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Rob Barnett

Stamp: Chamber Music Vol.1 (Toccata Classics)

Cleverly-shaped wind music in an often enchanted populist blend [RB]

d’Albert: Die Toten Augen (cpo)

(Déjà Review) You will want to luxuriate in this fine score [RB]

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Alfano: Complete String Quartets (Naxos)

Wondrously fervent, hot-house stuff … upon you with tiger-like ferocity [RB]

An interview with Philip L Scowcroft

by Robert Barnett

François Le Roux (baritone): Schoeck, Barber & Durey (Gallo)

(Déjà Review) A real connoisseur’s disc [RB]

An interview with BIS founder Robert van Bahr

by Robert Barnett

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Chadwick: Orchestral Works (Reference Recordings)

(Déjà Review) Fine rare repertoire and typically sprung, lively sound with power and subtlety aplenty [RB]

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Scriabin: The Poem of Ecstasy, Symphony No. 2 (Naxos)

Exemplary justice done … ecstatic filigree and truculent brass artillery [RB]

Canteloube & Emmanuel: Songs of the Auvergne (Erato)

(Déjà Review) A languid approach with lovely singing from Upshaw [RB]

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Janacek: Orchestral works (Reference Recordings)

The Serebrier Sinfonietta remains a top recommendation [RB]

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Leifs: Orchestral works (BIS)

Extraordinary music of real individuality [RB]

Gaito: Chamber Works (cpo)

Music and performances that brim with radiance and commitment [RB]

Saint-Saens: Transcriptions for Piano (Piano 21)

Familiar and successful … yet unfamiliar in these versions [RB]

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Fritz Busch (conductor) In Stockholm (Pristine Audio)

Unusual Busch late-life survivals from Swedish Radio archives [RB]

Jacob, Addison, Rubbra: Piano Concerti (Lyrita Recorded Edition)

Otherwise unheard, these works are neither rugged nor rebarbative but beckon and reward [RB]

Bax: Violin Concerto, Symphony No. 3 (Dutton)

(Déjà Review) De rigueur addition for all Baxians and an antidote to the sleepy sloppy school of Baxian interpretation [RB]

Overtures from Finland (Chandos)

A ramble, with delights along the way, through some of Finland’s most neglected overtures [RB]

Bonnal: String Quartets (Arion)

(Déjà Review) I urge you strongly to seek out Bonnal’s sheerly magical impressionistic music [RB]

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Kõrvits: The Sound of Wings (Ondine)

Inhabits and gives voice to regions of angelic eternity [RB]

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Bowen: Violin Concerto & Piano Concerto 1 (Dutton)

(Déjà Review) Such lavish extravagance of melody and sentiment [RB]

Speaking Musically (Royal Academy of Music Press)

Weighty, serious and far-striding interviews; a rich resource [RB]

Mills B: Elan Valley, Evening Rain (Claudio)

Light-suffused, sun-dappled romance, ecstatic sounds of nature …concisely expressed [RB]

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Winkler: Chamber Music (Da Vinci Classics)

Romantic intensity piled high and wide [RB]

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Eugene Goossens – Cincinnati Symphony Vol 2 (Pristine Audio)

So-so Stravinsky, nervous hyper-fast Schumann and masterly Tchaikovsky [RB]