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BEETHOVEN Missa Solemnis (Harnoncourt)

This is a remarkable account of Beethoven’s Missa solemnis and, in one important respect, an unusual one. For though it...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 08/2016

RILEY In C. Sunrise of the planetary dream collector

Terry Riley’s proto-minimalist classic In C is ordinarily launched via a punched out high-C pulse on a keyboard, a rallying...

Reviewed by Philip Clark in issue: 08/2016

DOWLAND Lachrimae, or Seaven Teares

How to describe Dowland’s Lachrimae, or Seaven Teares? Seven pavans for five-part viol consort with lute, each a subtle transformation...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 08/2016

TCHAIKOVSKY Symphonies Nos 1,2 & 5

Vasily Petrenko’s gripping recording of Tchaikovsky’s Manfred Symphony with the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic (Naxos, 1/09) tantalised listeners that a complete...

Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 08/2016

SHOSTAKOVICH Symphonies Nos 5, 8 & 9

After their scorching performance of the Tenth Symphony (8/15) raised the bar unassailably high, the question loomed as to whether...

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 08/2016

BACEWICZ String Quartets

This is a good time to be rediscovering post-war string quartets. The Heath Quartet’s recent Wigmore Hall Tippett set (3/16)...

Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 08/2016

HANDEL Alcina

If ever there was an opera production made for the probing, roving eye of the camera, it’s Katie Mitchell’s Alcina,...

Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 08/2016

BACH all'italiano

Perhaps the highest form of Baroque flattery was all-out copying, and with Bach all’italiano the young recorder player Simon Borutzki...

Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 08/2016

Helper and Protector: Italian Maestri in Poland

By the fourth volume of a series delving into the forgotten repertoire of 16th-century Poland, you might expect The Sixteen...

Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 08/2016

Chorus vel organa; Music from the Lost Palace of Westminster

There is much to be celebrated here as early music scholarship inspires joyful performances from the Choir of Gonville &...

Reviewed by Edward Breen in issue: 08/2016

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