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Early Tubin translated with a conviction that lashes and flickers [RB]

(Déjà Review) If you enjoy Russian music of the mid and first half of the last century then you need to hear this [Byz][RB]

(Déjà Review) A splendid disc, pairing Walton’s two symphonies in excellent performances [JQ][RB]

Accessible, sharply chiselled, engaging at emotional and intellectual levels [RB]

Entertaining and transiently gripping but not compelling [RB]

Approachable, serpentine, valedictory [RB]

Some impressive performances in very impressive transfers [RB]

Wide-open spaces rising to crests of belligerence [RB]

Berner stands in the elite tradition of an André or an Aubier [RB]

Full-lipped and high-tensile writing [RB]

Two recent, uncompromising piano quintets [RB]

Sit back and enjoy a plenipotentiary’s sound-picture [RB]

Fresh as a daisy: beguiling playing and a big sound [RB]

Déjà Review: A winner on all counts [RB]

Northern climes … taiga and tundra … laconic … not dazzle and drama [RB]

Far out along the modernistic promontory [RB]

Folk Songs is a treasure in the resilient tradition of English tonal music [RB]

A startlingly good Bruckner 8 [RB]

You might well find this mix irresistible whether as a guilty pleasure or a delight without any guilt at all [RB]

Deliciously balanced on the edge of the void [RB]

Awed drama, noble affirmation and endearing clangour [RB]

Sensuous music which coils, uncoils and recoils in slow gyration [RB]

Godfrey, the precisian, refreshes in these spick and span transfers [RB]

Across the passage of time these recordings retain their pleasures and satisfactions [RB]