Castelnuovo-Tedesco: Music for Two Guitars Volume 2 (Naxos)
(Déjà Review) Refinement and beauty … technical sophistication and musical taste [NB]
Berlioz: La Damnation de Faust & La Mort de Cléopatre (Warner Classics)
(Déjà Review) Made doubly tempting by Baker’s wonderful Cléopâtre [RH]
Barber: Orchestral Music (Classics for Pleasure)
(Déjà Review) Is Samuel Barber the most inexplicably underrated composer of the 20th century? [GPJ]
Offenbach: Overtures (Naxos)
A beautiful program, which also points up the hazards [SV]
Mozart: Complete Divertimenti and Serenades for Winds (Brilliant Classics)
A comprehensive collection, well played [SB]
Music for the Feast of the Assumption (Hymnus)
An artfully devised and beautifully performed double programme, melding liturgical music for the Catholic Mass and the Anglican Choral Evensong [RMo]
Vanhal: Symphonies (cpo)
One of the best of the many 18th century symphonists in the shadow of Mozart and Haydn [DJB]
Bartholomée: Requiem (Cyprès)
(Déjà Review) A splendid performance and recording of a thought-provoking Requiem [HC]
Bach: Violin Concerti (Hyperion Helios)
(Déjà Review) Eminently sane performances, well recorded, at a very reasonable price [BW]
Mozart: Piano Sonatas (Hyperion)
A surprisingly disappointing release [RMas]
Contemporaries of Brahms Vol. 2 (Chandos)
An enjoyable less well-known work, and the brilliant Brahms worth coming back [ST]
Hovhaness: Violin Concerto No.2 & Strings, Works for Violin and Piano (Naxos)
An immaculately programmed, ear-opening disc of Hovhaness’s less well-known works [PRJ]
Ryelandt: Piano Sonatas I (Antarctica Records)
Beenhouwer dusted off Ryelandt’s manuscripts and brought these warm-hearted romantic sonatas to life [RCh]
Bériot: Solo Violin Music, Vol 1 (Naxos)
(Déjà Review) Exceptional violin playing reviving a major work of the solo violin repertoire [NB]
Le Roux: Complete Suites (Avie)
An intriguing mix of the pleasant and the exceptional [DJB]
d’Orléans: Suite d’Armide ou Jérusalem délivrée (Château de Versailles)
A Baroque masterpiece that has been skillfully prepared but is compromised by irritating microphone placement [MP]
Sommernachtskonzert Schönbrunn 2025 (Sony Classical)
You probably had to be there [RMay]
British Piano Quintets (SOMM Recordings)
Four very different works form a generous and diverse programme [NB]
Brahms: The Symphonies 1-4 (Warner Classics)
(Déjà Review) An important set of the Brahms symphonies [JQ]
JS Bach: Latin Church Music Vol 1 (Challenge Classics)
Kindled an instant love [JFL]
JL Adams: the place we began (Cold Blue)
As hypnotic as it is different [CC]
Reminiscences (Blue Griffin)
Reflections on wartime experience fuse with Weimar-era drive – and a contemporary setting [JW]
Puts: Orchestral Works (Delos)
An excellent collection of orchestral music by a leading American composer [DHa]
Dancing in Vienna (Somm Recordings)
An invitation to the dance from a master of the lighter style [PH]
