Miscellaneous orchestral, choral and chamber CDs we've listened to

Solo II - Bach Unaccompanied cello suites, Kurtag Signs, Games and Messages; Tabea Zimmerman; Myrios Classics

Miscellaneous orchestral, choral and chamber

(Multiple-composers per disc)

Our reviews of mixed composer discs of orchestral, choral or chamber music, see separate pages for single-composer discs, and for mixed-composer vocal recitals.

  • The Dawn of Grace: music for Christmas: Somerville College Choir, Oxford, Will Dawes, Luca Morgante; RESONUS
  • Carols after a Plague: Shara Nova, Tyshawn Shawney, Edith Canat de Chizy, Joseph C Philips, Jr., LJ White, Samantha Fernando, Leila Adu-Gilmore, Nina Shekhar, Vanessa Lann, Mary Jane Leech, Alex Berko, Viet Cuong, Donald Nally; The Crossing, Donald Nally; New Focus Recordings
  • Love Restor'd: Songs from the English Restoration; Ceruleo; RESONUS CLASSICS
  • Between Earth and Sea: Bax, Ashley John Long, Eloise Glynn, Hilary Tann, Sally Beamish; Trio Anima; Tŷ Cerdd Records
  • Intercourse of Fire & Water: Tan Dun, Arnold Bax, Ernest Bloch, Pascal Dusapin; Idlir Shyti; Coviello Contemporary
  • Bach-Abel Society - Bach, Abel, Schröter, Haydn; Les Ombres; Mirare
  • NYCGB Young Composers 4 - Ben Nobuto, Sun Keting, Thomas Metcalf, Claire Victoria Roberts; National Youth Choir of Great Britain, NYCGB Fellowship Ensemble, Ben Parry; NMC
  • A Byzantine Emperor at King Henry's Court: Christmas 1400, London; Cappella Romana, Alexander Lingas; Cappella Records
  • Album for Astor: Bjarke Mogensen, Johan Bridger, Mathias Heise, The Danish Chamber Players; OUR Recordings
  • looking up | looking out - Alistair MacDonald, Diana Salazar, Oliver Iredale Searle, Timothy Cooper, Karlheinz Stockhausen; a cellar full of noise; TNW Music
  • Elgar: Cello Concerto, transcribed for viola by Lionel Tertis, Bloch: Suite for Viola and Orchestra; Timothy Ridout, BBC Symphony Orchestra, Martyn Brabbins; Harmonia Mundi
  • Enrique Casals & Édouard Lalo: Cello Concertos; Jan Vogler, Moritzburg Festival Orchestra, Josep Caballé Domenech; Sony Classical
  • Paul Hindemith: Trio for Viola, Tenor Saxophone and Piano, music by  Kjell Habbestad, Håvard Lund, Helge Iberg; Trio Brax; Lawo Classics
  • Frank Martin: Mass for Double Choir, Maurice Duruflé: Requiem; Maîtrise de Toulouse, Conservatoire de Toulouse, Mark Opstad, Juliette May, Alain Buet, William Fielding; Regent Records
  • Leipzig 1723: Application cantatas for the Thomaskantor position - Bach, Telemann, Graupner; Ælbgut, Capella Jenensis; Accentus
  • Casta Diva: Operatic arias arranged for trumpet - Mercadante, Bellini, Arban, Ricci, Rossini, Viardo, Donizetti; Matilda Lloyd, Britten Sinfonia, Rumon Gamba; Chandos RecordsMusic to hear... - Alfonso Ferrabosco: Music for the Lyra Viol; Richard Boothby, Asako Morikawa; Signum Classics 
  • Rhapsody: Debussy, Joseph Phibbs, Iain Farrington, Coates, Jennifer Watson, Liszt; Huw Wiggin, Norik Ogawa; Orchid Classics
  • Soar: Pedro Ituralde, Richard Rodney Bennett, Robert Planel, Andy Scott, Alastair Penman, Paul Mitchell-Davidson, Amy Quate, Debussy, Demersseman; Alastair Penman, Jonathan Pease; Meadowbank Music
  • Autograph: Martynas Levickis, Bach, Glass, Franck Angelis, Milosz Magin; Martynas Levickis; Accentus Music
  • Smock Alley: Tommaso Giordani, Thomas Roseingrave, Domenico  Scarlatti and Geminiani; Irlandiani - Carina Drury, Poppy Walshaw, John-Henry Baker, Nathaniel Mander, Eimear McGeown; First Hand Records
  • British Piano Concertos: Gordon Jacob, John Addison, Edmund Rubbra; Simon Callaghan, BBC National Orchestra of Wales, Stephen Bell and George Vass; LYRITA
  • To the North...: Tõnu Kõrvits, Peeter Vähi, Eduard Tubin, Ester Mägi, Eduard Oja; Ivari Ilja; Estonian Record Productions
  • Haven: Byrd, Paul Smith, de Monte, Taylor Scott Davis, Undine Smith Moore, Victora Vita Poleva, Michael McGlynn, Ola Gjeilo, Anna Kuzina-Rozhdestvenskaya, Sarah McLachlan, Marta Keen; Apollo5; VOCES8 Records 
  • The Monarch's Music: Walton, Parry, Vaughan Williams, Elgar, Britten, Adrian Batten, Laurie Johnson,  Saint-Saens; the Band of the Household Cavalry, the Choir of St George's Chapel, Windsor, organist Luke Bond, conductors Major Paul Collis-Smith and James Vivian; crd
  • Arctic saxophone: Alexander Aarøen: The Heart, It Soars, Alexander Manotskov: Seven Portraits, Terje Bjørklund: Arctic Lines; Ola Asdahl Rokkones, Arktisk Filharmoni, Per Kristian Skalstad; LAWO 
  • Light Divine - Aksel Rykkvin, Mark Bennett, MiNensemblet; Signum Classics
  • Seven Last Words - Skylark, Matthew Guard; Sono Luminus
  • Passio - Tallis, Purcell, Bach, Kevin Hartnett; Zurich Singers, Christian Erny; ARS Produktion
  • Music from Handel's theatre musicians - Olwen Foulkes; Barn Cottage Records
  • Sonoro, Neil Ferris - Frank Martin Mass, James MacMillan; Signum Classics
  • Subito! - Grieg, RVW, Lutoslawski, Wieniawski; Julia Hwang, Charles Matthews; St John's Cambridge/Signum Classics 
