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PĘKIEL Missa Concertata La Lombardesca

This rich celebration of the early Polish Baroque features a brace of Mass settings by Bartłomiej Pe˛kiel and half a...

Reviewed by Malcolm Riley in issue: 09/2013

HANDEL Cantate Vol 1

Contrasto Armonico recorded four volumes of an aborted complete Handel cantata series for Brilliant Classics but here Marco Vitale launches...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 09/2013

BRAHMS Ein Deutsches Requiem

Following her fine set of the Brahms symphonies on Naxos with the LPO, Marin Alsop has here moved to Leipzig...

Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 09/2013

JS BACH Cantatas BWV202, 82a & 51

While Bach’s oeuvre boasts only a sprinkling of solo-voice cantatas, they are among the most riveting, largely owing to the...

Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 09/2013

JS BACH Secular Cantatas Vol 3

A third volume of secular cantatas finds the Bach Collegium Japan celebrating red-letter days of people who would surely have...

Reviewed by Lindsay-Kemp in issue: 09/2013

Bach Re-invented

Here is a disc whose eclectic references make its classification elusive. Classical, jazz, crossover, rock, big-band, world music? It has...

Reviewed in issue 09/2013

75 Years of the Ysaÿe & Queen Elisabeth Piano Competition

Muso’s five-disc album of performances dating from 1952 to 2010 commemorates 75 years of the Queen Elisabeth Piano Competition in...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 09/2013

VIVALDI: A Tale of Two Seasons

La Serenissima can be relied upon to devise clever and coherent concept albums. This one explores Vivaldi’s operas produced during...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 09/2013

TCHAIKOVSKY Symphony No 3. Sleeping Beauty Suite

Dmitri Kitaenko’s Tchaikovsky symphony cycle continues to provoke decidedly mixed emotions within me. Admiration, certainly, for the expertly honed orchestral...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 09/2013

SZYMANOWSKI Symphonies Nos 1 & 2

Karol Szymanowski didn’t like his First Symphony (190607), though as so often with great composers and their fledgling offspring, his...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 09/2013

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