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Offer, Guardian Angel: Rachel Podger
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Music by Bach, Matteis, Tartini, Pisendel, Biber
Rachel Podger (violin)
Characteristically unforced and natural, the playing manages to sound endlessly considered yet spontaneous. There's a sureness to the placing of every note, whether poised or bristling with bite... — More…
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Bach - Motets
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Yukari Nonoshita & Aki Matsui (soprano), Damien Guillon (counter-tenor), Satoshi Mizukoshi (tenor) & Dominik Wörner (bass)
Bach Collegium Japan, Masaaki Suzuki
The performance is, as you'd now expect from [Suzuki's] Collegium, excellent. Voices range from delicate soloists to a splendidly light and transparent 18-strong chorus. Instrumental support... — More…
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Bach, J S: Goldberg Variations, BWV988
Britten Sinfonia, Thomas Gould
So bold are Glenn Gould's fingerprints on the score, not just in the intricate decorations but also the colours, the phrasing, the idiosyncratic articulation, that it is more an arrangement of... — More…
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JS Bach: Organ Works, Vol. 1
Masaaki Suzuki (Schnitger/Hinz organ in the Martinikerk, Groningen)
One of the most versatile of all Bachians, Masaaki Suzuki still manages to spring a surprise with this outstanding recital...From its woody chuff to bright rasp, the instrument is superbly captured... — More…
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This crack squad of first-rate period-instrument musicians gives lithe, polished and devoted performances that make a convincing case for a one-to-a-part "orchestra". Indeed, so full-bodied is... — More…
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Pre-order, Offer, Bach - Secular Cantatas X
Carolyn Sampson (soprano), Robin Blaze (counter-tenor), Makoto Sakurada (tenor), Dominik Wörner (bass)
Bach Collegium Japan Chorus, Masaaki Suzuki
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JS Bach: St John Passion
Joanne Lunn (soprano), Clare Wilkinson (alto), Nicholas Mulroy (tenor), Matthew Brook (baritone), Robert Davies (baritone)
Dunedin Consort, John Butt
a dramatic, exactingly nuanced, profoundly considered reading, compelling in its integrity and text-driven immediacy...Mulroy's firmly-contoured Evangelist balances the musical and narrative... — More…
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JS Bach: Magnificat & Christmas Cantata 63
Reconstruction of Bach's first Christmas Vespers in Leipzig
Julia Doyle (soprano), Joanne Lunn (soprano), Clare Wilkinson (alto), Nicholas Mulroy (tenor), Matthew Brook (bass)
Dunedin Consort, John Butt
It’s an absolute joy – far too good to keep for Christmas. — More…
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Bach, J S: Mass in B minor, BWV232
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Carolyn Sampson (soprano I), Rachel Nicholls (soprano II), Robin Blaze (alto), Gerd Türk (tenor) & Peter Kooij (bass)
Bach Collegium Japan, Masaaki Suzuki
The choir is small enough, two/three to a part, to project great clarity and detail - 'Osanna' is delightfully exuberant - though elsewhere Suzuki's tempos are rather deliberate… — More…
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Bach, J S: Sonatas & Partitas for solo violin, BWV1001-1006
Julia Fischer (violin)
Classic accounts by Milstein and Grumiaux have been usurped by this extraordinarily gifted newcomer — More…