores [PRJ]

An essential album of Anna Clyne’s orchestral music [DHa]

An exceptionally fine disc [JQ}

An elegant, sophisticated mélange of mélodies, beautifully sung and played, incorporating some pleasing surprises and novelties [RMo]

A great show, vividly brought to life in this superb recording [JQ]

Admirers of Herbert Howells’ music should consider this a mandatory purchase [JQ]

A truly remarkable film about a remarkable artist [PRJ]

This recording of Mozart’s Idomeneo ticks all the boxes [MC]

Music from the Peterhouse partbooks [SB]

Sophisticated, emotional, beautifully crafted and a delight from first to last [DJB]

A thoroughly invigorating, newly conceived approach to this greatest of symphonies [RMo]

An outstanding disc [JQ]

Marvellous and treasurable, the finest song disc to have come my way in some considerable time [ST]

Superb performances of orchestral and choral music by Schoenberg [DHa]

Flamboyant and elegant 19th century rarities played to their fullest by this dazzling young pianist [RCh]

A new Idomeneo and another excellent release from Rattle and the Bavarians [PH]

A dizzying array of piano treasures in effortlessly marvellous performances [RCh]

A dazzling recital performed by The Gesualdo Six combined with the resplendent trumpet playing of Matilda Lloyd [DHa]

This will be one of my recordings of the year [JV]

Field’s exquisite nocturnes in wonderfully personal performances [RCh]

The buffa side of Italian Opera in the heyday of Vienna’s pre-eminence [PH]

A beautiful programme, exquisitely performed, with Chen Reiss in top form [GF]

An epoch-making historic performance has never sounded so good [NB]