This week’s pick from the Naxos label is an orchestral miniature by Elgar, music that represents a less familiar side to his work but nonetheless imparts engaging, wistful charm and immediate melodic appeal.

This week’s pick from the Orfeo label is from a recording of Shostakovich’s First Violin Concerto.

This week’s pick from the Dynamic label presents the finale from Beethoven’s String Quintet, Op. 4, published in 1796.

The Jury of the 2026 International Classical Music Awards (ICMA) recently announced their roster of winners.

This week’s pick from the Ondine label is Tangonator, a piece for violin and piano composed by Finnish jazz pianist Iiro Rantala (b. 1970).

This week’s pick from the Capriccio label is lo godo, rido e spero, an aria from Handel’s solo cantata, Un’alma innamorata.

In this episode, Jens & Joe tackle Franz Schreker, the missing link between Schoenberg and Zemlinsky – and a composer of wildly Freudian fairy-tale operas that were all the rage between the wars.

This week’s pick from the Oehms Classics label is Robert Schumann’s dramatic, declamatory setting of a poem by Heinrich Heine, Belsazar (Belshazzar).

This week’s pick from the Naxos label is a performance of Jennifer Higdon’s Piano Trio, specifically the second of its two movements, Fiery Red.