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PORPORA Carlo Il Calvo (Petrou)

Carlo il Calvo (Rome, 1738) was adapted anonymously from Francesco Silvani’s libretto La costanza in trionfo (Venice, 1696), although Boris...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 08/2023

MONTEVERDI Orfeo (Savall)

Ever since Nikolaus Harnoncourt’s and Jürgen Jürgens’s pathbreaking recordings of the 1970s, the challenges of performing Orfeo, arguably the most...

Reviewed by Iain Fenlon in issue: 08/2023

LULLY Acis Et Galatee (Sardelli)

The mortal Acis loves the sea-nymph Galatea, but is murdered in a jealous rage by the Cyclops Polyphemus. Miraculously transformed...

Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 08/2023

HERRMANN Suite from Wuthering Heights. Echoes for Strings

Bernard Herrmann became completely obsessed with his opera Wuthering Heights, convinced that it was the work by which posterity would...

Reviewed by Adrian Edwards in issue: 08/2023

GRAUN Silla (De Marchi)

Carl Heinrich Graun owes his career to patron Frederick the Great, whose passion for music in general (and Italian opera...

Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 08/2023

Unicum: New Songs from the Leuven Chansonnier

Famously bought cheaply at auction as part of a job lot by a Belgian art dealer who thought only a...

Reviewed by David Fallows in issue: 08/2023

Orchestral Anthems: Elgar, Finzi, Dyson, Howells

Although orchestras were not foreign phenomena to chapels and cathedrals – they were de rigueur in Charles II’s Chapel Royal...

Reviewed by Jeremy Dibble in issue: 08/2023

The Coronation of Their Majesties King Charles III and Queen Camilla

In his sermon at St Paul’s Cathedral on the occasion of the United Guilds’ Service of the City of London...

Reviewed by Adrian Edwards in issue: 08/2023

Reginald Mobley: Because

‘“Because” reflects our wish to give this powerful repertoire [of African American songs] a new interpretation,’ write the two artists,...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 08/2023

VINDERS Missa Fors Seulement. Secular Songs

There are perhaps two discoveries here. I say ‘perhaps’, because both things are already known. Jheronimus Vinders is one of...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 08/2023

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