Allegri: Miserere (Coro)
(Déjà Review) Those famous tumbling high Cs in the Allegri are piercing in their exaltation – tonal splendour and vocal blend a joy throughout [TH]
Alkan & Liszt: Piano Works (RCA)
Utterly commanding – refuses to let you do anything other than flinch, succumb, brave it out and celebrate [RB]
Schubert: Die schöne Müllerin (Convivium Records)
Very touching – anyone with an inclination for the intimate format should definitely lend an ear to this [GF]
Ida Haendel & Josef Hassid (violins) (Parnassus)
Polish contemporaries – violinistic brilliance [JW]
Hildegard of Bingen: Sacred Chants (Signum Classics)
This disc goes straight to my list of recordings of the year [JV]
Yuja Wang (piano) The American Project (Deutsche Grammophon)
Yuja Wang scintillates in an exciting new large-scale American concerto [NB]
Vaughan Williams: Symphonies 7 & 9 (Hyperion)
Vividly recorded and handsomely played accounts of two great, but challenging, symphonies [RMo]
Prospice (Meridian Records)
A recording which has somehow failed to attract much notice but proves to be a complete revelation [LF]
Walton: Choral works (Naxos)
Some very fine music in absolutely top class performances which are accorded recorded sound of comparable excellence [JQ]
Szymanowski: Hagith (Polish Ministry of Culture)
A reissue of a unique and valuable recording undermined by catastrophic failures of presentation [PCG]
Shostakovich: Symphonies 8-10 (Berliner Philharmoniker Recordings)
Bravo, bravo, and thrice bravo; Kirill Petrenko’s Shostakovich sweeps the board [DM]
Cherubini: Les Abencérages (Bru Zane)
This first studio recording of Cherubini’s Les Abencérages is especially valuable [MC]
Edwin Fischer (piano): Concert in Strasbourg, 1953 (Maestro Editions)
Edwin Fischer’s elevated live Mozart performances in imperfect sound [JW]
German: Symphony 2 (Naxos)
A worthy re-issue of one of the finest pre-Elgarian British symphonies [GH]
The Galant David Rizzio (Olde Focus Recordings)
An interesting contribution to our knowledge of the music scene in 18th-century England and the history of Scottish traditional music [JV]
Chinoiserie (BIS)
A veritable treasure trove of delights [CC]
Mahler: Symphony 7 (Deutsche Grammophon)
A Mahler 7 to be ranked with the finest but carrying an extra magic only “live” performance can bring [MB]
Gerhswin: Rhapsody in Blue (Forgotten Records)
An enjoyable exploration of Gershwin’s many facets with some rarities [RCh]
Jörg Demus (piano): The Bach Recordings on Westminster (Eloquence)
The cultured art of Jörg Demus in Bach [JW]
M Harris: Symphony
In the mood to be soothed rather than provoked or stirred …. [RB]
Parallel Voices (Edizioni Bongiovanni)
A wide-ranging, highly individual, often wayward collection of observations from one of opera’s great characters [RMo]
The Unknown Enescu Vol. 2 (Toccata Classics)
More rare Enescu on a rewarding disc [SB]
A & B Marcello: Cantatas (Elegia Classics)
I am very impressed by Lucia Cortese’s performances of these cantatas [JV]
Bartók: Piano Concertos (Sony)
(Déjà Review) Marvellously subtle and polished … delightfully witty [TH]
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