Ten minutes of Villa-Lobos and you’re ready for carnival

This collection of British music is what they should be playing over the speakers at Heathrow Airport

This fabulous interpretation of the Beethoven concerto is one of the records of the year

The performances recorded here by the University of Michigan Symphony Orchestra speak directly to some of our present confusions

This album by the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic and their departing conductor Vasily Petrenko is demonstrably irresistible

Vasks writes long, slow, contemplative works with a strong feeling for lakes, forests and landscape

There is a wealth of diverse talent out there — all we have to do is listen

‘There is beauty and darkness and fear, to be sure, but I hear no agenda beyond a search for musical expression’

The Frankfurt-based Aris Quartet play Beethoven with sweeping flair and something close to insouciance

The fruits of Michael Mann’s musical career is neither one thing nor another; trapped between Weimar modernism and American consumerism