Orff: Prometheus (Orfeo)
A very original setting of the Aeschylus tragedy, declaimed and sung in Ancient Greek [RWe]
From Mannheim to Berlin (Challenge Classics)
Cello playing of the highest calibre [JV]
Korngold: Music for Violin, Cello & Piano (Et’cetera)
Good performances of Korngold’s earliest chamber works [SB]
Fraser-Simson: Complete Settings of Songs by A.A. Milne (EM Records)
A complete delight [WK]
Cunningham: Symphonies 5 & 6 (Navona Records)
Twentieth-century American, with its own set of highs and lows [SV]
Whitacre: The Sacred Veil (Acis)
A sincere and deeply felt work, expertly performed [JQ]
Prokofiev: Piano Concerto No.3 (Naxos)
(Déjà Review) A disc of undoubted historic interest that contains performances of distinction in their own right [JL]
Britten & Veale: Violin Concertos (Chandos)
(Déjà Review) A gorgeous disc that will have you reassessing the Britten and embracing the Veale concerto [RB]
Rachmaninoff: Piano Concerto No.3 (Channel Classics)
A very personal and compelling recording, if a touch idiosyncratic, of Rach 3 [MB]
Farrenc: Complete Piano Works 2 (Grand Piano)
A brilliant follow-up to the Etudes in elegant and winning performances [RCh]
Haydn: Piano Trios (Praga Digitals)
An album of distinction from the Guarneri Trio Prague [MC]
Fauré: Pénélope (Erato)
A subtle, carefully crafted opera, beautifully sung even if in the end it lacks melodic memorability [RMo]
Ronald Stevenson & Friends (Prima Facie)
A wonderful memorial to a great Scottish pianist and composer by his friends in music [GT]
Beethoven: Symphony No.7 (Simax Classics)
An imaginative coupling, performed with drive and a real insight into the fundamental nature of both works [TB]
Siegfried & Rued Langgaard: Piano concertos (Danacord)
The Siegfried Langgaard concerto is one of the very best of romantic works [JF]
Albéniz: Piano Music, Vol 9 (Naxos)
An entertaining final volume worth hearing for the very short but unknown berceuse [RCh]
The Paris Opera 1900-1960 (Malibran Music)
Ten very well-filled discs documenting six glorious decades at the Paris Opera [RMo]
French Sacred Song (Ad Fontes)
A fascinating programme, with top class performances in excellent sound [GPu]
Weinberg: Symphony No 12 (Chandos)
A superb, state-of-the-art recording of Weinberg’s symphonic works [GT]
Bach: Masterworks for Clavichord (Guild)
(Déjà Review) A must for Bach-lovers, and something to discover for those who have never heard the clavichord [KM]
Gurney: Songs (Hyperion)
(Déjà Review) Agnew is an eloquent exponent of these bitter-sweet, nostalgic and elegiac songs [HC]
Liszt: Piano Works Vol. 2 (Prima Facie)
If you haven’t yet caught up with Hamilton’s Liszt then what are you waiting for? [DMD]
Atmospheriques Vol. 1 (Sono Luminus)
An enjoyable disc of contemporary music by Icelandic and American composers [GT]