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Kirill Petrenko conducts a magesterial account of Bruckner's Fifth Symphony after a trio of motets by the BBC Singers. 

Dans la basilique de Vézelay, le fameux ensemble letton a proposé un diptyque Bruckner-Tchaïkovski contrasté et concentré sous la direction de Sigvards Kļava.

Raphaël Pichon et son chœur voyagent dans 800 ans d'histoire de la musique avec une aisance et une justesse admirables.

A patchy performance by The Chorus of Royal Northern Sinfonia in a concert following the influence of J.S. Bach on later choral composers.

Segerstam elicits oustanding playing from the BBCSO in an immense Bruckner 8, preceded by the BBC Singers exquisite Bruckner motets.

An imaginative and wonderfully performed programme of ecclesiastical works wrought in peril, alienation and exile.

A fair amount of Bruckner gets performed in Vienna, but it’s rare to hear a Bruckner Mass and even rarer to hear one programmed alongside a piece like Ligeti’s Lux Aeterna.

The Fulham Camerata is a wonderfully inclusive group that mixes professionals, semi-professionals and keen amateurs - recruited without audition and receiving support and training from the professionals. The quality of their singing, on the evidence of last night’s concert, is first rate, and the sheer fullness of tone and response to dynamics in Bruckner’s motet Os Justi was quite glorious.