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Pleasant piano miniatures very much influenced by Chopin [SB]

Ginastera’s impressive chamber music and well-played Ravel [SB]

Wonderful orchestral playing but variable singing [SB]

Some of Frank Martin’s most important chamber works [SB]

Shostakovich’s trios are good but Roslavets is a real discovery [SB]

I had not expected to be so impressed by this recital [SB]

A comprehensive collection in generally good performances, but without most of the texts [SB]

Excellent performances, sung in English, so particularly interesting [SB]

A wonderful new version of Beethoven’s last sonatas, and a fitting swan song for Imogen Cooper [SB]

A worthwhile collection of new choral music [SB]

Dusapin’s études are not a match for other recent piano studies [SB]

Andrey Gugnin makes these piano versions really exciting [SB]

This impressive symphony cycle is now complete [SB]

The bass clarinet turns out to be a very viable concerto soloist [SB]

Superb performances of religious works in the French tradition [SB]

An interesting work which does not quite come off [SB]

These New Brandenburg Concertos, based on organ trio sonatas, make a delightful programme [SB]

Two Milhaud rarities, one of them a first recording, but no texts [SB]

A fine collection of Busoni’s piano versions of Bach organ works [SB]

All five symphonies of the enigmatic Russian composer, in scrupulous performances [SB]

An excellent new version of Prokofiev’s much-recorded sonatas [SB]

Interesting survey of the recent work of an unfamiliar but rewarding composer [SB]

A fine, vigorous performance, but what a shame there are no texts [SB]

Moving works from this husband and wife team [SB]