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Classical CDs Weekly: Eller, Musorgsky, Rachmaninov

Estonian tone poems, plus orchestral and chamber music from Russia

Heino Eller: Symphonic Poems – Night Calls, White Night, Twilight, Dawn Estonian National Symphony Orchestra/Olari Elts (Ondine)

Classical CDs Weekly: William Mathias, Vaughan Williams, Judith Weir

CLASSICAL CDS WEEKLY William Mathias, Vaughan Williams, Judith Weir

Weaponised bagpipes and bugle calls: 20th and 21st century music from England, Scotland and Wales

William Mathias: Choral Music St John’s Voices, The Gentlemen of St John’s, Graham Walker (director) (Naxos)

Classical CDs Weekly: Ginastera, Messiaen, Saint-Saëns

CLASSICAL CDS WEEKLY Symphonies, concertos, tone poems from France & Argentina

Symphonies, concertos and tone poems from France and Argentina

Ginastera: Harp Concerto, Variaciones concertantes Sidsel Walstad (harp), Norwegian Radio Orchestra/Miguel Harth-Bedoya (Lawo Classics)

Classical CDs Weekly: Elgar, Scarlatti, Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra

CLASSICAL CDS WEEKLY Enough sonatas for a year, a young cellist faces the inevitable, and festive fun from Vienna

Enough sonatas for a year, a young cellist faces the inevitable, and festive fun from Vienna

Sheku Kanneh-Mason: Elgar London Symphony Orchestra/Simon Rattle (Decca)

Classical CDs and Vinyl Weekly: Beethoven, Holst

Symphonies and concertos from this year's birthday boy, and a British orchestral classic gets a spectacular airing

Beethoven: Symphonies 1-9 Danish Chamber Orchestra/Ádám Fischer (Naxos)

Classical CDs Weekly: Schubert, Shostakovich, Berlinskaya-Ancelle Piano Duo

CLASSICAL CDS WEEKLY Schubert, Shostakovich, Berlinskaya-Ancelle Piano Duo

An epic 19th century symphony, historic recordings from a 20th century giant and neglected repertoire for piano duo

Schubert: Symphony No 9 Scottish Chamber Orchestra/Maxim Emelyanychev (Linn)

Best of 2019: Classical CDs

BEST OF 2019: CLASSICAL CDS All wheat and no chaff: twelve of the year's best classical recordings

All wheat and no chaff: twelve of the year's best classical recordings

Classical CDs are still with us, even if the shops that sell them are rarer than hens’ teeth. Maybe this article should be renamed Downloads of the Year, or Cream of the Streams? That people are still listening to good music at all is a cause for celebration, and there’s still an abundance of interesting material being pumped out by labels great and small. Much of what really tickled my ears this year was off the beaten track. Here, in roughly chronological order, are twelve releases which got my pulse racing:

Classical CDs Weekly: Christmas CDs 2

CLASSICAL CDS WEEKLY: CHRISTMAS PART 2 From Schütz to Rick Wakeman, seasonal discs with staying power

A classical CD isn't just for Christmas: seven more seasonal discs with staying power

Schütz: The Christmas Story Yale Schola Cantorum/David Hill (Hyperion)

Classical CDs Weekly: Christmas CDs 1

CLASSICAL CDS WEEKLY: CHRISTMAS PART ONE Six discs you'd happily spin all year round

Part one of this year's seasonal smörgåsbord: six discs you'd happily spin all year round

Bach: Christmas Oratorio Thomanerchor Leipzig, Gewandhausorchester Leipzig/Gotthold Schwarz (Accentus)

Classical CDs Weekly: Josquin, Tchaikovsky, Janet Sung

CLASSICAL CDS WEEKLY Colourful violins, 16th century mass settings, Russian romanticism

Colourful violin repertoire, 16th century mass settings and heady Russian romanticism

Josquin: Missa Mater Patris, Bauldeweyn: Missa Da pacem The Tallis Scholars/Peter Philips (Gimmell)

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