Smyth

A really successful recording which can’t get the better of this somewhat thorny opera [MP]

Cracking performance of a fascinating but neglected work [DC]

A good performance can’t overcome the flaws in this opera [JQ]

Magdalen’s Eule organ: a monument to musical continuity and change [JF]

Discover rare, evocative voices in British piano music [JF]

A welcome addition to the Smyth discography [DC]

I cannot remember a record I’ve enjoyed more this year or one I felt compelled to listen to time after time [SA]

A handful of unfailingly accomplished, virtually unknown trios, in handsome performances and ideal sound [RHa]

The Neave Trio charm us in this collection of rarities [RCh]

A fascinating juxtaposition of the familiar and the unfamiliar [PJ]

The first recording of Ethel Smyth’s Der Wald is severely underwhelming [JW]

Handy and Hughes stride forth in their latest volume of British cello sonatas
[JW]