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Rattle leads the London Symphony Orchestra in Ravel's La valse

Nicky Spence explores Janáček's most personal, obsessive and confessional score

Recording Pavarotti in Otello meant balancing his very specific views with Sir Georg Solti’s often completely opposing ones, recalls producer Michael Haas – but the results were well worth it

Voces8 were recorded in Les Dominicains de Haute Alsace in Guebwiller, France

Melting barriers between classical, jazz and Indian music, Matthew Barley brings a uniquely free spirit to all he does – and his Tavener recording is no exception, writes Charlotte Gardner

This year's Tchaikovsky Competition is in full flight, and Mao Fujita has made it to the piano finals

Following scintillating recordings of La mer and Daphnis et Chloé with his experimental Les Siècles, late last year conductor François-Xavier Roth released an all-Debussy disc featuring seminal works which, as he tells Mark Pullinger, marked a new era in music

Editor Martin Cullingford’s pick of the finest recordings from this month’s reviews

Raised eyebrows initially greeted Naxos’s Ring cycle, but Jaap van Zweden’s Hong Kong forces have proved their mettle, writes Hugo Shirley

Víkingur Ólafsson plays Bach's Prelude and Fugue in E minor BWV 855 in the Yellow Lounge