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Gary Higginson
Saariaho: Songs (Ondine)
Two very late works and a brief early song cycle by this significant Finnish composer [GH]
CPE Bach: The Hamburg Symphonies (Brilliant Classics)
(Déjà Review) If you do not know these extraordinary works then this as good a place as any to start [GH]
Machaut: Sacred Choral works (Delos)
Sacred and secular works, given here in a very particular performance style [GH]
Taneyev: String Quartets Vols 1 & 2 (Northern Flowers)
Re-releases of string quartets which should be much better known [GH]
Janua (Psalmus)
A fascinating juxtaposition of a musical East-meets-West in 15th century Europe, ended tragically [GH]
Monteverdi: Vespro della Beata Vergine (Erato)
(Déjà Review) Sheer vitality and excitement [GH]
Beamish: House of Wonders (Delphian)
A rare glimpse of the personal inspiration behind works by and for one of our leading composers [GH]
Noskowski: String Quartets (Capriccio)
Rarely heard Polish String Quartets played with character and stylistic understanding [GH]
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]
Earthly Solace: Eton Choirbook reconstructions (CRD)
Motets brilliantly brought to life again in superb reconstructions and sung with passion and sensitivity. [GH]
Wright: String and Orchestral Music (Dutton Epoch)
(Déjà Review) Sparkle, rhythmic élan with a certain jazzy quality, and also in the English Pastoral tradition [GH]
Bonis: Orchestral Works (Chandos)
More revolutionary discoveries from a French composer we should know much more about [GH]
Gál: The Right Tempo (Chamber Music) (Gramola)
(Déjà Review) Beautifully documented, superbly played and sympathetically recorded [GH]
Kashperova: Piano Concerto, Symphony (Capriccio)
Premiere recordings of two fine works by a little-known Russian pianist-composer who taught Stravinsky [GH]
Tye: Peterhouse Mass (Hyperion)
Exemplary performances of sacred Latin works, some reconstructed, by a composer who is still a rather mysterious figure in Renaissance music [GH]
Ubi Caritas. Italian Laude in the Early Renaissance (Ricercar)
Little-explored repertoire in colourful and beautiful interpretations [GH]
Rubbra: Crucifixus pro Nobis (Delphian)
The Rubbra discography advances with very fine performances and three premieres [GH]
Pergolesi: Sacred Works (Archiv Produktion)
(Déjà Review) Subtle and beautiful … most sensitively accompanied by Abbado [GH]
Dring: Through the Centuries: Songs (Chandos)
A most enjoyable excursion into Dring’s style performed with aplomb and passion [GH]
Garro: Masses and Motets (Hyperion)
The first major recording of sacred works by a shadowy master who worked in the Royal Chapel in Lisbon [GH]
The Floating City (Hyperion Helios)
Not only is the music fascinating but the performances are special [GH]
Kalomiris: Rhapsodies and Symphonic Poems (Naxos)
(Déjà Review) A fascinating door opened onto Greek nationalist music [GH]
Fritze: Overtures & Symphonies (Naxos)
Colourful works, brilliantly played and superbly recorded [GH]
Castelnuovo-Tedesco: Shakespeare Overtures Vol. 2 (Naxos)
(Déjà Review) The music is unfailingly attractive, is colourfully orchestrated and sympathetically played [GH]
