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STANFORD Mass in G

There has been a steady stream of discs from the smaller Oxbridge chapels over many years, recording the standard repertoire...

Reviewed by Caroline Gill in issue: AW2014

HAYDN The Seasons

It may be perverse to give pride of place to the ‘bonus’ feature. But anyone acquiring this DVD of Haydn’s...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: AW2014

GRIEG Haugtussa. Vinjesangene. Ibensangene

This all-Grieg recital opens with Haugtussa, surely one of the most loveable song-cycles outside the German-language repertoire. Like a Nordic...

Reviewed by Richard Fairman in issue: AW2014

FRESCOBALDI Messa sopra l'aria della Monica

Frescobaldi was never officially maestro di cappella of any institution, although the renowned keyboard composer was employed as organist in...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: AW2014

Adoramus Te

The pairing of the Catholics William Byrd and his student Peter Philips is logical both biographically and musically. Precisely because...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: AW2014

BYRD The Three Masses

Recordings of Byrd’s three Masses are so numerous that comparisons with this one are best limited to recordings with comparable...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: AW2014

JS BACH Cantatas Nos 205 & 207

Zerreisset, zersprenget, zertrümmert die Gruft is a serenata for the nameday of Leipzig University’s popular law and philosophy teacher August...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: AW2014

JS BACH Cantatas Nos 78, 150 & 147

Founded in 2009 by Peter Harvey, the Magdalena Consort now make their first recording, of cantatas from three of Bach’s...

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: AW2014

BACH The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book 1

As I’ve become better acquainted with it I’ve warmed to this recording, a little, but I know I shan’t often...

Reviewed by Stephen Plaistow in issue: 09/2014

BRAHMS German Requiem

This hybrid SACD was recorded at the Barbican in March 2013 as part of the LSO’s Brahms/Szymanowski festival. Although there...

Reviewed by Malcolm Riley in issue: 09/2014

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