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Thieriot: Chamber Music Volume 4 (Toccata Classics)

Pleasant Brahms-influenced works, lacking much spark [DJB]

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Berlioz: Roméo et Juliette (SWR Music)

Not a library choice but there’s much to enjoy [JQ]

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Piano music played by Fanny Davies & Adela Verne (APR)

It is wonderful to have Davies’ Schumann back in the catalogue and Adela Verne’s discs are a delicious bonus [RCh]

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Rose: Music for String Quartet (Convivium Records)

Difficult music that requires serious listening. Superb performances and recording [WH]

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Charpentier: Choral music (Château de Versailles)

A carefully devised programme enabling us to understand how Italian polychoral works so heavily influenced Charpentier’s expansive, insistent idiom [RMo]

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Edwards: Symphonies 1 & 4 (ABC Classics)

(Déjà Review) A first class production that deserves to find a wide audience [TP]

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Elgar: The Dream of Gerontius (Hallé)

(Déjà Review) A remarkable achievement [JQ]

Gluck: Iphigénie en Tauride (Decca)

(Déjà Review) Fully in touch with Gluck’s keen sense of drama [ST]