  • Set upon the rood - James McMillan, John Kenny, Stuart MacRae, Bill Taylor, Francis Grier, Stevie Wishart, Stephen Bick; Choir of Gonville & Caius College, Cambridge, Geoffrey Webber 
  • The Art of Dancing - Toby Young, Geoffrey Gordon, Deborah Pritchard, Nimrod Borenstein; Simon Desbruslais, Clare Hammond, English String Orchestra, Kenneth Woods; Signum Classics 
  • Lachrymae revisited - John Dowland, Benjamin Britten, Adam Porebski, Rory Boyle, Gavin Higgins, Toshio Hosokawa; Duo van Vliet; Orchid Classics 
  • An eventful morning in East London - Paul Patterson, Deborah Pritchard, David Matthews, Robert Fokkens, Emily Doolittle; Harriet Mackenzie, Philippa Mo, English String Orchestra, English Symphony Orchestra, Kenneth Woods; Nimbus Alliance 
  • Siecle - Dutilleux, Messiaen, Debussy, Ravel, Saint-Saens; Leonard Elschenbroich, Alexei Grynyuk, BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, John Wilson, Stefan Blunier 
  • Mind music - Mendelssohn, Richard Strauss, John Adams, Kevin Malone - Elizabeth Jordan, Lynsey Marsh, Northern Chamber Orchestra, Stephen Barlow; Divine Art 
  • Requiem - The Priestly Fraternity of St Peter; Sony Classical / De Montfort Music 
  • The Alehouse Session - Bjarte Eike, Barokksolistene; Rubicon 
  • The Edge of Time historic bone flutes - Anna Friederike Potengowski, Georg Wieland Wagner; Delphian
  • John Jenkins, Christopher Simpson, Simon Ives, Robert Smith; Robert Smith, Paolo Pandolfo; Resonus Classics
  • Maurice Ravel - piano concertos - Manuel de Falla - Noches en los jardines de Espana - Steven Osborne, BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Ludovic Morlot: Hyperion 
  • Beware the Spider! - Tarquinio Merula, Anthony Holborne, Antonio Vivaldi, Tiburtio Massaino, William Byrd, Athansius Kircher, Luzzascho Luzzaschi, Robert Johnson; Palisander 
  • Springtime in Vienna - Carl Michael Ziehrer, Franz von Suppé, Max Schönherr, Richard Strauss, Beethoven, Eduard Strauss; Wiener Symphoniker, Manfred Honeck; Wiener Symphoniker 
  • Poulenc, McPhee, Adams - concertos - GrauSchumacher Piano Duo, Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, Brad Lubman; Neos 
  • Grand Duet: music for piano and harp - Francois-Adrien Boieldieu, Johann Neomuk Hummel, Francois-Joseph Dizi, Frederic Kalkbrenner, Johann Baptist Krumpholtz, Guillaume Gatayes, Daniel Steibelt and Federigo Fiorillo; Duo Praxedis; ARS Produktion 
  • Aztec Dances - Edward Gregson, Gregory Rose, David Bedford, George king, Daryl Runswick; Jill Kemp, Aleksander Szram; Prima Facie 
  • From my beloved country: new South African piano music - Neo Muyanga, Kevin Volans, Michael Blake, Rob Fokkens, Henrik Hofmeyer, Peter Klatzow, David Earl and David Kosviner - Renée Reznek; Prima Facie  
  • Schubert - C Major Quintet D956; ZRI 
  • English Fantasy - Will Todd, Paul Reade, John Dankworth, Patrick Hawes; Emma Johnson, the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra, Philip Ellis; Nimbus Alliance 
  • Klangrede - Eres Holz, Johannes B Borowski, Stefan Keller; Zafraan Ensemble, Titus Engel; bastille musique
  • Simon Thacker - Karmana - Simon Thacker, Justyna Jablonska, Karine Polwart, Masha Natanson, Sarvar Sabri; Slap the Moon Records 
  • Rein Rannap, Peeter Vähi, Ott Vask, Aalo Veevo music for wind orchestra; Orchestra of the Estonian Defence Forces 
  • Kodaly & Dohnanyi chamber music - Simon Smith (violin), Clare Hayes (violin), Paul Silverthorne (viola), Katherine Jenkinson; Resonus Classics
  • Wind from the East - music by Lyubomir Pipkov, Parashkev Hadjiev, Pancho Vladigerov; Victoria Terekiev; Gega 
  • A Viennese Quartet Party - Mozart, Haydn, Vanhal, Dittersdorf; Revolutionary Drawing Room, Simon Russell Beale, Omnibus Classics 
  • Mozart Flute Concerto No. 1, Nielsen Flute Concerto - Juliette Bausor, Royal Northern Sinfonia, Jaime Martin; Signum Classics
  • Lassus, John Sheppard, Byrd, Palestrina, Jean Mouton, Peter Cornelius, Poulenc, Howells, Warlock, John Jacob Niles, Lennox Berkeley, Arnold Bax, Judith Bingham, Judith Weir - Choir of Clare College, Cambridge, Graham Ross - Harmonia Mundi 
  • Jorge Villavicencio Grossmann, Victor Agudelo, Sebastian Vergara, Diego Luzuriaga, Diego Vega, Sebastian Errazuriz, Agustin Fernandez,Antonio Gervasoni - Norwegian Radio Orchestra, Miguel Harth-Bedoya - Harmonia Mundi 
  • A Land so Luminous  - Richard Causton and Philip Hesketh; Mary Bevan, Tamsin Waley-Cohen, Douglas Finch, Lisa Nelsen, Joseph Spooner, the Continuum, Philip Headlam; Prima Facie 
  • Thomas Robinson, John Johnson, Thomas Ravenscroft, Robert Smith, Nicholas Lanier; Susanna Pell, Jacob Heringman, Faye Newton, Edd Ingham, Giles Lewin, Christopher O'Gorman, John Potter; Pellingman's Saraband 
  • Shostakovich Violin Concerto No. 2, Op.129, Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto Op.35 - Linus Roth, London Symphony Orchestra, Thomas Sanderling; Challenge Classics
  • From Advent to Epiphany: a seasonal miscellany with carols, motets and more. 
