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A comprehensive overview of every style available to Bach, from the archaic to the modern, Mahan Esfahani rises confidently to the challenge of his own brilliant appraisal of the Partitas in performances brimming with intellectual and emotional energy.

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Intense, emotional and pure is how Pavel Kolesnikov describes the experience of making this recording of Bach's Goldberg Variations. It is the fruit of a collaboration between the pianist and choreographer Anne Teresa de Keersmaeker. The spirit of the dance, so fundamental to Bach, is never far away in this compelling new account.

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Two substantial Mass settings from Jacob Regnart, sound as though might have written them specifically for the glorious voices of Cinquecento. This is a welcome contribution to the restoration of an important, but still under-appreciated, figure.

Steven Osborne's unerring command of the elusive ambiguities of Debussy's piano-writing has already been amply confirmed by his earlier recording of the two books of Pr�ludes; these lustrous new accounts of the Images, Estampes and Children's Corner are every bit their equal.

Mining the rich musical seam of the Low Countries, Stephen Rice and The Brabant Ensemble have once again unearthed sixteenth-century treasure in the works of Lupus Hellinck and Johannes Lupi.

Soprano Harriet Burns makes her recording debut on volume eight of Hyperion's Complete Brahms Songs series. The program's selections provide the ideal showcase for Burns's voice and Graham Johnson's customary scholarly booklet notes are an indispensable companion.

Amy Beach's piano quintet proved a deservedly popular success in it's early years. On this recording from the Tak�cs Quartet and Garrick Ohlsson, it makes a compelling, and surprising, match for Elgar's own piano quintet. A late work by the composer, written around the time of the cello concerto, it inhabits a similar emotional landscape.

Youthful piano quintets from Korngold, the arch-Romantic, and Bartók, in his pre-modernist vein, make a fascinating comparison. This album, from Piers Lane and the Goldner String Quartet, offers a snapshot of early twentieth-century Austro-Hungarian chamber music as represented by two of it's most individual voices.

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The lush foliage of Juan Esquivel's 'enclosed garden' is expertly tended by de Profundis, who reveal the neglected output of another master of the Spanish Renaissance.

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