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Classical CDs Weekly: Brahms, Shostakovich, Johannes Pramsohler

CLASSICAL CDS WEEKLY Brahms, Shostakovich, Johannes Pramsohler

Chamber music inflated, turbulent symphonies and baroque violin concertos

Brahms, orch. Schoenberg: Piano Quartet No 1 in G minor, Parry: Elegy for Brahms Gävle Symphony Orchestra/Jaime Martín (Ondine)

Classical CDs Weekly: Gabriel Jackson, Lansing McLoskey, 12 Ensemble

CLASSICAL CDS WEEKLY Jackson's Passion, McLoskey's Zealot Canticles and brilliance from 12 Ensemble

Two new choral works and a disc of contemporary string music

Gabriel Jackson: The Passion of our Lord Jesus Christ Emma Tring (soprano), Guy Cutting (tenor), Choir of Merton College Oxford, Oxford Contemporary Sinfonia/Benjamin Nicholas (Delphian)

Classical CDs Weekly: Mozart, Poulenc, Jeremy Denk

CLASSICAL CDS WEEKLY Strings and winds from Vienna & Paris, eight centuries of keyboard music

Strings and winds from Vienna and Paris, plus eight centuries of keyboard music

Mozart: The String Quintets Klenke Quartet (with Harald Schoneweg, viola) (Accentus Music)

Classical CDs Weekly: Brahms, Haydn, Sibelius

CLASSICAL CDS Brahms cello richesse, Rabinovich sketches Haydn, Sibelius from Paris

Brahms cello richesse, Rabinovich sketches Haydn, Sibelius from Paris

Brahms: The Cello Sonatas The Fischer Duo: Norman Fischer (cello), Jeanne Kierman (piano), with Abigail Fischer (mezzo-soprano) (Centaur Records)

Classical CDs Weekly: Beethoven, Mysliveček, Tippett

CLASSICAL CDS WEEKLY Beethoven, Mysliveček, Tippett

19th century piano music, and symphonies from a 20th century British maverick

Beethoven: Piano Concertos 1-5 Mitsuko Uchida (piano), Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra/Sir Simon Rattle (Berliner Philharmoniker Recordings)

Classical CDs Weekly: Martinů, Prokofiev, Sullivan

CLASSICAL CDS WEEKLY Martinů on violin, a Scottish Peter and the Wolf and an Arthur Sullivan oratorio

20th century violin music, a Russian fairytale in a Scots makeover and an exhumed Victorian oratorio

Martinů: The Complete Music for Violin and Orchestra Bohuslav Matoušek (violin), Czech Philharmonic Orchestra/Christopher Hogwood (Hyperion)

Classical CDs Weekly: Mahler, Sibelius, Simon Thacker's Svara-Kanti

CLASSICAL CDS WEEKLY Exceptional Mahler, sizzling Sibelius and Simon Thacker's Svara-Kanti

Two romantic symphonies, plus a Scots guitarist venturing east

Mahler: Symphony No 3 Düsseldorfer Symphoniker/Adam Fischer, with Anna Larsson (alto) (Tonhalle Düsseldorf)

Classical CDs Weekly: Bach, Lyatoshynsky, esbe

CLASSICAL CDS WEEKLY Peled plays Bach, Lyatoshynsky in Bournemouth and Esbe in the desert

Solo suites, Ukrainian orchestral music and settings of Afghan poetry

Bach: Cello Suites 1, 2 & 3 Amit Peled (CTM Classics)

Classical CDs Weekly: Brahms, Dvořák, Higginson, Zender

Symphonies from a pair of close friends, contemporary English music and a reinvented song cycle

Brahms: Symphony No 4, Dvořák: Symphony No 9 Bamberg Symphony Orchestra/Jakub Hrůša (Tudor)

Classical CDs Weekly: Artyomov, Mozart, Smith

Contemporary music from Denmark and Russia, and a master hornist tackles a favourite composer

Vyacheslav Artyomov: In Memoriam, Lamentations, Pietà, Tristia I (Divine Art)

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