Verdi: Rigoletto (Opus Arte)
An imaginative and involving production, but flawed by some intrusive and insensitive vulgarities [PCG]
Golestan: Chamber Music (Forgotten Records)
Attractive transfers from the 1920s and 1930s of Stan Golestan’s chamber music [JW]
Bruckner: Symphony No. 5 (Fontec)
Another potentially engaging recording, fatally compromised by the conductor’s ill-disciplined vocal intrusiveness [RMo]
Haydn 2032 No. 13 (Alpha)
Rousing, exquisitely articulated performances of Haydn symphonies [DF]
Dmitri Hvorostovsky (baritone): The Philips Recitals (Eloquence)
This is a glorious collection that should be a source for delight for many years to come [GF]
Music for Strings (Chandos)
Superb playing and engineering; any reservations will centre upon the desirability of the programme [RMo]
Mozart: Coronation Mass (BR Klassik)
Refined, exciting, and extraordinarily well-sung period-instrument performances of selected Latin choral works by Mozart [DF]
Joyce: Caravan Suite (Naxos)
An interesting compilation of music by the “English waltz king” who outlived his era by half a century [PCG]
Handel: Eternal Heaven (Erato)
Music making of the highest order for anyone with an open mind for whom no borderlines exist [GF]
Debussy & Ravel: String Quartets (Forgotten Records)
A great quartet in core repertory and superbly communicative Ginastera [JW]
Czerny-Stefańska (piano) Concert Tours in Germany (Meloclassic)
An excellent all-round portrait of this outstanding pianist [RCh]
Verdi: Falstaff (Urania)
Though Sir Geraint Evans is rather gruff and dry-toned, this lavishly cast recording is worth anyone’s money [GF]
Hjellemo: Orchestral Works (Sterling)
Don’t miss this disc if you are well disposed to tonally pleasing late Romantic music [SG]
Baquedano: Music for the Cathedral of Santiago (Lauda)
Texts set with expressivity and emotion [GH]
Schubert Revisited (Deutsche Grammophon)
A revelatory album [JQ]
Price: Songs of the Oak (Naxos)
Collectors of Florence Price’s music need not hesitate in acquiring this disc [LW]
Honegger: Symphony 2 (Forgotten Records)
A great Janáček champion conducts Honegger and Martinů in an obscure Polish recording [JW]
Bacewicz: Symphonies (cpo)
Rigour and rhythmic drive somewhat leavened by folkloric elements [JW]
The Canticle of the Sun (Regent)
An interesting programme, impressively performed [JQ]
Bruckner: Symphony 8 (Tobu Recordings)
A wholly viable interpretation of indestructible integrity [RMo]
Dracula – Bite Size (Cuillin Sound Music)
A famous tale told with stylish and compelling atmosphere [DC]
Schütz: David & Salomon (harmonia mundi)
An interesting production that is marred by some serious issues [JV]
Sibelius: The Tempest (Naxos)
Kamu has the measure of Sibelius’s complete Tempest music [LW]
Schulhoff: Shapeshifter (Delos)
Praiseworthy performances of fascinating repertoire [MC]
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