This month features new music from Huw Watkins and Bernadette Harvey, old music by Dowland and Zelenka and blockbusters care of Alkan, Bizet and Lise Davidsen.

Watkins’ sparkling orchestral music celebrates a very special relationship.

Hough plays Hough in his vivid, multi-faceted Piano Concerto.

This month we feature a treasure trove of discoveries, from unknown Lieder and operatic rarities to the birth of the nocturne and another wonderful unearthed female composer.

Opera Rara restores Verdi’s first thoughts to stellar effect.

Meyerbeer’s Anabaptist epic is revealed in its full colours.

Folk-flecked piano trios, Elder’s Elgar, Jurowski’s Stravinsky, and orchestral songs from Magdalena Kožená and Stanford. This month’s releases are strikingly eclectic.

Elder’s passionate reassessment of Delius’ masterpiece demands to be heard.

In a nail-bitingly close contest, an independent label carries off the top prize.

More is more in these tasteful orchestrations of English song favourites.

This month, Roderick Williams gussies up English songs, Ravel and Arnold receive ardent advocacy, and a trio of suppressed Jessye Norman recordings sees the light of day.

A heartfelt, fervently performed Christmas Oratorio for today.