Bach: Christmas Oratorio Dunedin Consort/John Butt (Linn)
Classical CDs Weekly: Christmas 2016 (part 1)
Six of this year's most entertaining and life-enhancing seasonal discs
Bach: Christmas Oratorio Windsbacher Knabenchor, Deutsche Kammer-Virtuosen Berlin/Karl Friedrich Beringer (Cantatas 1-3) and Martin Lehman (nos. 4-6) (Sony)
Classical CDs Weekly: Prokofiev, Daniel Röhn, Ayreheart
A great ballet score gets a definitive reading, a nostalgic violin recital, and an American quartet tackle the hits of the English Renaissance
Pr
okofiev: Romeo and Juliet (Complete) Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra / Vasily Petrenko (Lawo Classics)
Classical CDs Weekly: Elgar, Mahler, Georges Prêtre
Three hefty box sets, each one a winner
Elgar Remastered (Somm)
Classical CDs Weekly: Beethoven, Schubert, Tosti
German piano sonatas, Austrian symphonies, Italian songs
Beethoven: Piano Sonatas Op. 90, Op. 101 and Op. 106 Steven Osborne (Hyperion)
Classical CDs Weekly: Jonathan Dove, Ayako Fujiki, Anne Sofie von Otter
A cantata for Remembrance Sunday, a young Japanese pianist and an eclectic recital from a much-loved mezzo-soprano
Jonathan Dove: For an Unknown Soldier, An Airmail Letter from Mozart Nicky Spence (tenor), Melvyn Tan (piano), London Mozart Players/Nicholas Cleobury (Signum)
Classical CDs Weekly: Glazunov, Shostakovich, Wagner, Dragon Voices
Russian violin concertos, light-footed opera highlights and brass music from the Iron Age
Shostakovich: Violin Concerto No.1, Glazunov: Violin Concerto Nicola Benedetti (violin), Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra/Kirill Karabits (Decca)
Classical CDs Weekly: Leo, Martinů, Schubert
Neapolitan Baroque music, a witty Czech opera and a pair of piano trios
Leonardo Leo: Sacred Works Ensemble &cetera/Ulrike Hofbauer (soprano and direction) (Deutsche Harmonia Mundi)
Classical CDs Weekly: Batzner, Floyd, Mahler
Offbeat piano music, an operatic take on a Yorkshire love story and a bittersweet symphony
Jay C. Batzner: as if to each other… R. Andrew Lee (piano) (Irritable Hedgehog)
Classical CDs Weekly: Brahms, Steve Reich, Aleksandra Vrebalov
Three friends celebrate a German romantic, plus American minimalism and a coastal landscape arranged for string quartet
Brahms: Double Concerto, Piano Trio No. 1 (1854 version) Joshua Bell (violin and director), Steven Isserlis (cello), Jeremy Denk (piano), Academy of St Martin in the Fields (Sony)