Pitfield: String Chamber Music (Divine Art)
Warm and understanding performances [WK]
Johannes Obermeier (piano): Brilliants (Genuin)
A début that very much lives up to its name [RCh]
Loughlin: Piano and Chamber Music (Toccata Classics)
A Liverpudlian composer’s musical and geographical wanderings [JW]
Lortzing: Overtures, Concert Pieces, Ballet Music (cpo)
A well-filled introduction to the world of a skillful, once-popular composer [GH]
Haydn: 16 Early Keyboard Sonatas (Da Vinci Classics)
Consummate understanding of what makes these early works tick [DMD]
Richard Galliano (accordion): Around Gershwin (Pentatone)
This imaginative and varied programme proves emphatically that Richard Galliano still sits safely on his throne as the King of the Accordion [GF]
Weill: Symphonies Nos 1 & 2 (Naxos)
(Déjà Review) Add this one to your collection soon [KS]
Erica Morini (violin): Vol 3, Beethoven (Doremi)
(Déjà Review) Long may this worthy retrieval continue [JW]
Koechlin: The Jungle Book (RCA)
A most welcome reissue for an essential recording of Koechlin’s complete Jungle Book settings [PCG]
Pejačević & Röntgen-Maier: Piano trios (Da Vinci Classics)
Two very fine and underappreciated trios in outstanding performances [DJB]
Santoro: Symphonies Nos 4 & 6 (Naxos)
An absorbing fusion of Nationalism and contemporary influences, impressively performed [NB]
Heinichen & Telemann: Early Cantatas (cpo)
Ideal performances of cantatas from early 18th-century Germany [JV]
Strohl: Orchestral Music (La Boîte à Pépites)
What a discovery these ravishing, mystical scores are! [DMD]
Berl Senofsky (violin): American Virtuoso (Rhine Classics)
Strong, masculine playing from Berl Senofsky – along with some less than stellar performances [JW]
Tallis: Gaude gloriosa (Hyperion)
The singing is radiant, warm and luminous with the individual winding strands of voices clear and concise [EML]
Verdi: Don Carlo (Orfeo)
Not only die-hard Verdians but all serious opera lovers should give it a try [GF]
Linde: Chamber Works for piano and for piano trio (dB Productions)
Further evidence that Linde’s untimely passing deprived us of a major talent [RHa]
Brief Encounters: Music for Viola & Piano (Meridian)
Brief the encounters may be, but they are poignant, stirring and full of novelty [JW]
de Hartmann: Violin Concerto & Cello Concerto (Pentatone)
I enjoyed and admired the Cello Concerto, but I count the Violin Concerto as a major discovery [JQ]
Schubert, Mahler and Webern: Music for Strings (Farao Classics)
For all the carefully argued and exhaustively justified reasoning behind these transcriptions, I fail to see – or rather hear – the point… [RMo]
Five Elements Vol 1: Acqua – piano recital (Da Vinci Classics)
An outstanding recital showcasing a formidable technique; let down by poor sound [DMD]
Langgaard: Symphonies Nos 9-11 (Dacapo)
(Déjà Review) A rapturous masterpiece flanked by a pugnaciously enigmatic brevity and a euphoric example of Schumann-dominated nostalgia [RB]
Frankel: Violin Concerto, Viola Concerto & Clarinet Chamber Music (cpo)
(Déjà Review) More evidence of an astonishing but neglected talent. A tonal serialist for whom melody was the thing [NHo]
Lloyd: A Symphonic Mass, A Litany (Lyrita)
These works should most assuredly be in the libraries of all those who love the English choral tradition [PCG]
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