When Dmitri Hvorostovsky died last November 22 (on St Cecilia’s Day, please note), the whole musical world came out in mourning for a career cut short and a figure who was genuinely loved by fans and fellow professionals alike. The Russian singer came of age at the tail end of the recorded opera boom years, so although he’s been reasonably well preserved on DVD, it was left up to the enterprising Delos label to capture his silky, dark-toned baritone in a series of recital discs stretching back to 2002.

There you’ll find Tchaikovsky, Rachmaninov and rarer Russian fare, but also a disc of operatic heroes and villains, a pair of Verdi aria collections and a fine Simon Boccanegra from...