Andrew Stewart pays an aural visit to late-Renaissance Italy, as he takes his pick of the best recordings of a spectacular sacred masterpiece, Vespers of 1610
Edinburgh-based orchestra of fine baroque understanding gave Heinrich Schütz’s 1660 retelling of the nativity a sense of restraint, balanced by personality
50 of the finest Mozart recordings in history, featuring Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Martha Argerich and Claudio Abbado, plus extracts from the original Gramophone reviews