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A beautiful warm timbre but too relaxed and urbane compared with more energised accounts [RMo]

The three piano sonatas of this bold Russian Futurist together on one disc [SB]

(Déjà Review) I have never heard textures with such cloud-like softness and insubstantiality [GPJ]

(Déjà Review) The Violin Concerto gets the emotionally involved reading and lush sonorities it seems to call for [VM]

by Patrick Waller

Two praiseworthy performances under Haitink [MC]

Dallapiccola’s unfamiliar masterpiece is a highlight: rarely was the cliché “something for everyone” more apt [RHa]

An original, accessible approach to the Requiem Mass [JQ]

A thoroughly enjoyable tribute to English Elizabethan composers from a gifted, highly musical, French ensemble [RMo]

Kick off your shoes and take to the dancefloor with Scott’s tapestry of orchestrated dances [JW]

I cannot imagine anyone who loves the organ being disappointed by this top-quality release [MC]

Riches to be discovered here [CC]

Highly expressive settings from the classical period [JV]

A recording which has a lot going for it but which just misses the mark [JQ]

Séverac’s impressionism played with technical brilliance, tremendous sympathy and vivid imagination [JF]

Wachowski’s excellent selection of works makes for a disc I shall be enjoying for a long time to come [SA]

An outstanding disc in every way [JQ]

A comic Czech opera recorded in 1959 heard for the first time in stereo [JW]

(Déjà Review) It is wonderful to have the first disc of this series [IL]

(Déjà Review) A marvellously performed release that will surely win these Strauss chamber scores many admirers [MC]

by Len Mullenger

Very well played and engineered, but only intermittently achieving the drive and intensity of Barshai, Shipway and Karajan [RMo]

A Hamburg organ-and-violin duo of the Baroque comes alive [JW]

Outstanding in terms of programming, performance and sound quality, will delight all interested in the viol [GPu]