Bleak, bombastic, effective and evocative — Alexander Tchaikovsky's Quarantine Symphony attempts to describe our present situation.

Fiendishly difficult to play and irresistibly easy on the ear, British pianist Danny Driver captures Ligeti's mood swings in this new recording.

The outstanding Offenburgers play a gripping compilation of some of the most richly coloured and painfully consequential music you are ever likely to hear.

French violinist Renaud Capuçon is a revelation in this new recording of Elgar.

There is much within Anna Clyne's 'Mythologies' to give instant pleasure or, at the very least, a validation of the continuing relevance of classical form in the third decade of the 21st century.

The LSO Live release gives us what we most crave right now — an experience, or at least a simulacrum — of live orchestral music in all its colours and frailties.

The Bavarian Radio Chorus offers an unexpected, untaxing and altogether enjoyable collection of Elgar choral works.

Clarinettist Maximiliano Martín joined here by the symphony orchestra of his native Tenerife in three works that truly cover the gamut of human emotion.

The beauty of this compilation by the French pianist Bertrand Chamayou is that it leads the ear down unexpected paths.

At its world premiere, a critic called the music ‘benedictory and consoling’, a phrase that echoed in my mind as I listened to Ralph Vaughan Williams 5th symphony's latest recording in a state of COVID siege.