Brahms: Reimagined Orchestrations (Reference Recordings)
Schoenberg’s orchestration of Brahms’s Piano Quartet in a very well recorded, lovely performance, and two surprises [EJW]
Dodgson: Mirage – Piano music (Somm Recordings)
Challenging yet rewarding music, fine performance and recording [WH]
Schubert: Moments musicaux, Drei Klavierstücke (Danacord)
Absorbing and moving performances [JF]
Bowen: Piano Concertos Nos 2 & 3 (Dutton)
(Déjà Review) A most enjoyable helping of Bowen’s late-romanticism [RB]
Bruckner: Symphony No 6 (Profil)
(Déjà Review) If you are looking for mid-price Bruckner 6 in modern sound, look no further [PCW]
Wagner: Siegfried (Profil)
Superlative singing whose impact is somewhat compromised by the disappointingly cavernous mono sound [RMo]
Kodály, Dohnányi & Novák: Organ Works (Naxos)
Wonderful playing and recording of some fairly modest music – with one notable exception [NB]
Enescu: Symphonies Nos 1-3, Romanian Rhapsodies Nos 1 & 2 (Deutsche Grammophon)
Finely wrought performances, played with complete authority [SG]
Druschetzky: Oboe Quartets Vol 2 (cpo)
Well-constructed Classical chamber music, but mostly run-of-the-mill [SFV]
Beethoven: The Final Sonatas (Signum Classics)
A mixed cycle of these masterpieces on modern piano by Melvyn Tan [KC]
J S Bach: Organ Works Vol 8 (Challenge Classics)
(Déjà Review) Those who like big-sounding Bach will enjoy it more than those who expect a lighter touch [BW]
Ariosti: The Stockholm Sonatas II (BIS)
(Déjà Review) Highly attractive [DC]
Bruckner: Symphony No 7 (Reference Recordings)
A magnificent performance, caught In astonishingly vivid sound, supplemented by an exotic and appealing new work [RMo]
Dittersdorf: Symphonies after Ovid’s Metamorphoses (cpo)
Charming works from the time of Haydn and Mozart [SB]
Bacevičius: Orchestral Works Vol 2 (Naxos)
Find out more about a little-known but significant figure in Lithuanian twentieth-century music [GH]
Stravinsky: Orchestral works (SWR Classic)
Middle and late-period Stravinsky, performed with life-affirming zest [NC]
Williams: Reimagined (Warner Classics)
For chamber music lovers and admirers of John Williams alike, this should be fascinating [GF]
Saint-Saëns: Organ Works (Capriccio)
Saint-Saëns enthusiasts should not hesitate to add this attractive disc to their collections [DBi]
Zandonai: Violin Concerto, Quadri di Segantini (cpo)
Colourful nationalist music atmospherically presented and standing in the lineage of Dvorak and Respighi [RB]
Brouwer: Rhapsodies (Naxos)
Marin Alsop is unbeatable in this type of repertoire [PRJ]
Prokofiev: Piano Concertos Nos 2 & 3, Piano Sonata No 7 (Orchid Classics)
Goodyear surges through the concerti with headlong energy, but look elsewhere for abandon in the sonata [NC]
Sheehan: Akathist (Bright Shiny Things)
A deeply felt, very beautiful work which should bring hope to the world of today [GF]
Bach: Organ works completed by Lorenzo Ghielmi (Passacaille)
Indispensable for lovers of Bach’s organ music [JV]
Liszt: Unrivalled (Odradek)
The recital, sampling Liszt’s vast piano solo output, does justice to the varied styles [RWe]
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