Recommended

Today’s pre-eminent Bruckner conductor conducts the essential Bruckner orchestra in superb live accounts of two of the more elusive symphonies [RWe]

More magical subtleties from Ang [DMD]

A historic recording by a great Armenian string quartet recommended to all chamber music lovers [GT]

The Cleveland Orchestra stakes a claim to be currently the best in the world [DMD]

An immensely satisfying exploration of dream, darkness and light [JF]

Quite exceptional performances of rarely heard pre-Bach Baroque solo violin works [PB]

A comprehensive survey stunningly played and beautifully recorded [NB]

Aristocratic, authoritative and poetic performances [SG]

Music and performance can be recommended without reservation [JQ]

Maltempo captures the romantic sweep of the music and its nuances wonderfully well [JF]

This disc goes straight to my list of recordings of the year [JV]

Bravo, bravo, and thrice bravo; Kirill Petrenko’s Shostakovich sweeps the board [DM]

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]