Roslavets: Violin Concertos Nos 1 and 2: Alina Ibragimova, BBC Scottish SO cond Ilan Volkov - the Sunday Times review

She and they are equally committed in the Second Concerto, composed in 1936, but unperformed until this very recording

Isobel Campbell & Mark Lanegan: Keep me in mind sweetheart - the Sunday Times review

If you’re not already addicted to Lanegan’s growl and Campbell’s whisper, this is as good a place as any to get acquainted

Schubert: LIeddr: Elizabeth Watts (soprano), Roger Vignoles (piano) - the Sunday Times review

She has chosen songs beloved of all Schubertians, masterpieces all, but she sings them without much sense of differentiation

Funk off: Jazz on - the Sunday Times review

Trying to squeeze the formula into the confines of a disc is a thankless task, but you get the drift

Randy Crawford & Joe Sample:No Regrets - the Sunday Times review

On tour with the Crusaders pianist Joe Sample, she has been digging deeper into the jazz tradition

Ursula Bogner: Recordings 1969-1988 - the Sunday Times review

Early electronic music, usually made by lab-coated BBC Radiophonic Workshop eggheads more interested in oscillator capacity

Haydn and others: Variations: Vanessa Wagner - the Sunday Times review

The post-Schoenbergian idiom of Berio’s Cinque variazioni is more graspable in this formal context

Akon: Freedom - the Sunday Times review

The autotune vocals and 1980s aesthetic start out fresh, but, over 14 similarly produced tracks, soon get boring

Ribbons: Royals - the Sunday Times review

The album is very much part of the alt canon, and its sudden diversions and veering are thus comparatively less unexpected

Playlist: Simply Red

Vic Chesnutt, Elf Power & The Amorphous Strums: Dark Developments - the Sunday Times review

Fuzzed-up guitars squeeze a new muscularity out of Chesnutt’s naturalistic vocals during We Are Mean

Britney Spears: Circus - the Sunday Times review

It may not be as strange or disturbing as last year’s superb Blackout, but it knocks for six recent efforts by rivals

Lassus: Cantiones sacrae sex vocum: Collegium Vocale Gent, cond Philippe Herreweghe - the Sunday Times review

These works were published the year of the composer’s death. Many of his chosen texts refer to old age and its effects

Bellini: La Sonnambula: Cecilia Bartoli, Juan Diego Florez, Orchestra La Scintilla, cond Alessandro de Marchi - the Sunday Times review

Kanye West: 808s & Heartbreak review

An album by a rap superstar that features almost no rapping at all should not work. But 808s & Heartbreak is a triumph

Circus Devils: Ataxia - the Sunday Times review

This album finds Pollard sounding like a peyote-visionary who has wandered into a rehearsal by a 1970s prog-rock band

Bax, Rachmaninov: Tintagel, Symphony No 3 - London Philharmonic, cond Osmo Vanska - the Sunday Times review

Vanska’s account of the Third Symphony — from the same concert — is a marvel of measured, uninflated eloquence

Guns n' Roses: Chinese Democracy - the Sunday Times review

The majority of tracks clock in at the five- or six-minute mark, each of them bloated with guitar solos

Elgar: The Dream of Gerontius - Paul Groves, Alice Coote, Bryn Terfel, Hallé, cond Mark Elder - the Sunday Times review

Elder gives us a Gerontius of Parsifal-like spiritual depth that ranks with the greatest ever committed to disc

Handel: Acis & Galatea - Dunedin Consort & Players, cond John Butt - the Sunday Times review

Butt takes advantage of the most up-to-date scholarship, and his Dunedin Consort comprises three stylish tenors