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A splendidly cohesive musically-rewarding example of integrated casting and performance [JW]

Two late acoustics from the Léner Quartet offer opportunities for contrast with their 1930s remakes [JW]

Humble pie time for a reviewer [JW]

Another transfer of the 1938 Serenade to Music and miscellaneous songs from the 16 singers [JW]

Annie Fischer in Schubert and Schumann: a great pianist in the BBC studios [JW]

(Déjà Review) A significant series, a laudable one, and there’s no lessening in perception in this final volume [JW]

A balanced orchestral portfolio follows Bacewicz from neo-classicism to her late style [JW]

Folklore and colour, rhythmic variety and classical forms along with contemporary slants [JW]

Three sonatas and a raft of transcribed songs offer fruitful material for the Chandos pairing [JW]

Excellent performances of a raft of previously unheard Dorothy Howell scores though Lamia eclipses them all [JW]

Lighter fare for clarinet and piano from a fine duo [JW]

A near-complete 1930s Brandenburg Concerto cycle from Berlin and interesting additions [JW]

A new recording highlights the lyricism and structural strength of Pejačević’s chamber music [JW]

The Foreign Legion conscripted to the School of Paris with vitalising results [JW]

(Déjà Review) This disc in excellent sound is a worthy alternative to the composer’s own [JW]

Conventional and a little quirky; a minor composer slowly emerges [JW]

(Déjà Review) No Arrau admirer would want to be without it [JW]

Rebecca Clarke’s string sonatas chart her movement from Brahms to modernism [JW]

A puzzling release in which clarity trumps nuance and warmth [JW]

Mystic and shaman, master of rounds and lullabies, rebirthed by arrangers and singers [JW]

Blake at his approachable best in orchestral music [JW]

Too much programmatic conformity partially rescued by the engaging Rogowski [JW]

Three contrasting French sonatas offer rewarding virtues [JW]

Holmboe’s Seventh Symphony heads a varied and packed historic Danacord twofer [JW]