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The HagueBach motets

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Bach
Solomon's Knot; Clare Lloyd-Griffiths; Zoë Brookshaw; Kate Symonds-Joy

AndermattMonteverdi Choir – “Buxtehude’s Daughter”

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Handel, Tunder, Bach, Buxtehude
English Baroque Soloists; Monteverdi Choir; Jonathan Sells
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The ears have it: Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas on the Cutty Sark

Karima El Demerdasch (Dido) © Paul Marc Mitchell
Come away fellow sailors, your anchors be weighing! All board the Cutty Sark for a semi-staging of Purcell's Dido and Aeneas with the Monteverdi Choir and English Baroque Soloists.
****1
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Triumphant Tavener opens the Edinburgh International Festival

The Veil of the Temple © Andrew Perry

John Tavener's epic, eight-hour all-night vigil opens the festival in monumental style, directed by Thomas Guthrie. 

*****
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Cancelled Christmas? Knot on your life: Bach at Wigmore Hall

The Solomon's Knot collective offered a lively account of four cantatas from Bach's Christmas Oratorio
****1
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Gardiner moves mountains in his Lucerne

The superb Monteverdi Chorus and the English Baroque Soloists recently brought a kind a seraphic force to Bach's St Matthew Passion.
****1
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The National Health Service of the Renaissance

L’Ospedale sounds like it should be a newly written opera about the NHS, but actually, it's a 350 year old piece. It makes for an hour's delectable light operatic entertainment.
****1
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Wundersames Band der Welten: Les Passions bei Musica Divina Flandern

Beste Musikalität des Ensembles und somit vitale Heilkraft Bibers und Schmelzers Werke strömte hier durch Kirche und Gefühlsbahnen.
*****
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