‘Yang proves simply inimitable…Bravo!’ – BBC Music Magazine

‘this music is worth hearing…and bears repeated hearing in this compelling performance from Radio France ensembles under Eliahu Inbal’ – BBC Music Magazine

SCHUMANN Scenes from Goethe’s Faust
soloists • Warsaw Boys’ Choir
Warsaw Philharmonic Choir & Orchestra • Antoni Wit
Naxos NBD0015 [Blu-ray Audio]

‘The rarity of this masterpiece is baffling, and this unaffected performance should win many friends, especially in the much-better Blu-ray sound.’ – BBC Music Magazine

FUCHS Serenades Nos 3, 4 and 5
Cologne Chamber Orchestra • Christian Ludwig
Naxos 8.572607

‘This is music of very high quality. It deserves a place in every serious collection.’ – ClassicsToday.com

JANÁČEK Taras Bulba, Lachian Dances, Moravian Dances
Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra • Antoni Wit
Naxos 8.572695

‘Everything about this disc is fabulous…Antoni Wit’s Taras Bulba sounds like no other.’ – ClassicsToday.com

‘A most beautiful disc of some absolutely beautiful music.’ – MusicWeb International

‘As sad as it is that this Naxos series had to end, the final volume is just as glorious as the first four.’ – MusicWeb International

‘Gerard Schwarz gets his players to blast their way…with total conviction. Buy it and love it.’ – ClassicsToday.com

VERDI Complete Ballet Music from the Operas
Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra • José Serebrier
Naxos 8.572818-19 [2 CDs]

‘this set will easily repay repeated listening as Verdi’s warm-hearted melodies and full-throated brass make for nearly two full hours of the best opera has to offer’ – American Record Guide

‘The Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra under José Serebrier makes a strong case in a new recording of the complete Verdi ballet scenes’ – WQXR

‘The opportunity to hear this wonderful Kirchner and Reinecke violin and piano music played this well on instruments like these is not to be missed.’ – American Record Guide

‘Here is a collection of superb music, superbly played and engineered, that will make you listen to fugues in an entirely new way.’ – American Record Guide

‘These are remarkable works…consistently entertaining, expressive, and curiously moving.’ – ClassicsToday.com

MUSIC FOR STRINGS IN THE REPUBLIC OF VENICE 1615-1630
Sonatori de la Gioiosa Marca
Divox CDX-79707

‘Superb playing by Sonatori de la Gioiosa Marca brings to mind the finest interpretations of the vivid scenes in Il Combattimento di Tancredi E Clorinda.’ – American Record Guide

THE KERNIS PROJECT: BEETHOVEN
The Jasper String Quartet
Dorian Sono Luminus DSL-92142

‘The Jasper Quartet gives off joyous energy like sparks. Don’t miss this album.’ – MusicWeb International

RAFF Piano Works, Vol 1
Tra Nguyen, piano
Grand Piano GP602

‘Tra Nguyen shows what an original and brilliant voice Raff’s is’ – The Independent

SCHULHOFF Piano Works, Vol 1
Caroline Weichert, piano
Grand Piano GP604

‘This is beautifully played Schumann and in a recording that need make no apology for its age…none that I’ve heard are any more musically satisfying than this one.’ – Fanfare

SEGERSTAM Symphonies Nos 81, 162 and 181
Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra • Leif Segerstam
Ondine ODE1172-2

‘profoundly awesome volume in which music of such prodigious imagination floods out’ – MusicWeb International

‘Don’t miss this visually enchanting and thought-provoking treat.’
– Gramophone