Alesha Dixon: The Alesha Dixon Show

The former Mis-Teeq member and mistress of reinvention comes up with an eclectic but misfiring mix of music

Justice: A Cross the Universe

Integrating the roar of the crowd into this live album, the French techno team cleverly up the synthesized ante

The Killers: Day and Age

There are moments when the Killers majestic, synthesized sound has never been bettered, so it's a pity about the misfires

Lemar: The Reason

This new album consolidates Lemar as one of the best British R&B artists, at his best with some emotionally mature anthems

Aaron Parks: Invisible Cinema

This young Seattle-based pianist from Terence Blanchard's band gives the lie to the idea that American jazz is in decline

Roderick Williams: Beethoven

Ann Murray and Iain Burnside join Williams for these sensitive renditions of Beethoven cyles and individual songs

Little Willie John: Nineteen Sixty Six

Produced 40 years ago as a comeback album, this powerful, personal set does more than justice to John's soulful sound

The Big CD: The Fireman - Electric Arguments

Great little rock'n'roll album from Macca, happily delivered with a disregard for production values or playlist potential

Kanye West: 808's and Heartbreak

West continues to push the boundaries with an engaging new album in which he swaps rapping for an auto-tune vocal effect

Ha-Na Chang: Vivaldi

The Korean cellist performs seven Vivaldi cello concertos with an acute sense of the individual merits of each

Lorraine Hunt LiebersonSchumann

This Wigmore Hall solo recital, six years before Hunt Lieberson's early death, beautifully captures her luminous mezzo

Alina Ibragimova: Roslavets

The gifted violinist Ibragimova unties another musical knot with this knockout CD of concertos by the Soviet Modernist pionee

Beethoven: Piano Sonatas, Opp 14, 26 and 28 - the Sunday Times review

Murray Perahia’s singing tone and shapely phrasing are a joy — even works recorded frequently sound new-minted in his hands

Tom Jones: 24 Hours - the Sunday Times review

Not one to break the habit of a lifetime, Jones espies a nut and reaches for the sledgehammer. Fans will love it

Sirba Octet, Isabella Georges: Du Shtetl à New York - the Sunday Times review

Plenty of groups have explored the Lower East Side streets, but few with quite as much panache as France’s Sirba Octet

Various Artists: Well Hung: Funk-Rock Eruptions from Beneath Communist Hungary - the Sunday Times review

Well Hung stinks the place out with pungent, state-approved slabs of 1970s hairy funk and Eastern Bloc beat

The Killers: Day & Age - the Sunday Times review

Melodies that simply trounce the competition for immediacy and emotional force

Dido: Safe Trip Home - the Sunday Times review

Dido has grown up, immersed herself in the recording process and hand-picked some excellent collaborators

Lyle Lovett: It’s Not Big It’s Large - the Sunday Times review

This is the return to form that fans have been hoping for since The Road to Ensenada, a dozen years ago

Purcell: Fantasias for the Viols - the Sunday Times review

Listening to these rich performances, you wonder yet again what the "English Orpheus" would have achieved