October 2025

Ferrier brings real passion, classical purity and strength of line [RH]

The final release in this 24-volume series produces an unreleased Sibelius 6, Jensen the accompanist and a broad-ranging miscellany of Danish Works. [JW]

A splendid disc, the music beautifully and perceptively played and heard in the delightful and appropriate acoustic of the Kulturscheune Michaelstein [GPu]

An accomplished and stylistically faithful account of Rameau’s third opera [RMo]

Explore the style galant with Bach’s French Suites [PHa]

BBC broadcasts from 1960 of Nielsen’s piano music saved from oblivion [JW]

Exceptional Chopin playing in Cortot’s lesser known Paris versions [RCh]

An interesting programme of out-of-the way American works for two pianos and orchestra [EJW]

The elixir of love conquers all [PH]

Wartime defiance from the indomitable Miloslav Kabeláč [JW]

A fine, grand performance, beautifully engineered but slightly let down by the vocal soloists [RMo]

(Déjà Review) Vital and individual readings from a safe pair of hands [WH]

(Déjà Review) Estimable recordings covering a range of d‘Indy’s music [WK]

by Alan George & Lucy Russell

(Déjà Review) Splendid and approachable … interesting and unusual [MS]

(Déjà Review) As they say in the trade: ‘a winner!’ [DC]

A collection of Parisian delicacies served in fine style [MP]

A fine, dramatic late opera by Saint-Saëns, melodically elusive but highly atmospheric and beautifully performed [RMo]

A quality production which is warmly welcomed [SB]

Well programmed, superbly played, a treat for Nielsen lovers [WH]

Puzzi’s mass is one of the discoveries of this year [JV]

Operatic fantasias and a mixed salad of other British works in fine performances [JW]

Be prepared to have your comfortably diatonic rug pulled from beneath your feet [DC]

This new Idomeneo is almost the one we have all been waiting for [MP]