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  LCD Soundsystem: London Sessions – review

  16 Jan 2011: LCD Soundsystem's James Murphy is in his element on this live session album, writes Kitty Empire

• Handel: Il trionfo del Tempo e del Disinganno: Early Opera Company/ Christian Curnyn – review

  16 Jan 2011: Christian Curnyn's direction and excellent singing mean this early Handel oratorio cannot fail to charm, writes Stephen Pritchard

• Bossa Nova and the Rise of Brazilian Music in the 1960s – review

  16 Jan 2011: Gilles Peterson has cherry-picked a dazzling selection of Brazilian 'new way' sounds, says Neil Spencer

• Gwilym Simcock: Good Days at Schloss Elmau – review

  16 Jan 2011: Gwilym Simcock's prodigious creations on the piano straddle the border between classical and jazz to mesmerising effect, writes Dave Gelly

• The Decemberists: The King Is Dead – review

  16 Jan 2011: The Decemberists have come out of their prog phase and got straight back into country-tinged, pastoral brilliance for The King Is Dead, says Hermione Hoby

• White Lies: Ritual – review

  16 Jan 2011: White Lies' second LP follows the blueprint of their first, says Phil Mongredien

• Anna Calvi: Anna Calvi – review

  16 Jan 2011: Anna Calvi's debut might nod to PJ Harvey and Nick Cave, but she is no mere copyist, writes Kitty Empire

• Mozart: Keyboard Music Vol 2, Kristian Bezuidenhout (fortepiano) – review

  16 Jan 2011: Kristian Bezuidenhout on the fortepiano offers an exquisite second volume of Mozart's keyboard music, writes Nicholas Kenyon

• Liszt: New Discoveries Vol 3, Leslie Howard (piano) – review

  16 Jan 2011: Leslie Howard kicks off Liszt's 200th anniversary with a fine disc of the composer's piano rarities, writes Fiona Maddocks

• The Sand Band: All Through the Night – review

  16 Jan 2011: The Sand Band combine the wistful folkiness of fellow Liverpudlians Shack with the balladry of Richard Hawley to excellent, melancholic effect, writes Gareth Grundy

• White Noise Sound: White Noise Sound – review

  

  13 Jan 2011: White Noise Sound employ shoegazing's forefather to help them update the sound. The results are mixed, says Dave Simpson

• Eduardo Niebla: My Gypsy Waltz – review

  

  13 Jan 2011: Yorkshire-based flamenco-jazz guitarist Niebla demonstrates his technical brilliance in an album taking inspiration from Spain, India and beyond, writes Robin Denselow

• White Lies: Ritual – review

  

  13 Jan 2011: White Lies strive for profundity. Shame they don't reach it. By Will Dean

• Paul Bley: Annette – review

  

  13 Jan 2011: One of a pair of albums dedicated to Bley's ex-wives, this homage to Annette Peacock takes the form of a low-key free-jazz conversation, writes John Fordham

• Denys Baptiste: Identity By Subtraction – review

  

  13 Jan 2011: After seven years' absence from the recording studio, Denys Baptiste's tenor sax swagger is still in evidence, but this is not his most memorable set, says John Fordham

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