Kabeláč: Symphony No. 2 (Capriccio)
Interesting, but not enthralling [DJB]
Cowie: Because They Have Songs (Métier)
Africa’s birds, reimagined in sound [JF]
Itzhak Perlman: The Warner Classics Edition (Warner Classics)
Perlman’s 70th Birthday Box reissued in miniaturised form but with the addition of an extra disc, in time to celebrate his 80th birthday [JW]
Poulenc plays Poulenc and Satie (SOMM Ariadne)
Entirely delightful music in engaging, expert performances [JQ]
Fasch: Orchestral Music (Chandos)
(Déjà Review) Creativity and originality … first recordings of three works by Fasch [JV]
Handel: Il trionfo del Tempo e del Disinganno (Hyperion)
(Déjà Review) A fine recording of a remarkable and fascinating masterpiece from Handel’s years in Italy [GPu]
Pierre Monteux: A 150th Anniversary Tribute (SOMM Ariadne)
A fine anniversary tribute to ‘Le Maître’
Music from the Peterhouse partbooks (Naxos)
Music from the Peterhouse partbooks [SB]
Weir & Beach: Choral works (Hyperion)
Fine performances of two highly contrasted choral works [JQ]
Puts: Orchestral Music (Delos)
Sophisticated, emotional, beautifully crafted and a delight from first to last [DJB]
Bruckner: Symphony No.8 (Profil)
A thoroughly invigorating, newly conceived approach to this greatest of symphonies [RMo]
Catherine Collard (piano): En Concert 1969-1972 (Solstice)
Vivid playing by a pianist who passed too soon [RCh]
A Prayer for Deliverance (Signum Classics)
An outstanding disc [JQ]
Kenneth MacMillan (choreographer) Celebrated (Opus Arte)
Three one-act ballets in very fine performances [RMay]
Ginastera: Complete String Quartets (Naxos)
(Déjà Review) Jaw-dropping prowess revealing masterpieces of the quartet literature [NB]
Haydn: Piano Sonatas Vol. 2 (Hyperion)
(Déjà Review) Some of the finest performances of Haydn sonatas I have heard [MC]
Mozart: Requiem (Reference Recordings)
A thoughtful and different presentation of Mozart’s Requiem Mass [LD]
Ravel: L’Enfant et les sortilèges & L’heure Espagnole (Deutsche Grammophon)
A sparkling pair of Ravel’s contrasting operas, justifying their status as “gramophone classics” [RMo]
Shostakovich: Symphonies 1 & 3 (Chandos)
Storgårds jumps to the beginning in his survey of Shostakovich symphonies – with mixed results [PH]
Elgar: Symphony No 1, In the South (ESO Records)
Accounts of two of Elgar’s greatest orchestral scores which are well worth hearing [JQ]
Liszt: Liszt Abroad (Signum Classics)
(Déjà Review) Should be heard by every lover of songs [GF]
Gouvy: Symphony No 3 & 5 (cpo)
(Déjà Review) Symphonies in an idiom between Bizet, Beethoven & Mendelssohn [RB]
Brahms & Wolf: Lieder (Linn)
Marvellous and treasurable, the finest song disc to have come my way in some considerable time [ST]
Schoenberg: Orchestral & choral music (Berliner Philharmoniker Recordings)
Superb performances of orchestral and choral music by Schoenberg [DHa]
