Atterberg: Piano Concerto (cpo)
(Déjà Review) A feast for unashamed romantics. Grand Romantic, heart-on-sleeve stuff, over the top music, delivered in bravura performances [IL]
Cavalli: Il Xerse (Naxos)
A well-sung performance of a little-recorded work [RWe]
Puccini: La bohème (Warner Classics)
This old recording still has plenty of rewards to offer [MP]
Emanuel Feuermann (cello) In Concert (Parnassus)
Exceptionally fine cello playing, and artistic quality is high throughout [SG]
Sandrine Piau (soprano) Reflet (Alpha Classics)
An attractive programme of French orchestral songs that will provide much enjoyment, but there are better versions of the well-known songs [PT]
Beethoven: Sonatas & Variations for Cello & Piano (Et’cetera)
Maybe not essential, but certainly enjoyable [DC]
Vaughan Williams’ Serenade to Music (Albion Records)
Another transfer of the 1938 Serenade to Music and miscellaneous songs from the 16 singers [JW]
F Couperin: Leçons de Ténèbres (BIS)
(Déjà Review) Music-making of a high order [RH]
Donizetti: Elvida (Opera Rara)
(Déjà Review) I strongly recommend all lovers of the composer’s music and the bel canto genre to add it to their collections [RJF]
Schubert & Hummel: La contemplazione (IBS Classical)
The strong ties between these two giants are highlighted in this vivid recital [RCh]
Ravel, Berkeley & Pounds (Chandos)
Once again Impeccable music making from John Wilson and his Sinfonia of London [PRJ]
Annie Fischer (piano) Schumann & Schubert (ICA Classics)
Annie Fischer in Schubert and Schumann: a great pianist in the BBC studios [JW]
Rachmaninoff: Symphony 2 & Piano Concerto 2 (Berliner Philharmoniker)
This is in every way a distinguished Rachmaninoff album [JQ]
Mahler: Symphony 3 (High Definition Tape Transfers)
A classic performance in a never-before-heard revelatory recording [NB]
Parallels (Divine Art)
This impressive recital ‘parallels’ old and new favourites [JF]
Bach: Keyboard Works (Hyperion)
(Déjà Review) A significant series, a laudable one, and there’s no lessening in perception in this final volume [JW]
Buxtehude: Complete Organ Works Vol. 2 (Da Capo)
(Déjà Review) Phenomenally relaxed and efficient technique on the most challenging of organs [CB]
Handel: Messiah (Erato)
Period-instrument Messiah, not to be missed [DF]
Cage: Music for Three, Music for One (CAvi-Music)
Cage’s ‘thing’ advocated by three superb musicians, in sympathetic sonics [RHa]
Puccini: A te, Puccini (Signum Classics)
These songs deserve more recordings but here the vocal shortcomings are hard to ignore [MBu]
Bacewicz: Complete Orchestral Works Volume 2 (cpo)
A balanced orchestral portfolio follows Bacewicz from neo-classicism to her late style [JW]
Catalan Cello Works (Naxos)
A thoroughly enjoyable disc, fascinating music atmospherically played and well recorded [GPu]
Verdi: Nabucco (Deutsche Grammophon)
Sinopoli and a powerhouse cast reveal unsuspected depths in Verdi’s early opera [MP]
Elly Ney (piano): Brahms & Schubert (APR)
There is some beautiful playing in these wartime recordings [RCh]
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