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JS BACH Sonatas & Partitas BWV1001-3

The only frustrating thing about this disc is how long Isabelle Faust (or maybe Harmonia Mundi) has made us wait...

Reviewed by Caroline Gill in issue: 11/2012

JS BACH The French Suites

Andrea Bacchetti takes an unashamedly pianistic approach to Bach – and there’s nothing wrong with that. Thus he’s not afraid...

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 11/2012

Songs of Springtime

The 20 tracks on this secular Anglo-Irish part-song anthology provided the perfect aural backdrop to the patches of snowdrops and...

Reviewed by Malcolm Riley in issue: 05/2013

Refractions: Choral Works by Valen, Berg, Messiaen & Webern

This intriguing compilation contrasts the music of three composers with strong Germanic connections, all born in the 1880s, with works...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 05/2013

Erasmus van Rotterdam: In Praise of Folly

This monumental collection is a celebration of the life and impact of Erasmus, visionary of the global village ahead of...

Reviewed by Ivan Moody in issue: 05/2013

Anna Prohaska: Enchanted Forest - Baroque Arias

Thank you, Anna Prohaska, for not doing a Handel or Vivaldi arias disc; I am with my colleague David Vickers...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 05/2013

Alleluia

Belying the stereotyped image of Russian sopranos, the 23-year-old Julia Lezhneva fields a voice of bell-like purity, even throughout its...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 05/2013

Folk Stories: Songs by Beethoven, Britten & Mahler

Somewhere between the promising inception of this project and the final disc, significant elements have been lost. In her booklet-notes,...

Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 05/2013

Il Tesoro di San Gennaro

Atoning for their recent offering of bawdy Neapolitan cantatas, I Turchini here do penance in music associated with the chapel...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 05/2013

PERGOLESI Septem verba a Christo

The authorship of Septem verba a Christo in cruce moriente prolata has been disputed for more than a century. There...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 05/2013

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