  • John Adams, Roy Harris - Violin Concertos - Tamsin Waley-Cohen, BBC Symphony Orchestra, Andrew Litton; Signum Classics 
  • Music for a Prussian salon - Franz Tausch, Johann Stamitz, Bernhard Henrik Crusell, Heinrich Baermann; Resonus 
  • Music for girls' choirs - Ely Cathedral Girls Choir, Sarah MacDonald, St Catharine's Girls Choir, Cambridge, Edward Wickham; Regent Records, Resonus Classics 
  • A Voice from Heaven - Howells, Harris, MacMillan, Tavener, Stanford, Leighton, Parry, Berkeley, Murrill, Jones; Choir of the King's Consort, Robert King; Vivat 
  • Gioacchino Rossini, Camille Saint-Saëns, Carl Maria von Weber, Otto Nicolai, Richard Eilenberg, Franz Lehár, Louis Moreau Gottschalk, and Emil Sauer - Duo Praxedis; Paladino Music 
  • To the Field of Stars - Jackson, Victoria, Pärt, Byrd, Dove; Nonsuch Singers, Kate Gould, Tom Bullard, Convivium Records 
  • Gyorgy Kurtág Signs, Games & Messages, Bartók Sonata for Solo Violin; Simon Smith; Resonus Classics 
  • Franz Josef Haydn - Capriccios, Piano Concerto No. 4 in G, Piano Concerto No. 11 in C, Gyorgy Ligeti - Capriccios, Piano Concerto; Shai Wosner, Danish National Symphony Orchestra, Nicholas Collon; Onyx Classics 
  • Mozart and Mendelssohn concertos - Danae Dörken, Royal Northern Sinfonia, Lars Vogt; ARS Produktion 
  • Chorus vel Organa: Music from the Lost Palace of Westminster - Nicholas Ludford, William Cornysh, John Sheppard; Choir of Gonville and Caius College, Geoffrey Webber, Magnus Williamson; Delphian  
  • Spellweaving, ancient music from the Highlands of Scotland - Barnaby Brown, Clare Salaman, Bill Taylor; Delphian 
  • Scriabin, Stockhausen - Vanessa Benelli Mosell; Decca 
  • David Bruce - Gumboots - Johannes Brahms - Clarinet Quintet - Julian Bliss, Carducci Quartet; Signum Classics 
  • Blurred Boundaries - Apollo Chamber Players; Navona Records 
  • Kenneth Hesketh - Horae (Pro Clara), Through Magic Casements, Notte Oscura,Three Japanese Miniatures - Clare Hammond; BIS
  • In memoriam - The Choir of King's College Choir London, Gareth Wilson; Delphian 
  • Jonathan Harvey - Choir of St John's College, Cambridge, Andrew Nethsingha, Edward Picton-Turberbill; Signum Classics 
  • Dancing in Daylight - John Buckley, Fergus Johnston, Rhona Clarke, Seoirse Bodley - The Fidelio Trio; Metier
  • Beethoven, Dvorak, Eugene Drucker, Mike Block, Eric Guinvan, Peter Erskine, Paul Dooley, Fred Hersch, Samuel Adler, Jim Scully, Christina Sinei, Pierre Jalbert - Trio Celeste; Navona Records 
  • Folk Music of the British Isles - The Armonico Consort, Christopher Monks; Signum Classics 
  • Rheinmädchen - Wagner, Brahms, Schumann, Schubert; Ensemble Pygmalion, Raphael Pichon; Harmonia Mundi 
  • Viri Galilei - Merton College Choir, Benjamin Nicholas, Peter Phillips; Dephian
  • Arsis Handbell Ensemble  - Legend - ERP
  • The Evening Hour - Mark Williams, Choir of Jesus College, Cambridge; Signum Classics
  • The Menuhin Century - Warner Classics
  • Trevor Pinnock - Journey - Linn Records
  • Scattered Ashes: Josquin's Miserere and the Savonarolan legacy - Magnificat, Philip Cave; Linn Records
  • Beethoven, Schnabel, Moor - Cello sonatas - Samuel Magill, Beth Levin; Parma Recordings
  • Symphonic organ transcriptions on Rochdale Town Hall organ - Timothy Byram-Wigfield; Delphian 
  • Etudes - Clare Hammond; BIS
  • The Deer's Cry - Arvo Part, William Byrd - The Sixteen, Harry Christophers; Coro
  • Inspired by Mozart - Beethoven, Mozart, Mozart jnr; Julius Berger; Nimbus
  • Invisible Stars - University College Dublin Choral Scholars; Signum
  • Pinks and Blues - Christina McMaster
  • Classic Guitar - Andrew Keeping
  • Harmonische freude - Bach and his contemporaries - Austral Harmony; Chandos Chaconne 
  • Time and its passing - Rodolfus Choir, Ralph Allwood; Signum Classics
  • Kotcheff, Moe, Kirchner, Ives Trio Appassionata; Odarek Records 
  • War and Peace in the 17th century - Jordi Savall; Alia Vox
  • Flight of Angels - The Sixteen, Harry Christophers; Coro
  • Coronation music for Charles II - Oltremontano, Psallentes, Wim Becu; Accent  
  • I musicisti dell'imperatore Piani, Caldara, Scarlatti, Vivaldi - Raffaella Milanesi, G.A.P. Ensemble; Pan Classics
  • Homages - Malats, Narvaez, Llobet, Sor, Villa-Lobos, Falla, Turina, Albeniz, Rodrigo - Christoph Denoth; Signum Records 
  • Mazurkas from Chopin to Ades - Dina Duisen
  • Brahms and Bruckner - Nigel Short, Tenebrae; Signum Classics 
  • Alchemy - Meridian Arts Ensemble; 8bells 
  • The Deep End - The Swingles
  • Oliver Davis, Vivaldi - Seasons - Kerenza Peacock, Trafalgar Sinfonia, Ivor Setterfield; Signum Records 
  • Loquebantur - Music from the Baldwin Partbooks - The Marian Consort, Rose Consort of Viols; Delphian
  • Baltic Solitudes - Mr McFall's Chamber; Delphian
  • Silver Bow - Katherine Bryan, Royal Scottish National Orchestra, Jac van Steen; Linn Records
  • Hahn and Szymanowski - Tamsin Waley Cohen, Huw Watkins; Signum Records
