Déjà Reviews
Re-published reviews from the archive
Butterworth: Chamber Music (Dutton Epoch)
(Déjà Review) Tuneful and tonal works from a contemporary composer, in accomplished and suave performances [EML]
Salonen: Wing On Wing (Deutsche Grammophon)
Three impressive major works in magnificent performances [CT]
Schuman: Symphonies 4 & 9 (Naxos)
Fine music by a composer who really had something to say [JQ]
Rossini: Overtures (RCA)
(Déjà Review) Effervescent music and the unmatched panache of Reiner’s conducting are a winning formula! [PJL]
Saint-Saëns: Chamber Music (Hyperion)
(Déjà Review) A wonderfully presented release that is clearly one of my records of the year [MC]
Anthems for the 21st Century (Signum Classics)
(Déjà Review) A most stimulating collection and it is hard to imagine that it could be performed better [JQ]
Leighton: Complete Solo Piano Works (Delphian)
(Déjà Review) Anyone interested in the composer will need to have this set [PCW]
Poulenc: Piano music (SOMM)
(Déjà Review) An album to cherish that will undoubtedly figure highly in my recital discs of the year [IL]
Mendelssohn: String Quartets (Cedille)
(Déjà Review) A suitably warm and wonderfully detailed recording matches insight, imagination and colouristic sensibility [JW]
Debussy: Preludes I & II (Onyx)
(Déjà Review) A subtle and experienced advocate in the piano music of his homeland [TH]
Berio: Sequenzas I-XIV (Naxos)
(Déjà Review) A musical odyssey that will remain as one of the peaks of 20th century instrumental music [HC]
Busoni: Orchestral Works (Chandos)
(Déjà Review) A simply superb recording [CC]
Bach: Sonatas and Partitas for violin (Pentatone)
(Déjà Review) One of the finest, maybe the finest, set of these works [PSh]
The Golden Age of Light Music – An Introduction (Guild Music)
(Déjà Review) The best possible introduction to the genre of Light Music [JF]
Shostakovich: Hamlet (Naxos)
(Déjà Review) That very rare bird indeed – an original film score that can stand on its own [PSe]
Mompou: Complete Piano Works (Brilliant Classics)
(Déjà Review) A chance to admire Mompou the composer-pianist in his maturity and playing that gets to the heart of the matter [JW]
Dvořák: Quintets (MDG)
(Déjà Review) Hugely impressive performances from first note to last [MC]
Bach: Well-Tempered Clavier, Book 1 (ECM New Series)
(Déjà Review) Lean textures, subtle intensity, and exceptional detail of inner voices and the interplay among voices [DS]
Bach: Cantatas Vol. 24 (BIS)
(Déjà Review) A very special disc [CC]
Chopin: Preludes, Piano Sonata No. 2 (Deutsche Grammophon)
(Déjà Review) The cumulative power of the Preludes make this, for some, the greatest performance of the work ever recorded [JL]
Brahms: The Sextets (Signum Classics)
(Déjà Review) Few performances are fresher [CC]
Beach: Symphony, Piano Concerto (Naxos)
A brilliant bargain performance of Amy Beach’s two major orchestral works – snap it up [NH]
Beethoven: Symphonies 1 and 6 (Elatus)
(Déjà Review) Mravinsky’s Beethoven is revealed to be of considerable importance, and completely idiomatic [CH]
Shostakovich/Auerbach: String Quartets (Capriccio)
(Déjà Review) The programming shows real individuality; the recording is top-drawer and the playing first-class [CC]
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