Mahler: Symphony No. 5 (Reference Recordings)
An outstanding Mahler Fifth [JQ]
Grosz: Piano Music 2 (Grand Piano)
A marvellous second volume of Grosz’s intriguing piano music [RCh]
Poulenc: Music for Two Pianos (Divine Art)
One for the Poulenc or two piano enthusiast [DJB]
Dorman: Four Concerti (Naxos)
(Déjà Review) Beautiful, inventive, high-spirited music, a modern tribute to Baroque [OL]
Dohnányi: Orchestral Works (Naxos)
(Déjà Review) Will give much pleasure [BBr]
Pasquini: I fatti di Mosè nel deserto (Da Vinci Classics)
A very good case for Pasquini as a composer of vocal music [JV]
Poulenc, Hindemith, Pinkham: Works for Organ and Orchestra (ESO Records)
Highly accomplished performances, sympathetically recorded [JQ]
Schubert/Liszt: Wanderer Fantasy; Tchaikovsky: Concert Fantasy (Alpha Classics)
An impressive coupling of unjustly neglected gems [PRJ]
Guarnieri: Pedro Malazarte, A Serra do Rola-Moça, Cuatro Poemas de Macunaíma (Naxos)
Accomplished and idiomatic performances [NB]
Chopin: Piano Concertos (Hänssler Classic)
Outstanding live performances of the Chopin concertos [RBe]
Gál: Chamber Music (cpo)
Splendid versions of Gál’s very important works [WK]
Il fior della Cecilia (Tactus)
The lives of six medieval women who suffered for love, heard through the medium of the Renaissance Frottola composers. [GH]
Prokofiev: Piano Concerto No 3 (Decca)
Kanneh-Mason is a real ball of fire in the concerto [SB]
Carlos Kleiber – I am lost to the world (C Major)
(Déjà Review) This documentary raises more questions than answers [JW]
Mirella Freni (soprano): Great Singers Live (BR Klassik)
(Déjà Review) I just couldn’t stop playing this disc which is not surprising given that Freni has one of the finest soprano voices I have ever heard [MC]
Leoncavallo: I Medici (Deutsche Grammophon)
An idiomatic, well focused and vigorous performance [JS]
Carissimi: Oratorios (Atma)
A splendid, atmospheric and technically precise and accurate collection of four of Carissimi’s lovely oratorios [MS]
Mahler: Symphony 7 (C Major)
A disappointing Mahler’s Seventh [LW]
Shapira: Chunhyang Concerto (Neuma Records)
Korean Folk Music melded with Western compositional techniques [EJW]
Bruckner: Symphony 8 (Pristine Audio)
Not the best we could have expected from Szell [SV]
Rachmaninoff: Symphonic Dances, Pletnev: Rachmaniana (Euroarts)
Serviceable Symphonic Dances and an unexciting suite of piano-piece orchestrations [NB]
Kiel: Piano Works (Naxos)
Ms. Haughan is a solid advocate for Kiel’s very neglected piano works [JWe]
Rediscovering Liszt (Prima Facie)
One of the finest all-Liszt discs I’ve heard in recent years; a unique program concept and personality [MK]
Helen Charlston (mezzo-soprano): A Poet’s Love (BIS)
A very interesting performance of some well-known and some less well-known settings of Heine poems [DJa]
