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Restraint is the key-word here. Joanna Gill’s mottos: love, peace, reconciliation are whispered, not shouted. Smile governs over tears. Light over darkness [GF]

The Foreign Legion conscripted to the School of Paris with vitalising results [JW]

Too strident for my liking [DJB]

(Déjà Review) This disc in excellent sound is a worthy alternative to the composer’s own [JW]

A dazzling achievement all around [MP]

by Ralph Moore

Anyone who cares about the role of music in the liturgy today should hear this disc [JQ]

An admirable new account of Hindemith’s piano masterpiece [SB]

Best avoided – there are many far superior options [RMo]

Conventional and a little quirky; a minor composer slowly emerges [JW]

No one will go away unhappy after hearing this music [WK]

Water three ways with piano four-hands – superb! [DC]

(Déjà Review) No Arrau admirer would want to be without it [JW]

Rebecca Clarke’s string sonatas chart her movement from Brahms to modernism [JW]

Conventional Classical-era quartets, with some quirky details [SV]

An interesting program, with good if not outstanding performances [DJB]

A fascinating new voice in a programme tied to her cultural heritage but with universal appeal [GF]

Breathlessly executed – flashy, but no interpretative nuance [RMo]

Pleasant music in good but not exceptional performances [MP]

An interesting byway of twentieth-century music [WH]

(Déjà Review) There’s something for everybody in this excellently played between-the-wars anthology of music [JL]

This first volume in the projected series of J.S. Bach’s First Cantata Year has got off to a most auspicious start [MC]

Some of Handel’s most beautiful arias in instrumental versions, performed with vitality, sensitivity and rhythmical precision [GF]

Played with sensitivity balanced by enthusiasm [JF]