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BEETHOVEN Symphonies Nos 6 & 8

It takes a mere four seconds to fathom the gist of Stefan Blunier’s Beethoven Eighth. A forceful opening, followed by...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 08/2015

BEETHOVEN Piano Concertos Nos 4 & 5

I’m not sure who’s the hero of the hour in this recording – the pianist, the orchestra or the timpanist....

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 08/2015

MENDELSSOHN; BARTÓK Violin Concertos

The musical logic behind this coupling isn’t difficult to fathom. Both Mendelssohn and Bartók composed two violin concertos, one in...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 08/2015

ATTERBERG Symphonies Nos 1 & 5

This latest volume in Chandos’s Atterberg survey concentrates, as did Vol 2 (3/14), on a contrasting pair of symphonies. The...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 08/2015

Il Trionfo di Dori

It has traditionally been something of a rarity for The King’s Singers to produce either a single-composer disc or a...

Reviewed by Caroline Gill in issue: 08/2015

The Tempest

This debut disc from French artistic collective La Tempête and their director Simon-Pierre Bestion is, at first glance, frankly bizarre....

Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 08/2015

Salvator Mundi: The Purcell Legacy

For the inaugural release on their own label, the University of St Andrews offer a programme of English church music...

Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: 08/2015

Planctus: Death and Apocalypse in the Middle Ages

Marking the 500th anniversary of the Council of Constance (1414-18), which ended the Papal Schism, this fascinating new programme of...

Reviewed by Edward Breen in issue: 08/2015

I have set my heart so hy

The Dufay Collective have been around for 25 years, generally focusing on the more folksy aspects of medieval music; William...

Reviewed by David Fallows in issue: 08/2015

Cantar de Amor

As the booklet-notes for this engaging disc point out, opera didn’t really catch on in 17th-century Spain, despite the efforts...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 08/2015

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