BR Klassik

The youthful Puccini’s complete songs, robustly sung – and an even more pleasing trio of early orchestral pieces [RMo]

An exciting, red-blooded performance, captured live in the clearest sound of any available version [MP]

A disc that no Puccini admirer can dispense with [GF]

Haitink displays remarkable consistency in this grand and spacious account [RMo]

Two disappointingly tame live performances [RMo]

Rewarding orchestral versions of Schubert songs, most sensitively performed [SB]

An excellent recording of a gripping but not loveable work [SB]

Charles Castronovo breathes new life to these smart orchestrations of Puccini’s piano songs [MC]

Simon Rattle’s traversal of the Ring finally reaches Siegfried, with highly recommendable results [PCG]

The luscious hot dance music of Eduard Künneke meets Eisler’s boring agit-prop [JW]

The choral singing is first class, but the soloists are disappointing; the two old Gardelli recordings are better [GF]

For those interested in the idea of Schubert’s songs with orchestral accompaniment [GF]

These are striking performances of Tchaikovsky’s renowned Fifth Symphony and Liszt’s Mazeppa [MC]

This concert performance of Cardillac makes a strong case for the opera [MC]

Another superlative rendering of a Bruckner symphony from Haitink [RMo]

Tough music but shot through with passion and humanity [DMD]

A fine tribute to the late conductor which currently has the field to itself on CD [MP]

These performances do not quite achieve the vitality and focus of my benchmarks [MC]

Haitink’s late trudge through Mahler’s Song of the Night [LD]

This illuminating performance is worth investigating [MP]

Some good things, but this is only for Jansons completists [SV]

Wise, seasoned Mozart that gets just about everything right [DMD]

Harding’s relaxed run around Holst’s solar system [LD]

Masterful, ideally executed and engineered recordings of Mozart’s three greatest symphonies [RMo]