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A wonderfully played and very varied Mozart programme in extraordinarily vivid sound [RMo]

Vehement, concentrated playing of the highest quality in an attractive pairing [RMo]

Pristine opens up a new depth of sound for these wartime classics [RMo]

by Ralph Moore

A classic ensemble recording further enhanced by Pristine’s remastering into gloriously full and detailed, if slightly over-reverberant, sound [RMo]

Barenboim imposes his own conception upon this wonderful symphony [RMo]

This brisk, nervy account pales in comparison with Schaller’s steadier, grander recording [RMo]

Vivacious performances in crystalline sound with perfect balances among sections [RMo]

A good but hardly distinguished production, in terms of both performance and sound [RMo]

A deeply touching Butterfly and a thrilling Pinkerton who are all the more striking in Pristine’s vivid remastering [RMo]

Good, honest, open-throated singing in an intriguing and highly enjoyable reconstruction of a formerly lost work – and a star performance by the lead soprano [RMo]

A cunningly devised programme ideally showcasing Quasthoff’s vocal versatility and dramatic gifts [RMo]

Elder’s later pair of Elgar symphonies is a fine achievement in beautiful sound – but not, perhaps, the last interpretative word [RMo]

The best of a composer forever doomed to dwell in Verdi’s shadow, performed by a first-rate cast and starring the great Nelly Miricioiu [RMo]

A lovely supplement to the complete live recording in much better sound [RMo]

Flawlessly played, beautifully gauged and balanced and in spectacular sound, this is a lovely souvenir of the late Jansons’ prowess as a Mahler conductor [RMo]

A swift, cohesive, sensitive and beautifully played account of the greatest English symphony [RMo]

A disappointingly dull reading in mediocre sound [RMo]

Here we go again … best avoided [RMo]

The culmination of a great Ring cycle has a place among the best: scintillating singing, playing and conducting [RMo]

A magnificent account of the last version of Bruckner’s most approachable symphony, beautifully played in ideal recorded sound [RMo]

A patchy account, hobbled by a particularly egregious bit of tinkering with the codas of the first movement and the finale [RMo]

A swift, coherent, absorbing onslaught upon Bruckner’s Ninth which carries its own conviction [RMo]

A fine set but compromised by comparatively lacklustre Second and Seventh Symphonies [RMo]