Lincke: Overtures Vol. 1 (cpo)
There may be more to Lincke than the Gavotte Pavlova and Berliner Luft [RMay]
Julius Prüwer (conductor) Forgotten Maestro (Pristine Audio)
A welcome restoration of the recordings of a largely overlooked German conductor [JW]
Dodgson: Songs Vol. 1 (SOMM Recordings)
An enticing introduction to a fine composer’s songs [WH]
Mayer: Piano works (Dynamic)
Attractive miniatures in the mould of Schumann and Mendelssohn [RCh]
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]
Music for Strings (Chandos)
Superb playing and engineering; any reservations will centre upon the desirability of the programme [RMo]
Honegger: Symphony 2 (Forgotten Records)
A great Janáček champion conducts Honegger and Martinů in an obscure Polish recording [JW]
Price: Songs of the Oak (Naxos)
Collectors of Florence Price’s music need not hesitate in acquiring this disc [LW]
Baquedano: Music for the Cathedral of Santiago (Lauda)
Texts set with expressivity and emotion [GH]
Hjellemo: Orchestral Works (Sterling)
Don’t miss this disc if you are well disposed to tonally pleasing late Romantic music [SG]
Verdi: Falstaff (Urania)
Though Sir Geraint Evans is rather gruff and dry-toned, this lavishly cast recording is worth anyone’s money [GF]