November 2025
Barry Mills Chamber Music from Brighton
A Postman’s Pastoral: Barry Mills’s Unassuming Mastery Here’s something you don’t encounter every day—a Brighton postal worker…
Gershwin Orchestral Works – Wild and Fiedler
Gershwin: Orchestral Works Earl Wild (piano); Boston Pops Orchestra/Arthur Fiedler RCA Red Seal 74321 68019 2 [70:02]…
Handel Coronation Anthems – Cleobury and Kings College
Handel’s Royal Music in Regal Surroundings Stephen Cleobury knows something about pageantry. After all, he’s spent decades…
Matthus: Das Land Phantásien – Orchestral Fantasy
Matthus’s Fantasy World Deserves a Wider Audience Siegfried Matthus—one suspects he gets tired of explaining he wasn’t…
Mendelssohn Piano Concertos – Thibaudet and Blomstedt
Mendelssohn: Piano Concertos Nos. 1 & 2; Variations sérieuses; Rondo capriccioso Jean-Yves Thibaudet, piano; Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra/Herbert…
Gossec Symphonies by Orchestra de Bretagne
# Gossec’s Symphonies: Germanic Form in Gallic Dress François-Joseph Gossec: Four Symphonies Symphony in C, Brook 85;…
Handel Concerti Grossi by Boyd Neel Orchestra 1936-38
Handel’s Concerti Grossi Through the Lens of Pioneering Modernism Handel: Concerti Grossi, Op. 6 Boyd Neel Orchestra…
Mozart Piano Sonatas – Brendel at Seventy
Mozart Piano Sonatas Alfred Brendel Philips 468 048–2 [74:36] There’s something quietly momentous about hearing a great…
Peter Philips Motets – Tudor Consort Naxos Recording
Peter Philips: Cantiones Sacrae (Motets for Five Voices) The Tudor Consort/Peter Walls Naxos Early Music Series 8.555056…
Duphly Harpsichord Pieces – Meyerson Elegant Miniatures
# Duphly’s Elegant Miniatures—When the Room Overwhelms the Instrument Jacques Duphly: Pièces de Clavecin** Mitzi Meyerson, harpsichord…
Benjamin Frankel Film Music – Queensland Symphony Orchestra
Benjamin Frankel: Film Music Vol. 2 Queensland Symphony Orchestra / Werner Andreas Albert CPO 999 809–2 [67:13]…
Liadov Orchestral Works – Slovak Philharmonic
Liadov: Orchestral Works Slovak Philharmonic Orchestra / Stephen Gunzenhauser Naxos 8.555242 [58:05] The historical irony still stings…
Beethoven and Mendelssohn Concertos by Huggett
Monica Huggett Plays Beethoven and Mendelssohn Beethoven: Violin Concerto in D major, Op. 61 Mendelssohn: Violin Concerto…
Bach Cantatas by Rilling and Gächinger Kantorei
Bach Cantatas Helmuth Rilling, Gächinger Kantorei Stuttgart, Bach-Collegium Stuttgart Hänssler Classic 94028 (4 CDs) Helmuth Rilling’s complete…
Haydn Quartets Op. 64 by The Lindsays
Joseph HAYDN (1732-1809) String Quartets Op. 64, Nos. 1, 2, 3 String Quartet in C Op. 64, No….
Jeffrey Lewis: Austere British Modernism Explored
# Jeffrey Lewis: Music of Austere Contemplation ASC CS CD43 • 69:10 Jeffrey Lewis belongs to that…
Handel Saul – Neumann and Collegium Cartusianum
Handel: Saul HWV 53 Gregory Reinhart (Saul), Matthias Koch (David), John Elwes (Jonathan), Vasilijka Jezovsek (Michal), Simone…
Janáček Piano Works – Rudy and Mackerras
Janáček: Piano and Chamber Works Mikhail Rudy, piano; Gary Hoffman, cello; Pierre Amoyal, violin; Soloists from l’Orchestre…
Johann Christoph Oley: Organ Works by Jan Van Mol
Johann Christoph Oley: Organ Works Jan Van Mol, organ Pavane ADW 7314 [60:00] The Thuringian organist tradition—that…
Mozart Symphonies – Iona Brown and St Martin Academy
Mozart Symphonies with a Gentle Touch Iona Brown’s approach to these two Mozart symphonies—the B flat K319…
Beethoven Sonatas by Ramzi Yassa – Control Without Fire
# Yassa’s Beethoven: Control, Elegance, and the Question of Fire LISZT Six Lieder von Goethe BEETHOVEN Sonata…
Martinu Symphonies by Ukrainian National Orchestra
# Serviceable Martinu from Ukraine The Martinu symphonies arrived late—the First not until 1942, when the composer…
Barber Violin Concerto – Alsop and Royal Scottish Orchestra
Barber: Violin Concerto, op. 14; Souvenirs, op. 28; Serenade for Strings, op. 1; Music for a Scene…
Donizetti La Figlia del Reggimento – Pagliughi and Valletti
Lina Pagliughi (soprano), Cesare Valletti (tenor), Sesto Bruscantini (bass), Risa Corsi (mezzo-soprano); Orchestra e Coro di Milano…
