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Handel’s Unsung Heroes
Handel loved to pit the voice against one or more solo instruments, whether in a spirit of competitive sparring or...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 01/2022
FRANCK Hulda (Bollon)
Fabrice Bollon and his Freiburg forces have done much of late to re-examine the lesser-known operatic repertory, with a distinguished...
Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 01/2022
DVORÁK Rusalka (Bolton)
I first watched Christof Loy’s new production of Rusalka when it was streamed live from the Teatro Real in November...
Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 01/2022
BARRY Alice's Adventures Under Ground
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland has provided inspiration for many composers with varying degrees of success over the years, yet Lewis...
Reviewed by Pwyll ap Siôn in issue: 01/2022
Monteverdi & Friends: Vespro da Camera
This all-Venetian ‘chamber vespers’ places three Monteverdi pieces within psalms, motets, sonatas and a canticle by the composer’s collegial circle...
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 01/2022
Cecilia Bartoli: Unreleased
'Unreleased’, proclaims the minimalist cover of this Bartoli album from November 2013. Why the wait? In the booklet Bartoli explains...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 01/2022
The Tree
What perfect timing. Just weeks after the announcement that, from 2022, girls and women will be included alongside boys and...
Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 01/2022
Messes anonymes
Anonymous Renaissance Mass cycles rarely make it into the catalogue, not even those that have helped form our understanding of...
Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 01/2022
Alla Napoletana
In 17th-century Naples, the delineation between church, palace and street music was deliciously and dangerously porous. This mix of sacred...
Reviewed by Mark Seow in issue: 01/2022
VIVALDI Cantatas for Soprano Vol 1 (Arianna Venditelli)
Twenty one years and nearly 60 releases in, and still there are new series to open up in Naïve’s Vivaldi...
Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 01/2022
VERDI Requiem (Muti)
This release constitutes the fourth officially available recording of Verdi’s Requiem conducted by Riccardo Muti. It’s a very welcome addition...
Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 01/2022
MUSSORGSKY 'Unorthodox Music'
Curiously titled and more curiously conceived, this album of Mussorgsky songs and solo piano music is performed on a level...
Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 01/2022
MONTEVERDI 'Daylight. Stories of Songs, Dances and Loves'
In 2017 master of madrigals Rinaldo Alessandrini and Concerto Italiano ripped up the rulebook with ‘Night – Stories of Lovers...
Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 01/2022
MAHLER; WAGNER Live from Salzburg (Elina Garanča)
Recorded at two concerts in consecutive years of the Salzburg Festival, this album sees the Latvian star mezzo Elīna Garanča...
Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 01/2022
MACMILLAN Consecration
Linn’s survey of James MacMillan’s choral music with the Scottish professional chamber choir Cappella Nova has now reached its fourth...
Reviewed by Malcolm Riley in issue: 01/2022
LOEWE The Other Erlking (Nicholas Mogg)
This is a fine and enjoyable debut from yet another outstanding young pair of UK song interpreters. Rather than offering...
Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 01/2022
GRECHANINOV All-Night Vigil (Klava)
Any new release from the superb Latvian Radio Choir under Sigvards Kļava is bound to be noteworthy and this performance...
Reviewed by Malcolm Riley in issue: 01/2022
FAYRFAX Music for Tudor Kings & Queens
Coming of age as professional musicians in the middle of a global pandemic must be tough, but it scarcely seems...
Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 01/2022
DIBDIN The Wags
Come one, come all: come to the camp of pleasure! The year is 1790 and the setting is an elegant...
Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 01/2022
JS BACH Cantatas Nos 21 & 147 (Rademann)
Two Weimar-period cantatas are presented in their revised Leipzig versions, prepared during Bach’s first few months at the Thomaskirche. Ich...
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 01/2022
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