Sex, Death and Minuets

David Yearsley

Music behind the Iron Curtain: Weinberg and his Polish Contemporaries

by Daniel Elphick

A Scots Song: A life of Music

James MacMillan

How Shostakovich Changed My Mind

Stephen Johnson

Passionate Spirit: The Life of Alma Mahler

Cate Haste

Michael Tippett: The Biography

Oliver Soden

Schoenberg and the Americans
Schoenberg’s Correspondence with American Composers

Sabine Feisst

The Rite of Spring: The Music of Modernity

By Gillian Moore

BERLIOZ ODYSSEY: The Complete Sir Colin Davis Recordings on LSO Live.
Symphonie fantastique, Roméo et Juliette, La damnation de Faust, Les Troyens, Béatrice et Bénédict, Harold en Italie, Grande Messe des morts, Te Deum, Benvenuto Cellini, L’enfance du Christ and Overture, Les francs-juges.

Soloists; London Symphony Chorus & Orchestra/ Sir Colin Davis

The Romantic Horn Works by Beethoven, F and R Strauss, Schumann, Glazunov, Scriabin, Dukas, Poulenc, Vinter.

Richard Watkins (horn); Julius Drake (piano)

J-L Duport Cello Concertos Nos 1, 5 & 5.

Stradivaria/ Daniel Cuiller (violin/director)

Tchaikovsky Symphony No. 4 Mussorgsky/Ravel Pictures at an Exhibition.

LSO/Gianandrea Noseda

Mendelssohn Violin Concerto in E minor, Op 64 Britten Violin Concerto, Op. 15 Tchaikovsky Sérénade mélancolique, Op 26.

Sebastian Bohren (violin); Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra/Andrew Litton

Rands Danza Petrificada. Cello Concerto. Chains like the Sea.

Johannes Moser (cello); BBC Philharmonic/Clark Rundell

Beethoven Symphony No 9 in D minor, Op 125, Choral.

Rie Miyako (soprano); Mihoko Fujimura (mezzo); Kei Fukui (tenor); Markus Eiche (baritone); Tokyo Opera Singers; Mito Chamber Orchestra/Seiji Ozawa

Liszt Années de pélèrinage Book 1: ‘Suisse’, Beethoven Piano Sonata No 32 in C minor Op 111

Till Fellner (pf)

Beethoven Piano Concerto No. 1. Symphony No. 5. Fugue in C

Cédric Tiberghien (piano); Orchestre National d’Īle de France/Enrique Mazzola

Ravel Daphnis et Chloé (Suites). La Valse. Le Tombeau de Couperin

Munich Philharmonic Chorus & Orchestra/Sergiu Celibidache

R. Strauss Violin Concerto. Romanze. Four Songs. ‘Aber der Richtige’ from Arabella and Little Scherzino (both arr. violin Peter von Wienhardt).

Arabella Steinbacher (violin); WDR Symphony Orchestra/Lawrence Foster

Mahler Symphony 5.

Swedish Radio SO/Daniel Harding

Schubert Symphonies Nos. 1 & 6.

B’Rock Orchestra/René Jacobs

Copland Orchestral Works, Volume 4, including Symphony No. 3

BBC Philharmonic/John Wilson

Tchaikovsky Swan Lake (1877 version)

Orchestra of Russia ‘Evgeny Svetlanov ‘/Vladimir Jurowski

Mozart Così Fan Tutte

European Opera Centre & Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, Laurent Pillot

Fryderyk Chopin: A Life and Times

By Alan Walker

Haydn Piano Sonatas, Volume 1

Roman Rabinovich (pf)

Tchaikovsky Symphonies Nos 2 & 3

London Philharmonic Orchestra/Vladimir Jurowski

Parry Symphony No 4 in E minor; Proserpine; Suite moderne

BBC NOW/Rumon Gamba

Bernstein Symphony No 2, ‘Age of Anxiety’

Krystian Zimerman (pf); Berliner Philharmoniker/Sir Simon Rattle

Bernstein Three Symphonies; Prelude, Fugue and Riffs

Orchestra dell’Accademia Nationale di Santa Cecilia/Antonio Pappano

Panufnik Hommage à Chopin; String Quartets Nos 1-3

Dóra Ombódi (fl), Sławomir Rozlach (db); Apollon Musagète String Quartet

Cutler Elsewhereness; McNulty; For Frederic Legnau; Akhmatova Fragments; Sikorski B; Karembeu’s Guide to the Complete Defensive Midfielder

Various artists including Sarah Leonard (sop)