Hyperion's record of the month for March 2009 finds Stephen Hough 'in recital': classic Mendelssohn and Beethoven, and an eclectic sequence of waltzes. Our Romantic Piano Concerto series welcomes Markus Becker, the Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin and Michael Sanderling in concertos by nineteenth-century dark horses Felix Draeseke and Salomon Jadassohn. Choral delights come from the Habsburg Empire of the Renaissance with a welcome return by the award-winning Cinquecento to the music of Jacobus Vaet, and from modern-day Poland with Pawel Lukaszewski's Via Crucis in a shattering performance by Stephen Layton, the Britten Sinfonia and Polyphony. The 'unplayable' Paganini Caprices for solo violin find a more-than-worthy advocate in Tanja Becker-Bender, while Steven Isserlis and Dénes Várjon have concocted a delightful programme of Schumann music for cello and piano (perhaps that should read 'nearly for cello …'). From the archives: English Lute Songs from Robin Blaze and Elizabeth Kenny, and Joan Rodgers' classic recital of Tchaikovsky Songs with Roger Vignoles.