Author: Stan Szpakowicz

(Déjà Review) A well documented, brilliantly recorded, excellently played and broadly sympathetic set of readings [JW]

(Déjà Review) Whatever superlatives you hear about this disc I urge you to believe them [MC]

Magnificent sonatas, splendid performances [JV]

Rousset and his team earn a gold medal for this premiere recording of a long-unheard opera [MP]

A worthy memorial to a fine pianist and chamber musician [SB]

Schmitt’s complete ballet in opulent orchestral dress, marvellously played [JQ]

Delvincourt’s bracing chamber music, from a quixotic early work to his last [JW]

A stellar exploration of female composers at the piano, in more ways than one [RCh]

This joy of a disc will help increase Gál’s popularity [SA]

(Déjà Review) Admirers of this great German pianist should certainly snap this up [JQ]

An essential investment for all RVW enthusiasts [JF]

A splendid selection of songs by composers cut short before their time [JW]

Admirable reissues still hold their own [JW]

Blomstedt leads a distinguished Nielsen Fifth; the Brahms is less memorable [JQ]

A qualified recommendation for a new recording of Lehár’s final operetta for Berlin [PT]

A comprehensive recital: a lot of brilliant and heroic singing, and some subtle and lyrical [GF]

Splendid performances of entertaining duos by a neglected composer [JV]

(Déjà Review) Wolf can attain depths of expression that seem to post-date his period [CC]

A pleasure to be reacquainted with Callas’s Norma in this remastering of her second studio recording [PT]

A Warlock obscurity rescued from LP oblivion in handsome style [JW]

An exploration of music by ten women composers from the age of Louis XIV and Louis XV [PH]

A variety of compositional styles, interesting and evocative music, and a great selection of pieces [KT]

Slow tempos blunt much of the impact, but the Hartmann stands out [DJB]

Another well planned, well executed survey of little-known Vaughan Williams [NB]