New classical releases for October

Here’s a selection of new classical releases for the month of October:

String music

Decca reissue Gidon Kremer's Bach Concertos; Bartok, Eotvos and Ligeti violin concertos from Patricia Kopatchinskaja (Naive); The Tokyo Quartet's Beethoven cycle (Sony); Rachel Kolly D'alba - American Serenade (Warner); Leonid Kogan plays Brahms and Khachaturian concertos in London (Guild); Zino Francescatti plays Brahms live in Germany (Hanssler); Paul and Huw Watkins plays British works for cello and piano (Chandos); Delius and Grieg - complete works for cello (Nimbus); Helene Grimaud and Sol Gabetta team up for Duo (DG); Melos Quartet 1979 recordings (Hanssler); Thomas Ades and Steven Isserlis - Lieux Retrouves (Hyperion); Gidon Kremer's Hommage to Glenn Gould (Nonesuch); Lawson Trio - Long Way Home (Prima Facie); Alina Ibragimova plays Mendelssohn's two violin concertos (Hyperion); YuJeong Lee plays Prokofiev (Solo Musica); Arabella Steinbacher plays Prokofiev's violin concertos (Pentatone); Janine Jansen - Prokofiev (Decca); The Julliard Quartet plays Brahms and Schubert (Sony); Shostakovich Quartet 3, 4 and 7 from Meta4 (Hanssler); Igntaz Waghalter's violin music (Naxos); Weinberg's chamber music from the Borodin Quartet (Melodiya). 

Contemporary  music

John Cage's Indeterminacy in German (Oehms); John Cage's instrumental music (MDG); Da Lontano - trombonist Mike Svoboda plays Cage, Stockhausen, Scelsi and Nono (Wergo); Glass - The Passion of Ramakrishna (OMM); London Sinfonietta - New Music Show (London Sinfonietta); Kaija Saariaho - Trios (Ondine); Boris Tishchenko - Marina (Nothern Flowers); Mark Anthony Turnage collection (London Philharmonic).

Everything else

A big EMI box celebrating the late Maurice André; Daniel-Ben Pienaar plays Beethoven's Diabelli Variations (Avie); A box of Beethoven from Rudolf Serkin (Sony); Gardiner's period Beethoven (SDG); Rattle's Vienna Beethoven cycle gets a budget reissue (EMI); Perlman plays and conducts Beethoven (Euroarts DVD); New Chopin collection from Maurizio Pollini (DG); Lang Lang - the Chopin album (Sony); Alfred Cortot - 40 CD anniversary colelction (EMI); Jean Efflam Bavouzet's Debussy in one 5 disc set (Chandos); The next installment of Jose Serebrier's Dvorak symphony cycle (Warner); Great concerto performances from Emil Gilels (Sony); Glenn Gould - The Schwarztopf Tapes (Sony); Michelangeli - early recordings (Naxos); Heifetz plays Chausson and Franck (IDI); Svetlanov conducts Kalinnikov (Melodiya); Gergiev's Mahler cycle (LSO Live); Dudamel's LA Mahler 8 (DG DVD); Period Mahler with the OAE (Signum); Murray Perahia - The first forty years (Sony); Poulenc - The complete works (EMI); Mark Minkowski conducts Schubert's complete symphonies (Naive); The "near complete" works of Shostakovich (Brilliant); Historic Sibelius performances conducted by Robert Kajanus (Naxos); Solti - The Legacy (Decca).