Alard’s Bach survey gets into its stride with Weimar period wonders.

Compassion and commitment gives voice to a resurrected violin.

Twenty-fifth anniversary album pays tribute to our feathered friends.

The Tetlaffs deliver cool but searching late Beethoven.

Charming and dazzling tributes to a piano giant of yesteryear.

The land of a thousand dances – adventures in brass with Vrabec.

Brilliant, blazing Beethoven from Hough and Lintu’s finessed Finns.

Big questions answered with Esfahani in modernist harpsichord recital.

A string of gems from an unjustly neglected composer.

The Thomas Adès-Kirill Gerstein partnership goes from strength to strength.

Han Chen delights in surface detail but misses Thomas Adès’ darker depths.

Kaufmann is a vital, virile Otello but perhaps the biggest star is the orchestra under Antonio Pappano.