THE WEEK'S MOST POPULAR CLASSICAL ALBUMS, BASED ON MULTIMETRIC CONSUMPTION, BLENDING TRADITIONAL ALBUM SALES, STREAMING-EQUIVALENT ALBUMS AND TRACK-EQUIVALENT ALBUMS, AS COMPILED BY LUMINATE.

OUSSAMA ZAHR There may have been no harder hitting one-two punch in music this year than Julius ... artfully slipping into rough-tongued immediacy in popular songs as in the Chilean-Swedish ...

Classical music on record continues to thrive ... Oistrakh was the Soviet Union’s greatest violinist (pace Leonid Kogan fans, me among them), on a par with the cellist Mstislav Rostropovich ...

Georgia Mann plays the best in classical music, with discoveries and surprises rubbing shoulders with familiar favourites.

Naysayers be damned. Classical music on record continues to thrive, or so it seems judging from the plethora of boxed sets that have come our way this year. As ever, milestone birthdays were ...