Erich Wolfgang Korngold: String quartets 1-3 (Naxos)

The clavichord makes up for a lack of grandeur with extraordinary expressiveness

These four composers deserve to be remembered without exaggeration in service of social revanchism

Greatness does not always declare itself in torrents of Slavic emotion or Germanic intellectualism

Valentin Silvestrov: Silent Songs (DG)

Radical composers are not out to smash the system

Missy Mazzoli: Dark with excessive bright (BIS)

A misguided campaign to decolonise the Univerity of London’s Classics curriculum

Beethoven/Ravel: Concertos (Avanticlassic)

Recalling a thrilling collaboration between the poet and a group of oddball musicians