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BEETHOVEN Missa Solemnis

Here are two live versions of Beethoven’s mighty work, recorded 35 years apart. The Cologne performance was taped in a...

Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 08/2012

BACH Mass in B Minor, BWV232

This is Philippe Herreweghe’s third commercial recording of the Mass in B minor in 23 years and, unlike many conductors...

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

BACH St John Passion

The St John Passion was one of Bach’s most ambitious undertakings soon after arriving in Leipzig in 1723 but the...

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

Neapolitan Cello Concertos

In 2010 we had Neapolitan flute concertos from Auser Musici (Hyperion, 4/10), and very nice they were too. Now here...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 08/2012

British Flute Concertos

The flute and its predecessor, the recorder, have both attracted composers to write bravura concertos since the beginning of musical...

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 08/2012

WIKLUND Piano Concertos Nos 1 & 2

The Swedish composer Adolf Wiklund does not make it into every reference work and, unless you are a student of...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 08/2012

WEINBERG Symphony No 6

Word is beginning to get around that Weinberg’s Sixth should be on the shortlist for anyone wondering where to make...

Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 08/2012

VIVALDI La Cetra - 12 Violin Concertos

La cetra (‘The Lyre’) was published in Amsterdam in 1727, dedicated to the Austrian emperor, Charles VI. (Confusingly, another manuscript...

Reviewed by Duncan Druce in issue: 08/2012

SHOSTAKOVICH Violin Concertos Nos 1 & 2

Sayaka Shoji has excellent credentials as a player of these concertos. The cantabile lines that play an important role in...

Reviewed by Duncan Druce in issue: 08/2012

SHOSTAKOVICH Symphony No 11

I had hoped that this might prove the perfect recording with which to remember the late, lamented Yakov Kreizberg –...

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 08/2012

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