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Ingenious and energetic improvisation from Elliot Galvin

Vasily Petrenko gives voice to Strauss’s tone poems

A radiant restoration of Lully’s Isis

A showcase of blazing Baroque energy and haunting lyricism

Peter Donohoe brings us Tchaikovsky with poise and passion

Bach revisited: Angela Hewitt’s triumphant return to the Partitas

Trio Khnopff give Weinberg the recognition he deserves

Kit Downes’s latest album brings us jazz – but not as we know it

Claire Booth and Christopher Glynn’s stunning Grieg recital

Emerging countertenor Jakub Józef Orliński wows in Baroque arias

Lucas Blondeel and Le Concert d’Anvers express freedom and originality in Haydn

The best recording of Handel’s Samson yet

Takács Quartet and Hamelin shine in memorable recording

Handel’s Brockes-Passion in a performance to remember

A trilogy of triumph from pianist Francesco Piemontesi