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DONIZETTI Il Castello di Kenilworth (Frizza)

Bel canto fans talk in reverent terms about Donizetti’s ‘Tudor trilogy’, Anna Bolena, Maria Stuarda and Roberto Devereux. Beverly Sills...

Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 09/2019

CAVALLI L'Ipermestra (Fentross)

Released in the last couple of months, this striking pair of Cavalli recordings were both actually made more than a...

Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 09/2019

VIVALDI Musica sacra per alto. Arie e cantate per contralto (Delphine Galou)

And still they come. Vols 59 and 60 in Naïve’s heroic complete Vivaldi Edition, now seemingly intent on the home...

Reviewed in issue 09/2019

The Pillar of the Cloud

Appointed music director at Magdalen College, Oxford, in 2017, Mark Williams is only now making his first statement with the...

Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 09/2019

Messes de Barcelone et d’Apt

This programme is built around two Mass settings and two manuscripts thought to preserve polyphonic music from the Papal liturgy...

Reviewed by Edward Breen in issue: 09/2019

TCHAIKOVSKY Liturgy of St John Chrysostom. 9 Sacred Choruses

Tchaikovsky’s setting of the Liturgy has a fundamental place in the history of Russian sacred choral music. It was published...

Reviewed by Ivan Moody in issue: 09/2019

SCHÜTZ Psalmen & Friedensmusiken

Over a decade, 19 volumes and many hours of psalms, anthems, Passions, madrigals and motets later, Hans-Christoph Rademann’s recording of...

Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 09/2019

C SCHUMANN Complete Songs

It’s good to be able to welcome a survey of Clara Schumann’s songs for the composer’s anniversary – they more...

Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 09/2019

ROSSINI Petite Messe solennelle (Berndt)

The Petite Messe solennelle was first performed in Paris in 1864 as a chamber work for 12 singers, two pianos...

Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 09/2019

OBRECHT Masses

The Fra Bernado label is certainly fulfilling its mission statement to cover ‘white spots on the map of early music’...

Reviewed by Edward Breen in issue: 09/2019

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