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JS BACH; CPE BACH; JC BACH Piano Concertos

This is one of the first fruits of the musical partnership between the Zurich Chamber Orchestra and its new principal...

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 07/2012

SCHUBERT Piano Sonatas D850; D;840; D894

Reviewing can be a frustrating business sometimes: recordings that bode so well on paper but disappoint in reality, or others...

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 02/2012

WEELKES Grant The King A Long Life

The disc opens with one of Thomas Weelkes’s most familiar anthems, Hosanna to the Son of David, in a performance...

Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: 07/2012

God's Composer

Forget the unctuous title: this documentary, broadcast last year in commemoration of the 400th anniversary of Victoria’s death, strikes the...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 07/2012

SCHUBERT Songs

The al fresco exuberance of ‘Bei dir allein’ gets this recital off to a delectable start: Camilla Tilling’s vernal tone...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 07/2012

SCHUBERT Schwanengesang. Piano Sonata D960

Burdened inwardness has long been Matthias Goerne’s hallmark. Here, even more than in his live recording with Brendel, he seems...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 07/2012

PURCELL Harmonia Sacra

As Purcell song programmes go, this one is not easy listening. Perhaps only the Evening Hymn would count as a...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 07/2012

PORPORA Vespro per la Festività dell'Assunta

In January 1744 Porpora was appointed maestro di coro at the Ospedale dei Derelitti (the ‘Ospedaletto’), one of the four...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue:

OCKEGHEM. LA RUE Requiems

As the earliest surviving example of a famous genre, a certain mystique attaches to Ockeghem’s Requiem, which now boasts an...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 07/2012

Haydn à l'anglaise

Anglicised Haydn? Worry not if the ballad on the first track seems a travesty, the finale of Haydn’s Symphony No...

Reviewed by Nalen Anthoni in issue: 07/2012

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