All just my personal opinion
The debut CD of the young cellist Christoph Croisé, accompanied by Oxana Shevchenko (piano), featuring compositions by Sergei Prokofiev (Cello Sonata in C major, op.119), Johannes Brahms (Cello Sonata No.1 in E minor), Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (Pezzo Capriccioso), Niccolò Paganini (Variations on a theme from Rossini’s “Mosè in Egitto”), and David Popper (Dance of the Elves, op.39)
Harnoncourt / Ponnelle’s legendary Zurich Monteverdi cycle on DVD — and memories of getting addicted to its live performances at the Zurich Opera in the late 1970’s
Listening diary post, covering recordings of recorder concerti by Antonio Vivaldi (including some related concerti for violin), played by Maurice Steger / Diego Fasolis / I Barocchisti (2 CDs, 2000 & 2014), Conrad Steinmann / Helmut Müller-Brühl / Cappella Clementina (1978), and by Giuliano Carmignola (violin) / Sonatori de la Gioiosa Marca (1999) — 18 different concerti total, including 2 versions of “La Notte”, and 2 versions of “Il gardellino”.
Listening Diary — violin sonatas by Prokofiev, Shostakovich, & Schnittke, played by the late Lydia Mordkovich (1944 – 2014). Cross-checking Shostakovich’s op.134 against Gringolts/Vonsattel, and Faust/Melnikov
Rubinstein’s Recorded “French” Solo Repertoire: César Franck — Prélude, choral et fugue
Rubinstein’s Recorded French Solo Repertoire: Maurice Ravel — Miroirs: No.5, “La vallée des cloches”; Valses nobles et sentimentales; Le Tombeau de Couperin: Forlane — all with comparisons to Walter Gieseking