Classical home listening: Chineke!’s Nutcracker Suite; Angela Hewitt’s Mozart Sonatas

Roll over Tchaikovsky… undated photograph of Duke Ellington and Billy Strayhorn reading a score. Photograph: George Rinhart/Corbis/Getty Images

• Find the Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy just a little too sweet? Then savour Sugar Rum Cherry, from Duke Ellington and Billy Strayhorn’s 1960s jazz reworking of Tchaikovsky’s The Nutcracker Suite (1892), where the Dance of the Reed Pipes becomes Toot Toot Tootie Toot and the Waltz of the Flowers is transformed into the Dance of the Floreadores. It’s the latest life-enhancing recording from Chineke! Orchestra (Chineke!/Decca) and guaranteed to put a smile on your face. The fun, recorded live, is conducted by Andrew Grams, with the vibe greatly enhanced by Alec Dankworth (bass), Andy Panayi (saxophone), Noel Langley (trumpet) and Sacha Johnson (drums).