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Sarasate: Music for Violin and Orchestra (Naxos)
(Déjà Review) Tianwa Yang’s best Sarasate yet, which is really saying something [BR]
Early One Morning: Finnish Orchestral Favourites (Naxos)
(Déjà Review) I loved this two-disc sampler of lesser-known Finnish composers [BR]
Weinberg: Cello Sonatas (Naxos)
(Déjà Review) Emotional Soviet solo cello [BR]
Beethoven and His Teachers (Naxos)
(Déjà Review) Another insightful, informative album of early Beethoven from Naxos [BR]
Rimsky-Korsakov: Scheherazade (Naxos)
(Déjà Review) I put the disc on expecting ‘decent’, but it’s spectacular [BR]
American Music for Clarinet & Piano (Harmonia Mundi)
An hour spent in very enjoyable company; terrific playing and program [BR]
Tchaikovsky: Symphonies 1 & 6 (LPO)
(Déjà Review) A revelatory First, and a fine Sixth too [BR]
Ravel & Poulenc: Daphnis et Chloé & Gloria (CSO Resound)
(Déjà Review) Marvelous playing, glowing sound, inspired coupling [BR]
Kabalevsky: Complete Piano Preludes (Naxos)
Minor masterworks all-too-rarely performed [BR]
