Author: Stan Szpakowicz

A superior reissue of Peter Hall’s other superlative Britten production from Glyndebourne [PCG]

A pleasing compilation of some of Tchaikovsky’s most beguiling string music featuring two premieres [RMo]

Backhaus’s earliest recordings reappear, in largely pre-existing restorations, to renewed triumph [JW]

All three works have been recorded before, but this disc is a good competition [JV]

A very rewarding disc [JQ]

(Déjà Review) A winning combination of youth and musical insight; a treat indeed [CC]

(Déjà Review) Superb performances of these fine, though still too little known, works [HC]

The album works equally well for close listening and as agreeable background music late at night [GF]

Volume 7 of the Koppel series, finally here, shows the composer’s two sides [JW]

The best yet in Storgårds’s developing cycle [DMD]

A worthy reissue of fine accounts in an unusual coupling [RWe]

The orchestrated Verlaine songs are delightful, La mer merely decent [SB]

Solid Classical construction, and occasionally more [SV]

(Déjà Review) Truly one of the ‘Great Recordings of the Century’ [CF]

(Déjà Review) Woolrich definitely has things to say and knows how to say them in the musically most satisfying way [HC]

A recording for the ages, revealed in full splendour in a new re-mastering [JQ]

Worth hearing for the sheer beauty of Krimmel’s voice alone [DMD]

A faintly disguised incarnation of Karajan’s classic first studio recording with the BPO, which has long been available on other labels in somewhat superior sound [RMo]

Gently melancholic chamber works from a less-well-remembered composer [JW]

A fine tribute to the late conductor which currently has the field to itself on CD [MP]

Cuts aside, a very fine performance of one of Fux’s works for the stage [JV]

(Déjà Review) Anyone who believes that Schoenberg is approachable only for the specialist listener should hear this disc [TB]

(Déjà Review) A good representation of the strength and variety of the central, most important, part of Stanford’s career [CH]

Astonishingly vivid off-air survivors from London’s Queen’s Hall in the 1930s [JW]