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BRUCKNER: Symphony No. 3 in D minor 鈥榃agner Symphony'

London Philharmonic Orchestra, Stanislaw Skrowaczewski (conductor)

LPO LPO0084 (CD mid-price)

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Muthel: The Five Keyboard Concertos

MUTHEL: Keyboard Concerto No. 1 in C minor; Concerto in D minor for harpsichord, 2 bassoons, strings & b.c.; Concerto III in G major; Keyboard Concerto No. 4 in D major; Piano Concerto in B flat major

Marcin Swiatkiewicz (harpsichord), Arte dei Suonatori

BIS BIS2179 (2CD)

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Grzegorz Gerwazy Gorczycki

GORCZYCKI: Conductus funebris; Litaniae de Providentia Divina; Missa Rorate caeli; In virtute tua; O rex gloriae; Illuxit sol; Sepulto Domino

The Sixteen, Eamonn Dougan

CORO COR16130 (CD)

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Louis Lortie plays Chopin Volume 4

CHOPIN: Nocturne No. 1 in B flat minor Op. 9 No. 1; Nocturne No. 9 in B major Op. 32 No. 1; Nocturne No. 11 in G minor Op. 37 No. 1; Nocturne No. 12 in G major Op. 37 No. 2; Nocturne No. 20 in C sharp minor Op. post.; Waltz No. 11 in G flat major Op. 70 No. 1; Waltz No. 12 in F minor Op. 70 No. 2; Waltz No. 13 in D flat major Op. 70 No. 3; Waltz No. 9 in A flat major Op. 69 No. 1 'Farewell Waltz'; Waltz No. 10 in B minor Op. 69 No. 2; Waltz No. 6 in D flat major Op. 64 No. 1 'Minute Waltz'; Waltz No. 7 in C sharp minor Op. 64 No. 2; Waltz No. 8 in A flat major Op. 64 No. 3; Waltz No. 5 in A flat major Op. 42; Waltz No. 2 in A flat major 'Grande Valse Brillante' Op. 34 No. 1; Waltz No. 3 in A minor 'Grande Valse Brillante' Op. 34 No. 2; Waltz No. 4 in F major 'Grande Valse Brillante' Op. 34 No. 3; Waltz No. 1 in E flat major 'Grande Valse Brillante' Op. 18; Waltz No. 16 in A flat major Op. post., KKIVa:13, B 21; Waltz No. 18 in E flat major 'Sostenuto' Op. post., KKIVb:10, B 133; Waltz No. 17 in E flat major Op. post., KKIVa:14, B 46; Waltz No. 15 in E major Op. post., KKIVa:12, B 44; Waltz No. 14 in E minor Op. post., KKIVa:15, B 56; Waltz No. 19 in A minor Op. post., KKIVb:11, B 150

Louis Lortie (piano)

CHANDOS CHAN10852 (CD)

Richard Morrison compares available versions of Elgar's Symphony No. 2 and makes a personal recommendation.

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ELGAR: Symphony No. 2 in E flat major Op. 63

Staatskapelle Berlin, Daniel Barenboim (conductor)

DECCA 4786677 (CD)

Kuhlau: Piano Quartets Nos. 1 & 2

KUHLAU: Piano Quartet No. 1 in C minor Op. 32; Piano Quartet No. 2 in A major Op. 50

Copenhagen Piano Quartet

DACAPO 6220596 (Hybrid SACD)

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String Quartets vol IV: Schubert-Ratkje-Britten-Haydn

SCHUBERT: String quartet no.13 in A minor D.804, Op.29 鈥淩osamunde鈥�

RATKJE: Tale of Lead and Light (2011)

BRITTEN: String quartet no.2 in C major, Op.36

HAYDN: String quartet in C major, Op.76 no.3 鈥淓mperor鈥� (BluRay only)

Engegard Quartet

2L 105-SABD (Hybrid SACD and BluRay Audio)

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Cantante e tranquillo

BACH, J S: The Art of Fugue, BWV1080: Contrapunctus I; The Art of Fugue, BWV1080: Contrapunctus XIV

BEETHOVEN: String Quartet No. 16 in F major Op. 135 - Lento Assai; String Quartet No. 13 in B flat major Op. 130 - Cavatina; String Quartet No. 16 in F major Op. 135 - Lento Assai

KNAIFEL: Air Clean and Unseen, stanzas with Tyutchev, for piano & string quartet: An Autumn Evening

KURTAG: Aus der Ferne V for string quartet; Officium breve in memoriam Andreae Szervansky Op. 28: Larghetto; Hommage a J.S.B.; Signs, Games and Messages for String Trio: Ligatura Y; Ligatura - Message to Frances-Marie Op. 31b; Flowers We Are - for Miyako

