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MEISTER Il giardino del piacere

Back in 2011, four years after Reinhard Goebel’s Musica Antiqua Köln had disbanded, they issued a surprise new premiere recording...

Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 07/2016

JUON Complete String Quartets

Paul Juon (1872-1940)enjoyed a brief vogue in Gramophone during the 1930s thanks to a set of the Chamber Symphony (1907)...

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 07/2016

ADÈS Arcadiana DUTILLEUX Ainsi la nuit RAVEL String Quartet

Time was that Ravel’s String Quartet went with Debussy’s on disc the way Mendelssohn’s Violin Concerto went with Bruch’s. The...

Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 07/2016

Youri Egorov: The 1980 Ambassador Auditorium Recital; Autumn Songs

Fans of Youri Egorov will be delighted with these two previously unreleased programmes. The first is an April 1980 recital...

Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 07/2016

JS BACH French Suites

The ‘French’ seem to be the least favoured on record among Bach’s keyboard suites, yet also perhaps the ones most...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 07/2016

Paradis sur terre

The sacred and the worldly rub shoulders in Nicky Spence and Malcolm Martineau’s ‘Paradis sur terre’, which opens with war-wounded...

Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 07/2016

TAVERNER Western Wynde mass. Missa Mater Christi sanctissima

Hot on the heels of Andrew Parrott’s fine account of Taverner’s Western Wynde Mass (Avie, 5/16) comes this double-bill from...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 07/2016

STRADELLA Santa Editta

Carlo Gesualdo might get all the attention when it comes to colourful composer biographies but Alessandro Stradella (1639 82) gives...

Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 07/2016

LOBO Lamentations

The Choir of Westminster Cathedral have a long and illustrious association with late-Renaissance Iberian polyphony. This new disc of works...

Reviewed by Edward Breen in issue: 07/2016

KÕRVITS Mirror

Some readers will have more experience of Estonia than I do, but fresh from a first exploration of Tallinn and...

Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 07/2016

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