This wound up being a spectacular year for elaborate, lavishly packaged reissues. Given all the fabulous classical box sets that appeared this year, you'd think we were in some kind of boom era for ...

If you’re holding your breath awaiting the end of the compact-disc era, don’t exhale quite yet. Because, yes, there’s more. Believe it or not, the great conductors of the past (to say nothing of ...

This is a paean to Erato. Not the ancient Greek muse of lyric poetry, but the French classical music record label. Founded in 1953, Erato is now owned by Warner Classics, and thank goodness for that.

As with Warner Classics’s recent André Previn box set, begin at the end. Jon Tolansky’s audio documentary is on the last disc in this 91-CD box, chronicling Riccardo Muti’s galvanising effect on a ...

I’m a sucker for a well-produced box set, and some of this year’s choices examples included celebrations of conductors Paavo Berglund (Warner Classics), William Steinberg (DG) and Louis Lane (Sony).