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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

Poignant musical archaeology: the musicians featured on 'Yiddish Glory'

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

Irish stew and haggis from lutenist Ronn McFarland

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

Sonorous burblings from the English Cornett & Sackbut Ensemble

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

Commanding fingers: Phillipe Grisvard at home in Paris

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

Nimble fingers: tuba virtuoso Øystein Baadsvik

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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