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HANDEL Concerti grossi Op 6 Nos 1-12

Combattimento Consort Amsterdam has achieved respectable success with stylistically accomplished performances of Baroque repertoire using predominantly modern instruments. This is...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 01/2013

GODARD Piano Concerto No 2

As on the earlier Dutton disc of Godard’s music (11/11), none of these world premiere recordings are of forgotten masterpieces...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 01/2013

DVOŘÁK Symphonies Nos 3 & 6

Checking the booklet timing, the Sixth Symphony’s first movement brought an instant smile to my face, assuming as I did...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 01/2013

BRUCKNER Symphony No 7

There are those who attend the opening of this piece as they might the opening of Parsifal – slowly, hieratically....

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 01/2013

BEETHOVEN Piano Concerto No 1. KUHLAU Piano Concerto Op 7

Kuhlau was not the luckiest man on earth. He lost an eye in childhood, had to escape over the border...

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 01/2013

BEETHOVEN Symphonies Nos 5 & 7

So palpable is the excitement of these live performances that it almost comes as a shock that the applause has...

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 01/2013

BEETHOVEN Symphonies Nos 1-9

If Haydn spoke his last word on the symphony in 1795, Beethoven’s First five years later is no mere extension...

Reviewed by Nalen Anthoni in issue: 01/2013

CPE BACH Keyboard Concertos

It must have been a touch galling for Miklós Spányi, as he prepared to record these four works for Vol...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 01/2013

JS BACH Harpsichord Concertos Nos 1, 4, 6 & 7

The brightness and rightness of the sound is what strikes you immediately about this new recording of four of Bach’s...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 01/2013

JS BACH Brandenburg Concertos

There is much documentary evidence about Bach’s day-to-day dealings but not much of it biographical, no diaries and few reflections...

Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 01/2013

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