This week’s pick from the Dynamic label is Mantovana, a short piece by Italian guitarist/composer Francesco Corbetta.

This week’s pick from the Capriccio label is by Ernst Wilhelm Wolf (1735–1792), a leading musical personality in Weimar for nearly 30 years…

This week’s pick from the Ondine label is from the Bassoon Concerto by Finnish composer, journalist and writer Jouni Kaipainen (b. 1956).

This week’s pick from the Musiques Suisses catalogue is from the Second String Quartet by Swiss composer Othmar Schoeck (1886–1957).

This week’s pick from the Oehms Classics label spotlights a piano concerto by Leopold Koželuch, born in Velvary, north-west of Prague in 1747…

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.

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.

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.

This week’s pick from the Oehms Classics label (OC609) has been chosen to complement the joy of the Christmas season…

This week’s pick from the Dynamic label is based on the tale of Pia de’ Tolomei, a hapless noblewoman found in Dante’s Divine Comedy.

This week’s pick from the Naxos label is a string quartet by Juan Crisóstomo de Arriaga.

This week’s pick from the Ondine label spotlights Sibelius’ Fourth Symphony.

This week’s pick from the Capriccio label is the Concerto for Bassoon and Low Strings that Sofia Gubaidulina composed in 1975 for Valeri Popov (b. 1937).

This week’s pick from the Naxos label is of a song by Czech composer Bohuslav Martinů (1890–1959).

This week’s pick from the Ondine catalogue features music by the little-known late-Baroque German composer Johann Melchior Molter.

This week’s pick from the Orfeo label presents music by Argentine composer Alberto Ginastera, who died in 1983.

This week’s pick from the Dynamic label is of music by Italian composer Giovanni Battista Viotti, who was born in 1755.

This week’s pick from the Capriccio label is from a recording of the Flute Concerto by French composer Jacques Ibert (1890–1962).

This week’s pick from the Oehms Classics label presents a performance of the second movement from Mendelssohn’s String Quartet No. 6.

This week’s pick from the Naxos label is taken from Monteverdi’s Fourth Book of Madrigals, published in 1603.

This week’s pick from the Ondine label features a short piano movement by Sergei Prokofiev.

This week’s pick from the Dynamic label is an extract from Richard Strauss’ tragic opera Daphne.

This week’s pick from the Capriccio label is supplied by Italian Baroque composer Antonio Caldara (1670–1736), one of the most famous and glittering personalities of his time.

This week’s pick from the Orfeo label is a movement from Franz Anton Hoffmeister’s Sinfonia concertante No. 1 for two clarinets and orchestra.

This week’s pick from the Naxos label features British composer Michael Tippett’s piano sonatas, specifically the neo-classical First Sonata…

This week’s pick from the Ondine label is a movement from Cantus arcticus by Finnish composer Einojuhani Rautavaara (1928–2016).