Recommended

Ideal performances of great works – and a fitting memorial to Lars Vogt [RMo]

Van Helmont’s Leçons fully deserve to be recorded, and Scherzi Musicali has done a great job of performing them [JV]

Excellent and often exciting performances of partly little-known music [JV]

Anyone wanting to hear the original version of Bruckner’s monumental Eighth Symphony given the best possible advocacy need look no further [RMo]

Two firecracker performers strike a storm of sparks off one another [DMD]

An absolutely outstanding disc containing some of the best of English string music [EJW]

Groundbreaking from the perspective of performance practice [JV]

Brilliant re-masterings of superb, and possibly definitive, recordings [JF]

Recommended for a most enjoyable experience [SG]

Enescu’s finest piano works in superb performances by a newcomer [SB]

Moves the Korean into the elite group of pianists [DMD]

A tremendous performance of an important new work by James MacMillan [JQ]

A superlative transfer of an Aida which should be in every serious opera collection [PSt]

A vivacious, thoroughly enjoyable, smaller-scale “period” account of Mozart’s inspired but incomplete liturgical masterpiece [RMo]

A rewarding version of Beethoven’s only oratorio [SB]

Sometimes monumental, sometimes impish, invariably engaging [MG]

Another chance to discover little known works by a significant but often derided figure of twentieth century British music [GH]

The finest Fifth I know, and an excellent Sixth and Seventh, all given a new lease of life by Pristine as XR Remastered Ambient Stereo [RMo]

A compelling survey of Croatia’s musical past [JV]

The famous Vespers, beautifully sung and more intimate than usual but with no lack of gravitas [RMo]

The life of a young genius tragically ended by a cruel and evil regime [SG]

Yet another superb Bruckner recording from a flawless Tokyo orchestra [RMo]

This is a glorious collection that should be a source for delight for many years to come [GF]

A revelatory album [JQ]