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CHARPENTIER Le Descente D'Orphee Aux Enfers. La Couronne de Fleurs

The musicians of the Boston Early Music Festival first performed this charming pair of pastorales in 2011. They date very...

Reviewed by Julie Anne Sadie in issue: 09/2014

Semiramide - La Signora Regale

For Verdi it was King Lear, an opera that was never written, despite the composer’s obsession with the subject. And...

Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 09/2014

FERRANDINI ‘Al Santo Sepolcro’

The Venetian composer Giovanni Battista Ferrandini (1709 91) worked in Munich and then retired to Padua – where he met...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 09/2014

HAYDN The Seasons

Haydn’s glorious celebration of the rural world in which he, a wheelwright’s son, grew up has done notably well on...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 09/2014

HAYDN Piano Concertos Nos 3, 4 & 11

Jean-Efflam Bavouzet has proved himself one of today’s leading Haydn interpreters – amply so on five volumes of sonatas (and...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 09/2014

Benjamin Grosvenor: Dances

Benjamin Grosvenor’s selection, simply entitled ‘Dances’, is lovingly planned rather than random. Ranging from Bach to Morton Gould, there are...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 09/2014

Canticles from St Paul's

‘Canticles from St Paul’s’ features five settings of the Magnificat and Nunc dimittis, with music from the service of Matins...

Reviewed by Christopher Nickol in issue: 09/2014

Motets Français

With French a cappella repertory already disappearingly small, that this disc limits its programme to music written for upper voices...

Reviewed by Caroline Gill in issue: 09/2014

The Leiden Choirbooks Vol 4

This is the fourth double-CD of this ambitious project, of which each instalment explores the contents of one of a...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 09/2014

A Quattro Cori: Music for 16 Voices

The 1783 trip to Italy of the musician and writer JF Reichardt had far-reaching implications. He returned to his native...

Reviewed by Caroline Gill in issue: 09/2014

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