Beethoven: Piano Concertos and Choral Fantasy review – reissued reminder of a peerless pianist

This recording of Serkin from 1977 highlights a 20th-century great who brought musical purpose and intellectual rigour to every detail

Fidelio review – musically excellent but panopticon staging is overloaded

Frederic Wake-Walker’s production for Glyndebourne on Tour adds video and even a new character to Beethoven’s opera

Beethoven: The Piano Concertos review – few pianists convey the sense of wholeness more satisfyingly

Rattle conducts Zimerman and a socially distanced London Symphony Orchestra in recordings of clarity and beauty

Classical home listening: Hope Amid Tears; Taliesin’s Songbook

Yo-Yo Ma and Emanuel Ax give us tender Beethoven cello sonatas to treasure, and Ty Cerdd brings together Welsh songs old and new

Lise Davidsen: Beethoven, Wagner, Verdi review – exciting opera star burnishes her star quality

Davidsen’s supple soprano is bright and full, especially in Beethoven’s Leonore, and her attention to detail is thrilling

The week in classical: Classical Vauxhall; L’Heure Espagnole – review

Fresh performances of Shostakovich and Beethoven open Classical Vauxhall’s mini-festival, while GPO turns its hand to Ravel’s clock-shop comedy

Beethoven: The Piano Trios review – Barenboim revisits past glories

Fifty years after his classic recordings with Jacqueline du Pre, Barenboim joins with his violinist son and cellist Kian Soltani to bring nuance and thoughtfulness to these seven piano trios

A Bag of Bagatelles: Piano Works by Birtwistle and Beethoven review – authority and clarity

Hodges’s cool virtuosity emphasises the links between two composers of muscular intricacy and resonance

Vanitas: Lieder by Schubert, Beethoven and Rihm review – songs in the key of life

Nigl’s controlled, supple voice is aided by Pashchenko’s fierce accompaniment in a thoughtful selection

Chineke! Orchestra review – broadening horizons

A spirited revival for the work of an African American composer of the 30s; and a turbulent Avril Coleridge-Taylor

Aurora Orch/Collon review – Ayres and Beethoven pairing is vivid and lithe

Richard Ayres’s complex Beethoven tribute had real emotional power, while the latter’s Seventh symphony – performed from memory – was a joyous celebration of energy

Ibragimova/Bezuidenhout review – music-making held in almost miraculous balance

Perfectly paired, violinist Alina Ibragimova and pianist Kristian Bezuidenhout’s recital was a masterclass in how familiar repertoire can be lifted from the page and fashioned anew

Beethoven, Brahms review – Sokolov finds radical Beethoven

Grigory Sokolov(Deutsche Grammophon, 2 CDs, 1 DVD)He last gave a concert in the UK in 2007, so any opportunity to hear one of the world’s finest pianists is welcome, though this is uneven

Beethoven: Piano Sonatas – Staier’s period instrument performances are thoughtful and insightful

Andreas Staier (Harmonia Mundi, two CDs) The three op 31 sonatas, all written in 1802, sound lean and coherent on an 1810 piano, if occasionally things feel a little too well-mannered

Gürzenich O Köln/Roth review – inventive and compelling Beethoven tribute

Inspired by the 1808 benefit concert, Francois-Xavier Roth and Pierre-Laurent Aimard’s programme mixed Beethoven’s music with 20th-century classics and new works