Playlist: Tommy Hilfiger

Lucinda Williams: Little Honey - The Sunday Times review

Williams is happier on more wistful subject matter, particularly If Wishes Were Horses and Circles and Xs

The Royal Oak: Best of Folk - The Sunday Times review

Here’s a long-overdue celebration of the venue, with specially recorded tracks from Orcadian, Kris Drever, Aberfeldy, and Martin Boland and...

Wagner: Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg - The Sunday Times review

Bayreuth Festival Cast, Chorus and Orchestra, cond Karl Böhm

Buena Vista Social Club: At Carnegie Hall - The Sunday TImes review

This was one of those once-in-a-lifetime evenings when the collective spirit of old Havana carried all before it

Fotheringay: 2 - The Sunday Times review

A pin-pupilled version of Gypsy Davey and Two Weeks Last Summer suggest they may have developed the mystical, psychedelic-folk sound

Bellini : La Straniera

Ciofi, Stone, Schmunck, Shkosa, LPO, cond David Parry

Jonas Knutsson and Johan Norberg: Skaren: Norrland III - The Sunday Times review

The mix of original and traditional material carries us deep into some shadowy Swedish forest

Nitin Sawhney:London Undersound - The Sunday Times review

Eugene McGuinness: Eugene McGuinness - The Sunday Times review

How wonderful - and rare - to hear melodies as rich, complex and serpentine as these

Attwood, Bailie, Causton: New works - The Sunday Times review

London Sinfonietta, Sebastian Bell (flute), cond Nicholas Kok

Songs my mother taught me - The Sunday Times review

Magdalena Kozena (mezzo), Malcolm Martineau (piano)

Jim White: A Funny Little Cross to Bear - The Sunday Times review

A live mini-album as an excellent memento of the man’s dry, witty stage presence, containing as it does typical between-song banter

Beethoven: Mass in C - The Sunday Times review

Soloists, LSO, LSO Chorus, cond Colin Davis

Robin Thicke: Something Else

Thicke's brand of 1970s-flecked soul verges on easy listening, just relieved by a few more powerful offerings

Nitin Sawhney: London Undersound

This eighth album from Sawhney is a somewhat mixed bag of tracks dealing with the effects of terrorism on London

Tippett Quartet: Tippett String Quartet No 4

Extracting every ounce of meaning, Tippett's fourth quartet is executed with immaculate precision by this fine ensemble

Herbie Hancock: Then and Now - The Definitive Herbie Hancock

Over the years Hancock has shown a pretty sure touch when it comes to pop as this anthology aimed at non-jazzers testifies

F***ed Up: The Chemistry of Common Life

Terrific, densely layered record from the Canadian art-punk band, mining a rich seam between classical and hardcore punk

Keane: Perfect Symmetry

Their sound has duly been upholstered with expansive synths and 1980s bombast, it is melodious and relentlessly colourless