With Vaughan Williams's Sinfonia antartica & Symphony No 9, Martyn Brabbins and the BBC Symphony Orchestra bring their RVW cycle to its magnificent conclusion. These two symphonies date from the composer's old age, and, while initially misunderstood or underrated, both scores are teeming with creative vigour, startling orchestral colour and absolute mastery of symphonic thought, all qualities which abundantly inform these marvellous performances. March's Record of the Month should not be missed by anyone with any interest whatsoever in Vaughan Williams, English music, the twentieth-century symphony, or outstandingly fine orchestral recordings. If Garrick Ohlsson demonstrates a natural authority across a formidably wide range of repertoire, it is perhaps for his performances of Romantic works that he is especially admired. These accounts of Schubert Piano Sonatas D537 & 959 possess everything that should be expected from a true Schubertian, rich in poetic insight and eloquence. D959 is one of the triptych of piano sonatas completed only two months before Schubert's death, and its extraordinarily wide emotional range is tellingly realized by Ohlsson.

Missa Mille regretz & Missa Desilde al cavallero by Cristóbal de Morales marks the first release in a major survey of the composer's Masses and Magnificats. Morales was perhaps the most famous composer of his day—between the death of Josquin and the rise of Palestrina and Lassus—and who better to guide us through the treasures in store than the all-male voices of De Profundis? Robert Hollingworth and Eamonn Dougan direct.

The ongoing series dedicated to choice selections of our all-time favourite recordings—ones you might possibly have missed? This time: Le Carnaval d'Aix & other works by Darius Milhaud from the New London Orchestra (‘a cracker of a disc … lashings of uncontrollable high spirits’—Gramophone), Bach's Mass in B minor from Arcangelo (‘easily one of the best B-minors on the market’—Audiophile Audition), and Édouard Lalo Piano Trios from the Leonore Piano Trio (‘a real discovery’—The Sunday Times). If you don’t know them already, a track from each is included on our monthly sampler which is free to download.

Randall Scotting's second album for Signum Classics is a thoroughly miserable affair: lovers scorned, ardour unreciprocated, hearts broken. Brutally titled Lovesick, the wide-ranging programme takes us from the unique melancholy of seventeenth-century England to France, Italy and beyond, and in performances of a rare intensity, opulently illustrated in the accompanying booklet and immaculately complemented by lutenist Stephen Stubbs.

Soprano Mary Bevan is variously joined by the 12 Ensemble, the Ruisi Quartet and habitual accompanist Joseph Middleton for a new recital album on Signum Classics. Visions illuminées is centred on Benjamin Britten's achingly beautiful Les illuminations and also includes songs by Fauré, Duparc, Chausson, Debussy and Holmès—many of them refreshingly in new or rarely heard chamber versions.

From LSO Live this month we have a new studio recording of the great Beethoven Violin Concerto of 1806, here performed with cadenzas specially written for the occasion by Jörg Widmann. The soloist is the exciting Veronika Eberle, and Sir Simon Rattle conducts the London Symphony Orchestra. The programme concludes with the surviving torso of Beethoven's earlier unfinished concerto dating from around 1790.

In celebration – The Piano Trios of Stanley Silverman is a new album from Signum Classics. Composed in 1989 and 2011, Silverman's two trios are quixotic works, taking in and responding to influences as disparate as the French Baroque and the proximity on the tuning dial of wildly dissimilar New York radio stations. Both works are performed, as they were at their premieres, by The Kalichstein-Laredo-Robinson Trio with a cameo appearance from Sting.

A super-budget-price opportunity to explore one of the more unusual catalogues comes courtesy of 1equalmusic. Tracks follows the fortunes of The Song Company and its Artistic Director, Antony Pitts, from 2016 to 2022, including early vocal and choral classics by Hildegard, Pérotin, Byrd, and Bruckner, and new music by contemporary Australian and Indigenous composers, Elizabeth Sheppard, Sonya Holowell, Alice Chance, Heather Percy, and Ross Edwards.