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LUZZASCHI Il concerto segreto

Luzzaschi’s Madrigali, printed in 1601, supposedly contains the music that the ‘three ladies’ of Ferrara sang privately for Duke Alfonso...

Reviewed by David Fallows in issue: 11/2023

LARCHER The Living Mountain

Thomas Larcher’s The Living Mountain is a realist, handheld-camera response to the Hollywood glitz of Strauss’s Alpine Symphony. The soprano...

Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 11/2023

A HUGHES Dewi Sant

It is now 33 years since Arwel Hughes’s oratorio Dewi Sant (‘Saint David’) was issued on Chandos, with the BBC...

Reviewed by Jeremy Dibble in issue: 11/2023

HENZE Das Floss der Medusa (Meister)

‘The form is strong. The imagery is eloquent. This is a lyrical, impassioned, masterly and very powerful composition: a humanist...

Reviewed by Christian Hoskins in issue: 11/2023

HANDEL Israel in Egypt (Sorrell)

Handel’s Israel in Egypt is presented here in an excellent performance, from a concert at Shaker Heights, a suburb of...

Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 11/2023

GARŪTA Apple Tree

Those who enjoy exploring the uncharted byways of choral music will definitely relish this new disc of a cappella works...

Reviewed by Malcolm Riley in issue: 11/2023

DASER Missa Pater Noster & Other Works

It’s been quite the year for Ludwig Daser. Long eclipsed by his predecessor and successor as Kapellmeister at the Bavarian...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 11/2023

CHARPENTIER Messe de Minuit

It’s not just that Marc-Antoine Charpentier (1643-1704) is so well known for his Messe de minuit or that Ensemble Correspondances...

Reviewed by Edward Breen in issue: 11/2023

ARETINO Lamentationes Et Responsoria

Paulo Aretino (Paolo Antonio del Bivi; 1508 84) is very definitely on trend for the current Renaissance polyphony scene. A...

Reviewed by Edward Breen in issue: 11/2023

Joachim Carr: Numinosum

The latest Claves release from Joachim Carr is titled ‘Numinosum’, a word drawn from Jungian psychology to describe a sort...

Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 11/2023

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