February 2023

Solstice’s au revoir to a great artist [SG]

An excellent all-round portrait of this outstanding pianist [RCh]

A great quartet in core repertory and superbly communicative Ginastera [JW]

Music making of the highest order for anyone with an open mind for whom no borderlines exist [GF]

An interesting compilation of music by the “English waltz king” who outlived his era by half a century [PCG]

Refined, exciting, and extraordinarily well-sung period-instrument performances of selected Latin choral works by Mozart [DF]

Superb playing and engineering; any reservations will centre upon the desirability of the programme [RMo]

A great Janáček champion conducts Honegger and Martinů in an obscure Polish recording [JW]

Collectors of Florence Price’s music need not hesitate in acquiring this disc [LW]

A revelatory album [JQ]

Texts set with expressivity and emotion [GH]

Don’t miss this disc if you are well disposed to tonally pleasing late Romantic music [SG]

Though Sir Geraint Evans is rather gruff and dry-toned, this lavishly cast recording is worth anyone’s money [GF]

Kamu has the measure of Sibelius’s complete Tempest music [LW]

An interesting production that is marred by some serious issues [JV]

A famous tale told with stylish and compelling atmosphere [DC]

A wholly viable interpretation of indestructible integrity [RMo]

An interesting programme, impressively performed [JQ]

Rigour and rhythmic drive somewhat leavened by folkloric elements [JW]

A feast of varied music for violin(s) [GPu]

A superb second instalment of the Santoro cycle, and a good introduction to his music [HC]

Pristine’s typically successful remastering into Ambient Stereo helps appreciate afresh the virtues of this classic recording [RMo]

The Loewenguth Quartet’s stereo Debussy-Ravel coupling reissued in fine transfers [JW]

Praiseworthy performances of fascinating repertoire [MC]