The climaxes are sensational, some of the strongest music Penderecki ever created; we may never see its like again

The BBC’s new recruitment campaign for the Proms shows a clear disregard for its classical origins

Stanchinsky occupies a tonal territory midway between Rachmaninov and Scriabin; an amalgam of suppurating misery and crackpot visionary

Gulda’s Symphony in G has 35 minutes of invention, which is more than can be said for most late-twentieth century symphonies

A confidential matter: the letters of Richard Strauss and Stefan Zweig, 1931-1935

Alexander Tchaikovsky’s Quarantine Symphony triggers a subtle, wordless response to the things we are experiencing

If you want to know what a piano can do, you really need to settle down with this absorbing world of sound

Roger Scruton’s appreciation of Richard Wagner will remain an important and inexhaustible part of his legacy

The outstanding Offenburg String Trio play a gripping compilation of some of the most richly coloured and painfully consequential music you are ever likely to hear

Elgar works best when a conductor appears to do least