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Déjà Review) This performance impresses by its inexorable growth [CH]

An excellent panorama of the first years of electrical recording with first-rate transfers and presentation [PSt]

Askenase captured in exceptional form in all these performances [RCh]

A challenging, rewarding album [JQ]

A delightful and important rediscovery [RMay]

Knotty and serious scores receive powerful performances, beautifully recorded [NB]

Engaging and lively playing of arrangements that remain close to the original [JV]

(Déjà Review) Filled to the brim with a wide range of brass music [TPr]

(Déjà Review) Music that is reasonably challenging but will more than compensate with repeated hearings [MC]

These reconstructions of works surviving only in fragments from the Eton choirbook are gorgeous and dazzling [SB]

Treasures from the guitar repertory masterfully played [ZT]

An outstanding Schubert recital [JQ]

High quality performances of well-known and less familiar Sibelius. [DHa]

Excellent playing, but the concept is debatable [JV]

Music that reflects both the bleakness but increasing vitality of Kalabis’s works for string ensemble [JW]

(Déjà Review) Another unearthed gem, sensitively performed and beautifully recorded [DBl]

(Déjà Review) Committed playing from Menuhin’s Indian Summer, excellently partnered by son Jeremy [GF]

Enjoyable romantic miniatures though the playing in the more spirited numbers lack gusto [RCh]

A mix of popular and little-known works, which is a joy from beginning to end [MC]

A deeply satisfying programme of recent orchestral music [WH]

A rare misfire in Decca’s hugely impressive opera back-catalogue [LD]

A fine account of Schubert’s Ninth, and five orchestrated songs as a bonus [LW]

A fine addition to Semyon Bychkov’s Mahler cycle [JQ]

An excellent all-round recording [EML]