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A thoughtfully assembled set [EJW]

(Déjà Review) This recording has been absent from the catalogues for too long [JW]

It’s great that these performances are newly available, but sample before you buy [JW]

(Déjà Review) No Heifetz admirer should be without this [JW]

(Déjà Review) There’s something for everyone, and very attractively played too [JW]

Maurice Greene’s accomplished, perceptive early English oratorio on disc at last, in an excellent performance [JW]

New symphonies from the 1950s, live in Minneapolis in Doráti-led performances [JW]

Rare solo violin works given a fine outing here [JW]

A rare slice of Doráti’s Bach from French sources [JW]

Top quality soloists promote the cello in compact Dutch concerto works [JW]

Havergal Brian’s Agamemnon on disc prefaced, as he’d suggested, by the Twelfth Symphony [JW]

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

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

The cultured elegance of violinist Jelly d’Arányi in recordings from the 1920s and 30s [JW]

(Déjà Review) Aristocratic playing and transfers that sound extremely well [JW]

Concertmaster-soloist Arthur Catterall in historically valuable late acoustic recordings [JW]

Danish Radio’s role in the Langgaard rediscovery is made explicit in this significant release [JW]

Two German contemporaries and their very different approaches to the piano concerto [JW]

A late satiric opera by Antheil, splendidly realised, devoid of Bad Boy but not devoid of spice and wit [JW]

Sonic and structural explorations from a leading Mexican composer [JW]

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

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

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

The Contemporary Piano Rag in the vitalising hands of a master practitioner [JW]