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More pre-war classics from the Budapest Quartet [JW]

Nepotil works better on longer-term planning than in short-form [JW]

An absorbing study of an unjustly neglected body of recordings continues [JW]

A splendid selection of songs by composers cut short before their time [JW]

Admirable reissues still hold their own [JW]

Another laudable composer emerges in the ‘Music in Exile’ series [JW]

Varied and contrasting Czech song cycles that resist the lure of the crepuscular [JW]

Authoritative premiere recordings of a semi-forgotten Jewish-Lithuanian-Swedish composer [JW]

(Déjà Review) Superbly cogent works performed with stunning intelligence, tonal blend, sectional discipline and conductorly flair [JW]

Extolling the American spirit: Carpenter’s 1920s ballets brought to life [JW]

A Warlock obscurity rescued from LP oblivion in handsome style [JW]

The conclusion of a focused, chronological look at Rabin’s ‘Bell Telephone Hour’ broadcasts [JW]

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]