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Classical CDs Weekly: Beethoven, Cage, Janáček

CLASSICAL CDS WEEKLY: BEETHOVEN, CAGE, JANACEK Dramatic 19th century symphonies and offbeat percussion music, plus a rousing meeting of Czech minds

Dramatic 19th century symphonies and offbeat percussion music, plus a rousing meeting of Czech minds

Beethoven: Symphonies 2 and 7 Wiener Symphoniker/Philippe Jordan (WS/Sony)

Classical CDs Weekly: A Walk with Ivor Gurney, Yiddish Glory, For the Fallen

CLASSICAL CDS Remembrance songs: A Walk with Ivor Gurney, Yiddish Glory, For the Fallen

Three discs for Remembrance weekend

A Walk with Ivor Gurney Tenebrae, Aurora Orchestra, Sarah Connolly, Simon Callow, Nigel Short (conductor) (Signum Classics)

Classical CDs Weekly: Josquin, Calidore String Quartet, Ronn McFarlane

CLASSICAL CDS WEEKLY Starring Josquin, Calidore String Quartet and Ronn McFarlane's celtic lute

Renaissance choral music and dramatic string quartets, plus a solo disc from a master lutenist

Josquin: Missa Gaudeamus, Missa L’ami Baudichon The Tallis Scholars/Peter Phillips (Gimell)

Classical CDs Weekly: Handel, Schmelzer, Tesla Quartet

Dramatic cantatas and baroque violin music, plus a sparky young quartet's debut disc

Abbandonata: Handel Italian Cantatas Carolyn Sampson (soprano), The King’s Consort/Robert King (Vivat)

Classical CDs Weekly: Bernstein, English Cornett & Sackbut Ensemble, Kubrick's Music

CLASSICAL CDS WEEKLY Bernstein, English Cornett & Sackbut Ensemble and Kubrick's Music

A 100th birthday box set, 17th century winds, plus music favoured by a famous film director

Bernstein: The Complete Naxos Recordings Marin Alsop (conductor) (Naxos)

Classical CDs Weekly: Handel, William Howard, Professor Chill

CLASSICAL CDS WEEKLY Handel, William Howard's love songs and the long-buried sound of Professor Chill

Baroque harpsichords and modern love songs, plus some prehistoric bagpipes

Handel: Works for Keyboard Philippe Grisvard (harpsichord) (Audax)

Classical CDs Weekly: Brahms, Ligeti, Lakshminarayana Subramaniam, Svend Erik Tarp

CLASSICAL CDS WEEKLY Horns, tubas and Indian violins, plus a ballet set in a Danish circus

Horns, tubas and Indian violins, plus a ballet set in a Danish circus

Brahms & Ligeti: Horn Trios André Cazalet (horn), Guy Comentale (violin), Cyril Huvé (piano) (Calliope)

Classical CDs Weekly: Ivanovs, Shi-An Costello, Sean Shibe

Latvian orchestral music, mischievous pianism, plus a guitarist of two halves

Jãnis Ivanovs: Symphony No. 5; Juris Karlsons: Music for Symphony Orchestra 1945 Latvian National Symphony Orchestra/Andris Poga (Skani)

Classical CDs Weekly: Bernstein, Rachmaninov, Jeffrey Roden

CLASSICAL CDS WEEKLY Bernstein, Rachmaninov and Jeffrey Roden under the microscope

A Broadway musical, Russian symphonies exhumed and a quiet American radical

Bernstein: Wonderful Town Danielle de Niese, Alysha Umphress, Nathan Gunn, London Symphony Orchestra/Sir Simon Rattle (LSO Live)

Classical CDs Weekly: Blacher, Dutilleux, Martin

CLASSICAL CDS WEEKLY Enticing rarities from Blacher, Dutilleux and Martin

Enticing rarities from three 20th century Europeans

Boris Blacher: Dance Suite, Hamlet, Poème, Concertante Music Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin/Johannes Kalitzke (Capriccio)

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