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(Déjà Review) A very substantial helping of the essential Grainger in performances and recordings that are exemplars to the rest [RB]

Classy brilliance … tuneful but not a soft touch [RB]

The first complete recording of  Paul Kletzki’s string quartets [RB]

(Déjà Review) A composer who revelled in the late-romantic style [RB]

(Déjà Review) Enterprising repertoire gloriously recorded and performed [RB]

A stern oratorio coupled with an insouciant concerto [RB]

A strong vivid illustrative aspect; persistently romantic and indomitable [RB]

(Déjà Review) Sumptuous, vernal energy and weightiness of tone [RB]

Sargent’s music-making can still take you by the throat [RB]

Disillusion, bleakness, sombre and occasionally irate flamboyance [RB]

Melodic candour and emotional ambiguity [RB]

Hallé, Barbirolli and HMV all in one place [RB]

Diminutive scores yet grand in expressive compass – deeply serious, folksy, sumptuously expressive [RB]

You would be hard-pressed to identify this as contemporary; it is kind to the ear [RB]

(Déjà Review) Catching the Martinů sound in full flight [RB]

A subtle folk-inflected collection, not simplistic – impressive [RB]

A stream of vivid musical tesellae [RB]

(Déjà Review) The disc with which to introduce this composer to music-lovers [RB]

The finest Holst disc in years [RB]

Naxos has again pushed the repertoire boundaries [RB]

by Rob Barnett

(Déjà Review) Done with unblinking and almost daunting passion [RB]

(Déjà Review) Most listeners will succumb immediately [RB]

(Déjà Review) Two leonine concertos of the Scandinavian romantic persuasion [RB]