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BERNSTEIN Candide (Alsop)

Absence doesn’t make the heart grow any fonder of this performance. I saw it live in 2018 and it was...

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 11/2021

BELLINI I Puritani (Orbelian)

As Delos’s gushing booklet note makes clear, this new release of Bellini’s swansong is focused around its two American leads,...

Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 11/2021

Voice of Nature: The Anthropocene

This might be the most serene apocalypse you’ll hear. In ‘Voice of Nature: The Anthropocene’, the soprano Renée Fleming reflects...

Reviewed by Neil Fisher in issue: 11/2021

Josquin's legacy (The Gesualdo Six)

This is an inventive piece of programming, combining the very well known and the nearly obscure: aside from Ockeghem’s Intemerata...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 11/2021

Emily D'Angelo: Enargeia

Whisper it quietly for now, but Emily D’Angelo is already well on the way to becoming the complete singer. Her...

Reviewed by Pwyll ap Siôn in issue: 11/2021

Adriatic Voyage: Seventeenth-Century Music from Venice to Dalmatia

Well, this is rather gorgeous. The ‘Adriatic Voyage’ of this collaboration between Rory McCleery’s Marian Consort and Bojan Čičić’s Illyria...

Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 11/2021

RESPIGHI Songs (Ian Bostridge)

Ian Bostridge and Ottorino Respighi are two names I never imagined would be in the same sentence, much less the...

Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 11/2021

PÄRT Passio

While one might well question the need for another recording of Passio, Pärt’s monumental setting of the Passion and death...

Reviewed by Ivan Moody in issue: 11/2021

MOZART Complete Masses, Vol 1 (Poppen)

As far as Mozart’s Masses are concerned, Naxos comes rather late to the party, waiting until its 30th birthday before...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 11/2021

KAPSBERGER Kapsberger in Rome, 1610 'Il Tedesco'

Johann Hieronymus (or Giovanni Girolamo) Kapsberger is best known, together with Alessandro Piccinini, for providing grateful modern performers and programme...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 11/2021

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