George & Ira Gershwin’s The Man I Love

by Len Mullenger

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Lincke: Overtures Vol. 1 (cpo)

There may be more to Lincke than the Gavotte Pavlova and Berliner Luft [RMay]

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Julius Prüwer (conductor) Forgotten Maestro (Pristine Audio)

A welcome restoration of the recordings of a largely overlooked German conductor [JW]

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Dodgson: Songs Vol. 1 (SOMM Recordings)

An enticing introduction to a fine composer’s songs [WH]

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Mayer: Piano works (Dynamic)

Attractive miniatures in the mould of Schumann and Mendelssohn [RCh]

Berlioz’s La Damnation de Faust

A survey by Ralph Moore

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]

Haydn 2032 No. 13 (Alpha)

Rousing, exquisitely articulated performances of Haydn symphonies [DF]

Bruckner: Symphony No. 5 (Fontec)

Another potentially engaging recording, fatally compromised by the conductor’s ill-disciplined vocal intrusiveness [RMo]

Golestan: Chamber Music (Forgotten Records)

Attractive transfers from the 1920s and 1930s of Stan Golestan’s chamber music [JW]

Verdi: Rigoletto (Opus Arte)

An imaginative and involving production, but flawed by some intrusive and insensitive vulgarities [PCG]

Yvonne Lefébure (piano): Inédits 5 (Solstice)

Solstice’s au revoir to a great artist [SG]

Czerny-Stefańska (piano) Concert Tours in Germany (Meloclassic)

An excellent all-round portrait of this outstanding pianist [RCh]

Debussy & Ravel: String Quartets (Forgotten Records)

A great quartet in core repertory and superbly communicative Ginastera [JW]

Handel: Eternal Heaven (Erato)

Music making of the highest order for anyone with an open mind for whom no borderlines exist [GF]

Joyce: Caravan Suite (Naxos)

An interesting compilation of music by the “English waltz king” who outlived his era by half a century [PCG]

Mozart: Coronation Mass (BR Klassik)

Refined, exciting, and extraordinarily well-sung period-instrument performances of selected Latin choral works by Mozart [DF]

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Music for Strings (Chandos)

Superb playing and engineering; any reservations will centre upon the desirability of the programme [RMo]

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Honegger: Symphony 2 (Forgotten Records)

A great Janáček champion conducts Honegger and Martinů in an obscure Polish recording [JW]

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Price: Songs of the Oak (Naxos)

Collectors of Florence Price’s music need not hesitate in acquiring this disc [LW]

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Schubert Revisited (Deutsche Grammophon)

A revelatory album [JQ]

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Baquedano: Music for the Cathedral of Santiago (Lauda)

Texts set with expressivity and emotion [GH]

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Hjellemo: Orchestral Works (Sterling)

Don’t miss this disc if you are well disposed to tonally pleasing late Romantic music [SG]

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Verdi: Falstaff (Urania)

Though Sir Geraint Evans is rather gruff and dry-toned, this lavishly cast recording is worth anyone’s money [GF]