Lebrecht’s Album of the Week

Indulgent Italian treats

Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco: Complete string quartets (Naxos)

Illicit fun

Jonathan Leibowitz: Eastern Reflections (Delphian)

Composed and electrifying

Klaus Tennstedt: The Radio Broadcasts (Doremi, 4CDs)

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)