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]

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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]

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Vaughan Williams: A Sea Symphony (LSO Live)

A very fine addition to Pappano’s Vaughan Williams cycle [RMo]

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Beethoven: Violin Concerto (Brilliant Classics)

An unfailingly musical and mutually respectful partnership in superb, spacious sound [RMo]

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Dyson: Orchestral Music (SOMM)

A lithe, incisive recording of George Dyson’s Violin Concerto spearheads a splendid disc [JW]

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Davie: Orchestral Music (Toccata)

Important scores from a largely forgotten composer [JW]

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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]