Newest Reviews
Hummel: Mathilde von Guise (Brilliant Classics)
(Déjà Review) At Brilliant’s budget price, highly recommendable for anyone interested in what was happening to German opera in the period between Beethoven and Wagner [RH]
Fried: Orchestral Music (Capriccio)
(Déjà Review) A composer of worth. For those that enjoy something away from the mainstream this release demands to be heard [MC]
Vaughan Williams: A Sea Symphony (LSO Live)
A very fine addition to Pappano’s Vaughan Williams cycle [RMo]
Beethoven: Violin Concerto (Brilliant Classics)
An unfailingly musical and mutually respectful partnership in superb, spacious sound [RMo]
Dyson: Orchestral Music (SOMM)
A lithe, incisive recording of George Dyson’s Violin Concerto spearheads a splendid disc [JW]
Davie: Orchestral Music (Toccata)
Important scores from a largely forgotten composer [JW]
Spanish music arranged for piano four hands (IBS)
A fine programme and adequate performances, short on atmosphere [PBW]
The Importance of Elgar: An Anthology (Boydell Press)
An essential, accessible collection of perspectives on Elgar’s music [DHa]
New & Upcoming Releases – November
Site Updates
The following operas have been added to the Masterwork Index: Rigoletto, Der Rosenkavalier, Così fan tutte, Lucia di Lammermoor, Peter Grimes, Otello, Fidelio, Eugene Onegin, Boris Godunov, Turandot























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