  • Twisted Skyscape - Czech Philharmonic Wind Ensemble, Shea Lolin
  • Tartini, Vivaldi, Kreisler - Hideko Udagawa, Scottish Chamber Orchestra, Nicholas Kraemer;   Nimbus
  • Dinorah Varsi - Genuin Classics 
  • Weinberg, Harmann - Wartime Consolations - Linus Roth, Wurttemberg Chamber Orchestra Heilbronn, Ruben Gazarian, Jose Gallardo; Challenge Classics
  • Dmitri Smirnov, Elena Firsova, Alissa Firsova, Rachmaninov - Elena Firsova; Vivat
  • Romaria, Choral music from Brazil - Choir of Caius College, Cambridge, Geoffrey Webber; Delphian 
  • Music for harp and piano - Praxedis Duo, Paladin Music 
  • Colours of Spain - Maria Camahort Quartet, Convivium Records
  • Bach, Geminiani, Gorecki & Steve Reich - Mahan Esfahani, Concerto Köln; DG Classics
  • Baltic Sea Voyage - Baltic Sea Youth Orchestra, Kristian Jarvi; Naive
  • Transcriptions for string orchestra - Jacques Cohen, Isis Ensemble, Anna Hashimoto; Meridian 
  • RVW & Elgar - Tamsin Waley Cohen, Orchestra of the Swan, David Curtis; Signum Classics
  • Contrasts - Christina Sandsengen; Odradek Records
  • Max Mausen and Jason Anerson - Boumans, Debussy, Stravinsky
  • Barber, Corigliano, Bates - Anne Akiko Meyers, London Symphony Orchestra, Leonard Slatkin; eOne Records
  • Stabat Mater by Alissa Firsova, Tonu Korvits, Matthew Martin, Claudio Casciolini, Domenico Scarlatti; Coro
  • Celebrating 10 years - Stile Antico; Harmonia Mundi
  • Lux - Gjeilo, Tallis, Massive Attack, Tavener, Allegri, Esenvalds, Dubra, Hawes, Rachmaninov, Lauridsen, Folds, Todd, Mealor - Voces8, Christian Forshaw, Matthew Sharp; DECCA  
  • The North: Carpenter, Harrold, Arnalds, Cote, Gregory, Smith, Pankhurst - Borealis Saxophone Quartet
  • Plainchant from Portsmouth - Portsmouth Cathedral Choir, Convivium, David Price, Oliver Hancock, 
  • The Wexford Carols - Caitriona O'Leary, Rosanne Cash, Rhiannon Giddens, Tom Jones; Heresy Records
  • Deborah Pritchard, Robert Saxton, John McCabe - Trumpet Concertos - Simon Desbruslais, Orchestra of the Swan, David Curtis, Kenneth Woods; Signum
  • Music from the Hapsburg Court - Stile Antico; Harmonia Mundi
  • Felix Mendelssohn, John Adams - Violin Concertos - Chad Hoopes, MDR Leipzig Radio Symphony Orchestra, Jarvi; Naive
  • Hilliard Ensemble - Transeamus - ECM New Series
  • Jaan Raats - Marginalia - Kalle Randalu; ERP
  • Hortus Musicus, Andres Mustonen; ERP 
  • Andrzej Panufnik, Witold Lutoslawski - String Quartets - Tippett Quartet; Naxos
  • Summer Listening - Craig Ogden; Classic FM/DECCA
  • Princely Splendour - Harmonia Sacra, Peter Leech; Nimbus Alliance
  • My Beloved's Voice: Sacred Songs of Love - Choirs of Jesus College, Cambridge, Mark Williams; Signum Classics
  • In praise of St Columba - Barnaby Brown, Choir of Gonville and Caius College, Geoffrey Webber; Delphian
  • Accordian sensations - Paul Chamberlain; Pentland Music
  • Scottish Fantasy - Nicola Benedetti, BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Rory MacDonald; DECCA
  • Marie et Marion - Anonymous 4; Harmonia Mundi
  • Music for Royal Occasions - Catherine Ennis; City Music Foundation
  • Pifarissimo - Capella de la Torre: Challenge Classics
  • Rachmaninoff, Mussorgsky - James Brawn; MSR Classics
  • Stabat Mater Dolorosa - Choir of Clare College, Cambridge, Graham Ross; Harmonia Mundi
  • A Purcell Collection - Voces8; Signum Classics
  • Songs of Love and War - The London Quartet: Cantabile; Champs Hill Records
  • Vivaldi, Pergolesi, Scarlatti - Stabat Mater Ensemble Matheus/Jean-Christophe Spinosi, Concerto Italiano/Rinaldo Alessandrini: naive
  • Fortuna Scherzosa -  Ina Siedlaczek, Hamburger Ratsmusik: audite
  • Tallis - Lamentations and medieval chant - Tenebrae Consort, Nigel Short; Signum Classics
  • Luminance, music for two flutes - Anna Stokes, Lisa Friend, Mark Kincaid; Champs Hill Records
  • In Dance and Song - Tom Poster; Champs Hill Records
  • Clarion Call - Berkeley Ensemble, Resonus Classics
  • Ciaccona - Guillermo Brachetta; Resonus Classics
  • Russian Choral Works - Harmonia Sacra, Peter Leech; Nimbus Alliance
  • Russian Treasures - Tenebrae, Nigel Short: Signum Classics
  • La Quinta Essentia - Heulgas Ensemble, Paul Van Nevel: Harmonia Mundi
  • Michael Berkely Into the Ravine - Nicholas Daniel and the Carducci String Quartet: Signum Classics
  • Veni Emmanuel: Music for Advent - Choir of Clare College, Cambridge, Graham Ross: Harmonia Mundi
  • War and Peace: Music for Remembrance - Choir of Jesus College, Cambridge, Mark Williams: Signum Records;
  • Goss, Franck, Saint-Saens - Piano Concertos - Emmanuel Despax, Orpheus Sinfonia, Thomas Carroll; Signum Records
  • The Birth of the Symphony - Academy of Ancient Music, Richard Egarr; AAM Records
  • The Macedonian Sessions - Corinne Morris, Philip Hesketh, Macedonia Radio Symphony Orchestra
  • Midnight and A Sacred Place - The Songmen
  • Beloved Brahms, John Axelrod, Orchestra Sinfonica di Milano Giuseppe Verdi; Telarc
