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(Déjà Review) Two harmonically astringent potently imaginative works coupled with a bright and light-on-the-toes serenade [RB]

Four largely unknown Leningrad quartets in committed performances [RB]

Fierce, angular melancholia, deliberate clarity and a turned-inwards icy-acid virtuosity [RB]

(Déjà Review) The strongest of the Grechaninov CDs from Chandos – the cantata is a work of the greatest virtue [RB]

Rites of mountainous meditation here played and recorded with eloquent muscularity [RB]

(Déjà Review) Close your eyes and conjure your own veranda [RB]

(Déjà Review) A warming chance to sample the music of Berg the Swedish romantic [RB]

(Déjà Review) The sort of disc which makes reviewing ‘peripheral’ repertoire a joy [RB]

A late-romantic cat’s-cradle of tenderness caught in a viscous tonal velour [RB]

(Déjà Review) Exultant, yearning, gloomy, sincere, passionate, nostalgic Slavonic music [RB]

Two late-19th century symphonies, agreeable if not compelling, little known, little heard [RB]

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

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

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

by Robert Barnett

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

by Robert Barnett

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

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

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

The Serebrier Sinfonietta remains a top recommendation [RB]

Extraordinary music of real individuality [RB]

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

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