Déjà Reviews
Re-published reviews from the archive
Shostakovich: Complete Works for Cello (Nimbus)
(Déjà Review) Wallfisch excels in Shostakovich’s complete cello works [LW]
Tcherepnin: Piano Music (Toccata Classics)
(Déjà Review) Evocative, melodic, harmonically imaginative and immensely varied [Byz]
Andrew Kennedy (tenor): Arias by Gluck, Mozart and Berlioz (Signum)
(Déjà Review) Andrew Kennedy does Berlioz proud [GF]
Music for counter-tenor and recorder (Guild)
(Déjà Review) Singing and playing of the highest order [AMa]
Poulenc: Choral works (Signum Classics)
(Déjà Review) Nigel Short directs the impeccably prepared Tenebrae in beautiful accounts of this music [MC]
Rheinberger: Mass and Motets. Sacred Music IX (Carus)
(Déjà Review) Attractive performances, characterful and responsive [MC]
Shostakovich: Cello Concerto & Sonata (RCA)
(Déjà Review) I know of no more dramatic and beautifully played account of the Concerto [MC]
Molino: Chamber Works for Flute, Violin & Guitar (cpo)
Effortlessly tuneful music in fine performances [BW]
Rossini: Otello (Naxos)
If you are curious about Rossini’s version of Otello then you will not go far wrong with this Naxos recording [RH]
French Cello Works (Centaur)
(Déjà Review) A potential Rostropovich in the making [SV]
Schubert: String Quartet No. 14 & Schumann: Piano Quintet (Elatus)
(Déjà Review) Buy this for the Schumann Piano Quintet, which is very successful [GA]
Field: Complete Piano Concertos (Brilliant Classics)
(Déjà Review) Enjoyable and unjustly neglected music in recommendable performances and recordings at a modest cost [BW]
Dorman: Four Concerti (Naxos)
(Déjà Review) Beautiful, inventive, high-spirited music, a modern tribute to Baroque [OL]
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]
Carlos Kleiber – I am lost to the world (C Major)
(Déjà Review) This documentary raises more questions than answers [JW]
Carissimi: Oratorios (Atma)
A splendid, atmospheric and technically precise and accurate collection of four of Carissimi’s lovely oratorios [MS]
Leoncavallo: I Medici (Deutsche Grammophon)
An idiomatic, well focused and vigorous performance [JS]
Casals Encores (Hyperion)
(Déjà Review) Performances with feeling that never degenerate into sentiment [GA]
Hear, O Heav’ns: Chapel Royal Anthems (Nimbus)
(Déjà Review) A most enjoyably and intelligently conceived disc [JW]
Antheil: Carnegie Hall Concert of 1927 (Nimbus)
(Déjà Review) A must-hear disc for anyone with any kind of passing interest in the development of 20th Century music [NB]
Contemporary flute concertos (BIS)
(Déjà Review) Four contemporary flute works stunningly performed and recorded [WH]
Peter Mattei (baritone): Great Baritone Arias (BIS)
(Déjà Review) A glorious disc! [OL]






