  • Voices from the Past, Anneke Scott, Bate Collection Oxford
  • Rakasha, Simon Thacker's Svara Kanti; Slap the Moon Records
  • The Romantic Cello II, Philip Handy, Robert Markham; VIF Records
  • Fairytales - Ksenija Sidorova, BBC National Orchestra of Wales, Clark Rundell
  • Composing without pictures - concert works by film composers - Richard Harwood, Resonus Classics
  • The Coral Sea - music for saxophone and piano - McKenzie Sawers Duo; Delphian
  • The Romantic Cello - Philip Handy, Robert Markham; VIF Records
  • Empassioned - Viktor Bijelovic
  • Phoenix Rising - Stile Antico; Harmonia Mundi
  • Libera Nos - Cry of the Oppressed, Choir of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, Choir of Kings College, London, Geoffrey Webber, David Trendall; Delphian
  • Dvorak / Schumann - Piano Concertos, Francesco Piemontesi, BBC Symphony Orchestra, Jiri Belohlavek, naive
  • The Passion of Reason - Sour Cream; Glossa
  • Al Combate - Chicago Arts Orchestra, Javier Jose Mendoza; Navona Records
  • Dvorak / Schumann - Cello Concertos - Jamie Walton (cello), Philharmonia Orchestra, Vladimir Ashkenazy; Signum Classics
  • Stanford / Parry - Choral Music - Carolyn Sampson (soprano), David Wilson Johnson (baritone), The King's Consort, Robert King
  • Advent at Merton - Choir of Merton College, Benjamin Nicholas, Peter Phillips; Delphian
  • A Flute Affair - Marlene Verwey (flute), Anne Marshal (piano),  Evert van Niekerk (violin), Theuns Pienaar (violin), Ken Craig (viola), Carel Henn (cello) & Armandt Marais (double bass); Salon Music
  • Chopin / Liszt - Viktor Bijeloc (piano)
  • A Song of Farewell - Songs of Mourning and Consolation - Gabrieli Consort, Paul McCreesh; Winged Lion
  • Paper Clips -  Andy Malloy (trombone), Karolina Rojahn (piano); Navona Records
  • Conversazione, Cantatas from a Cardinal's Court - Sounds Baroque; Avie
  • Italian Vespers 1612 - I Fagiolini, Robert Hollingworth; Decca
  • Ravel / Bloch / Janacek - Violin Sonatas - Christina Astrand (violin) & Per Salo (piano); Orchid Classics
  • The Little Road to Bethlehem - Quintessential Voices
  • Moto Perpetuo - moving works for cello - Ovidiu Marinescu (cello); Navona Records
  • Queen of Heaven - The Sixteen; Coro
  • 1865 - Anonymous Four; Bruce Molsky; Harmonia Mundi 
  • One Equal Music - St Peters Singers, Simon Lindley
  • A Multitude of VoicesBednall, Ferko, McDowall, Duggan, Mawby, Allain, L'Estrange, Pott; Sospiri, Christopher Watson; Convivium Records 
  • Bach & Vivaldi - concertos and magnificats -  La Capella Reaila de Catalunya, Le Concert des Nations, Jordi Savall; AliaVox 
  • Prokofiev Cello Sonata, Kabalevsky Cello Concerto No.2 - Leonard Elschenbroich, Alexei Grynyuk, Petr Limonov, Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra, Andrew Litton; Onyx 
  • Ghosts & Mirrors - Lindberg, Ades, Murail, Berg, Takemitsu, Simpson, Berio - Richard Uttley; Artists Recording Company 
  • Pizzetti Requiem, Malipiero, Allegri, MacMillan, Puccini - The Vasari Singers, Jeremy Backhouse - Naxos 
  • Plainsong - Portsmouth Cathedral Choir, David Price, Oliver Hancock; Convivium 
  • The North - music by Carpenter, Harrold, Arnalds, Cote, Gregory, Smith, Pankhurst; Borealis Saxophone Quartet 
  • Stabat Mater settings by Casciolini, Scarlatti, Firstova, Korvits and Martin; The Sixteen, Harry Christophers; Coro
  • Cello sonatas by Boccherini and Cirri; Catherine Jones, Giulia Nuti, Alison McGillivray and William Carter; Deutsche Harmonia Mundi 
  • Barber, Corigliano, Bates violin concertos - Anne Akiko Meyers, London Symphony Orchestra, Leonard Slatkin; eOne Records 
  • From the Imperial Court - Music for the House of Hapsburg - Stile Antico; Harmonia Mundi 
  • Felix Mendelssohn, John Adams Violin Concertos - Chad Hoopes, MDR Leipzig Radio Symphony Orchestra, Jarvi; naive 
  • Sean Shibe - Dreams & Fancies - Delphian
  • Techler's Cello - Ola Gjeilo, David Matthews, Beethoven, Mark Simpson, Jean-Baptise Barriere, Charlotte Bray, Respighi - Guy Johnston, Tom Poster, Magnus Johnston, Sheku Kanneh-Mason, Carlo Rissari, Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia; King's College, Cambridge 
  • The Ear of the Huguenots -  Huelgas Ensemble, Paul van Nevel; Deutsche Harmonia Mundi 
  • Victor Ewald, Oskar Böhme - music for brass ensemble - The Prince Regent's Band; Resonus Classics
  • Arvo Pärt, Hasan Uçarsu, Philip Glass, Pēteris Vasks - The Borusan Quartet - Onyx Classics 
  • Mieczyslaw Weinberg, Sergei Prokofiev - Fifth Symphonies - Sinfonia Iuventus, Gabriel Chmura; Warner Classics 
  • Afluencias: Music from Brazil - Villa Lobos, Torres, Pitombeira, Bujes, Huff, Coelho -  Paula Bujes, Pedro Huff; Drama Musica 
  • Kyrie - Poulenc, Kodaly, Janacek - Choir of St John's College, Cambridge, Andrew Nethsingha; Signum
  • Silence and Music - Stanford, Elgar, RVW, Howells, Grainger, James MacMillan, Benjamin Britten, Peter Warlock; Gabrieli Consort, Paul McCreesh - Winged Lion/Signum Classics 
