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SEBASTIANI Matthew Passion

The Boston Early Music Festival Chamber Ensemble presents the St Matthew Passion by Johann Sebastiani (1622 83), who was Kantor...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 08/2018

SCHUMANN Adventlied. Ballade vom Pagen und der Königstochter

Schumann lightly reorchestrated one of Bach’s most affective cantatas in 1849 for a Dresden choral society of his own foundation....

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 08/2018

SCHUBERT A Soprano’s Schubertiade

Every new repertoire frontier in Carolyn Sampson’s growing body of solo recordings – that so regularly turn up in the...

Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 08/2018

ROUSSEL Évocations. Suite in F (Tortelier)

Completed in 1911, Évocations was the work that put Albert Roussel on the musical map at its premiere a year...

Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 08/2018

PERGOLESI Mass in D; Motet "Dignas laudes resonemus"

Pergolesi’s name was unusually popular in the misattribution stakes within only a few years of his death from tuberculosis at...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 08/2018

PARRY Twelve Sets of English Lyrics, Vol 2

This is the second volume in Somm’s three-disc survey encompassing all 12 sets of Hubert Parry’s English Lyrics and I’m...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 08/2018

MONTEVERDI Madrigals Books 5 & 6

This is the last instalment of Le Nuove Musiche’s complete Monteverdi madrigal cycle, of which Books 5 and 6 mark...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 08/2018

MONTEVERDI Lettera amorosa

Soprano Mariana Flores’s last collaboration with Leonardo Garcia Alarcón and the musicians of Cappella Mediterranea, ‘Cavalli: Heroines of the Venetian...

Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 08/2018

ŁUKASZEWSKI Daylight Declines

Hitting two anniversary targets with one release, Tenebrae celebrate both the 100th anniversary of Polish independence and the 50th birthday...

Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 08/2018

HANDEL Acis and Galatea (Curnyn)

James Brydges, Earl of Carnarvon – later the Duke of Chandos – lived in some style at Cannons, his Palladian...

Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 08/2018

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