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BACH Violin Concertos Nos 1 & 2

It might seem shallow to complain about the titling and packaging of a disc but the commerciality of this one...

Reviewed by Caroline Gill in issue: 07/2012

AHO Chamber Symphonies Nos 1-3

Although three of Aho’s to-date 15 symphonies still await release from BIS (Nos 5 – available on Ondine – 6...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 07/2012

BACH Motets BWV225-230

Underpinning so much of Sir John Eliot Gardiner’s approach to Bach is identifying the provenance and essence of dramatic character,...

Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 08/2012

EndBeginning

Having been more than usually critical of this all-male vocal quartet’s previous offering (Avie, 8/10), it’s good to report positively...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 08/2012

Arias for Guadagni

The stereotype of the 18th-century castrato is a preening peacock enamoured of his own virtuosity and likely to throw a...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 08/2012

SCHUBERT; GRIEG; SIBELIUS Songs

For all of her vocal cultivation, personal magnetism and musical intelligence, Miah Persson seems not to be a born recitalist:...

Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 08/2012

ZELENKA Responsoria pro hebdomada sancta. Lamentatio Jeremiae Prophetae

Collegium 1704 and its director Václav Luks have made several fine recordings of Zelenka’s sacred music for Dresden’s Catholic court...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 08/2012

TYE Missa Euge bone. Western Wynde Mass

Christopher Tye was born around 1505 and, like his contemporary Thomas Tallis, he composed music for both the Anglican and...

Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 08/2012

SOMMER Sapphos Gesänge & Orchestral Songs

Born in Germany in 1837, dying in 1922, Hans Sommer saw music evolve from Schumann to Schoenberg, Wagner to Webern....

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 08/2012

SHAW Songs

One of the glories of the CD catalogue has been that an unknown composer backed by a devotee can get...

Reviewed by Peter Dickinson in issue: 08/2012

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