  • Tombeaux - A secular requiem - Richard MacKenzie; Magnatune 
  • A Fancy - Matthew Locke, Henry Purcell, Giovanni Battista Draghi, Samuel Akeyrode, Louis Grabu, John Blow, Christopher Gibbons, James Hart - Rachel Redmond, Le Caravenserail, Bertrand Cuiller 
  • Jerusalem - Hortus Musicus; ERP 
  • Music for the Queen of Heaven - Gabriel Jackson, Judith Weir, Herbert Howells, Andrzej Panufnik, Cecilia McDowall, Matthew Martin, Cheryl Frances-Hoad, Hilary Campbell, Stephen Dodgson, Roxanna Panufnik, Lennox Berkeley, James McMillan - The Marian Consort; Delphian 
  • Music in a Cold Climate: the sounds of Hansa Europe; Gawain Glenton, In Echo; Delphian 
  • Jörg Widmann, Esa-Pekka Salonen, Volker David Kirchner, York Bowen, Robert Schumann, Nikolaus von Krufft - Ben Goldscheider, David Hill; Willowhayne Records
  • The Gluepot Connection - Warlock, Rawsthorne, Ireland, Bax, Delius, Lutyens, Moeran, Walton - Londinium, Andrew Griffiths - SOMM
  • Fire and Water - Saint-Saens, Einaudi, Rachmaninov, De Falla, Debussy, Xinghai, Stravinsky, Ravel, Scriabin - Ji Liu - Classic FM
  •  Finzi, Mozart, Bruch works for clarinet & orchestra; Roeland Hendrikx, Sander Geerts, London Philharmonic Orchestra, Martyn Brabbins; Evil Penguin   
  • French Collection: Jean-Philippe Rameau, Antoine Forqueray, Christophe Moyreaus, Pierre-Claude Fouquet, Francois Couperin, and Joseph-Nicolas-Pancrace Royer; Katarzyna Kowalik  
  • Baroque concertos:  Dall'Abaco, Porpora, Marcello, Tartini, Telemann; The English Concert, Harry Bicket; Signum Classics
  • Music for Brass Septet - Finzi, Elgar, Parry, Walton; Septura; Naxos 
  • Elsewhereness - Joe Cutler; NMC Records 
  • For The Fallen, Lest We Forget, In Remembrance; The Chapel Choir of the Royal Hospital, Chelsea/William Vann, The Choir of Chichester Cathedral/Charles Harrison, Pegasus/Matthew Althm; SOMM, SIGNUM 
  • Music for Windy Instruments: Sounds from the court of King James I; English Cornett and Sackbut Ensemble; Resonus Classics 
  • In Sorrow's Footsteps: Palestrina, Gabriel Jackson, Allegri, James MacMillan; The Marian Consort, Rory McCleery; Delphian  
  • New Resonances: Alessandro Solbiati, Bryan Ferneyhough, Jonathan Cole, Salvatore Sciarrino, Alessandro Magini; Sara Minelli; EMA Vinci contemporanea  
  • Russian Romantics: Glinka, Rubinstein, Glazunov, Kosenko Gliere, Cui; Hideko Udagawa, Alexander Panfilov; Northern Flowers  
  • Mozart in London: Mozart, J.C.Bach, Arne, Duni, Arnold, Pescetti, Rush, Bates, Perez, Abel; Rebecca Bottone, Eleanor Dennis, Anna Deven, Martene Grimson, Ana Maria Labin, Helen Sherman, Ben Johnson, Robert Murray, Steven Devine, The Mozartists, Ian Page; Signum Classics  
  • White Light, Part, Vasks, Tavener, Lennon & McCartney; Hugo Ticciati, Matthew Barley, Soumik Datta, Sukhvinder Singh Pinky, O/Modernt Chamber Orchestra; Signum Classics 
  • The Dark Lord's Music: Jakob Reys, Du Gast, Robert Johnson, John Dowland, Daniel Batcheler, Diomedes Cato, Gauthier, Henri de l'Enclos, Cuthbert Hely, Despond, Edward Lord Herbert; Martin Eastwell; Music & Media 
  • Prophetiae Sibyllarum, Lassus, Hildegard of Bingen, Dmitri Tymoczko, Eliot Cole; Gallicantus, Gabriel Crouch; Signum Classics  
  • Henry Purcell, Corbetta, Lawes, Draghi; Anna Dennis, Sounds Baroque, Julian Perkins; Resonus Classics  
  • Soledad - Biber, Bach, Lorca, Scarlatti; Jorge Jimenez
  • Serenata Mexicana - Alejandro Basulto, Arturo Marquez; Morgan Szymanski, Jamie MacDougall, Gabriella Dall'Olio, Shakespeare Sinfonia, David Curtis; Toccata Next
  • Werrecore, Josquin, Gaffurius, Weerbeke; Siglo de Oro, Patrick Allies; Delphian
  • Remember me, my dear - Komitas, Garbarek, Kedrov, Pärt,Le Rouge, Perotin, Hildegard von Bingen, Brumel; Hilliard Ensemble, Jan Garbarek; ECM
  • Pancho Vladigerov, Francis Poulenc, Peter Seabourne - works for violin & piano; Irina Borissova, Giacomo Battarino; Sheva Contemporary
  • Une soirée à Grenade - Debussy, De Falla, Viñes; Maite Aguirre
  • A Tale of Two Violas - Bach, Tertis, Borisovsky; Peter Mallinson, Matthias Wiesner, Evgenia Startseva; Meridian
  • The Romantic Violin Concerto - Eduard Lassen, Philipp Scharwenka, Rued Langgaard; Linus Roth, BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Anthony Hermus; Hyperion
  • Supersize Polyphony - Striggio Missa sopra Ecco Si Beato Giorno, Tallis Spem in alium; Armonico Consort, choir of Gonville & Caius College, Cambridge, Christopher Monks; Signum
  • From the ground up: the chaconne - Bach, Pellegrini, Piccinini, Purcell, Bogdanovic, Marmen; O Modernt, Hugo Ticciati, Sam West; Signum Classics
  • Leonardo: Shaping the invisible; I Fagiolini; Coro
  • ... Baroque Gender Stories - Hasse, Galuppi, Lampugnani, Porpora, Handel, Vivaldi, Wagenseil, Traetta; Vivica Genaux, Lawrence Zazzo, Lautten Compagney Berlin, Wolfgan Katschner; Deutsche Harmonia Mundi 
