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PUCCINI Messa di Gloria. Preludio sinfonico. Crisantemi (Repušić)

There hasn’t exactly been a deluge of new CD releases to mark the centenary of Giacomo Puccini’s death, so a...

Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 11/2024

MENDELSSOHN Elijah (Pappano)

By the time he relinquished his position as chief at Covent Garden earlier this year, Antonio Pappano had established himself...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 11/2024

HANDEL Il Messia (1768 Florence version)

Here’s a surprise, and an enjoyable one: a version of Messiah in Italian translation that came to light as recently...

Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 11/2024

FAYRFAX Maria plena virtute

Here Peter Phillips and The Tallis Scholars present the four great votive antiphons of Fayrfax’s maturity – vast works in...

Reviewed by David Fallows in issue: 11/2024

ELGAR ‘There is Sweet Music’

Elgar was a master of the unaccompanied part-song, and Avie’s packaging quotes Donald Hunt’s encomium (‘Few composers in history have...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 11/2024

DONIZETTI Songs, Vols 1&2

While there may still be numerous yet-to-be-rediscovered Donizetti operas, Opera Rara has embarked on a major investigation of the composer’s...

Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 11/2024

JS BACH Mass in B minor (Marcon)

As the final example in Bach’s life of what Christoph Wolff describes as ‘methodically organised works of exemplary status as...

Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 11/2024

JS BACH Complete Solo Cantatas for Alto and Bass

This album from L’Orfeo Barockorchester intriguingly does not name a director. Are we to assume that violinist Michi Gaigg, their...

Reviewed by Mark Seow in issue: 11/2024

Voices for Solo Piano: Smyth, Wallen, Alberga, Beamish, Yi (Hanni Liang)

Given the relative unfamiliarity of the works on this disc, I decided to audition each selection first without knowing the...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 11/2024

Sorcellerie: Liszt, De Falla, Dukas, Mussorgsky

Although Franz Liszt never realised his ambition to arrange his Sonata in B minor for two pianos, his friend Camille...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 11/2024

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