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The troubling art of a pupil of Nadia Boulanger [JW]

Suave, stylish, scintillating and virtuosic; René Benedetti in his prime [JW]

(Déjà Review) A suitably warm and wonderfully detailed recording matches insight, imagination and colouristic sensibility [JW]

The Beatles rub shoulders with Delius and RVW’S The Lark [JW]

Schmidt-Isserstedt on light duties, pre-war, in an overture sequence [JW]

A lesser light in German conducting flourishes in light overtures and waltzes in Weimar Berlin [JW]

The immense contribution to British Music made by a ‘librarian-hobbyist’ [JW]

The protean but short-lived Wilhelm Grosz in popular fare from Weimar Berlin [JW]

The flute is the focus in an album of works by British women composers [JW]

Discography expansion in the work of Thomas Jensen [JW]

(Déjà Review) Excellent retrieval work from Bridge, whose commitment to Balsam has been of long standing and great worth [JW]

The Cherubini Quartet’s favourite and less well-remembered recordings [JW]

Communicative and lyrical piano concertos reissued in the ‘Signature Edition’ [JW]

The Frankfurt Gang and Beatrice Harrison inspire a cellistic programme [JW]

Convincing premiere recordings of some of Freda Swain’s chamber music [JW]

Youthful Erica Morini’s earliest recordings from New Jersey show her scintillating in morceaux [JW]

The long-lived harpsichordist Marcelle de Lacour in fine French Baroque repertoire [JW]

Milhaud and Castelnuovo-Tedesco are just two composers contextualised in this wide-ranging programme [JW]

An attractive programme of rare items from Szigeti’s discography [JW]

Classic chamber recordings from the inimitable violinist Henry Merckel and his ensembles [JW]

A go-to Dukas box of outstanding performances – but no texts [JW]

A Stanford opera; uneven and unsatisfactory but beautifully presented [JW]

Attractive though not world-beating recordings of little-remembered Czech Piano Concertos [JW]

A short-lived harpsichordist heard in a bracingly robust recital [JW]