Author: Stan Szpakowicz

Attractive rarities, including an unstoppable performance of the Old 104th Fantasia [EJW]

First recordings of impressive song cycles, authoritatively performed [NB]

A varied program by performers who are clearly at one about the music [LP]

An engaging new performance of Mozart’s Exsultate, jubilate, plus works to set it in context [DF]

These glowing performances testify that Holmboe is a leading figure in twentieth-century music [GH]

Fine selections from The Great American Songbook [BMC]

(Déjà Review) Fine performances of lyrical, romantic works [PCW]

With added flute part, this arrangement is a welcome curiosity for those already familiar with the work [SW]

Excellent recording of music by a composer who was in no way inferior to the best of his time [JV]

I have honestly never heard anything like this… [RMo]

The final release in the Sevitzky-Indianapolis series ends in a celebration of the dance [JW]

Intelligently programmed and well played key works of the Second Viennese School [NB]

Pleasing and moving, played with soulful and technical virtuosity [RB]

Solstice’s au revoir to a great artist [SG]

An imaginative and involving production, but flawed by some intrusive and insensitive vulgarities [PCG]

Attractive transfers from the 1920s and 1930s of Stan Golestan’s chamber music [JW]

Another potentially engaging recording, fatally compromised by the conductor’s ill-disciplined vocal intrusiveness [RMo]

Rousing, exquisitely articulated performances of Haydn symphonies [DF]

This is a glorious collection that should be a source for delight for many years to come [GF]

Tetelman will win many new admirers with this outstanding debut album [MC]

Anyone wanting a HIP recording of these deservedly popular cantatas need search no further [GF]

Exemplary singing and sensitive accompaniment in a fascinating song recital [JF]

A welcome reissue of Malipiero’s compact cycle [JW]

Scandali could not have made a better choice than the oldest of the two organs in San Petronio [JV]