From the Last Week

Neglected Gallic Wagner from Detroit proves a winner [DMD]

Fascinating music from the borderland between classical modernism and popular idioms [GF]

A powerful, idiomatic vintage recording of an unjustly neglected opera with some fascinating bonuses [RMo]

A low key and reflective recital that mostly satisfies [RCh]

An attractive selection from this marvellous repertoire, very well performed [RWe]

A valuable collection of Leighton’s choral music, with several first recordings [SB]

(Déjà Review) This release, appropriately dedicated to the late Ted Perry, is up to Hyperion’s best [HC]

(Déjà Review) Simply wonderful chamber works superbly performed [MC]

Sparkling and exuberant playing makes the most of these three Viennese concerti [RCh]

A worthwhile supplement to more conventional productions [RMay]

A splendidly eclectic church music mainly from the past two centuries [JF]

Attractive performances whose strength is in the happy times and finding consolation in still facing the unhappy [MG]

A fleet yet sonorous and profound account of these masterworks, played without repeats and delightfully absorbing [RMo]

Astonishingly vivid off-air survivors from London’s Queen’s Hall in the 1930s [JW]

(Déjà Review) My first meeting with Müller and I hope it won’t be my last … music which is animated, warm and intriguing [JW]

(Déjà Review) Chiu’s playing is interesting and sensitive … the most obvious choice for a single disc of Mendelssohn’s sonatas [PCW]

Soloist Orazio Sciortino is in splendid form, so there is much to enjoy here [MC]

An oddly bland and inconsistent account which in no sense challenges established favourite recordings [RMo]

Magical performances, illuminated and musically informed, recorded in superior sound [SG]

Four ‘lost’ works of Polish modernism presented in splendid performances (GPu)

An enterprising pairing of two works given thrilling, gripping performances and sound [RMo]

An important cache of early chamber music recordings heard in debatable transfers [JW]

(Déjà Review) Fresh, devoted performances of music fully worthy of continued attention [CC]

(Déjà Review) A masterly reading of a great score … Elder draws stunning playing from the Hallé [GPJ)

Another recording of great importance and of great beauty from these performers [JV]

A riotously enjoyable disc, the third in the amazing Sarah Willis’s series featuring Mozart Cuban-style [GPJ]

A superb rendering of Britten’s orchestral suite and a fine account of Elgar’s violin concerto which nonetheless does not rival favourite versions [RMo]

A fine choir in rare late Renaissance Portuguese repertoire, sung with style and skill [GH]

Neglected for almost 200 years, but undoubtedly worthy of its revival [MC]

Premiere recordings of three neglected but attractive piano concertos [JW

A legendary, visionary version of the sonata, but don’t make this your only version of the concerto [CH]

The most immediately appealing of the three Naxos/Balada discs I’ve reviewed [HC]

A buttoned–up attempt to transfer verismo opera to Poland, simply misses the point [MP]

Indispensable accounts of two recent works by a unique voice in contemporary music [RWe]

Excellent performances of the complete sacred works of Dietrich Becker [JV]

A compilation of superb recordings by some of the finest voices in this neglected opera [RMo]

Salon-scaled charmers from a significant teacher and performer [JW]

Eminent solo singing and fine music making with many first recordings [GF]

(Déjà Review) Very fine indeed – Knoxville is a particularly conspicuous success [JQ]

(Déjà Review) This really is sitting at the feet of the master [PW]