March 2023

(Déjà Review) One of the essential Beethoven recordings [CH]

(Déjà Review) Marvellously subtle and polished … delightfully witty [TH]

A Polish-Jewish chamber programme focusing on the 1930s [JW]

Brilliantly imagined, often beautiful works in splendid, committed performances [HC]

Early American romanticism – golden-age verve rather than dutiful museum revival [RB]

Mary Bevan spreads her golden tones over the whole programme [GF]

Deeply felt and beautifully played, flawless intonation and ensemble, but inferior balance and sound [RMo]

Well played and well engineered but lacking character [NB]

(Déjà Review) Anthony Halstead’s marvellous players have caused me to spend several hours exploring this and related repertoire [DBi]

(Déjà Review) One of those rare recital recordings that actually plays best as a recital [PSh]

Unknown but attractive piano music by Miładowski but not my top choice for the Chopin [RCh]

Powerful, exciting, dramatic and sometimes introspective music played on a remarkable organ [JF]

Aesthetically wholly coherent and technically excellent accounts of the first complete and penultimate of Schubert’s sonatas that do not oust my favourites [RMo]

New light on old gems [ZT]

Fine performances of rare chamber music by an unfashionable composer whose music has much to communicate [GH]

A raft of previously unrecorded works – or adaptations – by Ysaÿe [JW]

(Déjà Review) Simply indispensable [TD]

(Déjà Review) A worthy salute to a fine quartet [JW]

An ideal balance of humour, warmth, lyricism and introspection in these appealing works [JF]

A highly diverting selection of lighter pieces to celebrate the Brodsky Quartet’s fifty-year anniversary [RMo]

A fresh perspective of solo piano music during the Vienna Classic period [DF]

Enthusiastic but flawed performances by student orchestras [NB]

Numerous premiere recordings in an Abram Chasins twofer [JW]

A fine re-issue of music by one of the 20th century’s most important symphonic composers [GT]