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Leopold Stokowski (conductor) BBC Legends Recordings 1963-74 (ICA Classics)
A collection of Stokowski’s live performances from the end of his career is inevitably something of a mixed bag [PCG]
Ravel: Daphnis et Chloé (Chandos)
An enthusiastic welcome for a newly edited score of Ravel’s balletic masterpiece [PCG]
Barber: The Complete Songs (Brilliant Classics)
What should have been an important and innovative release ruined by basic failures of presentation [PCG]
Wagner: Siegfried (Decca)
Triumph! Rejoice! Victory! Solti’s Ring, at last, as Wagner intended! [PCG]
Cavalli: L’Egisto (Château de Versailles Spectacles)
A welcome sound première recording for one of Cavalli’s more dramatically involving operas [PCG]
Rachmaninov: Symphonies (Naxos)
Slatkin’s cycle emphasises the composer’s structural mastery [PCG]
Blow/Purcell: Operas (Opus Arte)
A delightful baroque double bill in an enjoyable period production and setting [PCG]
Szymanowski: Hagith (Polish Ministry of Culture)
A reissue of a unique and valuable recording undermined by catastrophic failures of presentation [PCG]
Wagner: Golden Ring (Decca)
A sampler for the newly remastered Decca/Solti Ring demonstrates that the improvements are more than simply cosmetic [PCG]
Verdi: Rigoletto (Opus Arte)
An imaginative and involving production, but flawed by some intrusive and insensitive vulgarities [PCG]
Joyce: Caravan Suite (Naxos)
An interesting compilation of music by the “English waltz king” who outlived his era by half a century [PCG]
Vaughan Williams: Symphonies 6 & 9 (Pristine)
Pristine remastering of the first Boult cycle of Vaughan Williams symphonies reaches a triumphant conclusion [PCG]
Jonathan Tetelman (tenor) The Great Puccini (DG)
A star Is born! Let’s hope he will resist overexposure [GF]
Vaughan Williams: Symphonies 7 & 8 (Pristine)
Another triumph for Pristine’s re-masterings of the Boult/Decca cycle [PCG]
2023 MWI Recordings of the Year
The twenty-first year that MusicWeb International’s reviewing team has nominated their recordings of the year.
Egk: Columbus (Orfeo)
An operatic rarity returns to the catalogue, and remains a worthwhile encounter [PCG]
Corigliano: The Lord of Cries (Pentatone)
An astounding new opera from John Corigliano receives a benchmark performance [PCG]
Rodgers: Oklahoma! (Chandos)
A ground-breaking recording of a ground-breaking American musical [PCG]
Britten: A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Opus Arte)
A superior reissue of Peter Hall’s other superlative Britten production from Glyndebourne [PCG]
Kõrvits: The Sound of Wings (Ondine)
A beautiful new work from Estonia which will add to the growing reputation of the composer [PCG]
Britten: Noye’s Fludde (Pristine Audio)
Fine historical performances indispensable to any Britten collection [WH]