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Sibelius Software Sibelius 5 £595

Some of the best parts of Sibelius 5 were already present in its predecessor, such as the abolishment of part extraction, the ease of copying and editing passages, and the flexibility in formatting. The innovations present in this upgrade are certainly significant and valuable additions, but they will not in themselves enable you to create scores which are greatly improved in appearance from those that you could create in Sibelius 4, which is arguably what the application is designed for. The high score awarded to it reflects the continuing excellence of Sibelius rather than the value purely of the upgrade.

The MusicRadar Team, Tue 23 Oct 2007, 12:05 pm BST