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Classical CDs Weekly: Olivia De Prato, Kärt Ruubel, Third Coast Percussion

Electro-acoustic violin, aquatic percussion and a disc of baroque keyboard suites

Streya: New works for solo violin and violin with electronics Olivia De Prato (violin) (New Focus Recordings)

Classical CDs Weekly: Bach, Prokofiev, Moonkyung Lee

Solo sonatas, piano duos and new music for violin

Sei Solo: Bach's Six Sonatas and Partitas for Violin Alone Thomas Bowes (Navona)

Classical CDs Weekly: Martin, Martinů, Vivaldi, 4 Girls 4 Harps

CLASSICAL CDS WEEKLY Martin, Martinů, Vivaldi and 4 Girls 4 Harps forensically scrutinised

Unaccompanied choral music, baroque concertos and a harp quartet

The Secret Mass: Choral works by Frank Martin and Bohuslav Martinů Danish National Vocal Ensemble/Marcus Creed (OUR Recordings)

Classical CDs Weekly: Haydn, Poulenc, Varèse

Classical piano sonatas and French orchestral music, plus the modernism that inspired Frank Zappa

Haydn: Piano Sonatas 32, 40, 49, 50 Paul Lewis (Harmonia Mundi)

Classical CDs Weekly: Messiaen, Shostakovich, Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra

Box set special: French pianism, Soviet symphonies and a lavish tour souvenir

Messiaen: Catalogue d’Oiseaux Pierre-Laurent Aimard (Pentatone)

Classical CDs Weekly: Beethoven, Scarlatti, Stradihumpa

CLASSICAL CDS WEEKLY Beethoven, Scarlatti and the eccentric Stradihumpa get the treatment

Downsized symphonies, crystalline keyboard sonatas and a musical marriage between high and low voices

Beethoven Revisited: Symphonies 1-9 Taschenphilharmonie/Peter Stangel (Sony)

Classical CDs Weekly: Bernstein, Bruckner, Schmitt

CLASSICAL CDS WEEKLY: BERNSTEIN, BRUCKNER, SCHMITT Americana from Merseyside, plus Austrian sacred music and fascinating French rarities

Americana from Merseyside, plus Austrian sacred music and fascinating French rarities

Bernstein: On the Waterfront Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra/Christian Lindberg (BIS)

Classical CDs Weekly: Delius, Grieg, Martinů, Simon Höfele

CLASSICAL CDS WEEKLY: Delius, Grieg, Martinů and Simon Höfele in the spotlight

Unfamiliar (and over-familiar) piano music, a sublime choral work, new music for solo trumpet

Grieg: Piano Concertos 1 and 2, Delius: Piano Concerto Mark Bebbington, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra/Jan Latham-Koenig (Somm)

Classical CDs Weekly: Beethoven, Méhul, Mozart, Schubert

Revolutionary symphonies and a much-loved requiem, plus new translations of German lieder

Beethoven: Symphony No 3, Méhul: Symphony No 1 Solistes Européens Luxembourg/Christoph König (Rubicon)

Classical CDs Weekly: Borgström, Shostakovich, Tchaikovsky, Alec Frank-Gemmill

A rediscovered Norwegian concerto, a stormy romantic symphony and some virtuoso horn music

Borgström: Violin Concerto, Shostakovich: Violin Concerto No. 1 Eldbjørg Hemsing (violin), Wiener Symphoniker/Olari Elts (BIS)

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