Lebrecht’s Album of the Week

Great big rain showers

C Schumann/Grieg: Piano concertos (Signum)

Giving Mozart a makeover

Mozart: The Salzburg Project (Warner)

Messing with the master’s work

Beethoven: Emperor Concerto; Brett Dean: A Winter’s Journey (Orchid)

Anger and intuition

Mieczyslaw Weinberg: String quartets 6, 13, 15 (Chandos)

Schoenberg’s morning and night

Arnold Schoenberg: Expressionist Music (Orchid)

Too measured for its own good

Lukas Foss: 1st symphony &c (Naxos)

Peers but not equals

Ferdinand Ries: Symphonies 1&2 (Ondine); Franz Clement: Solo violin works (Naxos)

Sensitivity of a high order

Sibelius and Prokofiev: Violin concertos (Decca)

Well-behaved Beethoven

Beethoven: Triple concerto and British folksongs (Decca)

Polish strings

Grazyna Bacewicz: Symphonies 3 &4; Concerto for string orchestra (both on Chandos)