An outstanding survey of górecki’s string quartets

Symphony No. 5; Swanwhite Suite etc Christian Tetzlaff (violin); Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra/Nicholas Collon Ondine ODE 1468-2 77:16 mins One of the features of Finland’s impressive music educati

Krystian Zimerman (piano), Maria Nowak (violin), Katarzyna Budnik (viola), Yuya Okamoto (cello) Deutsche Grammophon 486 4650 77:10 mins Brahms’s Second and Third piano quartets tend to be overshadowed

Complete Suites and Other Music for Keyboard Cristian Sandrin (piano) SOMM Recordings SOMMCD0702 61:09 mins In the first complete recording of Purcell’s eight keyboard suites on the modern piano, Roma

Bruch: Violin Concerto No. 1; Erkki-Sven Tüür: Violin Concerto No. 2 Hans Christian Aavik (violin); Odense Symphony Orchestra/Gemma New Orchid Classics ORC100380 51:39 mins It was an audacious move to

Works by Joanna Marsh, Roxanna Panufnik, James MacMillan, Dobrinka Tabakova et al The Choir of St John’s College, Cambridge/ Christopher Gray et al Signum Classics SIGCD893 68:02 mins Christopher Gray

Järnefelt: Berceuse; Sibelius: Violin Concerto in D minor; Szymanowski: Violin Concerto No. 2 Lea Birringer (violin); Staatsorchester Rheinische Philharmonie/Benjamin Shwartz Rubicon RCD1193 56:40 min