Raffaele La Ragione: Mandolin on Stage – Light and tangy concertoes

Nathan Sherman & Alex Petcu: Totemic – a well-executed debut

The viola and percussion duo mix three specially written works with one 1980s classic

Michael McHale: Moonlight – hampered by a kid-gloves approach

Rhona Clarke: Sempiternam choral music review – certain gestures a little cliched

Clarke is fond of graduated spills of sound

Peter Whelan – Mozart’s Bassoon: Engagingly enriched

Chiaroscuro Quartet: Beethoven String Quartets, Op. 18 Nos 4-6

‘The challenge for women in music is the lack of institutional support’

Participants in Finding a Voice, a festival of music by female composers, have their say

John Jenkins: Four-Part Consorts – Fantastical journeys

London Symphony Orchestra/Jaime Martín: Mozart Wind Concertos

Raff: Complete Works for Cello & Piano – not quite a silk purse

Christoph Croisé and Oxana Shevchenko show this limited composer in his best light

Sam Perkin: Flow album review – Pass the joint

Time is stilled on Perkin’s new release

JS Bach/Karlheinz Essl: Gold.Berg.Werk – Electronic meditations and variations

Modest Mussorgsky Unorthodox Music review – Treasure trove of vivid storytelling

The celebrated song-cycles are sliced through for samples rather than presented completely

Malachy Robinson: The Irish Double Bass review – Strings core to this personal release

Another album from lockdown, Robinson is aided by pianist Gary Beecher