April 2025
Beethoven: Piano Sonatas Op 2 (Challenge Classics)
Prosseda amply demonstrates the surprising distinctiveness of these early Beethoven piano sonatas [MG]
Bruckner: Symphony 8 (Profil)
Gerd Schaller is determined to exploit the mighty instrument’s full potential to maximum effect [RMo]
Demantius: Johannes-Passion (cpo)
A superb performance of a 17th century German Passion [JV]
Hough: Piano Concerto (Hyperion)
A tempting disc but a very short runtime [PH]
JS Bach: Magnificat (Antal Doráti Society)
A rare slice of Doráti’s Bach from French sources [JW]
Fauré: Masques et bergamasques, Thème et variations (Naxos)
A well planned and superbly performed addition to Fauré’s discography [JF]
Holst: Orchestral Works (Lyrita)
Some remarkable finds here [CC]
Britten: Cello Suites (Apex)
Butt has the music’s measure, supported by an always assured technique [TB]
Cello Concertos from the Netherlands (Brilliant Classics)
Top quality soloists promote the cello in compact Dutch concerto works [JW]
Rachmaninov: Orchestral Works (Linn)
Some very fine performances here [EJW]
Lully: Alceste (Château de Versailles Spectacles)
Relive the Golden Age of the Tragédie lyrique in a performance of insight and conviction [PH]
Liszt: Piano Works on Hungarian Themes (Naxos)
Wonderfully assured, atmospheric and musical playing of rarely recorded Liszt [JWe]
Herbert von Karajan: Live in Berlin 1953-1969 (Berliner Philharmoniker)
A never-before-seen level of access to Karajan and the Berliner Philharmoniker’s live, uncut performances [KC]
Another kind of Rossi (Stradivarius)
The arpa doppia in full glory – an exciting disc [JV]
Canat de Chizy: Moving (Aeon)
(Déjà Review) Robust, joyfully dancing music making of great energy and very often of great beauty [HC]
Beethoven: String Quartets Vol. 6 (ASV)
(Déjà Review) The Lindsays show a deep understanding of this music and a maturity that has grown with the years [TH]
Fanny Mendelssohn: Overture
by Alan George
Dvořák: Piano Quintet
by Alan George
Shostakovich: String Quartet 12
by Alan George
Arnold: Cornish Dances
by John France
Brian: Agamemnon and Symphonies Nos 6 & 12 (Hyperion)
Havergal Brian’s Agamemnon on disc prefaced, as he’d suggested, by the Twelfth Symphony [JW]
Mozart: Violin sonatas (Arcana)
Refined and focused playing, seductively performed [SG]
Bartók: The Paris Concert 1980 (Antal Doráti Centenary Society)
An engaging previously unreleased all-Bartók concert from Doráti in Paris [DHa]
Balbullus: Liber ymnorum (Naxos)
Chants from over a thousand years ago in an atmospheric, enriching performance [GH]
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