July 2026
Graupner: Sinfonias (cpo)
A well full of treats for lovers of unusual baroque period music [DC]
Stokowski: Transcriptions (Warner Classics)
Wonderfully rich, inventive and atmospheric transcriptions by the greatest showman in classical music [RMo]
Narbutaitė: Centones Meae Urbi (Ondine)
An intense, evocative journey through the city of Vilnius – a must-hear for lovers of contemporary music [ACG]
Mozart: Horn Concertos (Chandos)
A fine new set of Mozart’s horn concertos [SB]
Pioneering Haydn On Record: Symphony 80
by Christopher Howell
Wirén: Serenade
by Alan George
Danish Violin Concertos Vol. 4 (Danacord)
(Déjà Review) Flaws but credit to Kai Laursen and his prophet-in-the-wilderness role of promoting so much music that he clearly cared passionately about [NB]
Field: Complete Piano Concertos (Brilliant Classics)
(Déjà Review) Enjoyable and unjustly neglected music in recommendable performances and recordings at a modest cost [BW]
P & A Philidor: Suites and Pieces (Barn Cottage Records)
A splendid display of the musical world of early 18th-century France [JV]
Mahler: Symphony No. 5 (Reference Recordings)
An outstanding Mahler Fifth [JQ]
Grosz: Piano Music 2 (Grand Piano)
A marvellous second volume of Grosz’s intriguing piano music [RCh]
Poulenc: Music for Two Pianos (Divine Art)
One for the Poulenc or two piano enthusiast [DJB]
Dorman: Four Concerti (Naxos)
(Déjà Review) Beautiful, inventive, high-spirited music, a modern tribute to Baroque [OL]
Dohnányi: Orchestral Works (Naxos)
(Déjà Review) Will give much pleasure [BBr]
Pasquini: I fatti di Mosè nel deserto (Da Vinci Classics)
A very good case for Pasquini as a composer of vocal music [JV]
Poulenc, Hindemith, Pinkham: Works for Organ and Orchestra (ESO Records)
Highly accomplished performances, sympathetically recorded [JQ]
Schubert/Liszt: Wanderer Fantasy; Tchaikovsky: Concert Fantasy (Alpha Classics)
An impressive coupling of unjustly neglected gems [PRJ]
Guarnieri: Pedro Malazarte, A Serra do Rola-Moça, Cuatro Poemas de Macunaíma (Naxos)
Accomplished and idiomatic performances [NB]
Chopin: Piano Concertos (Hänssler Classic)
Outstanding live performances of the Chopin concertos [RBe]
Gál: Chamber Music (cpo)
Splendid versions of Gál’s very important works [WK]
Il fior della Cecilia (Tactus)
The lives of six medieval women who suffered for love, heard through the medium of the Renaissance Frottola composers. [GH]
Prokofiev: Piano Concerto No 3 (Decca)
Kanneh-Mason is a real ball of fire in the concerto [SB]
Carlos Kleiber – I am lost to the world (C Major)
(Déjà Review) This documentary raises more questions than answers [JW]
Mirella Freni (soprano): Great Singers Live (BR Klassik)
(Déjà Review) I just couldn’t stop playing this disc which is not surprising given that Freni has one of the finest soprano voices I have ever heard [MC]
