Hope-filled Schubert Lieder offer unalloyed pleasure.

Judicious potpourri paints arresting portrait of extraordinary composer.

A richly rewarding program of Chinese orchestral music by a modern master.

Russia’s underrated quartet cycle gets off to a flying start.

Dallas plants its flag with this new live recording of the Ring.

Aussie composer shows himself to be a master of spin.

The de Hartmann renaissance continues apace with a fine 20th-century opera.

Nelsons and his forces shine light into every corner in a Mendelssohn mega-release.

Immaculate quintet go on a journey from Hildegard to Kate Bush.

The pianists, mostly British, performed these unfamiliar, challenging works with extraordinary discipline and flair.

Bychkov and his Prague forces prioritise history over histrionics.

Each piece in cellist-composer Hilary Kleinig's colourful solo debut is a star in its own right.