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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

MOZART Symphonies Nos 39 - 41

The bizarre title, ‘Mozart’s Instrumental Oratorium’, derives from Harnoncourt’s belief that the three late symphonies form a sort of ‘last...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 09/2014

BRUCKNER Symphony No 2

Over a dozen new recordings, not to mention an entirely new performing edition, of Bruckner’s youthfully vibrant and at times...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 09/2014

BRUCKNER Symphony No 9

Most of the differences between this Bruckner Ninth Symphony, which was recorded in concert just five months before Claudio Abbado’s...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 09/2014

CHARPENTIER Le Descente D'Orphee Aux Enfers. La Couronne de Fleurs

The musicians of the Boston Early Music Festival first performed this charming pair of pastorales in 2011. They date very...

Reviewed by Julie Anne Sadie in issue: 09/2014

Semiramide - La Signora Regale

For Verdi it was King Lear, an opera that was never written, despite the composer’s obsession with the subject. And...

Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 09/2014

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