Birtwistle Repost: Birtwistle Chamber Works (BIS) A superb disc - the Nash Ensemble reminds us of their place at he top of the chamber tree, while Birtwistle's music remains as uncompromising and brilliant as ever
Competitions Invocations: Maroussia Gentet and the Concours d'Orléans Gentet's disc is a beautifully realised, well-balanced recital of great interest
20th Century Korngold: Complete Incidental Music A celebration of Korngold, then; a demonstration of the miraculous varity his music holds, brillianlty conceived as a programme and performed with real devotion. A fabulous disc
Piano Andreas Haefliger plays Ravel, Bartók and Ammann Stimulating programming from Haefliger for this trio of delights!
Chanson Mirages: The Art of French Song, with Roderick Williams and Roger Vignoles This disc offers an ideal entry point into the world of French song: it's almost impossible to magine being in safer hands
Hindemith Hindemith's opera Mathis der Maler, complete from Vienna Whether you go for sound-only, or the visual experience, this is simply unmissable
Gipps Opalescence: The Music of Ruth Gipps This disc is a real gift to the musical world at large ... superlative performances of beautiful, and often powerful, music
Chamber Egyptian Nights: an Arensky ballet (plus a PIano Trio!) The music of Anton Arensky has long been due serious reappraisal. Perhaps these two discs can point us in that direction ...
Vocal Songs of Travel and Home A heartfelt, glorious disc of song, the programme imaginative, the performances radiant
Chamber Dmitri Klebanov's Chamber music on Chandos Chandos continues to introduce us to composers whose music is more than worthwhile, all in performances and recordings of the very highest qualit
Piano Charles Ives meets Spiderman A most stimulating release. Ahonen is a fine pianist, captured in fabulous BIS sound
20th Century Penderecki Complete Music for String Quartet A disc shot full with life and adventure: absolutely what Classical Explorer is all about!. The vivid performances are self-recommending
Villa-Lobos Villa-Lobos Violin Sonatas ... in a sense a South American Schubert, music just flowed out of Villa-Lobos
Stravinsky Ballets Russes from Roth Rediscover Stravinsky's seminal ballets on authentic instruments; discover some new friends in "Les Orientales"
Cello Voyage: Christine J. Lee and Henry Karmer's exceptional journey After the Chandos disc of American Quintets [https://www.classicalexplorer.com/american-quintets-music-by-beach-price-and-barber/] - which included Samuel Barber's Dover Beach - it seems a good idea to use some more Barber as a launching-off point for exploration. This time, it's the Cello Sonata which, in the secure hands of Christine J.
20th Century Folksongs à la Berio; plus Berio meets the Beatles! If you haven't heard the Berio Folksongs, now is the time ...
20th Century Robert Simpson's Fifth and Sixth Symphonies Robert Simpson's symphonies have long had a small but die-hard following who, rightly, believed in their greatness ...
Opera Es gibt ein Reich: Ariadne auf Naxos in Vienna An act of pure joy as well as compositional virtuosity, Richard Strauss' opera Ariadne auf Naxos almost guarantees enjoyment
Clarinet Caprices & Laments A great combination of pieces, brilliantly performed with great understading
Choral The Dead in the Square: Allan Pettersson's Twelfth Symphony If you like Stravinsky Symphony of Psalms, Orff Carmina Burana, the Nordic symphonists in general or Shostakovich's Thirteenth Symphony, 'Babi Yar,' and perhaps even Prokofiev's Alexander Nevsky, you'll most likely love this
