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"Rachmaninoff speaks to me more than any other composer. He’s given me so much emotionally; I feel like I really have something to say with his music."

– Isata Kanneh-Mason

"I think probably of all the piano concertos that I play – and we're talking about 40 or so different ones over the years – Brahms' First is the work that I couldn't live without"

– Stephen Hough

My favorite symphony will always be Mahler's Fifth, a desert island disc for me. It’s about emotions and what it can make you feel.

– Matilda Lloyd

[Bach’s Goldberg Variations] marries the intellectual and the varied and the aesthetically beautiful. It’s just perfect.

– Nicholas Collon