Bronisław Gimpel (violin) Violin Concertos (Biddulph)
Gimpel’s Vox concertos: rich in virtuosity, glamour and colour [JW]
Glière: String Quartets (DUX)
Attractively confident and assured quartets in dramatic, virtuosic readings [NB]
Nebra & Corselli: Cantatas (Pan Classics)
Another step toward full appreciation of Spanish music of the 18th century [JV]
Dove: In Exile (Lyrita)
Music and performance can be recommended without reservation [JQ]
Mussorgsky: Symphonic Transcriptions by Stokowski (Deutsche Grammophon)
(Déjà Review) A fine new recording of Stokowski’s vividly orchestrated responses to Mussorgsky’s music [CT]
Castelnuovo-Tedesco: Piano Music (SOMM)
(Déjà Review) All credit to Bebbington and Somm for opening this stimulating door [RB]
Schreker: Irrelohe (Sony Classical)
Exotically scored but melodically diffuse, this melodrama is given the best possible advocacy [RMo]
Maskats: Tango (Ondine)
Attractive, often beautiful works in superb performances and recordings, worth repeated hearing [HC]
Kapustin: Piano Concerto 5 (Capriccio)
Kapustin’s jazz-based music brought to life in brilliant fashion [JW]
Iannaccone: Looking Back, Moving On (Navona Records)
Aureate radiance: radiant in calm; radiant in storm [RB]
Dukas: Complete Piano Music (Piano Classics)
Maltempo captures the romantic sweep of the music and its nuances wonderfully well [JF]
Barrueco: Complete Recordings (Warner Classics)
A goldmine for guitar aficionados, and general music lovers, too; the excellence of the playing can be taken for granted [GF]
Beethoven: Piano Concertos 1-5 (Warner Classics)
(Déjà Review) A revelation of what can still be revealed by dedicated musicians [RB]
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]
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