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BACH Chorale Preludes ARMSTRONG Fantasy on B-A-C-H

Kit Armstrong opens his solo debut for Sony with a nearly-half-hour sequence of Bach chorale preludes. The pianist basically presents...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue:

FINNISSY The History of Photography in Sound

Michael Finnissy completed The History of Photography in Sound, his thematically interlinked cycle of 11 solo piano pieces, with a...

Reviewed by Philip Clark in issue: 01/2014

BEETHOVEN Piano Sonata No 8 SCHUBERT Piano Sonata No 21

Sarah Beth Briggs’s Mozart, Beethoven and Schubert recital tells us of a double commitment. First, in depth and consideration she...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 01/2014

Orient-Occident II

Jordi Savall’s explorations of non-Western repertoires continue with this luxuriously presented collaboration between the members of Hespèrion XXI and musicians...

Reviewed by Ivan Moody in issue: 01/2014

Il cor tristo

This disc intersperses Renaissance madrigals by Bernardo Pisano and Jacques Arcadelt with the three sections of Roger Marsh’s Il cor...

Reviewed by Ivan Moody in issue: 01/2014

MACMILLAN Alpha & Omega

It’s no coincidence that the same early music groups who specialise in Renaissance polyphony are increasingly making a second study...

Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 01/2014

BUXTEHUDE Opera Omnia XVII

This is the seventh volume, no less, of vocal music in Ton Koopman’s Buxtehude complete works cycle, and the fifth...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 01/2014

TENET: UNO + ONE

Monteverdi sung by twins? You could jump to that conclusion hearing this disc of vocal duets by Tenet’s perfectly matched...

Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 01/2014

Truro 125

Truro Cathedral was consecrated in 1887, and the 125th anniversary celebrations in 2012 included the commissioning of four new compositions...

Reviewed by Christopher Nickol in issue: 01/2014

The Image of Melancholy

‘The most wonderful recording session of my life,’ says Bjarte Eike in the booklet to this disc, and indeed the...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 01/2014

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