Dancing on a Volcano album review – a glorious technicolour snapshot of pre-war musical Germany

From Hindemith’s jazz-age energy to Schoenberg’s existential angst, and Kurt Weill’s biting satire to Korngold’s neo-Romanticism, this lively recording is a perfect example of the kind of music the Nazis couldn’t abide.

Martinů: The Symphonies 1-6 album review – Hrůša is a persuasive guide to this distinctive and likable cycle

The first appearance of these distinctive works on the Deutsche Grammophon label is a red-letter day

Samson et Dalila review – their two voices combine as if made to measure

As the central couple, SeokJong Baek and Aigul Akhmetshina are dramatically persuasive and expressive in this revival of Richard Jones’s staging that works hard to make Saint-Saëns’ often dramatically inert opera zing

Angel’s Bone review – frenetic and unsettling allegory of human trafficking marks ENO’s Manchester debut

Kip Williams’ in-the-round staging, with the action live-projected onto enormous screens, can be disorientating, but Du Yun’s Pulitzer-winning work is compelling and kaleidoscopic

Shakespeare’s Sisters review: brilliantly unexpected songs and prose give voice to the voiceless

Combining words devised for Shakespeare’s female characters with music from composers old and new this was a Bardic treat with teeth

Darkness Visible: Âme x Lawrence Power review – violist and guests reimagine the concert for the digital age

This ambitious and imaginative concert experience blended live and filmed performance. Not all its experiments felt successful, but at its best this was mesmerising

Helen Charlston: A Poet’s Love album review – original and absorbing

Schumann’s Dichterliebe is at the heart of this disc from the mezzo-soprano and pianist Sholto Kynoch; Heloise Werner’s new work Knight’s Dream is a rich and intriguing companion piece

Arcadi Volodos: Schubert piano sonata D850, Schumann Kinderszenen op15 – playfulness, longing and elegance

The pianist binds Schubert’s D850 with Schumann’s Kinderszenen with playing of warmth and crystalline technique

Aldous Harding: Train on the Island review – even whimsy-resistant listeners will love these lucid, luminous songs

Lyrics about naked owls and eating rocks might be irksome to some – but there’s no denying that the alt-rocker’s fifth album is beguiling, tightly written and richly melodic

Peter Grimes review – beauty and terror in Warner’s topical staging

As the tormented fisherman, Allan Clayton currently has few rivals. He is matched by a superb cast in this gripping revival of Britten’s opera

Galilee String Quartet review – Palestinian ensemble improvise their signature east-west blend

The four siblings start with Webern before ditching traditional instruments for mics, voices, percussion and oud

Tales of Love and Loss review – hauntings, tragicomedy and tweezer-sharp wit in Royal Opera triple bill

The Jette Parker Artists ran the full spectrum from sombre lyricism to frenzied satire via divorce drama in works by Elizabeth Maconchy, Charlotte Bray and Elena Langer

Gabriela Montero review – radiant renderings of postcard Spain with an excursion into the Beatles

The Venezuelan pianist was mercurial and dazzling in this Spanish-themed recital including Chopin, Scarlatti and Albéniz adding improvisational mastery with a Purcellian take on Here Comes the Sun

Papillons review – rich and strange collaboration exemplifies the spirit of Multitudes festival

Works by Kaija Saariaho, Imogen Holst and Chaines were woven into Manchester Collective’s concert that blended music with dance, theatre and multimedia, with cellist Laura van der Heijden at its heart

Morales: L’Homme Armé masses and Magnificat Secundi Toni album review – choral sounds of 16th-century Rome

Aiming to perform Renaissance music as it was originally heard, De Profundis find richness and precision in the Spanish composer’s finely wrought settings