It’s awards season once again, and this time its the turn of our classical music Recordings of the Year.

After months of deliberation, the Limelight critical panel has whittled down this year’s best new releases into 25 outstanding recordings spread evenly across five categories.

We’ll be announcing which of these 25 discs has won each of the five categories, as well as which has been named as our Recording of the Year, in the December issue of Limelight. Click here to subscribe.

Meanwhile, if you click on each of the recordings below you can read the relevant review.

Orchestral Recording of the Year