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The King’s Singers: Close Harmony (Signum Classics)

I recommend this issue with all possible enthusiasm [GF]

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Gipps: Piper of Dreams (Chandos)

Wonderful playing in an essential addition to the Gipps discography [WK]

Subissati: Sonate per violino solo e basso continuo (DUX)

Magnificent sonatas, splendid performances [JV]

Cimarosa: L’Olimpiade (Château de Versailles)

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

Jackson: The Christmas Story (Delphian)

An important, eloquent and compelling addition to the Christmas repertoire in an accomplished first recording [JQ]

Benjamin: Picture a day like this (Nimbus Records)

This powerful, moving, beautiful and disturbing new work is a triumph [SB]

Strohl: Chamber Music (La Boîte à Pépites)

How can this wonderful music have lain undiscovered for so long? [DJB]

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Bach: Suites for Solo Cello (OUR Recordings)

An outstanding performance of these great works and a clear contender for Recording of the Year [PB]

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Schubert: Piano Works (Danacord)

Damgaard often achieves a wonderful calm in inspired interpretations [MG]

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Gubaidulina: Triple Concerto (Orfeo)

Gubaidulina’s Triple Concerto and Rejoice! receive outstanding advocacy [LW]

Vaughan Williams: Royal Throne of Kings (Albion Records)

An essential investment for all RVW enthusiasts [JF]

Silenced – Unsung Voices of the 20th Century (Cedille)

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

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Awakenings (Avi-Music)

The most exciting vocal recital disc I’ve heard in a long while [JQ]

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The Palacio Songbook – Music for three voices & lute (Glossa)

Wonderful repertoire, and the performances could not be any better [JV]

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From Venice to Berlin: Baroque trio sonatas (Da Vinci Classics)

Each of the sonatas performed here is a treasure; Intarsio Armonico are outstanding players of this repertoire [JV]

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Rodgers: Carousel (Chandos)

Wilson and his colleagues do full justice to this Broadway masterpiece [JQ]

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Victor Nicoara (piano): Polyphonic Dreams (Hänssler Classic)

The version here of Busoni’s magnus opus for piano should now become the standard one [SB]

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The Balkan Piano Vol 1 (Toccata Classics)

Fabulous music, a worthy champion [SA]

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Pierrot Portraits (Onyx)

Ensemble 360 and Claire Booth bring Pierrot to life on this superb disc [PTh]

In terra aliena: 15th/16th Century Spanish music (Cobra Records)

Something special: the subject, the music it illustrates, and the performance [JV]

Smetana & Schubert: Piano Trios (Supraphon)

Trio Bohémo play with both passion but also precision, they listen to one another and they clearly love this music [SB]

Schurmann: Orchestral Works (Chandos)

Brilliant recordings of wonderfully evocative music [PRJ]

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Bruckner: Symphony No 7 (Reference Recordings)

One of the finest modern Bruckner 7 recordings available today [KC]

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Wagner: Das Rheingold (Deutsche Grammophon)

A stunning new high resolution transfer of this classic recording [MP]