With Charles Styles stepping in to sing the lead at short notice, the BBCSO’s world premiere of Iain Bell’s Wagnerian cantata had an extra edge

The London Philiharmonic began its 150th tribute with beloved gems before unleashing the composer’s mighty Ninth Symphony – with a trip into Tom Coult’s luscious Pleasure Garden on the way

The Lark Ascending is a Classic FM perennial but there is so much more to the English composer – from elegies to the first world war and symphonies full of dissonant rage to folk songs and fantasias, writes conductor Andrew Manze

An illustrious student-teacher double act is full of rewards; the Castalians illuminate in works spanning Beethoven to Adès; and two operas on BBC TV

A symphony cycle to mark the 150th anniversary of the English composer began with Mark Wigglesworth and the BBC Philharmonic bringing more questions than answers to the Third and the Fifth

The evergreen popularity of Ralph Vaughan Williams’s classical chart topper, which premiered a century ago, masks its profundity

Over the past few months, our Know the Score series introduced 20 great composers. But what of the many we couldn’t write about? Martin Kettle suggests some other names whose music is well worth exploring

The BBC Symphony Orchestra is on eloquent form, while two great tenors treat us to virtuoso arias and duets

Martyn Brabbins and the BBC SO excel in a disc of huge contrasts, while the Choir of the Chapel Royal channel the court of Charles I

Vaughan Williams’s incidental music for an abandoned production of Richard II has been recorded for the first time

Outstanding Bax and Vaughan Williams made this a very special evening – even if Cheryl Frances-Hoad’s Last Man Standing, though excellently sung, failed to convince

John Bridcut’s three composer portraits have been issued on DVD – and make riveting viewing

New releases from the choir of St John’s College, Cambridge and the Nash Ensemble