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ROMITELLI An Index of Metals

Fausto Romitelli died of cancer at the young age of 41 after inventing a brilliantly distinctive post-spectralist style. Romitelli’s music...

Reviewed by Liam Cagney in issue: 12/2022

RAMEAU Le retour d’Astrée. Les Sybarites (de Camboulas)

Inviting and informative notes by Benoît Dratwicki and Sylvie Bouissou set a lovely scene: it’s 1745, and King Louis XV...

Reviewed by Mark Seow in issue: 12/2022

MONTEVERDI Orfeo (Savall)

If there’s nothing really wrong with this Orfeo, directed by Pauline Bayle and conducted by Jordi Savall at Paris’s Opéra-Comique...

Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 12/2022

LECLAIR Scylla et Glaucus (Plewniak)

Like Rameau, Leclair had a well-established reputation in other spheres before he ventured into opera. Known as ‘the French Corelli’,...

Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 12/2022

HANDEL Giulio Cesare in Egitto (Bolton)

There’s an unexpected opening to this Giulio Cesare, recorded in 2021 at the Theater an der Wien: a brief recitative...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 12/2022

BLECH Alpenkönig und Menschenfeind (Ward)

Record collectors have never entirely forgotten Leo Blech (1871-1958), the Aachen-born, Berlin-based conductor of a generation whose careers were derailed...

Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 12/2022

Marina Rebeka: Voyage

Duparc’s invitation to travel is an apt starting point for an enterprising programme with multiple explorations. The programme encompasses French...

Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 12/2022

Under der Linden

One of the difficulties facing anybody who wishes to perform the German Minnesang repertory is that almost all the surviving...

Reviewed by David Fallows in issue: 12/2022

The Sword & the Lily: 15th-Century Polyphony for Judgement Day

I am enormously fond of a good programme concept and this debut album from early music ensemble Fount & Origin...

Reviewed by Edward Breen in issue: 12/2022

Castrapolis: Neapolitan Cantatas and Arias (Nicolò Balducci)

‘Castrapolis’ was the name coined by novelist Dominique Fernandez for 18th-century Naples – a city that was home to a...

Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 12/2022

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