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PETRASSI Partita. Quattro Inni sacri. Noche oscura. Coro di morti

Following the 2013 release of Petrassi’s Magnificat and Salmo IX° (3/13), Gianandrea Noseda and the Orchestra e Coro Teatro Regio...

Reviewed by Geoffrey Norris in issue: 02/2015

MONTEVERDI Marienvesper

To my knowledge this is only the second time a Monteverdi Vespers has fitted on to one CD, which may...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 02/2015

MELANI Marienvesper

The Melani clan of Pistoia spawned numerous successful musicians during the 17th century. Alessandro Melani (1639-1703) was the youngest of...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 02/2015

LASSUS Musical Biography Vol 4

This is the fourth instalment in a musical biography of the true Renaissance man among late-Renaissance composers. As with preceding...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 02/2015

BALFOUR GARDINER Complete Songs

Much of Balfour Gardiner’s music has remained under a bushel for years. Celebrated in church for his bracing anthem, Evening...

Reviewed by Jeremy Dibble in issue: 02/2015

CLÉRAMBAULT Miserere COUPERIN Leçons de Ténèbres

At their sublime best, Le Poème Harmonique’s recordings are so singular that comparisons with other performances of the same repertoire...

Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 02/2015

TALLIS Mass for Four Voices. Ave, rosa sine spinis

This very enjoyable series continues its sequence of motets and hymns, with a Mass as the centerpiece – this time...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 01/2015

Alisa Weilerstein: Solo

It feels a little dangerous to say this, but the opening of Alisa Weilerstein’s ‘Solo’ hits the listener between the...

Reviewed by Caroline Gill in issue: 01/2015

Angel Blue: Joy Alone

A winner at Operalia in 2009, Angel Blue is one of the top young singers on the ‘to watch’ list....

Reviewed by Richard Fairman in issue: 01/2015

TCHAIKOVSKY Iolanta

Maybe, just maybe, Anna Netrebko’s advocacy of Tchaikovsky’s last opera – namely this recording (made live in Essen) and the...

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 01/2015

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