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BUXTEHUDE Membra Jesu Nostri

It’s more than 10 years since I last encountered this ensemble, performing music by the Lassus pupil Johannes Eccard (9/12);...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: AW23

BENEVOLI Missa Tu es Petrus

I have followed I Fagiolini’s recorded output closely since their release of ‘The Other Vespers’, which Gramophone’s David Vickers described...

Reviewed by Mark Seow in issue: AW23

JS BACH; MACMILLAN Motets and Sacred Songs

Singing Bach’s music, music director Nigel Short explains in his booklet essay, was one of his earliest – and happiest...

Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: AW23

JS BACH Cantatas BWV6, 99 & 147

From two initial releases on Virgin Classics in the early 1990s, a dozen or so since for Harmonia Mundi and...

Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: AW23

ARCADELT Missa Noe Noe

Jacques Arcadelt’s posthumous fame rests almost entirely on his smash hit ‘Il bianco e dolce cigno’. To mark the 450th...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: AW23

Anna Lapwood: Luna

Any opportunity to hear the glorious Hill, Norman and Beard organ of the Royal Hospital School at Holbrook, Ipswich, should...

Reviewed by Malcolm Riley in issue: AW23

Igor Levit: Fantasia

The latest of Igor Levit’s thematically linked collections solidifies his reputation as a pianist of unflinching intellectual rigour and breathtaking...

Reviewed by Peter J Rabinowitz in issue: AW23

Cyborg Pianist

It’s not uncommon these days for new releases to be saddled with adjectives like groundbreaking or cutting-edge. But from time...

Reviewed by Liam Cagney in issue: AW23

El Bohemio

This is a portrait of the legendary Paraguayan guitarist and composer Agustín Barrios (1885-1944) with a difference: his music, and...

Reviewed by William Yeoman in issue: AW23

Miloš: Baroque

‘Baroque’ is Montenegrin classical guitarist Miloš Karadaglić’s most virtuosic album to date. That is, he asks the famous question, ‘Sonata,...

Reviewed by William Yeoman in issue: AW23

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