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A much-admired Elgar Overtures disc still sounds resplendent [JW]

Uneven performances of two British song cycles but there’s a world première of another [JW]

Cosmic space and Jesus – two tone poems from the baffling Hjalmar Borgstrøm [JW]

George Szell’s Smetana in live American performances [JW]

Michael Collins revisits his British repertoire for BIS [JW]

Live sonata performances from a Heifetz protégé who became his own man [JW]

Lloyd’s reissue series contains a new recording derived from ‘The Serf’ [JW]

The vibrant, alluring art of arch-Romanticist, Aaron Rosand [JW]

The driven artistry of a tragically short-lived French pianist and sensitive collaborator [JW]

An erratic and temperamentally uneven performance [JW]

Elman’s glittering morceau (and some others) in splendid transfers [JW]

The terse art of a Czech-German composer influenced by Bartók, Hindemith and Janáček [JW]

Frederick Grinke’s recordings restored for a new generation – and high time too [JW]

The playing and recording is impactful; this is an easy disc to enjoy [JW]

George Lloyd’s piano works grouped together and reissued in a ‘Signature Edition’ twofer [JW]

A splendid American string quartet caught on the wing in concert in 1946 [JW]

A third Dacapo cycle of Holmboe’s string quartets repay close listening [JW]

More valuable premiere recordings [JW]

A Liverpudlian composer’s musical and geographical wanderings [JW]

(Déjà Review) Long may this worthy retrieval continue [JW]

Strong, masculine playing from Berl Senofsky – along with some less than stellar performances [JW]

Brief the encounters may be, but they are poignant, stirring and full of novelty [JW]

Vital, imaginative works from a near-forgotten German composer [JW]

A focused look at the Estonian cellistic lineage from 1913 to 1955 [JW]