Isabelle Faust – our Artist of the Year – brings supple poise to the Violin Concerto Ligeti notoriously asked the impossible ...

Watkins is assuredly a modern master and this is an album to relish,’ writes Geraint Lewis in his original review of this ...

Johann Ludwig Bach, Kapellmeister of the court at Meiningen, was an older contemporary of his distant cousin Johann Sebastian ...

These recordings could be – and at least deserve to be – a ‘game-changer’ (as David Gutman puts it in his review) so far as ...

Such is the physical and artistic heft of this, ‘The Complete Works’: Jean Rondeau (and 18 friends) transport us to ...

As this venerable pianist, who first graced our pages in 1977, prepares to leave the public stage, we acknowledge her grace and artistry, and her peerless ...

Royce’ Dido and Aeneas (with Joyce DiDonato) and an Idomeneo (Sir Simon Rattle) of unrivalled vocal prowess (just to pick a couple of nominations) were pipped by a relatively obscure newish work ( ...

Has any label retrospectively justified our decision to name it Label of the of Year quite so spectacularly as Erato has? The ...

As in the path-breaking recordings of Julianne Baird, Hallenberg contours phrases as all of a piece, integrating low and high notes in the eventful arias from Il trionfo di Clelia which begin and end ...