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.

Smart and Uttley find common ground in composers from both sides of the Atlantic for one of the year’s most atmospheric releases.

Ostensibly gentle and relaxing, Giya Kancheli's music conveys an inner tension, an unstated mortal threat.

Love it or hate it, the music of John Luther Adams is inspired by 'the subtle resonances of the northern soundscape’. 

The Oslo Phil play with passion and Petrenko conducts with fervour, tempered by restraint in this recording of Prokofiev and Miaskovsky symphonies.

Alternately hypnotic and uplifting, this recent release spotlights Arvo Pärt's choral work.