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Mark Sealey
Schütz: Geistliche Chor-Music (Carus)
(Déjà Review) A splendid recording … blends care and precision with a broad musicality [MS]
Biber: Vesperae longiores ac breviores (Carus)
(Déjà Review) An excellent Biber collection supplemented by contemporaries … as well performed as it was well-conceived [MS]
Buxtehude: Vocal Works Vol 4 (Challenge)
(Déjà Review) Outstanding … full of rich, sonorous and decidedly beautiful choral music [MS]
WF Bach: Cantatas 1 (Carus)
(Déjà Review) Four of WF Bach’s Halle cantatas given splendid world première recordings by a top team [MS]
Monteverdi: Vespro della Beata Vergine 1610 (Challenge Classics)
(Déjà Review) Scaled down, placid, serene, delightful, immediate and colourful [MS]
Clementi: The Complete Piano Sonatas Volume 4 (Hyperion)
(Déjà Review) Easily lives up to the very high standards of the earlier volumes [MS]
Sessions and Shapey: Piano Music (Bridge)
(Déjà Review) Something rather special. Expert, perceptive and technically brilliant [MS]
Lully: Psyché (cpo)
(Déjà Review) Splendid and approachable … interesting and unusual [MS]
Vivaldi: New Discoveries (Naïve)
(Déjà Review) Delightful and thought-provoking pieces newly attributed to Vivaldi [MS]
The Alchemy of the Piano (Naxos)
A revealing and well-structured exploration of the power, flexibility and communicativeness of the piano [MS]
Telemann: Cantatas, Vol 1 (cpo)
(Déjà Review) An outstanding collection of high Baroque cantatas sung with conviction, gentle authority and perception [MS]
Biber: Complete Violin Sonatas 1681 (Delphian)
An excellent exploration of music from the ‘Golden Age of violin-playing’ by musicians quite at home in Biber’s idiom [MS]
Fux: Orchestral works (Carus)
Four world premieres of a neglected late Baroque composer played with aplomb and vigour [MS]
Geminiani: Violin Sonatas op.5 (cpo)
(Déjà Review) Played with delicacy, sensitivity and warmth by three dedicated experts [MS]
Alessandro Scarlatti: Dixit Dominus, Magnificat (Naïve)
Recommended for the bright, powerful and yet sensitive attention to detail and texture [MS]
Janáček: Káťa Kabanová (LSO Live)
We seem to observe the tragic events as they might really have happened – no hyperbole, just committed singing [MS]
Stefano Maiorana (theorbo) Secret Pages (Arcana)
A compelling juxtaposition of Baroque and contemporary music for theorbo [MS]































