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DONIZETTI Il Diluvio Universale (Frizza)

Biblical flooding is as old as the ark, but there are contemporary resonances to the story of Noah. During recent...

Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 12/2024

CACCINI 'Il Concerto Caccini'

Giulio Caccini was at the epicentre of Florentine musical innovations: extravagant intermedi between the acts of plays produced to celebrate...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 12/2024

CAGE; DOWLAND 'All We Get is Life'

You might think Dowland, Cage and Sting strange bedfellows but a common thread of intimacy and concise expression in performance...

Reviewed by Edward Breen in issue: 12/2024

WALTON 'The Complete Songbook'

In the mid-1950s a Cambridge undergraduate asked his professor why William Walton had never produced a successor to the great...

Reviewed by Geraint Lewis in issue: 12/2024

STRADELLA Un angelo del Paradiso - The Orrigoni Songbook

Alessandro Stradella’s life reads like a modern-day novel by Donna Leon, since his brief biography includes fleeing from matchmaking troubles...

Reviewed by Edward Breen in issue: 12/2024

SCHÜTZ Weihnachtshistorie (Meunier. Wilson)

Schütz’s Weihnachtshistorie was probably first performed on Christmas Day 1660 at the Dresden court chapel, but when it was published...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 12/2024

SCHNITTKE; VEDEL; BORTNIANSKY Choir Concertos

Readers may have attended a memorable account of Alfred Schnittke’s Concerto for Choir at London’s Union Chapel in 1989, the...

Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 12/2024

PARK; TRIMBLE 'Songs from Northern Ireland'

Carolyn Dobbin and Iain Burnside have come up with another gem of a disc for Delphian (its predecessor, ‘Calen-O: Songs...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 12/2024

MOZART Requiem (Pichon)

Pygmalion toured Mozart’s Requiem last year, including a well-received visit to the Proms. Their interpretation is preserved here on a...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 12/2024

LEIGHTON; VAUGHAN WILLIAMS 'That Sweet City'

Taking its title from Matthew Arnold’s nostalgic pastoral poem of 1865 Thyrsis (‘And that sweet city with her dreaming spires’),...

Reviewed by Jeremy Dibble in issue: 12/2024

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