Bruch's Violin Concerto No 1 – a quick guide to the best recordings

• Monday, May 24, 2021

A quick overview of the essential recordings of Bruch's evergreen concerto

Forgotten Romantic violin concertos

• Monday, May 24, 2021

When it comes to violin concertos, concert programme content is pretty predictable. Jeremy Nicholas throws down the gauntlet to those responsible with a selection of lesser-known works showcased on disc

Barber's Adagio for Strings – a quick guide to the best recordings

• Monday, May 24, 2021

A quick overview of the finest interpretations of Barber's emotional masterpiece on record

Schubert's Winterreise: a quick guide to essential recordings

• Monday, May 24, 2021

Three highly recommended recordings: a modern choice, a classic and a hidden gem

Top 15 Liszt recordings

• Sunday, May 23, 2021

A beginner's guide to the music of one of the great composer-pianists

Holst's The Planets – a quick guide to the best recordings

• Sunday, May 23, 2021

A quick guide to a few of the finest accounts on record of Holst's hugely influential musical journey across the galaxy

250 greatest recordings of all time: chosen by 35 of the world's leading musicians

• Sunday, May 23, 2021

A guide to the best recordings of Beethoven's Symphony No 3, 'Eroica'

• Sunday, May 23, 2021

The ‘tremendous’ Third Symphony is both great music and a force beyond music. How, asks Richard Osborne, have conductors met this challenge during the work’s 90-year-long recorded history?

Top 10 Wagner recordings

• Sunday, May 23, 2021

While no list of great Wagner recordings could ever be considered 'definitive', our selection gathers a group of interpretations that we feel should earn a special place in any opera-lover's collection

Top 15 Dvořák recordings

• Sunday, May 23, 2021

Dvořák's music has inspired the advocacy of some of the finest musicians, from Rostropovich and Karajan to Kožená and Rattle. Here are 15 of the best Dvořák recordings...

Dvořák's Symphony No 9, 'From the New World': A quick guide to the best recordings

• Sunday, May 23, 2021

A quick overview of the most outstanding recordings of Dvořák's final, and most popular, symphony

Music for Self-Isolation: a documentary

• Friday, May 21, 2021

Artists share their experiences, hopes and fears of life during the pandemic in this moving and thought-provoking film

This Week's Essential New Classical Albums

• Friday, May 21, 2021

Featuring Mozart's violin sonatas, Prokofiev's Symphony No 6, Bacewicz's piano music, Roxanna Panufnik's Heartfelt, and Francisco Coll's orchestral works

The Listening Room (18/5/21)

• Tuesday, May 18, 2021

Richard Strauss from Bertrand Chamayou and Antonio Pappano, Julian Bliss and James Baillieu play Brahms, Weber from Anna Prohaska and Matthias Kirschnereit and Florence Price from Randall Goosby. Plus pre-release tracks from Yo-Yo Ma and Emanuel Ax, Daniel Barenboim and Kate Lindsey.

Watch: St John’s College, Cambridge sing Sydney Watson's Magnificat

• Friday, May 14, 2021

The work features on their new Editor's Choice album 'Magnificat 2'