A new release of Rachmaninov’s first piano sonata deserves more than five stars

John Wilson and the Sinfonia of London reinterpret Metamorphosen chillingly as elegy

The otherworldly and the down-to-earth

The British composer — still writing at 87 years of age — is an acquired taste

A Baedeker tour of Europe’s miseries, amidst the outrage in Ukraine

This is singing as mildly polemical conversation, from her to us

One would never imagine Stalinist oppression was raging all around her

Three sonatas by Brahms? The clarinet adaptation, to no surprise, doesn’t work

Orchestras should be ashamed of their aversion to the composer

2021 has yielded more memorable albums than you can count on the fingers of two hands