LIGETI: String Quartet No. 2: Allegro con delicatezza - stets sehr mild

SCHNITTKE: Piano Quintet Op. 108: Moderato pastorale

Andras Keller, Zsofia Kornyei (violin), Zoltan Gal (viola), Judit Szabo (cello), Janos Pilz (violin - 3, 5, 6, 7, 8), Otto Kertesz (cello - 3, 7), Alexei Lubimov (piano - track 5), Keller Quartett

ECM 4811052 (CD)

Anna Picard reviews new releases of English and Italian baroque vocal music, including Purcell's The Indian Queen from The Sixteen and Harry Christophers, and Cavalieri's Rappresentatione with Ren茅 Jacobs and the Akademie f眉r Alte Musik Berlin.

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In the Midst of Life

BYRD: Circumdederunt me; Audivi Vocem De Caelo a5

GERARDE: Sive vigilem

MUNDY, W: Sive vigilem

PARSONS, R: Libera me, Domine from Responds for the Dead; Peccantem me, quotidie from Responds for the Dead; Credo quod Redemptor

SHEPPARD, J: Media vita

TALLIS: Nunc Dimittis for 5 voices

TAVERNER: Quemadmodum a 6

Contrapunctus, Owen Rees

SIGNUM SIGCD408 (CD mid-price)

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Flow my tears: Iestyn Davies

CAMPION: Never weather-beaten sail; I care not for these ladies

DANYEL: Mrs M E her funeral tears for the death of her husband; Griefe keepe within; Drop not mine eies; Have all our passions; Why canst thou not?; Can doleful notes?; No, let chromatic tunes; Uncertain certain turns

DOWLAND: Preludium; A Fancy; Come again, sweet love doth now invite; In darkness let me dwell; Can she excuse my wrongs? (First Booke of Songes, 1597); Flow my teares (Lacrimae); Frog Galliard; Now, O now, I needs must part

HUME, T: A Souldiers Galliard; Loves farewell; A Souldiers Resolution

JOHNSON, R: Have you seen the bright lily grow?; Care-charming sleep; From the famous peak of Derby

MUHLY: Old Bones

Iestyn Davies (countertenor), Thomas Dunford (lute), Jonathan Manson (viol)

WIGMORE HALL LIVE WHLIVE0074 (CD mid-price)

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A Painted Tale

BLOW: Fairest work of happy Nature - song with theorbo; The self-banish'd (A Minuet) - song with theorbo; O turn not those fine eyes away song with harpsichord; Of all the torments, all the cares

DOWLAND: My Thoughts Are Wing'd With Hopes; Can she excuse my wrongs? (First Booke of Songes, 1597); In darkness let me dwell; Now, O now, I needs must part; Come heavy sleep

FERRABOSCO, A II: So so, leave off this last lamenting kisse

JOHNSON, R: Have you seen the bright lily grow?

LANIER: Fire, Fire!; No more shall meads be deck鈥檇 with flowers; Stay silly heart

MORLEY: A painted tale

PURCELL: O solitude, my sweetest choice, Z406; Sweeter than Roses (from Pausanius, the Betrayer of his Country, Z585); She loves and she confesses too, Z413; Not all my torments can your pity move, Z400; An Evening Hymn 'Now that the sun hath veiled his light', Z193

Nicholas Phan (tenor), Michael Leopold (lute), Ann-Marie Morgan (viola da gamba)

AVIE AV2325 (CD)

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Purcell鈥檚 Revenge: Sweeter than Roses?

Olivia Chaney, James Bowman, Ana Silvera, Jim Moray, Concerto Caledonia, David McGuinness

DELPHIAN DCD34161 (CD)

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Purcell: The Indian Queen

PURCELL: The Indian Queen, Z630

PURCELL, D: The Masque of Hymen

Julie Cooper, Kirsty Hopkins, Jeremy Budd, Mark Dobell, Matthew Long, Ben Davies, Eamonn Dougan, Stuart Young, The Sixteen, Harry Christophers (conductor)

CORO COR16129 (CD mid-price)

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CAVALIERI: Rappresentazione di Anima e di Corpo

Marie-Claude Chappuis (Anima), Johannes Weisser (Corpo), Gyula Orendt (Tempo, Consiglio), Mark Milhofer (Inteletto, Piacere), Marcos Fink (Mondo, Secondo Compagno di Piacere, Anima dannata), Staatsopernchor, Concerto vocale, Akademie fur Alte Musik Berlin, Rene Jacobs (conductor)

HARMONIA MUNDI HMC902200/01 (2CD mid-price)

MAHLER: Symphony No. 9

Halle, Sir Mark Elder (conductor)

HALLE CDHLD7541 (2CD budget)