Recommended
The King’s Singers: Close Harmony (Signum Classics)
I recommend this issue with all possible enthusiasm [GF]
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]
Bach: Suites for Solo Cello (OUR Recordings)
An outstanding performance of these great works and a clear contender for Recording of the Year [PB]
Schubert: Piano Works (Danacord)
Damgaard often achieves a wonderful calm in inspired interpretations [MG]
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]
Awakenings (Avi-Music)
The most exciting vocal recital disc I’ve heard in a long while [JQ]
The Palacio Songbook – Music for three voices & lute (Glossa)
Wonderful repertoire, and the performances could not be any better [JV]
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]
Rodgers: Carousel (Chandos)
Wilson and his colleagues do full justice to this Broadway masterpiece [JQ]
Victor Nicoara (piano): Polyphonic Dreams (Hänssler Classic)
The version here of Busoni’s magnus opus for piano should now become the standard one [SB]
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]
Bruckner: Symphony No 7 (Reference Recordings)
One of the finest modern Bruckner 7 recordings available today [KC]
Wagner: Das Rheingold (Deutsche Grammophon)
A stunning new high resolution transfer of this classic recording [MP]
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