- Wagner: Orchestral Music (Beulah)Neglected Gallic Wagner from Detroit proves a winner [DMD]
- Bolcom: The Complete Cabaret Songs (Rattle)Fascinating music from the borderland between classical modernism and popular idioms [GF]
- Giordano: Fedora (Malibran-Music)A powerful, idiomatic vintage recording of an unjustly neglected opera with some fascinating bonuses [RMo]
- Kristina Marinova (piano) Loves Me Not (Navona)A low key and reflective recital that mostly satisfies [RCh]
- Rachmaninov & Tchaikovsky: Romances (Pentatone)An attractive selection from this marvellous repertoire, very well performed [RWe]
- Leighton: Every Living Creature (SOMM Recordings)A valuable collection of Leighton’s choral music, with several first recordings [SB]
- Simpson: Symphony 11 (Hyperion)(Déjà Review) This release, appropriately dedicated to the late Ted Perry, is up to Hyperion’s best [HC]
- Saint-Saëns: Chamber Works (Apex)(Déjà Review) Simply wonderful chamber works superbly performed [MC]
- Mozart: Piano Concerti No. 15-17 (Alpha Classics)Sparkling and exuberant playing makes the most of these three Viennese concerti [RCh]
- Delibes / Maillot: Coppél-i-A (Unitel Editions)A worthwhile supplement to more conventional productions [RMay]
- A Year at Llandaff (Regent)A splendidly eclectic church music mainly from the past two centuries [JF]
- Schubert: Piano Sonatas (Hyperion)Attractive performances whose strength is in the happy times and finding consolation in still facing the unhappy [MG]
- Bach: Suites for Solo Cello (Sono Luminus)A fleet yet sonorous and profound account of these masterworks, played without repeats and delightfully absorbing [RMo]
- Rachmaninov: Symphony No.3, The Bells (Biddulph)Astonishingly vivid off-air survivors from London’s Queen’s Hall in the 1930s [JW]
- Müller: Chamber Works (Capriccio)(Déjà Review) My first meeting with Müller and I hope it won’t be my last … music which is animated, warm and intriguing [JW]
- Mendelssohn: Piano Sonatas (Harmonia Mundi)(Déjà Review) Chiu’s playing is interesting and sensitive … the most obvious choice for a single disc of Mendelssohn’s sonatas [PCW]
- CPE Bach: Piano Concertos (Hänssler)Soloist Orazio Sciortino is in splendid form, so there is much to enjoy here [MC]
- Bruckner: Symphony No.8 (Alpha)An oddly bland and inconsistent account which in no sense challenges established favourite recordings [RMo]
- Fauré: Piano Works (Hyperion)Magical performances, illuminated and musically informed, recorded in superior sound [SG]
- Mendelson & Bacewicz: Chamber Works (Chandos)Four ‘lost’ works of Polish modernism presented in splendid performances (GPu)
- Tchaikovsky: Symphony No.5 (Reference Recordings)An enterprising pairing of two works given thrilling, gripping performances and sound [RMo]
- Wendling Quartet: DG and Electrola Recordings (Biddulph)An important cache of early chamber music recordings heard in debatable transfers [JW]
- Diamond: Symphony No.3 (Naxos)(Déjà Review) Fresh, devoted performances of music fully worthy of continued attention [CC]
- Elgar: Cello Concerto (Hallé)(Déjà Review) A masterly reading of a great score … Elder draws stunning playing from the Hallé [GPJ)
- Praetorius & Schütz: Sacred Works (cpo)Another recording of great importance and of great beauty from these performers [JV]
- Sarah Willis (Horn) Mozart y Mambo (Alpha Classics)A riotously enjoyable disc, the third in the amazing Sarah Willis’s series featuring Mozart Cuban-style [GPJ]
- Elgar: Violin Concerto (Linn Records)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]
- Magalhães: Masses (Hyperion)A fine choir in rare late Renaissance Portuguese repertoire, sung with style and skill [GH]
- Mercadante: Il proscritto (Opera Rara)Neglected for almost 200 years, but undoubtedly worthy of its revival [MC]
- British Piano Concertos (Lyrita)Premiere recordings of three neglected but attractive piano concertos [JW
- Brahms: Piano Concerto No. 2 (RCA)A legendary, visionary version of the sonata, but don’t make this your only version of the concerto [CH]
- Balada: Orchestral works (Naxos)The most immediately appealing of the three Naxos/Balada discs I’ve reviewed [HC]
- Żeleński: Janek (Naxos)A buttoned–up attempt to transfer verismo opera to Poland, simply misses the point [MP]
- Thorvaldsdottir: Archora & Aiōn (Sono Luminis)Indispensable accounts of two recent works by a unique voice in contemporary music [RWe]
- Becker: Sacred Concertos & Sonatas (cpo)Excellent performances of the complete sacred works of Dietrich Becker [JV]
- Halévy: La Juive (Malibran)A compilation of superb recordings by some of the finest voices in this neglected opera [RMo]
- Sitt: Viola and Piano works (Eudora)Salon-scaled charmers from a significant teacher and performer [JW]
- Cyrille Dubois (countertenor) (Aparté)Eminent solo singing and fine music making with many first recordings [GF]
- Barber: Orchestral Works Vol 5 (Naxos)(Déjà Review) Very fine indeed – Knoxville is a particularly conspicuous success [JQ]
- Bach: Goldberg Variations (Deutsche Harmonia Mundi)(Déjà Review) This really is sitting at the feet of the master [PW]
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