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FUX; KERLL Requiems

Kerll’s Missa pro defunctis (published 1689) was dedicated to Emperor Leopold I, and its preface reveals that the composer wanted...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 11/2016

La famille Forqueray: Portrait(s)

In recent years it has become commonplace to attribute the 1747 Forqueray Pièces (issued in two versions – one for...

Reviewed by Julie Anne Sadie in issue: 11/2016

RAVEL; SAINT-SAËNS Piano Trios

The unusual item here is Saint-Saëns’s Second Piano Trio of 1892, of which the Fidelio Trio give a performance of...

Reviewed by Geoffrey Norris in issue: 11/2016

BEETHOVEN; MOZART Quintets for Piano and Winds

These performances by the Swiss period-instrument ensemble Die Freitagsakademie are so full of character and incident that one can almost...

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 11/2016

CPE BACH Flute Concerti

It’s perhaps rather unorthodox to begin a review by dealing with the accompanying sleeve notes, but still, here I go,...

Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 11/2016

JS BACH French Suites Nos 1-6, BWV812-817

Recent research shows that, though divorce rates are falling in the UK, there’s an upward trend among the over-50s. The...

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 11/2016

MOZART Piano Concertos K413-15

Bezuidenhout has recorded Mozart’s complete solo piano music as well as a couple of later concertos, all well receieved in...

Reviewed in issue 11/2016

War, Peace, Love and Sorrow

Dmitri Hvorostovsky’s career has been built on the twin pillars of Italian and Russian repertoire. His very first album paired...

Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 11/2016

Pretty Yende: A Journey

Ignore the feel-good title and the fluffy booklet-note, and what you have here is actually a serious recital from an...

Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 11/2016

WAGNER Die Walküre

The second instalment of Naxos’s live Hong Kong concert Ring is more compelling than last year’s respectable but careful Das...

Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 11/2016

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