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BEETHOVEN Symphony No 9 'Choral'

Every culture gets the Beethoven Ninth it deserves. This is not the Ninth to pair with A Survivor from Warsaw,...

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 02/2015

JS BACH Orchestral Suites BWV1066-9

In a note appended to this exceptional version of the Suites – performed by single players at a lower pitch,...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 02/2015

JS BACH Concertos for Oboe and Oboe d'Amore

Gonzalez X Ruiz and Monica Huggett apply long-established scholarly theories that Bach must presumably have written oboe concertos, now lost,...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 02/2015

Russia

This is a Russian choral album with a difference, offering not only the rich, diatonic panoply of Glinka’s cherubim and...

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 02/2015

Rameau's Funeral

You can listen to this disc from Skip Sempé, Capriccio Stravagante Les 24 Violons and Collegium Vocale Gent in the...

Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 02/2015

Lucia Duchoňová: Melancholy

This is an intriguing programme from the Slovakian mezzo-soprano Lucia Duchoňová, consisting largely of works some way off the beaten...

Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 02/2015

The Heart's Refuge

‘It was primarily thanks to music that the German-speaking countries were able to recover from the ordeal of the Thirty...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 02/2015

De Passione

This issue explores the earliest coherent repertory of what we now call the motet, namely four-voice Latin devotional pieces; and...

Reviewed by David Fallows in issue: 02/2015

Blow out, ye bugles: Music from the time of the First World War

This CD’s imaginative programme offers music written in response to the events of the First World War. The five composers...

Reviewed by Christopher Nickol in issue: 02/2015

Au Sainct nau

It feels like a long time since the last release from Ensemble Clément Janequin. They’ve been going for about 35...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 02/2015

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