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John France
Elgar: Piano Quintet & String Quartet (Hyperion)
(Déjà Review) Striking performances of these late masterpieces [JF]
Bridge: Piano Music – Volume 3 (SOMM Recordings)
(Déjà Review) A worthy part of what is a major, important project in British recorded music [JF][RB]
Parry: Piano Music Vol. 2 (Da Vinci Classics)
Parry’s hidden piano riches brought home [JF]
Quiet Summer Evening: British Light Classics (SOMM Recordings)
Crafted British light music for today [JF]
Bach: Organ Landscapes X (Berlin Classics)
Bach’s legacy: From Romanticism to clarity [JF]
Poulenc: Music for Two Pianos (Divine Art)
Joyous, bittersweet, brilliantly captured Poulenc [JF]
Saunders: Orchestral Music (Heritage)
Light‑music flair with symphonic aspirations [JF]
Czerny: Piano Music Vol 2 (Toccata Classics)
Sparkling performances of Czerny’s brilliant duets [JF]
Alwyn: Violin Concerto (Naxos)
(Déjà Review) Some very impressive and often very romantic music [JF]
Cowie: Darkness into Light (Métier)
Evocative, iridescent, masterfully performed chamber music [JF]
Behzod Abduraimov (piano): Inferno (Alpha Classics)
Hellish virtuosity meets refined musical grace [JF]
Stevenson: Piano Music Vol. 8 (Toccata Classics)
Brilliant premiere recordings of masterly originals and transcriptions [JF]
Joplin: King of Ragtime (Danacord)
Refined classical interpretations of ragtime’s king [JF]
Easdale: Film Music (Chandos)
(Déjà Review) This present excellent CD must surely act as a catalyst for a deeper exploration of Easdale’s music [JF]
English Choral Music (Signum Classics)
Unearthing twentieth‑century choral treasures anew [JF]
Vaughan Williams: Rise, Heart (Albion Records)
A deeply moving exploration of Vaughan Williams’s more intimate side [JF]
Out of Vienna: Leonkoro Quartet (Alpha Classics)
Intensity, irony, intimacy: modernism unveiled [JF]
Mist on the Moors: The Piano Music of Reginald Redman (Heritage)
Honeybourne unveils Redman’s long‑lost landscapes [JF]
Brahms & Gál: Piano quartets (Genuin)
Shadowed Brahms meets Gál’s lyrical wit [JF]
Holst: The Planets & R Strauss: Tod und Verklärung (Gramola)
Two masterpieces transformed by Karajan’s alchemy [JF]
Holst: The Planets (piano 4 hands) & Bowen: Piano Suites (Nimbus)
Utterly sympathetic and inspired [JF]
Alexander Ffinch (organ): Expectations (Divine Art)
From macabre midnight to hopeful dawn [JF]








































