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Mon 16 Apr, 2018:
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Mon 26 Feb, 2018:
Bach: Keyboard Concertos – No 1 in D minor, BWV 1052; No 2 in E major, BWV 1053; No 3 in D major, BWV 1054; 4 in A major, BWV 1055; 5 in F minor, BWV 1056; 7 in G minor, BWV 1058; Italian Concerto in F major, BWV 971
The young South Korean Sonya Bach makes an uneven debut on disc in the company of her illustrious namesake, JS Bach. She’s clearly an able pianist...
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Thu 23 Nov, 2017:
Music for the Queen of Heaven – Contemporary Marian Motets by Lennox Berkeley, Hilary Campbell, Stephen Dodgson, Cheryl Frances-Hoad, Herbert Howells, Gabriel Jackson, James MacMillan, Matthew Martin, Cecilia McDowall, Andrzej Panufnik, Roxanna Panufnik & Judith Weir
Here’s another exquisitely accomplished recording from Delphian to cap a year of successes. Herbert Howells’s youthful Salve Regina stretches the...
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Wed 27 Sep, 2017:
Music for Troubled Times: The English Civil War and Siege of York – Choral Works by Byrd, Lawes, Hutchinson, Tomkins, Child, Wilson, Jeffreys and Locke
A country divided, politics in turmoil, religious intolerance on the rise… Nearly four centuries after the English Civil War, England seems barely...
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Mon 21 Aug, 2017:
In Schubert's Company: Works by Schubert, Akhunov, Desyatnikov & Tabakova
Violist Maxim Rysanov has here assembled an innovative collection of viola music around the works of Schubert, including modern interpretations by...
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Thu 23 Mar, 2017:
Mahler: Symphony No 9 in D major
Mariss Jansons’s Munich Mahler scores highest for warmth, intelligence and emotional centredness. BR Klassik grant his orchestra a tonal profile...
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Fri 13 Jan, 2017:
Bach: The Six French Suites
For his debut on the Yellow Label after more than four decades with Sony, Murray Perahia returns brilliantly to Bach. Composed between 1722 and 1725...
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Tue 10 Jan, 2017:
Tchaikovsky: Violin Concerto in D major, Op 35; Sibelius: Violin Concerto in D minor, Op 47
The catalogue isn’t short of recordings of the Tchaikovsky and Sibelius violin concertos, but these gripping performances can take their place...
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Fri 23 Dec, 2016:
Bach: Weihnachts-Oratorium, BWV 248 (Christmas Oratorio)
Hot on the heels of John Butt’s pleasingly pared-back (two voices per part) period-instrument offering of Bach’s Christmas Oratorio with the...
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Fri 02 Dec, 2016:
Mozart: Violin Concertos – No 1 in B flat major, K207; No 2 in D major, K211; No 3 in G major, K216; No 4 in D major, K218; No 5 in A major, K219; Adagio in E major, K261; Rondos – in B flat major, K269; in C major, K373
Youthful works mainly written between the ages of 17 and 20, but of a maturity that belies those years. Isabelle Faust and Giovanni Antonini are alive...
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Fri 04 Nov, 2016:
Berlioz: Symphonie fanstastique, Op 14; Rameau: Suite de Hippolyte et Aricie
Back in 1733, Rameau turned tables with Hippolyte et Aricie. Today it may also be radical to hear it played on modern instruments, as here. But...
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Tue 25 Oct, 2016:
Dean: Shadow Music; Etüdenfest; Short Stories; Testament; Beethoven: Adagio molto e mesto from String Quartet in F major, Op 59 No 1 (arr Brett Dean)
Menace and the macabre lurk in the unsettling echoes and shifting shadows that abound in this compendium by the doyen of Australian post-modernism,...
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Fri 14 Oct, 2016:
Bach: Goldberg Variations, BWV 988
Mahan Esfahani brings a freshness and vitality to the oft-recorded Goldberg Variations that surprise and delight in equal measure. On a modern,...
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Wed 28 Sep, 2016:
Haydn: Piano Concertos – No 4 in G major; No 11 in D major; Ligeti: Piano Concerto; Capriccios Nos 1 and 2
Haydn and Ligeti – the great musical jokers of the 18th and 20th centuries – meet in Shai Wosner’s new album of solo capriccios and orchestral...
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