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(Déjà Review) Fine rare repertoire and typically sprung, lively sound with power and subtlety aplenty [RB]

Another fine but essentially redundant issue in this Mahler series [RMo]

Emotionally charged and challenging music offers much food for thought [SG]

A deeply emotional song cycle performed with insight and gloriously sung [GF]

Exemplary justice done … ecstatic filigree and truculent brass artillery [RB]

A legendary performance unfolds before you [NB]

Thomas Trotter’s technique and irrepressible enthusiasm shine in every bar [JF]

(Déjà Review) Two marvellous, scandalously neglected romantic piano concertos [JQ]

(Déjà Review) A celebration of one of the significant major bodies of music of the 20th century [GPJ]

Handel’s grand outdoor showpieces reduced in scale to intimate chamber works [RMo]

Colourful and quirky Ives receiving skilled if somewhat studious performances [NB]

Terrific performances by the Escher Quartet in spectacular sound [LW]

Musical illustration of a famous story [JV]

Followers of Dame Sarah Connolly will no doubt derive a lot of pleasure from this issue, but I wish she had recorded it a couple of years earlier [GF]

Something of a mixed bag [SV]

(Déjà Review) A languid approach with lovely singing from Upshaw [RB]

(Déjà Review) Impressively powerful; a coupling that is stimulating and generous [TH]

Every lover of the baroque violin will be delighted to listen to these performances {JV]

This illuminating performance is worth investigating [MP]

Excellent orchestral playing, choral singing and conducting compromised by sub-par solo voices and thus a missed opportunity [RMo]

Sparkling performances of early Mozart works you’ve never heard like this before [MG]

A recital demonstrating Liszt’s love of Rossini but with an odd coupling [RCh]

No marvels here [DJB]

The Serebrier Sinfonietta remains a top recommendation [RB]