Vítězslava Kaprálová was a talent of rare eloquence and self-possession, too good to remain lost in the mists of time.

This COVID-year album by the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic and their departing conductor Vasily Petrenko is demonstrably irresistible.

Elegant, tasteful, stylish, dramatic, this splendid two-act 90-minute film adaptation will prove to be another feather in the cap of co-artistic directors Marshall Pynkoski and Jeanette Lajeunesse Zingg.

Latvia’s answer to Estonia’s Arvo Pärt, Vasks writes long, slow, contemplative works with a strong feeling for lakes, forests and landscape.

Will Liverman, a baritone much seen at the Met, has chosen songs by Black composers of two or three generations, songs that undermine the whiter-than-white settings of bygone years.

Gloriously shaped by Vasily Petrenko and magnificently played by the Oslo Philharmonic, awarding the fifth star for this release was an easy decision.

The Aris play Beethoven with sweeping flair and something close to insouciance on this recent recording.

Mann’s playing is subliminally evocative of a decade when Europe’s finest settled beside the Pacific in a new recording showcasing his life's work.

We expect oracles from composers in ominous times, but it is the interpreters Benjamin Baker and Daniel Lebhardt, who bring out the terrors and anxieties that rumble beneath these works.

The London Symphony Orchestra and its new chief conductor Antonio Pappano let the music say it all on this new recording of Vaughan Williams symphonies.