If you think Scriabin is best taken in small doses, Peter Jablonski's Mazurkas may leave you hungering for more.

In isolation, Viktor Ullmann dug deep and found wit and humour, his music persuasively interpreted in this Berlin Classics recording.

The all-women quintet Papagena have come up with a range of unaccompanied songs, settings and original commissions that often takes the breath away.

Listening carefully to the Lutoslawski symphonies brings rewards that I failed to remember from past live hearings.

Víkingur Ólafsson has taken a pair of French composers two centuries apart and effectively melded their music into one by the simple method of interleaving short pieces across a whole album.

Ferruccio Busoni's often overlooked violin sonatas are performed with evident relish in a fitting homage to Johannes Brahms.

Attractive conversation pieces, lyrical and atmospheric, but nothing too serious or mentally taxing in this recording of three sonatas for violin and piano by Edvard Grieg.

Whatever became of the Great American Symphony? Aspects of America: Pulitzer Edition on the Pentatone label keeps the tradition alive.

Mahler's 8th carries a gigantic size and cost that make performances a rarity and good performances a dream. But even under the masterful baton of Yannick Nézet-Séguin, this isn't the one we were hoping for.

Every work of Grazyna Bacewicz informs us that her life was hard and her freedoms limited. But once the conversation starts, you really don’t want it to end.