  • Deep Light - Weber, Finzi, RVW, Schumann, Francaix; Cristo Barrios, Andrew West; Ibs classical 
  • An English Coronation: 1902-1953; Gabrieli Consort & Players, Gabrieli Roar, Chetham's Symphonic Brass Ensemble, Paul McCreesh; Winged Lion   
  • Tanguero: Music from South America; Christoph Denoth; Signum Classics
  • Music for Saxophone - Debussy, Decruck, Maurice, Borne; Dominic Childs, Simon Callaghan; Resonus Classics
  • Saint-Saens, Lalo, Milhaud, Offenbach, Massenet; Hee-Young Lim, London Symphony Orchestra, Scott Yoo; Sony Classical 
  • A Salon Opera - Paganini, Schubert, Molino, Sor, GLuck, Mertz, Giuliani; Flauguissimo Duo; Resonus Classics 
  • (speak to me) new music, new politics - Gershwin, Rzewski, Kirsten, Malone, Gould; Adam Swayne; Coviello Contemporary  
  • Britten & Mendelssohn Violin Concertos; Sebastian Bohren, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, Andrew Litton;
    RCA Red Seal
  • Verbum caro factum est: Advent and Christmas music from Portsmouth; Choir of Portsmouth Cathedral, David Price; Herald AV
  • Black Composers Series 1974-78; Sony Classical 
  • Of arms and a woman: late medieval wind music; Blondel; FHR
  • A year at Lincoln - Byrd, Mendelssohn, SS Wesly, Hawes, Parsons, Tallis, Chilcott, Finxi, Bingham, Elgar, Wood Blatchly, Brahms, Taverner, RVW; The choir of Lincoln Cathedral, Aric Prentice; Regent
  • Salve, Salve, Salve: Josquin's Spanish legacy - Morales, Guerrero, Victoria, Josquin Desprez; Contrapunctus, Owen Rees; Signum Classics
  • Death and the Maiden - John Tavener, Franz Schubert, Oliver Leith, Sigur Rós; 12 Ensemble; Sancho Panza
  • Visions - Cyril Scott piano works; Nino Gvetadze; Challenge Classics
  • Genesis - Scarlatti, Rameau, Trojan, Gubaidulina, Pärt, Vlasov, Piazzolla; Bartosz Glowacki, Rob Luft, Elias Peter Brown; DUX
  • Bastard Assignments; Bastard Assignments (Caitlin Rowley, Timothy Cape, Edward Henderson, Josh Spear)
  • Edward Elgar - Falstaff, George Whitfield Chadwick - Tam O'Shanter; BBC National Orchestra of Wales, Timothy West, Samuel West, Andrew Constantine; Orchid Classics
  • Fermi's Paradox; Ronn McFarlane, Carolyn Surrick; Sono Luminus 
  • Christmas CD roundup 2020
  • Slavonic Reflections; Chopin, Janáček, Medtner, Lyadov; Nelly Akopian-Tamarina; Pentatone  
  • In Motion - Schubert, Hindson, Boccherini, Corrales, Farr; United Strings of Europe, Amalia Hall, Julian Azkoul; BIS
  • Revolving Rondo; Nils Klöfver 
  • Ohrwurm; Tabea Debus, Jonathan Rees, Alex McCartney, Delphian Records 
  • Espiral - Igmar Alderete, Ruben Jordan, Juan de Dios Garcia Aguilera, Raquel Rodriguez, Monica Cardenas, Jose Javier Delgado; Camerata Gala, Alejandro Muñoz; LBS Classical 
  • The See Within; The Echo Collective; 7K! 
  • Messe de... Carmina Burana; Hortus Musicus; ERP 
  • Solo II - Bach Unaccompanied cello suites, Kurtag Signs, Games and Messages; Tabea Zimmerman; Myrios Classics 
  • Kevin Puts Quintet for Piano and Strings 'The Red Snapper', Andrea Clearfield Romanza for Violin and Chamber Orchestra, Gunther Schuller Sonata for Two Pianos, Four Hands;Innova
  • Tallis Spem in Alium, MacMillan Vidi Aquam; ORA Singers, Suzi Digby; Harmonia Mundi
  • Extra Time - Albinoni, Vivaldi, Brescianello, Matteis; La Serenissima, Adrian Chandler; Signum
  • Interstices - Peter Fribbins, Andrew McIntosh, Sam Cave, Jim Perkins; Brother Tree Sound; Bigo & Twigetti
  • Stanford and Howells Remembered; Cambridge Singers, John Rutter, Wayne Marshall; Collegium Records
  • They that in ships unto the sea go down: Music for the Mayflower; Passamezzo; Resonus Classics
  • In Chains of Gold, volume 2 - Byrd, Bull, Cosyn, Hooper, Mundy; Magdalena Consort, Fretwork, His Majestys Sagbutts & Cornetts, William Hunt; Signum
  • afterimage - Christopher Cerrone, Jacob Cooper; String Orchestra of Brooklyn, Eli Spindel; Furious Artisans
  • Rachmaninov & Prokofiev Cello Sonatas; Hee-Young Lim, Nathalia Milstein; SONY CLASSICAL
  • Glass and Stravinsky Violin Concertos; David Nebel, London Symphony Orchestra, Baltic Sea Philharmonic, Kristjan Järvi; Sony Classical
  • And that one too - Andy Akiho, David Crowell, Amy Beth Kirsten, Thomas Kotcheff; Sandbox Percussion; Coviello Classics
  • La bella Habana; Camerata Romeu, Zenaida Castro Romeu
  • Dionisio Aguado, Mauro Giluiani, Napoleon Coste, Fernando Sor, Giulio Regoni, Luigi Boccherini - Fandango! Music for solo guitar and string quartet; Johan Löfving, Consone Quartet, Nanako Aramaki; Resonus Classics 
  • Baroque violin sonatas - Philipp Friedrich Böddecker, Johann Erasmus Kindermann, Johann Heinrich Schmelzer, Heinrich Ignaz Franz Biber; Elfa Rún Kristinsdóttir, Sabine Erdmann, Magnus Andersson; Solaire Records
  • Arvo Pärt Stabat Mater, Peteris Vasks Plainscapes, James MacMillan Miserere; choir of Clare College, Cambridge, Dmitri Ensemble, Graham Ross; Harmonia Mundi
