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JS BACH Organ Works Vol 2

Far from the all purpose grandiloquence of the Martinikerk in Groningen – where Masaaki Suzuki recorded his most recent Bach...

Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 05/2017

JS BACH Six Keyboard Partitas, BWV825 830

Like his traversals of the English and French Suites, Richard Egarr’s Bach Partitas largely convey a rhythmic focus that underlines...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 05/2017

Rafał Blechacz: Johann Sebastian Bach

The Polish pianist Rafał Blechacz, particularly lauded for his Chopin interpretations, now turns to Bach, a composer with whom he...

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 05/2017

Virgin and Child: Music from the Baldwin Partbooks, Vol 2

After two albums of penitential motets and two Gramophone Early Music Award nominations, Contrapunctus swap shrouds for swaddling clothes in...

Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 05/2017

Queen Mary’s Big Belly: Hope for an Heir in Catholic England

It’s an emotive concept – a queen pregnant with the hope of a nation, only to have it shrink away...

Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 05/2017

Lucrezia Borgia’s Daughter: Motets from a 16th Century Convent

This surprisingly impassioned selection of anonymous motets from a Venetian publication Musica quinque vocum motteta materna lingua vocata (1543) has...

Reviewed by Edward Breen in issue: 05/2017

Jubilate

Britain’s tradition of cathedral music-making is one of its greatest cultural legacies. This new recording from Andrew Carwood and St...

Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 05/2017

Nicholas Phan: Gods & Monsters

Previous releases from the American tenor Nicholas Phan include a couple of Britten discs, both well reviewed in these pages...

Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 05/2017

Finland

The SWR Vocal Ensemble’s series of country-themed discs continues but now without Hänssler Classic; this latest disc is on SWR’s...

Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 05/2017

Da pacem

Five hundred years ago Martin Luther nailed his 95 theses to the door of the Castle Church in Wittenberg, changing...

Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 05/2017

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