March 2025

Highly expressive settings from the classical period [JV]

A recording which has a lot going for it but which just misses the mark [JQ]

Séverac’s impressionism played with technical brilliance, tremendous sympathy and vivid imagination [JF]

Wachowski’s excellent selection of works makes for a disc I shall be enjoying for a long time to come [SA]

An outstanding disc in every way [JQ]

A comic Czech opera recorded in 1959 heard for the first time in stereo [JW]

(Déjà Review) It is wonderful to have the first disc of this series [IL]

(Déjà Review) A marvellously performed release that will surely win these Strauss chamber scores many admirers [MC]

by Len Mullenger

Very well played and engineered, but only intermittently achieving the drive and intensity of Barshai, Shipway and Karajan [RMo]

A Hamburg organ-and-violin duo of the Baroque comes alive [JW]

Outstanding in terms of programming, performance and sound quality, will delight all interested in the viol [GPu]

The excellence of the first four volumes is triumphantly maintained [NB]

A recreation of the 1868 Bremen Cathedral premiere of Brahms’ German Requiem with massed choirs and players [PH]

The first two movements here of Bruckner’s Seventh Symphony are mostly fine and measured – but the Scherzo and finale are erratic [RMo]

(Déjà Review) Whitacre has a priceless ability to communicate strongly and effectively [JQ]

(Déjà Review) Vänskä has made me hear this pieces anew [LM]

Music with a strong spirit of innovation and spontaneity [SA]

A most enjoyable disc [JQ]

The Contemporary Piano Rag in the vitalising hands of a master practitioner [JW]

Quite similar recordings, both with many but different strengths, so difficult to choose between [RMo]

Not only Josquin in Poland, but Josquin sung in Polish style [JV]

A thrilling live performance, worth hearing, if not the last word in Nilsson/Corelli versions of Turandot [PT]

(Déjà Review) So many highlights here, any one of which would justify the purchase of this invaluable set [RB]