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John Quinn
Bruckner: Bruckner from the Archives Vol 4 (SOMM Ariadne)
A very welcome further installment in this significant historical Bruckner series [JQ]
Awakenings (Avi-Music)
The most exciting vocal recital disc I’ve heard in a long while [JQ]
Taneyev: Symphonies (Chandos/Presto)
Two most interesting Russian symphonies in accomplished and committed performances [JQ]
Dvořák: Symphonies No.6-9; Smetana: Má vlast; Janáček: Sinfonietta (LSO Live)
A fitting celebration of the Year of Czech Music and the silver jubilee of LSO Live [JQ]
Rodgers: Carousel (Chandos)
Wilson and his colleagues do full justice to this Broadway masterpiece [JQ]
Strohl: Songs (La Boîte à Pépites)
Many fine songs, all presented in first-rate performances [JQ]
Dupré: Le Chemin de la Croix (cpo)
(Déjà Review) One of the finest organ discs I’ve heard in years [JQ]
Bruckner: From the Archives Vol 3 (SOMM Recordings)
A good archive reading of Bruckner’s Third symphony and a more questionable Fourth [JQ]
The French Album (Orchid Classics)
This is a very fine disc; in fact, c’est magnifique! [JQ]
Bliss: Works for Brass Band (Chandos)
This outstanding disc will be self-recommending to all admirers of Bliss’s music and to brass band devotees [JQ]
Berlioz: Te Deum (Profil)
Sir Colin’s performance of the Te Deum is a hugely impressive account of a great pièce d’occasion [JQ]
HOLST 150 (SOMM Recordings)
A worthy 150th anniversary tribute to Gustav Holst [JQ]
de Hartmann: Violin Concerto & Cello Concerto (Pentatone)
I enjoyed and admired the Cello Concerto, but I count the Violin Concerto as a major discovery [JQ]
Splendid Tears: Settings of Alfred, Lord Tennyson (EM Records)
If you are interested in English song, you should certainly investigate this disc [JQ]
Adams: Girls of the Golden West (Nonesuch)
An uneven opera but it’s presented in a performance that crackles with electricity [JQ]
Sander: Liturgy of St John Chrysostom (Orthodox Recordings)
A second excellent recording of Kurt Sander’s eloquent and beautiful score [JQ]
Reicha: Wind Quintets Vol. 6 (Crystal Records)
(Déjà Review) Fresh and appealing works [JQ]
Bruckner: Symphony No 7 (Reference Recordings)
A very distinguished account of Bruckner’s Seventh symphony [JQ]
Shostakovich: Symphonies 4-6 (Decca)
Terrific performances of three very contrasting Shostakovich symphonies [JQ]
Karłowicz: Three Symphonic Poems (Chandos)
(Déjà Review) Passionate, intense, vivid, powerful and highly charged. This is the product of a fertile musical imagination [JQ]
Three Choirs Festival in Ten Concerts (Logaston Press)
A lively and perceptive introduction to the world’s oldest music festival [JQ]
Sibelius & Prokofiev: Violin Concerti (Decca)
Terrific performances of two key works in the violin concerto repertoire [JQ]
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