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Greater than the “Recording of the Century” [LD]

Abbado’s last curtain call is a final disappointment [LD]

A thoughtful and different presentation of Mozart’s Requiem Mass [LD]

Mäkelä disappoints in French music [LD]

Masterful Beethoven from a great interpreter [LD]

Bernstein at his most wilful and brilliant [LD]

A new disc from a new star in the conducting firmament, featuring new music – and a couple of old warhorses [LD]

Klaus Tennstedt in repertoire he did not record commercially, in variable sound [LD]

A new studio recording of Mahler’s First Symphony that should have been great [LD]

A rare misfire in Decca’s hugely impressive opera back-catalogue [LD]

Possibly the worst Bruckner Seventh I have ever heard [LD]

A disappointing Mahler Fifth from a great Mahler conductor [LD]

A reference recording of Mahler’s First Symphony, and some rare Tennstedt repertoire [LD]

Quite simply the finest Dvořák Seventh Symphony of the modern era [LD]

by Lee Denham

A survey by Lee Denham

Revelatory Boult in Mahler from the archives [LD]

A long awaited cycle that is ultimately disappointing [LD]

Slava’s unjustly overlooked early Tchaikovsky symphony cycle reissued in fine sound [LD]

An interview with Dr Benjamin-Gunnar Cohrs by Lee Denham

An alpha performance of the Te Deum, but an omega one of the symphony [LD]

Haitink’s late trudge through Mahler’s Song of the Night [LD]

A dazzling Turandot that spectacularly misses the point [LD]

Beethoven for the 2020s [LD]