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DONIZETTI Lucia di Lammermoor

We still await a stunning all-round version of this seminal drama on disc. To encompass fully a heroine already at...

Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 01/2015

CAVALLI Elena

This Aix-en-Provence production (2013) represents the first time something close to the complete score of Elena (1659) has been performed...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 01/2015

BELLINI I Capuleti E I Montecchi

Such are the purely aural delights of Bellini’s version of the Romeo and Juliet story – based on an earlier,...

Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 2/2000

Transeamus : English Carols and Motets

Several of The Hilliard Ensemble’s earliest recordings were of 15th-century English music, so it is fitting that they should return...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 01/2015

The Spy's Choirbook

Almost 50 choirbooks now survive from the copying workshop of Petrus Alamire, who happens to have been active as a...

Reviewed by David Fallows in issue: 01/2015

Spirit, Strength & Sorrow: Settings of Stabat Mater

Ever innovative in their programming, Harry Christophers and The Sixteen juxtapose Domenico Scarlatti’s beautiful 10-part Stabat mater – stile antico...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 01/2015

The Marian Collection

This landmark Delphian recording forms the fourth and final issue of a series designed to showcase Merton College’s new choral...

Reviewed by Malcolm Riley in issue: 01/2015

Invitation au voyage

So much beauty, so much perfumed languor, so much rapture intermingled with sorrow is inhabited in this collection of ‘mélodies...

Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 01/2015

Flowers of the Field

The centenary of the outbreak of the First World War has not gone unmarked in the record industry. In the...

Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 01/2015

Thomas Michael Allen: Far Away

Young Peter Pears comes to mind (not always happily) during this recital that finds tenor Thomas Michael Allen out of...

Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 01/2015

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