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This month we feature outstanding new albums from Le Concert des Nations and Jordi Savall, Michael Collins and Stephen Hough, Marc-André Hamelin, Francesca Aspromonte, Jeanine De Bique and The Hermes Experiment
Our One to Watch from December plays an advance track from her debut album
Gramophone's Editor on the powerful message behind Joyce DiDonato's new environmental album
Joyce Didonato: The mezzo’s mission to help us reconnect with nature - and with ourselves | Schubert’s Winterreise: Benjamin Appl records the powerful song-cycle | Mozart’s Symphony No 40: Which is the best recording of this ever-popular work?
A beginner's guide tracing the extraordinary development of opera from Monteverdi in the 17th century to Saariaho today, via the masterpieces of Handel, Mozart, Wagner, Verdi, Puccini and Britten
The Classical era was dominated by many of the greatest composers in the history of music, including Mozart, Beethoven, Haydn and Schubert
One of the great British film scores reminds us of cinema's place in the composer's career
Barbara Hannigan performs Kurt Weill's 'Youkali' with the Ludwig Orchestra
Do you have a favourite piece and want to explore further? We suggest some musical journeys that venture beyond the most familiar works, with some recommended versions. Geraint Lewis’s point of departure is Chopin’s ‘Funeral March’ Sonata
Manchester Camerata and Jean-Efflam Bavouzet give a wonderful performance of Mozart's Piano Concerto No 9
Thanks to a number of artists championing her work, the pioneering African American composer Florence Price is finally achieving the recognition she deserves, writes Andrew Farach-Colton
Artistic salvation or forced rejoicing? David Gutman investigates Shostakovich’s Fifth Symphony, his ‘make or break’ response to ‘just criticism’ and the varied recordings it has inspired
The new digital concert from David Le Page and the Orchestra of the Swan features music by Pink Floyd's Syd Barrett, Trish Clowes, Purcell, Mozart, Vaughan Williams, Schubert and Bartók, and is free to stream now
All-contemporary programme features music by John Adams, Esa-Pekka Salonen and Thomas Adès
Leon Bosch celebrates the bicentenary of his fellow double bassist
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