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Schütz: Geistliche Chor-Music (Carus)

(Déjà Review) A splendid recording … blends care and precision with a broad musicality [MS]

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Biber: Vesperae longiores ac breviores (Carus)

(Déjà Review) An excellent Biber collection supplemented by contemporaries … as well performed as it was well-conceived [MS]

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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]

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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]

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Sessions and Shapey: Piano Music (Bridge)

(Déjà Review) Something rather special. Expert, perceptive and technically brilliant [MS]

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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]

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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]

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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]

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Fux: Orchestral works (Carus)

Four world premieres of a neglected late Baroque composer played with aplomb and vigour [MS]

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Dufay: The Court of Savoy (Hyperion)

Superb and convincing [MS]

Geminiani: Violin Sonatas op.5 (cpo)

(Déjà Review) Played with delicacy, sensitivity and warmth by three dedicated experts [MS]

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Alessandro Scarlatti: Dixit Dominus, Magnificat (Naïve)

Recommended for the bright, powerful and yet sensitive attention to detail and texture [MS]

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Janáček: Káťa Kabanová (LSO Live)

We seem to observe the tragic events as they might really have happened – no hyperbole, just committed singing [MS]

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Stefano Maiorana (theorbo) Secret Pages (Arcana)

A compelling juxtaposition of Baroque and contemporary music for theorbo [MS]