Christmas break
This is our last publishing day for the year; we shall resume on January 5. We wish our readers the very best for the holiday season.
Though we won’t be publishing any new reviews during this short break, all our previous reviews are of course readily accessible. In addition, you can find our Recordings of the Year feature here and view all the articles we published in 2024 here.
Recordings of the Month – December 2024
Newest Reviews
Bruckner: Symphony No 5 (NCPA Classics)
Another grand, weighty, live account from the NCPA of Bruckner’s most hieratic symphony, beautifully played and engineered [RMo]
Corelli ajusté à la flûte traversière (Da Vinci Classics)
Every lover of Baroque music will be delighted to listen to Corelli à la française [JV]
Bellini: Norma (Divina Records)
Simply one of the greatest ‘bel canto’ performances on record [MBu]
Sun Forest Lake (Candle Row Press)
A perceptive study of Sibelius and his key orchestral works [JQ]
Ormandy and the Philadelphia Orchestra – The Early Years Vol. 5 (Pristine Audio)
Excellent restorations of Ormandy’s ‘World’s Greatest Music’ recordings of the late-30s [JW]
Quilter: Go, Lovely Rose (Chandos)
A fine recital of songs is a welcome addition to the Quilter discography [PT]
Kats-Chernin: Wild Swans (ABC Classics)
(Déjà Review) Future listeners will wonder how music of this quality could possibly have escaped their attention [ZT]
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2024 MWI Recordings of the Year
This is the twenty-second year that MusicWeb International has asked its reviewing team to nominate their recordings…
Site Updates
- The Cello Concerto Project has been updated, and has reached the milestone of identifying 1,000 (and more) cello concertos that have been recorded (11/24)
- National Discographies : a major update is now complete (12/24)
- The Piano Trio Discography has been updated (12/24)
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