Brahms and Schumann bring out the softer side of Gardiner.

FX Roth and his band blow hot and cold most beautifully.

Lugansky’s quite at home in multifarious music-scapes.

In Isserlis’s hands, muscular Chopin meets starry Schubert.

In Mozart, Barenboim plays the Yin to Yang’s Yang.

David Robertson's Mahler Five suggests just how much the SSO has assimilated Mahler into its DNA.

Watkins and Lortie help Finzi rake eloquently over Romantic embers.

Roth finds charm and freshness galore in his HIP Ravel volume two.

Miguel Harth-Bedoya sheds new light on an old warhorse.

Emotionally gruelling traversal as Bowes scales musical Everest.

Chen’s salon fare is fine, but is Bruch the elephant in the room?

Alexander Gavrylyuk hurls Brahms' furious musical thunderbolt in the second instalment of the SSO's mini festival.