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MELANI L'empio Punito (Ipata; Quarta)

The extravagant production of L’empio punito (1669) in the Palazzo Colonna was attended by 26 cardinals, numerous princes and ambassadors,...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 01/2021

GRETRY Richard Coeur de Lion (Niquet)

In Tchaikovsky’s opera The Queen of Spades the old Countess, recalling her life as a beautiful young woman in Paris,...

Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 01/2021

DONIZETTI L'Ange de Nisida (Tingaud)

It’s certainly not every day, week or year that musical archaeology turns up a complete unperformed work from a composer...

Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 01/2021

Philippe Jaroussky: La vanità del mondo

Never one to rest on his laurels, Philippe Jaroussky has come up with a typically enterprising selection of Italian Baroque...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 01/2021

Synergia: Music From Cyprus

This album showcases, poignantly at this time of escalating political tension in the eastern Mediterranean, the multicultural riches of the...

Reviewed by Ivan Moody in issue: 01/2021

Song of Beasts: Fantastic Creatures in Medieval Songs

This is a super gift for somebody who loves – or is even curious about – the European Middle Ages....

Reviewed by David Fallows in issue: 01/2021

James Gilchrist: 100 Years of British Song Vol 1

Two unrecorded offerings by Holst launch what Somm promises will be a three-volume exploration of some lesser-known corners of the...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 01/2021

James Newby: I wonder as I wander

Recitals focusing on wanderers and wandering are hardly rarities, but British baritone James Newby’s debut album for BIS brings a...

Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 01/2021

WOOLF Requiem (Vox Luna)

Most composers don’t get round to writing a Requiem until they’ve reached middle age at the very least, so it...

Reviewed by Pwyll ap Siôn in issue: 01/2021

SONDHEIM Anyone Can Whistle

I smell a collector’s item. This cracking recording of Stephen Sondheim’s second Broadway show as composer/lyricist, Anyone Can Whistle –...

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 01/2021

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