P & A Philidor: Suites and Pieces (Barn Cottage Records)
A splendid display of the musical world of early 18th-century France [JV]
Field: Complete Piano Concertos (Brilliant Classics)
(Déjà Review) Enjoyable and unjustly neglected music in recommendable performances and recordings at a modest cost [BW]
Danish Violin Concertos Vol. 4 (Danacord)
(Déjà Review) Flaws but credit to Kai Laursen and his prophet-in-the-wilderness role of promoting so much music that he clearly cared passionately about [NB]
Guarnieri: Pedro Malazarte, A Serra do Rola-Moça, Cuatro Poemas de Macunaíma (Naxos)
Accomplished and idiomatic performances [NB]
Schubert/Liszt: Wanderer Fantasy; Tchaikovsky: Concert Fantasy (Alpha Classics)
An impressive coupling of unjustly neglected gems [PRJ]
Poulenc, Hindemith, Pinkham: Works for Organ and Orchestra (ESO Records)
Highly accomplished performances, sympathetically recorded [JQ]
Pasquini: I fatti di Mosè nel deserto (Da Vinci Classics)
A very good case for Pasquini as a composer of vocal music [JV]
Dohnányi: Orchestral Works (Naxos)
(Déjà Review) Will give much pleasure [BBr]
Dorman: Four Concerti (Naxos)
(Déjà Review) Beautiful, inventive, high-spirited music, a modern tribute to Baroque [OL]
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]
Carlos Kleiber – I am lost to the world (C Major)
(Déjà Review) This documentary raises more questions than answers [JW]
Prokofiev: Piano Concerto No 3 (Decca)
Kanneh-Mason is a real ball of fire in the concerto [SB]
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]
Gál: Chamber Music (cpo)
Splendid versions of Gál’s very important works [WK]
Chopin: Piano Concertos (Hänssler Classic)
Outstanding live performances of the Chopin concertos [RBe]
Rachmaninoff: Symphonic Dances, Pletnev: Rachmaniana (Euroarts)
Serviceable Symphonic Dances and an unexciting suite of piano-piece orchestrations [NB]
Bruckner: Symphony 8 (Pristine Audio)
Not the best we could have expected from Szell [SV]
Shapira: Chunhyang Concerto (Neuma Records)
Korean Folk Music melded with Western compositional techniques [EJW]
Mahler: Symphony 7 (C Major)
A disappointing Mahler’s Seventh [LW]
Carissimi: Oratorios (Atma)
A splendid, atmospheric and technically precise and accurate collection of four of Carissimi’s lovely oratorios [MS]
Leoncavallo: I Medici (Deutsche Grammophon)
An idiomatic, well focused and vigorous performance [JS]
Casals Encores (Hyperion)
(Déjà Review) Performances with feeling that never degenerate into sentiment [GA]
Hear, O Heav’ns: Chapel Royal Anthems (Nimbus)
(Déjà Review) A most enjoyably and intelligently conceived disc [JW]
Copland: Symphony No. 3 (LSO Live)
A fascinating juxtaposition of two American symphonic works [JQ]
