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Busoni’s marvellous piano creations shown to their best advantage in this young pianist’s very secure hands [RCh]

Should be acquired by anyone with an affection for the string quartet genre [DC]

(Déjà Review) These beautifully crafted works are full of grace, wit, charm and even some drama and romance [KS]

(Déjà Review) Pellucid beauty, an exceptional sense of excavated drama, tremendous atmospheric compression, rhythmic nuance and panache [JW]

Revelatory and thoroughly engrossing [DF]

An original recital including a creative imagining of a sixteenth quartet by Shostakovich [DHa]

Lovers of piano music are in for a treat with the many discoveries this disc affords [SA]

A fine disc of cantatas by a relatively neglected composer [GPu]

First recordings of two attractive Ukrainian piano concertos with a depressing history [EJW]

A tour de force from the leading dramatic soprano of the modern age [PH]

(Déjà Review) The set should be highly rewarding to those who place top priority on gorgeous music [DS]

(Déjà Review) An extraordinarily rewarding series now celebrated in a fourth volume [RB]

From early Gurney to Ian Venables, the Pastoral is renewed through warmly flowing compositions [JW]

A pleasant miscellany, though the number of very short tracks and the limited variety of instrumental colour makes sustained concentration difficult [GPu]

The best available transfer of a great performance of Bruckner’s Eighth [PSt]

An interesting glimpse into Doráti’s Hindemith [DHa]

Anyone wanting a collection of Fauré songs need look no further than this [GF]

Intriguing arrangements for brass band of some contemporary pieces [KT]

Cortot’s playing almost always convinces one that his is the true way [CC]

Four world premieres of a neglected late Baroque composer played with aplomb and vigour [MS]

A welcome return to the music of Shostakovich by the Jerusalem Quartet [DHa]

These remarkable discs have been hard to track down so it is wonderful to have them collected together and to hear Etsuko Hirose’s dazzling pianism [RCh]

With abundant sonic splendour and musical prowess, Järvi and his band kick off their new Mahler cycle on a high (trumpet) note [KC]

Fine performances but a problem with the recorded balance partially hinders one’s pleasure [GPu]