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Classical CDs Weekly: Stravinsky, Vivaldi, John Williams

Nifty coordination from the Bugallo-Williams Piano Duo

Iconic ballet music, baroque concertos and four decades of film scores

Stravinsky: Petrushka, Agon (arranged for piano duet and two pianos by the composer) Bugallo-Williams Piano Duo (Wergo)

Classical CDs Weekly: Berlioz, Shostakovich, Turnage, La Maîtrise de Toulouse

Sharp and salty: Mark Opstad and La Maîtrise de Toulouse

CLASSICAL CDS WEEKLY Berlioz, Shostakovich, Turnage, La Maîtrise de Toulouse

Bleak Soviet symphonies, exciting orchestral playing from Istanbul plus Slavic choral delights from Toulouse

Shostakovich: Symphonies 4 &11 Boston Symphony Orchestra/Andris Nelsons (DG)

Classical CDs Weekly: Bennett, Jiří Bělohlávek, Michala Petri and Lars Hannibal

Still partying after 25 years: Lars Hannibal and Michala Petri

Scintillating orchestral music, a lavish tribute to a much loved Czech conductor and a recorder virtuoso unwinds, alfresco

Sir Richard Rodney Bennett: Orchestral Works, Volume 2 BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra/John Wilson, with Howard McGill (saxophone) (Chandos)

Classical CDs Weekly: Bernstein, Sibelius, Stravinsky, Mihai Ritivoiu

Three epic symphonies, a pair of 20th century violin concertos plus a Romanian pianist's debut disc

Bernstein: Symphonies 1-3, Prelude, Fugue and Riffs Orchestra dell’Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia/Antonio Pappano (Warner Classics)

Classical CDs Weekly: Berio, Brahms, Schubert, A Map of the Kingdom of Ireland

Recast Brahms from the enterprising Kenneth Woods

CLASSICAL CDs WEEKLY: Berio, Brahms, Schubert, A Map of the Kingdom of Ireland

An unfinished symphony is restored, a piano quartet gets new clothes and electronica from the Emerald Isle

Berio: Rendering, Schubert: Symphony No 9 Soloistes Européens, Luxembourg/Christoph König (Rubicon)

Classical CDs Weekly: Louis Couperin, Pärt, Bruce Levingston

The man who burns violins: Arvo Pärt gets up to mischief in 1968

CLASSICAL CDS WEEKLY Louis Couperin, Pärt, Bruce Levingston

The lesser-known Couperin revealed, early and late Arvo Pärt, plus piano music refracted through church windows

Louis Couperin: Dances from the Bauyn Manuscript Pavel Kolesnikov (Hyperion)

Classical CDs Weekly: Sibelius, Strauss, Bernstein the Pianist

Sibelius from Wales, an Alpine travelogue from Jurowski, generous centenary pianism

Sibelius: Finlandia, The Swan of Tuonela, En Saga, The Oceanides BBC National Orchestra of Wales/Thomas Søndergård (Linn)

Classical CDs Weekly: Sverre Indris Joner, John McLeod, Poulenc, Stravinsky

Nordic noir: Sverre Indris Joner and Tango for 3

CLASSICAL CDS WEEKLY Sverre Indris Joner, John McLeod, Poulenc and Stravinsky under the microscope

Norwegian tango, new Scottish orchestral music and a classic Stravinsky disc returns from the vaults

Sverre Indris Joner: Con cierto toque de tango Henning Kraggerud (violin), Norwegian Radio Orchestra/Sverre Indris Joner, with Tango for 3 (Lawo Classics)

Classical CDs Weekly: Berio, Maderna, Mozart, Matthew Gee

Exquisite Mozart from harpist Marie-Pierre Langlamet

Two imaginative discs of transcriptions, plus spills and thrills from a top trombonist

Mozart: Piano Concertos nos 12 and 13, Double Concerto in Eb Marie-Pierre Langlamet and Joan Rafaelle Kim (harps), Varian Fry Quartet (Indésens)

Classical CDs Weekly: Handel, Holloway, Korngold, Nielsen

CLASSICAL CDS WEEKLY The critical spotlight falls on Handel, Holloway, Korngold and Nielsen

Baroque violin sonatas, 20th century violin concertos and contemporary chamber music

Handel: Sonatas for Violin and Basso Continuo The Brook Street Band (Avie)

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