April 2025

Should be acquired by anyone with an affection for the string quartet genre [DC]

Busoni’s marvellous piano creations shown to their best advantage in this young pianist’s very secure hands [RCh]

An interesting programme of Scottish-inspired songs, but Cunningham’s tenor is too dry for my liking [PT]

A highly successful, satisfying anthology recital by a vocal ensemble at the top of its game [RMo]

Ravel’s two concertos, reasonably well played and excellently recorded, but I was left wanting more [DHa]

A reference recording of Mahler’s First Symphony, and some rare Tennstedt repertoire [LD]

(Déjà Review) Pellucid beauty, an exceptional sense of excavated drama, tremendous atmospheric compression, rhythmic nuance and panache [JW]

(Déjà Review) These beautifully crafted works are full of grace, wit, charm and even some drama and romance [KS]

A tour de force from the leading dramatic soprano of the modern age [PH]

First recordings of two attractive Ukrainian piano concertos with a depressing history [EJW]

A fine disc of cantatas by a relatively neglected composer [GPu]

Lovers of piano music are in for a treat with the many discoveries this disc affords [SA]

An original recital including a creative imagining of a sixteenth quartet by Shostakovich [DHa]

Revelatory and thoroughly engrossing [DF]

(Déjà Review) An extraordinarily rewarding series now celebrated in a fourth volume [RB]

(Déjà Review) The set should be highly rewarding to those who place top priority on gorgeous music [DS]