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October 2017 Releases

With the Dvořák String Quartet & String Quintet, October's essential Record of the Month couples two of this composer's greatest and most life-affirming works. Given outstanding advocacy from the Takács Quartet and Lawrence Power the 'American' quintet emerges as a masterpiece every bit the equal of Dvořák's other, better-known, works written in the New World. Angela Hewitt is, unsurprisingly, proving as fine an exponent of Scarlatti as she is of Bach (and Couperin, Beethoven, Ravel …). In Scarlatti Sonatas – 2 she presents a further seventeen of these most perfect of miniature worlds in limpid, crystalline performances.

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Steven Osborne is no stranger to Debussy Piano Music. His earlier collection was hailed as 'magisterial', and this successor—a delicious confection centred on the two sets of 'Images'—is certain to be greeted with similar critical superlatives. Titles can be misleading: quite apart from being a virtuoso showpiece for two high tenors (Samuel Boden and Thomas Walker), John Blow's Ode on the Death of Mr Henry Purcell is no funereal dirge but a work of surprising, not to say prevailing, delight. Here it's the highlight in a collection of enticing rare vocal and chamber works performed by Arcangelo and Jonathan Cohen with all their customary flair and sensitivity.

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From King's Cambridge this month Tecchler's Cello – From Cambridge to Rome invites us to travel with Guy Johnston as he retraces the putative life of his beloved instrument back through its three centuries, along the way commissioning three new works by way of birthday gifts.

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Kyrie – Poulenc, Kodály & Janáček is an ambitious new Signum Classics recording from St John's College Choir Cambridge, triumphantly tackling three of the most exalted—and treacherous—sacred works of the last century under the guidance of conductor Andrew Nethsingha. The Art of Dancing, the title work on an album subtitled '21st-century concertos for trumpet, piano and strings', gives the pioneering Simon Desbruslais his cue for an album of first recordings in the company of pianist Clare Hammond and the English String Orchestra.

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