Presto

A fine performance even if it does not quite displace my established favourites [RMo]

(Déjà Review) One of the most sheerly beautiful and instantly recognisable mezzos of the last fifty years [RMo]

A stunning CD – fantastic performances of strongly contrasting works [PBW]

Classic Kubelík, wonderful Wagner [LD]

Selections from Rameau return to the catalogue in style [JW]

Lovers of great Lieder singing should have this in their collection [RMo]

(Déjà Review) A classic recording rightly restored to the catalogue in good sound and an example of Jochum’s Bruckner at its best [TD]

A reissue of an imperishable “classic of the gramophone” – the greatest music of its genre in the best of 60s stereo sound [RMo]

Utterly commanding – refuses to let you do anything other than flinch, succumb, brave it out and celebrate [RB]

A welcome return to the catalogue of this valuable version of Copland’s early symphonies [SB]

Essential, authentic listening for admirers of Leonard Bernstein [JQ]

(Déjà Review) An example that big can be beautiful too! [GFe]

An affectionately played trio of works by Dvořák at his most typically exuberant [RMo]

Responds to every seething texture, supple moment and elemental fury [RB]

A welcome re-issue of three justly famous Strauss recordings in superb sound [RMo]

Writer and composer Paul Bowles restored on disc [JW]

Bland interpretations further compromised by compressed digital sound – stick to classic, vintage accounts [RMo]

Vivid and admirable shorter pieces but a Mendelssohn that has a heart of jagged tin [RB]

A welcome back to this astutely selected slice of Gershwin on Broadway [JW]

A thoroughly welcome reissue that enshrines many of the virtues Handelian performance in the ‘pre-authentic’ era [PCG]

A Broadway flop takes a bow [NB]

Fine performances somewhat compromised by indifferent sound [RMo]

A flawlessly played, atmospherically interpreted and beautifully presented collection of Stravinsky’s three major ballets with interesting bonuses [RMo]