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Classical CDs Weekly: Batzner, Floyd, Mahler

Thomas Dausgaard and the Seattle Symphony

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

Jeremy Denk, Joshua Bell and Steven Isserlis

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)

Classical CDs Weekly: Beethoven, Cindy Cox, Nielsen

Two hefty box sets and contemporary string quartets from California

Beethoven: Symphonies 1-9 Berliner Philharmoniker/Sir Simon Rattle (Berliner Philharmoniker Recordings)

Classical CDs Weekly: Louis Aubert, Schubert, Claudio Abbado

French chamber music, period-instrument Schubert and a great conductor remembered

Louis Aubert: Sillages, Violin Sonata etc Jean-Pierre Armengard (piano), Alessandro Fagiuoli (violin), Olivier Chauzu (piano) (Grand Piano)

Classical CDs Weekly: Beethoven, Martinů, Mompou

CLASSICAL CDS WEEKLY: BEETHOVEN, MARTINŮ, MOMPOU Nikolaus Harnoncourt bids farewell

A great conductor bids farewell, luminous Czech orchestral music and deep thoughts from a quiet Catalan

Beethoven: Symphonies 4 & 5 Concentus Musicus Wien/Nikolaus Harnoncourt (Sony)

Classical CDs Weekly: Montanari, Sibelius, Stephen Kovacevich

Baroque violin music, Finnish symphonies and a birthday tribute to a keyboard giant

Montanari: Violin Concertos Johannes Pramsohler (violin and director), Ensemble Diderot (Audax Records)

Classical CDs Weekly: Dvořák, Toivo Kuula, Mozart

Josef Špaček: an idiomatic performance of Suk that feels definitive

CLASSICAL CDS WEEKLY All the Czech violin concertos you'll need, plus Finnish orchestral music and a fruity horn disc

All the Czech violin concertos you'll need, plus Finnish orchestral music and a fruity horn disc

Dvořák, Suk, Janáček: Violin Concertos Josef Špaček (violin), Czech Philharmonic Orchestra/Jiří Bělohlávek (Supraphon)

Classical CDs Weekly: Nielsen, Aurora Orchestra, Matthew Gee

Danish concertos, a new collection from an enterprising chamber orchestra and the only trombone disc you'll ever need

Nielsen: Violin Concerto, Flute Concerto, Clarinet Concerto Nikolaj Znaider (violin), Robert Langevin (flute), Anthony McGill (clarinet), New York Philharmonic/Alan Gilbert(Dacapo)

Classical CDs Weekly: Hugi Guðmundsson, Schubert, Les Siècles

CLASSICAL CDS WEEKLY: Hugi Guðmundsson, Schubert, Les Siècles

Contemporary repertoire from Iceland, Viennese symphonies and Spanish music from France

Hugi Guðmundsson: Calm of the Deep The Hamrahlíd Choir/Þorgerður Ingólfsdóttir, Nordic Affect/Guðni Franzson (Smekkleysa)

Classical CDs Weekly: Dubois, Grieg, Martinů

Stephen Hough: one of the smartest, most intelligent of pianists

Rediscovered music from a neglected Parisian, Norwegian piano miniatures and a magical viola disc

Théodore Dubois: Musique Sacrée et Symphonique, Musique de chambre (Ediciones Singulare)

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