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Bach & Co

If you regard yourself as a fairly seasoned and knowledgeable listener of Baroque music, then you may find the premise...

Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 10/2019

20th Century Harpsichord Concertos (Vinikour)

If you’re looking for compelling contemporary harpsichord concertos beyond the usual suspects (Falla, Poulenc, Martin≤) in outstanding, superbly engineered performances,...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 10/2019

TABAKOV Symphony No 5. Concerto for Double Bass

Outside his native Bulgaria, Emil Tabakov (b1947) is perhaps best known for his recordings with the Sofia Philharmonic Orchestra in...

Reviewed by Christian Hoskins in issue: 10/2019

STANFORD A Song of Agincourt. Fairy Day

Completed in December 1903, Stanford’s impressive Overture in the Style of a Tragedy had to wait nearly 107 years for...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 10/2019

MYASKOVSKY Symphonies Nos 1 & 13 (Rudin)

Alexander Rudin, a distinguished exponent of Myaskovsky’s Cello Concerto and his sonatas for the same instrument (Cello Classics), is also...

Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 10/2019

MAHLER Symphony No 1 (Vänskä)

It may well be that more of the score is audible here than ever before. What’s lacking is less easily...

Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 10/2019

Le fil d’Ariane

On paper, this album really shouldn’t work: the concerti grossi of the Italian Baroque composer Pietro Antonio Locatelli interspersed with...

Reviewed by Mark Seow in issue: 10/2019

HANDEL Concerti Grossi Op 6 Nos 1-6 (Forck)

Now recording for Pentatone after 25 years with Harmonia Mundi, the AAM Berlin mark the occasion with the first six...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 10/2019

GLASS A Descent into the Maelstrom

Among the most prolific of composers today, Philip Glass also has never been averse to the rearranging of his scores...

Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 10/2019

DVORÁK Symphony No 9 (König)

It’s a neat idea framing Dvořák’s ubiquitous New World with two miniatures of authentic Americana – one rural, one urban...

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 10/2019

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