• Portrait of the artist: Thomas Allen, baritone

  
  9 Jan 2012: 'Opera can be a difficult thing to understand: shouting, albeit in a musical way, is an odd way to express oneself'

• Saint-Saëns, Franck, Ravel: French Impressions – review

  8 Jan 2012: Even the liner notes of this fine French record by Joshua Bell and Jeremy Denk impress Fiona Maddocks

• Lutoslawski: Orchestral Works 2 – review

  8 Jan 2012: His teacher didn't rate him, but the BBCSO and Edward Gardner do Lutoslawski full justice here, writes Fiona Maddocks

• Alison Balsom: 'You can't hide behind a trumpet'

  
  8 Jan 2012: Award-winning classical trumpeter Alison Balsom talks to Kate Kellaway about the Proms, motherhood – and blowing into her hometown to a hero's welcome

• Andreas Scholl: Bach Cantatas – review

  8 Jan 2012: Andreas Scholl's deep love of Bach informs this spellbinding set of cantatas, writes Fiona Maddocks

• Telemann: Opera Arias – review

  
  5 Jan 2012: Prolific though he was, writing 50 operas during his lifetime, this disc of Telemann's arias highlights his melodic shortcomings, writes Tim Ashley

• Saint-Saëns: Music for the Prix de Rome – review

  
  5 Jan 2012: Hervé Niquet has unearthed Saint-Saëns's 1852 and 1864 entries for the prestigious prize – his Ivanhoé cantata is a gung-ho treat, writes Tim Ashley

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