Auerbach: Milking Darkness (Challenge Classics)

Delta Piano Trio continue to excel in Auerbach’s music [LW]

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Bach: Goldberg Variations (Simax Classics)

(Déjà Review) One of the most personal and original harpsichord recordings of the Goldbergs to be released in years [KM]

Weyse: Sovedrikken [The Sleeping Draught] (Dacapo)

(Déjà Review) The score is bright, carries warm harmonies and is fast moving with enjoyable themes, and catchy motifs [RW]

Orff: Prometheus (Orfeo)

A very original setting of the Aeschylus tragedy, declaimed and sung in Ancient Greek [RWe]

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Whitacre: The Sacred Veil (Acis)

A sincere and deeply felt work, expertly performed [JQ]

Cunningham: Symphonies 5 & 6 (Navona Records)

Twentieth-century American, with its own set of highs and lows [SV]

Fraser-Simson: Complete Settings of Songs by A.A. Milne (EM Records)

A complete delight [WK]

Korngold: Music for Violin, Cello & Piano (Et’cetera)

Good performances of Korngold’s earliest chamber works [SB]

From Mannheim to Berlin (Challenge Classics)

Cello playing of the highest calibre [JV]

Britten & Veale: Violin Concertos (Chandos)

(Déjà Review) A gorgeous disc that will have you reassessing the Britten and embracing the Veale concerto [RB]

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Prokofiev: Piano Concerto No.3 (Naxos)

(Déjà Review) A  disc of undoubted historic interest that contains performances of distinction in their own right [JL]

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Ronald Stevenson & Friends (Prima Facie)

A wonderful memorial to a great Scottish pianist and composer by his friends in music [GT]

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Fauré: Pénélope (Erato)

A subtle, carefully crafted opera, beautifully sung even if in the end it lacks melodic memorability [RMo]

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Haydn: Piano Trios (Praga Digitals)

An album of distinction from the Guarneri Trio Prague [MC]

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Farrenc: Complete Piano Works 2 (Grand Piano)

A brilliant follow-up to the Etudes in elegant and winning performances [RCh]

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Rachmaninoff: Piano Concerto No.3 (Channel Classics)

A very personal and compelling recording, if a touch idiosyncratic, of Rach 3 [MB]

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Siegfried & Rued Langgaard: Piano concertos (Danacord)

The Siegfried Langgaard concerto is one of the very best of romantic works [JF]

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Beethoven: Symphony No.7 (Simax Classics)

An imaginative coupling, performed with drive and a real insight into the fundamental nature of both works [TB]

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Weinberg: Symphony No 12 (Chandos)

A superb, state-of-the-art recording of Weinberg’s symphonic works [GT]

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French Sacred Song (Ad Fontes)

A fascinating programme, with top class performances in excellent sound [GPu]

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Mozart: Piano Sonatas (Hyperion)

Immaculate performances of delightful works [SB]

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The Paris Opera 1900-1960 (Malibran Music)

Ten very well-filled discs documenting six glorious decades at the Paris Opera [RMo]

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Albéniz: Piano Music, Vol 9 (Naxos)

An entertaining final volume worth hearing for the very short but unknown berceuse [RCh]

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Gurney: Songs (Hyperion)

(Déjà Review) Agnew is an eloquent exponent of these bitter-sweet, nostalgic and elegiac songs [HC]