  • The Leipzig Circle, piano trios by Robert Schumann, Niels Gade, Felix Mendelssohn; The Phoenix Piano Trio; STONE RECORDS
  • Solo works from The Klagenfurt Manuscript; Peter Sheppard Skaerved; Athene
  • John Ireland Sarnia: An Island Sequence, Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky The Seasons; Tom Hicks; Chatelet Records
  • Minimal Works; Alessandro Viale; KHA
  • Christmas disc round up 2021
  • In the Garden of Polyphony: French Renaissance Music for Lute & Guitar; Israel Golani; Solaire Records
  • Cante Interno - Bottesini, Koussevitzky, Schumann, Franck; Luis Cabrera, Justyna Maj, Sylvia Huang; trptk 
  • Reels, Drones & Jigs - Perpetuo; Champs Hill Records
  • 9/11:20 - Karen Walwyn, Henry Cowell, Kevin Malone, Scott Joplin, David Del Tredici; Coviello Contemporary
  • Spiorachas – A High Place; Charlie Grey, Joseph Peach 
  • Con arte e maestria - Virtuoso violin ornamentation from the dawn of the Italian Baroque, Oliver Webber, Steven Devine, Monteverdi String Band In Focus; Resonus Classics
  • The Four Quarters - Thomas Adès, Ivor Gurney, Henry Purcell, Cassandra Miller, William Marsey, Florence Price, Bela Bartok, Robert Schumann, Aaron Parker, Kate Bush; Solem Quartet; Orchid Classics
  • On DSCH - Shostakovich, Stevenson; Igor Levit; Sony Classical
  • The Boulanger Legacy - Lili Boulanger, Grazyna Bacewicz, Astor Piazzolla, Leonard Bernstein, Nadia Boulanger; Merel Vercammen, Dina Ivanova; TRPTK 
  • Grieg Piano Concerto, Rachmaninov Piano Concerto No. 2; Tedd Joselson, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Philharmonia Orchestra, Arthur Fagen; Signum Classics
  • Six Degrees of Separation - Patrick John Jones, Christian Drew, Stef Conner, Emma-Kate Matthews, Chris McCormack, Alex Paxton; London Symphony Orchestra, Darren Bloom; NMC
  • Last Song - Atli Heimir Sveinsson, Jórunn Viðar, Karólína Eiríksdóttir, Magnús Blöndal Jóhannsson, Una Sveinbjarnardóttir, Louis Couperin, Gluck, Ole Bull, Massenet, Hildegard of Bingern Monteverdi; Una Sveinbjarnardóttir, Tinna Þorsteinsdóttir; Sono Luminus
  • American Quintets - Beach, Barber, Price; Kaleidoscope Chamber Collective; CHANDOS
  • A deux violes esgales - Sainte-Colombe, Marais; Myriam Rignol, Mathilde Vialle; Chateau de Versailles Spectacles
  • La Folia - Rebel, Handel, Matteis, L'Estrange, Telemann, Purcell, Rameau, Vivaldi; Ensemble La Notte
  • Nature and the Imagination - Debussy, Rameau, Richard Rodney Bennett, Benjamin Graves, Gershwin; Pelléas Ensemble; LINN 
  • Nostalgic Russia - Tchaikovsky, Eduard Nápravník, Rachmaninov, Stravinsky, Rimsky-Korsakov, Arensky, Scriabin, Shostakovich, Kabalevsky; Hideko Udagawa, Petr Limonov; Northern Flowers
  • Legacy: A Tribute to Dennis Brain - Watkins, Arnold, Poulenc, Britten, Panufnik, Maxwell Davies; Ben Goldscheider, Huw Watkins, James Gilchrist; Three Worlds Records
  • Enclosure - Larry Goves, Claudia Sessa, Matthew Sergeant, Sarah Hennies, Amber Priestly; The House of Bedlam; NMC
  • Aeternum - State Choir "Latvija", Māris Sirmais; SKANI 
  • Rediscovered: British Clarinet Concertos - Susan Spain-Dunk, Elizabeth Maconchy, Rudolph Dolmetsch, Peter Wishart; Peter Cigleris, BBC National Orchestra of Wales, Ben Palmer; SIGNUM 
  • En Masse: Offspring Bites3 - Alex Pozniak, Holly Harrison, Thomas Meadowcroft; Ensemble Offspring
  • To Anatolia - Cemal Reşit Rey, Ferid Alnar, Ulvi Cemal Erkin, Adnan Saygun, Necil Kazım Akses; Beyza Yazgan; Bridge Records
  • Healing Fire - Bach, Britten, Gubaidulina, Hetu; Smaro Gregoriadou; DELOS 
  • Beyond Beethoven - Ries, Steup, Starke, Thürner; Anneke Scott, Steven Devine; Resonus Classics
  • Virtuoso Dances - Bartok, Stravinsky, Piazzolla, Brahms, Szymanowski; Linus Roth, Jose Gallardo; Evil Penguin 
  • Lunaris; Anna Stegmann, Jorge Jiménez; GWK Records
  • Modern Czech Masters - Feld, Novák, Schulhoff, Martinů; Orlando Cela, David Gilliland; Orpheus Classical
  • Vocal cords: Italian themes for guitar; Andrea Belmonte; KHA
  • La La Hö Hö: Sixteenth-century viol music for the richest man in the world; Linarol Consort; Inventa
  • arb - Zachary Good, Ben Roidl-Ward; Carrier Records
  • A Celtic Prayer - George McPhee, Martin Dalby, James MacMillan, Thomas Wilson, Stuart MacRae, Cedric Thorpe Davie, Edward McGuire, Owen Swindale; Choir of Paisley Abbey, George McPhee; Priory
  • The Suite - Telemann, Bach, Elizondo, Green; Lowell Chamber Orchestra, Orlando Cela; Navona Records
  • Timelapse - Orchestra of the Swan; Signum Classics
  • Accents - Borodin, Debussy, Copland, Villa-Lobos, Lacaze; Ensemble K, Simone Menezes; Aparté
  • Elgar Cello Concerto, Gareth Farr Cello Concerto - Chemin des Dames; Sébastien Hurtaud, New Zealand Symphony Orchestra, Benjamin Northey; Rubicon
  • Sound and Music (vol 1) - Supriya Nagarajan, Seán Clancy, Marc Yeats, Claudia Molitor, Jobina Tinnemans, Ailís Ní Ríain, Michael Betteridge, Jez riley French, Sam Salem; SOUND and MUSIC













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