Recommended

Superb Shostakovich coupled with a contemporary concerto that challenges convention [NB]

Quite simply: this disc is a winner [SB]

A beautiful new work from Estonia which will add to the growing reputation of the composer [PCG]

Virtuosity suffused with delicate poetry [DMD]

At the very top of the list for these masterpieces [WH]

A grand, majestic performance catching all the requisite light and shade of Bruckner’s most popular and accessible symphony [RMo]

An extraordinary voyage to the depths of the ocean and of the psyche [DMD]

Deeply committed performances, informed by consummate musicianship [SG]

A recording for the ages, revealed in full splendour in a new re-mastering [JQ]

The Orsini Ensemble rises superbly to all the challenges of this colourful and attractive music [GPJ]

Ekaterina Siurina’s voice is in mint condition, with perfectly controlled vibrato and a glowing delivery [GF]

A valuable collection of Leighton’s choral music, with several first recordings [SB]

An enterprising pairing of two works given thrilling, gripping performances and sound [RMo]

Magical performances, illuminated and musically informed, recorded in superior sound [SG]

A riotously enjoyable disc, the third in the amazing Sarah Willis’s series featuring Mozart Cuban-style [GPJ]

Another recording of great importance and of great beauty from these performers [JV]

Schippers’s great Osaka Die Walküre is one of the great treasures of the Wagner discography [MB]

This fine, imaginative album will entertain and enlighten [JQ]

An unexpected and thrilling pendant to Storgårds’ survey of late Shostakovich [NC]

Two LPs’ worth of Argenta’s legendary performances in classic Decca sound [PSe]

It would be hard to find a more sumptuously played and superbly recorded Wagner disc than this one [MB]

A delightful collection [SB]

The intimate guitar at its best [ZT]

A superb album [JQ]