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(Déjà Review) A well documented, brilliantly recorded, excellently played and broadly sympathetic set of readings [JW]

A viola-fanciers’ delight with a well-balanced recital offering two sonatas and two smaller, but compelling, pieces [JW]

Fine transfers of the Kolisch Quartet’s 1930s discography [JW]

Splendid performances of an early version of a Howells quartet and a jaunty, attractive work by Charles Wood [JW]

(Déjà Review) Densely coiled and symphonically argued with the highest of skill … charts a grim and determined course [JW]

The humane art of Edwin Fischer, heard live at the Salzburg Festival [JW]

Delvincourt’s bracing chamber music, from a quixotic early work to his last [JW]

A finely played trio of characterful French cello sonatas [JW]

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]