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HANDEL The Choice of Hercules. Dettingen Te Deum (Cummings)

Hedonistic ode meets bellicose Te Deum. On the face of it these two works make a left-field coupling. What they...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 12/2021

GABRIELI Motets & Organ Works (Manfred Cordes)

It has been well over two decades since Manfred Cordes and his scrupulously excellent period ensemble Weser-Renaissance Bremen released their...

Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 12/2021

BRITTEN Les Illuminations CANTELOUBE Chants d'Auvergne (Mari Eriksmoen)

Britten and Canteloube make odd bedfellows, yet Mari Eriksmoen pairs them on her new Chandos album with the Bergen Philharmonic...

Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 12/2021

JS BACH Ich habe genug. Cantatas BWV32, 82 & 106

John Butt selects an intimate triptych that illuminates different facets and functions of Bach’s well-appointed church music. Two Leipzig works...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 12/2021

Gautier Capuçon: Souvenirs

A triple celebration for Gautier Capuçon, this three-disc set simultaneously marks his 40th birthday, 35 years playing the cello and...

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 12/2021

Krzysztof Meisinger: Elogio de La Guitarra

For his Chandos debut, the Polish guitarist Krzysztof Meisinger continues his love affair with the nuevo tango of Piazzolla while...

Reviewed by William Yeoman in issue: 12/2021

Alexander Gadjiev: Live

Despite the variety of piano brands and differing acoustic ambience throughout these live-in-studio performances recorded for the 2021 Sydney International...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 12/2021

SCHUBERT Impromptus D899. Moments Musicaux D780 (Alexandre Tharaud)

If, like me, you were enraptured by Michael Haneke’s 2012 Palme d’Or-winning film Amour, then this disc should come to...

Reviewed by Michelle Assay in issue: 12/2021

LIGETI Études pour Piano (Cathy Krier)

In 2014 Cathy Krier released an intriguing album programming Ligeti’s complete Musica ricercata in between two groups of Rameau keyboard...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 12/2021

DVORÁK The Complete Piano Works (Ivo Kahanek)

Doubtless you’ve heard, or at the very least heard of, Dvořák’s Slavonic Dances. But his Scottish Dances? They turn out...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 12/2021

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