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As fine a modern, live account of this most pictorial of ballets as you could wish [RMo]

A beautiful warm timbre but too relaxed and urbane compared with more energised accounts [RMo]

A fine account on period cellos in excellent sound, beautifully played if without quite the character of David Watkin’s version [RMo]

A thoroughly enjoyable tribute to English Elizabethan composers from a gifted, highly musical, French ensemble [RMo]

The first two movements here of Bruckner’s Seventh Symphony are mostly fine and measured – but the Scherzo and finale are erratic [RMo]

Very well played and engineered, but only intermittently achieving the drive and intensity of Barshai, Shipway and Karajan [RMo]

Quite similar recordings, both with many but different strengths, so difficult to choose between [RMo]

Vital, energised  performances of two great pianistic and choral showpieces in spectacular surround sound [RMo]

A lush, Romantic, thoroughly engaging and technically brilliant account of a Tchaikovsky “warhorse”, with some seductive bonuses [RMo]

This revival of a rare Massenet opera is compromised by a lack of melodic memorability and some less than ingratiating singing [rmo]

The best remastering to date of this classic performance, even if sonically the later stereo recording is still preferable [RMo]

A thoroughly enjoyable, very well sung and played – if rather small-scale – performance of a neglected Handel opera [RMo]

A more intimate, lower-key account which for me fails to stir the blood [RMo]

Underwhelming singing compromises the attractiveness of this medley of Handel numbers from his operas played in strict period style [RMo]

This Pristine remastering is now the best option for hearing a classic, vintage account [RMo]

Superb accounts of Sibelius’ last two symphonies put the seal on a triumphantly successful series [RMo]

A generation after his first brilliant recordings, Bernstein again champions the symphonies of a favourite composer [RMo]

An admirable revival of one of Massenet’s most varied, inventive, yet neglected scores [RMo]

Two contrasting, classic recordings from 1957 by a sadly short-lived conductor [RMo]

A classic vintage account of a complex, absorbing, yet neglected opera in excellent mono sound, sung by a stellar cast [RMo]

A truly great lyric coloratura soprano of the early 20th century, showcased in first-rate transfers [RMo]

Wholly satisfying performances in beautifully remastered sound featuring a somewhat neglected conductor [RMo]

Two highly successful remasterings of a great, highly individual and even idiosyncratic recording – but Pristine take the palm [RMo]

Well played but very closely and reverberantly recorded, and somewhat anonymous, while the absence of repeats makes it sound truncated [RMo]