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Gwyn Parry-Jones
Elgar: Orchestral Music (Hallé)
(Déjà Review) High standards … a fascinating programme [GPJ]
Barber: Orchestral Music (Classics for Pleasure)
(Déjà Review) Is Samuel Barber the most inexplicably underrated composer of the 20th century? [GPJ]
Shostakovich: Orchestral Songs (Capriccio)
A wonderfully varied collection, in mostly excellent performances [GPJ]
Poulenc: Gloria & Schubert: Mass No 5 (Berlin Classics)
The youth choir Dresdner Kreuzchor struggles to produce a sound strong enough for these works [GPJ]
Sir Adrian Boult (conductor): BBC SO Pre-War Recordings Volume 3 (Pristine Audio)
Find out how fine the newish BBC SO was, and what a fine orchestral trainer Boult was [GPJ]
Grieg: Music for String Orchestra (Naxos)
(Déjà Review) A veritable smorgasbord of simply scrumptious music! [GPJ]
Shostakovich: Jazz Suites, Ballet Suites, Concertos (Capriccio)
An entertaining box of mostly the lighter, often hilarious, side of Shostakovich’s output, in excellent performances [GPJ]
Shostakovich: Symphony 1; Nielsen: Symphony 5 (ICA Classics)
A particularly intense Nielsen performance, and a fascinating little interview [GPJ]
Shostakovich: Cello Concerto 2 & Britten: Cello Sonata (Decca)
Some of the 20th century’s greatest cello music, superbly played and recorded [GPJ]
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (baritone) A Centenary Tribute (SOMM)
A valuable insight into the life and work of one of the greatest performing artists of the past century [GPJ]
Ensemble Astera: Wind Chamber Music (Claves)
Attractive wind chamber music, brilliantly played [GPJ]
Shostakovich: Symphony 8
A memorable and historically important concert, faithfully captured in Pristine’s re-mastering of the 78s [GPJ]
Schubert: Voyage (Berlin Classics)
Two brilliant performers, one very strange disc – Schubert transformed or transmogrified? [GPJ]
Debussy: La Mer & Ravel: Daphnis et Chloë (Warner Classics)
(Déjà Review) I have never heard textures with such cloud-like softness and insubstantiality [GPJ]
Sacred Choral Music (Oehms Classics)
Déjà Review) A rare treat for lovers of choral music, and for lovers of French music too [GPJ]
Holst: Fide et Litiris (EM Records)
A fascinating recording, including previously unknown works by Holst, performed and recorded at the school for which they were composed [GPJ]
Yevgeny Svetlanov (conductor) Debussy & Rachmaninoff (ICA Classics)
Outstanding live performances by the great Russian conductor with three different London orchestras [GPJ]
Vaughan Williams: On Wenlock Edge & other works (Warner Classics)
(Déjà Review) Something of a mixed bag but On Wenlock Edge is undoubtedly worth the price all on its own [GPJ]
Poulenc: Complete Solo Piano Music (Sony Classical)
Delicious music, played with refinement and character by this masterly pianist [GPJ]
Robert Horna (guitar): Las Cuatro Estabiones Portenas (CD Accord)
(Déjà Review) Horna is able to transmit powerfully the character of the music [GPJ]
French Works for Two Pianos (Apex)
(Déjà Review) Great value, in terms of quality and quantity [GPJ]
Mozart: Divertimenti (Apex)
(Déjà Review) The playing in all of these pieces is a delight [GPJ]
Ravel: Orchestral Works (Danacord)
A stylish and beautifully played collection of Ravel orchestral pieces that started life as piano works [GPJ]
Weigl: Symphony No 5 (BIS)
(Déjà Review) Music in Brucknerian manner; a symphony that includes a mighty adagio to treasure [RB]
The detailed orchestration has a French brilliance to it [GPJ]
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