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ZELENKA Missa Gratias agimus tibi

Bohemian double-bass player Zelenka acted as de facto Hofkapellmeister at the Dresden court’s Roman Catholic chapel from the start of...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 02/2025

VIVALDI Dixit Dominus. Magnificat (Prandi)

It’s hard to believe that the Vivaldi project is three-quarters through, it has seemed so everlasting, so generous and so...

Reviewed by Edward Breen in issue: 02/2025

F SCARLATTI Il Daniele nel Lago de' Leoni

Francesco Scarlatti worked as a violinist in his older brother Alessandro’s orchestra at the viceroyal court of Naples for seven...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 02/2025

Palestrina Revealed; Palestrina The Golden Renaissance

Both these recordings were done at All Hallows’ Church, Gospel Oak, by English mixed choral ensembles who perform in a...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 02/2025

ORFF Carmina Burana (Järvi)

The stakes are always higher when a piece is as over-exposed, as much a part of popular culture, as this...

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 02/2025

MONTEVERDI Testamento. Vespro della Madonna 1643

Alternative Monteverdi Vespers that draw speculatively from anthologies printed many years after his move to Venice (ie post-1613) have been...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 02/2025

LASSUS 'Orlando: A Melancholic Portrait'

If Lassus had a TikTok account, I’d like to think that some of his posts would sound a bit like...

Reviewed by Edward Breen in issue: 02/2025

HASSE Serpentes ignei in deserto

This oratorio is a leisurely setting comprising eight arias and a duet, all da capo, of an episode in the...

Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 02/2025

HANDEL; LOTTI Dixit Dominus

The premise on which this enjoyable recording is based goes something like this: Lotti and Handel became friends during the...

Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 02/2025

CASTAGNET Magnificat

This is the official album released to mark the reopening of Notre-Dame Cathedral in Paris on December 8, 2024. The...

Reviewed by Malcolm Riley in issue: 02/2025

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