The flamboyant American organist Cameron Carpenter, more used to playing in a singlet than a surplice, either makes you feel young and with-it or old and totally out of it.

How New York is this album? About one star’s worth, says Norman Lebrecht.

Norman Lebrecht breaks an iron rule.

"Strange as it may seem, the Berlin musicians and chorus singers feel this most English of works in their fingers and bones."

As a Lied interpreter, on the concert stage and, increasingly, on the operatic stage as well, the baritone Christian Gerhaher is currently setting new artistic standards.

Great recordings are easy to review. Likewise bad ones. About 99.5 percent of all releases fall somewhere in between. This is one of them.

Newly remastered 20-CD Box of Bach recordings marks the 90th birthday of the great Czech harpsichordist Zuzana Ruzickova.

★★★★ (out of five) Unless you live in England — and, in most of the country, even if you do — you will have few opportunities to hear live performances of the music of Ralph Vaughan Williams, the dominant national composer between Elgar and Britten.

"This recording stands with the greats" — Daniil Trifonov interprets Rachmaninov at his most morose with of Concertos 2 & 4 from Deutsche Grammophon.

Eric Lu is a pianist of great promise, but a post-win rush album with a run-of-the-mill Chopin and a Beethoven silver lining shows a pianist with some distance to go.