May 2024

An experience of deep friendship, hard work, and joy in the results [DC]

Superb singing of a slightly undifferentiated programme [NB]

An essential acquisition for all Baxians [RB]

Any release from the Emersons is worthy of attention and this set is no exception [MC]

The only recording of Schmidt’s second opera does full justice to an unjustly neglected work [EJW]

A musically compelling disc, thanks to the quality of the music and the performances [JV]

Well worth investigating [GH]

Fairly bland music that the performances don’t enliven [DJB]

Music to lift the tired soul [PRJ]

A very generous new instalment in an enterprising ongoing series [RMay]

(Déjà Review) With splendid standards of music making, recording and presentation, this is a benchmark and self-recommending issue [TB]

(Déjà Review) Torrid Slavonic performances of both the graceful Variations and the gloomily brilliant Symphony [RB]

A fascinating and rewarding disc of Australian rarities [PRJ]

Convincing premiere recordings of some of Freda Swain’s chamber music [JW]

Four masterpieces from four distinct strands of twentieth-century music [JF]

A pleasure to hear Björling in these excellent Pristine transfers, even if these two roles are not amongst his greatest [PT]

Fischer balances the suavely light and the resiliently heroic [MG]

Three superb Britten readings, including possibly the finest Spring Symphony on disc [GPJ]

(Déjà Review) For their fiercely propulsive and compellingly vital performances Il Giardino Armonico has few equals [MC]

(Déjà Review) Lovers of fine singing can purchase without hesitation now and enjoy an outstanding recording and performance [RJF]

Delightful lost treasures from French musical history [JF]

Most enjoyable [SG]

An unmissable bargain [JQ]

Many first-class performances to celebrate the 475th anniversary of the Staatskapelle Dresden [MC]