Lebrecht’s Album of the Week
Bach in black
CPE Bach: Berlin Symphonies (BIS)
Eine kleine Berlinermusik
Berlin! Berlin! Berlin! (Bis); Love Maps (TXYart)
Symphonies have life
John McCabe: 2 symphonies and cello concerto (Signum Classics)
Joyous genre-bending
Milestones (Signum Classics)
Two faces of America
Copland: 3rd symphony, Walker 5th (LSO Live)
Exile and exaltation
Bohuslav Martinu: The Symphonies (Deutsche Grammophon)
Talent and temptation
William Walton: Two symphonies
Polish piano
Andre Tchaikowsky: Piano concertos (Ondine)
First-place Finnish
Shostakovich: Symphony 1; Moscow Cheryomushki (Philharmonia Records)
Hope and stories
Bicinia (Claves)
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