Author: Laurence Slater

(Déjà Review) Has changed the whole way I listen to Billy Budd (AO]

Vienna to Oxford: Quartets Reborn [JF]

Songs from the Czech Lands, and points further East, seconded to the string quartet genre [JW]

An elegant, sophisticated mélange of mélodies, beautifully sung and played, incorporating some pleasing surprises and novelties [RMo]

Very, very good indeed [DC]

(Déjà Review) I’ll be coming back to this again and again [ST]

(Déjà Review) Passion and searing, white hot, insight and intensity [BBr]

Characteristically virtuosic and big boned rarities from this not-very-Russian-sounding Russian [RCh]

Magdalen’s Eule organ: a monument to musical continuity and change [JF]

Admirers of Herbert Howells’ music should consider this a mandatory purchase [JQ]

A mixed bag of excellent orchestral works and less satisfying song cycles [RMo]

(Déjà Review) Incredible, intriguing, and worth a hearing [EML]

(Déjà Review) Extremely rewarding … this disc puts itself firmly back in the front line [TH]

(Déjà Review) Creativity and originality … first recordings of three works by Fasch [JV]

(Déjà Review) A fine recording of a remarkable and fascinating masterpiece from Handel’s years in Italy [GPu]

A fine anniversary tribute to ‘Le Maître’

Music from the Peterhouse partbooks [SB]

Fine performances of two highly contrasted choral works [JQ]

Sophisticated, emotional, beautifully crafted and a delight from first to last [DJB]

One of the best of the many 18th century symphonists in the shadow of Mozart and Haydn [DJB]

An artfully devised and beautifully performed double programme, melding liturgical music for the Catholic Mass and the Anglican Choral Evensong [RMo]

A comprehensive collection, well played [SB]

A beautiful program, which also points up the hazards [SV]

(Déjà Review) Is Samuel Barber the most inexplicably underrated composer of the 20th century? [GPJ]