November's new releases

A selection of November’s new classical releases that caught Devil’s Trill’s eye:

String music

Naxos presents Asian music for string quartet; Bach and Kurtag music for cello (Genuin); Andre Navarra's take on Bach's Cello Suites (Phaia); The first volume of the Belcea Quartet's Beethoven cycle (Zig Zag Terretories); Beethoven's quartets and sonatas arranged for string orchestra (C-avi); Brahms's Piano and Clarinet Quintets withe the Tokyo Quartet (Harmonia Mundi); The great cello and orchestra works by Britten and Prokofiev, from Daniel Muller-Schott (Orfeo); Kate Chruscicka's self published second album of violin favourites; Mario Brunello plays Dvorak's Cello Concerto (EMI); Cello sonatas by Enescu (Saphir); The art of violinist Christian Ferras (DG); Ever wondered what the Franck Violin Sonata sounds like on double bass? (Centaur); Violinist Simon Goldberg's commercial recordings 1932-51 (Music & Arts); Heifetz encores, vol.2 (Naxos); More Hindemith quartets (Naxos); Gidon Kremer anniverary DVD (Euroarts); Kremer's complete Piazzolla recordings (Nonesuch); Yehudi Menuhin and Paul Coker live (Doron); Tetzlaff and Vogt play Mozart (Ondine); Itzhak Perlman - Songs and dances for the soul (Sony); You wait ages for a Reger Violin Concerto (Ondine) ... And then two come along at once (CPO); Tasmin Little plays Respighi and Strauss (Chandos); The Takacs Quartet and Ralph Kirshbaum plays Schubert's Quintet (Hyperion); Twentieth century music for string quartet (ERP); Britten conducts Rostropovch on DVD (ICA); Max Richter reimagines the Four Seasons (DG). 

Contemporary music

Boulez's Marteau sans maitre at budget price (DG); John Cage's Communication (Neos); A portrait of Celemens Gadenstatter (Col Legno); A Philip Glass flute recital (OMM); Glass remixed (OMM); A Knussen collection, including the Violin Concerto (NMC); Music for viola by Georges Lentz (Timpani); Peter Maxwell Davies's Sxith Symphony reissued (Naxos); Late and unknown rolls by Nancarrow (Wergo); Michael Nyman's String Quartets (NM Records);  4CDs of Rautavaara's choral works (Ondine); Violin music by Wolfgang Rihm (Naxos); Salvatore Sciarrino's Macbeth (Col Legno).

Everything else 

Richter's Well Tempered Clavier resurfaces (Melodiya); Cecilia Bartoli's haloween outfit? (Decca); An avalanche of Beethoven from Daniel Barenboim (Decca); Bargain box of Klemperer's Beethoven (EMI); The piano music of Dinu Lipatti (Avie); A near complete collection of Borodin's music (Brilliant); Alfred Cortot anniversary edition (EMI); Denk and MTT explore the music of some American Mavericks (Avie); More Lutoslawski from Edward Gardner (Chandos); Poulenc's complete works (EMI); Orchestral music by Soviet composer Vissarion Shebalin (Toccata); Andris Nelsons and the CBSO play SHostakovich's Leningrad Symphony (Orfeo); Does this mean Melodiya is reissuing Rozdestvesnky's Shostakovich cycle?;  100th anniversary box set of the Rite of Spring features six different performances (Decca).