Recommended
Wagner: Götterdämmerung (Decca)
A recording for the ages, revealed in full splendour in a new re-mastering [JQ]
Echoes of Bohemia: Czech Music for Wind (Chandos)
The Orsini Ensemble rises superbly to all the challenges of this colourful and attractive music [GPJ]
Ekaterina Siurina (soprano) Where Is My Beloved? (Delos)
Ekaterina Siurina’s voice is in mint condition, with perfectly controlled vibrato and a glowing delivery [GF]
Leighton: Every Living Creature (SOMM Recordings)
A valuable collection of Leighton’s choral music, with several first recordings [SB]
Tchaikovsky: Symphony No.5 (Reference Recordings)
An enterprising pairing of two works given thrilling, gripping performances and sound [RMo]
Fauré: Piano Works (Hyperion)
Magical performances, illuminated and musically informed, recorded in superior sound [SG]
Sarah Willis (Horn) Mozart y Mambo (Alpha Classics)
A riotously enjoyable disc, the third in the amazing Sarah Willis’s series featuring Mozart Cuban-style [GPJ]
Praetorius & Schütz: Sacred Works (cpo)
Another recording of great importance and of great beauty from these performers [JV]
Wagner: Die Walküre (Altus)
Schippers’s great Osaka Die Walküre is one of the great treasures of the Wagner discography [MB]
Sounds and Sweet Air – A Shakespeare Songbook ( BIS)
This fine, imaginative album will entertain and enlighten [JQ]
Weinberg: Dawn, Symphony No.12 (Chandos)
An unexpected and thrilling pendant to Storgårds’ survey of late Shostakovich [NC]
Ataúlfo Argenta (conductor) (Decca)
Two LPs’ worth of Argenta’s legendary performances in classic Decca sound [PSe]
Wagner: Orchestral Selections from Der Ring des Nibelungen (RCA/Sony)
It would be hard to find a more sumptuously played and superbly recorded Wagner disc than this one [MB]
Ichiro Suzuki (guitar): Intimate (IBS Classical)
The intimate guitar at its best [ZT]
Gluck: Écho et Narcisse (Chateau de Versailles)
This recording is superb in every respect; nobody is likely to be disappointed by either the singing or the music [GF]
Rautavaara & Martinů: Piano Concertos (BIS)
This attractive coupling should win new friends for these works [SB]
Rachmaninov: Piano Concerti (Deutsche Grammophon)
A fine contribution to the Rachmaninoff 150 celebrations [JQ]
Britten: Albert Herring (Opus Arte)
An unmatchable and irreplaceable video makes a welcome return to the catalogues [PCG]
Martin & Franck: Piano quintets (CAvi-Music)
Superb performances of both works: a rewarding coupling [SB]
Herz: Stars rise afar (Genuin)
A rewarding release, thought-provoking and inspiring [SG]
Remembering Tebaldi (Pentatone)
A lovely recital presenting Melody Moore as a worthy inhabitant of the pantheon of the present generation of sopranos [GF]
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