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Iestyn Davies: Lamento

A quick consultation with a well-known online music shop’s website revealed to me four previous albums entitled ‘Lamento’, all featuring...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: AW21

Jakub Józef Orliński: Anima Aeterna

Call it a sequel, a follow-up or a ‘parallel journey’ (as researcher Yannis François does in his illuminating introductory note):...

Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: AW21

STROZZI Sacri musicali affetti

It appears that Barbara Strozzi did not compose much sacred music other than her Sacri musicali affetti, Op 5, published...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: AW21

STÖLZEL Ein Lämmlein geht und trägt die Schuld, Passion Oratorio

Stölzel’s Passion oratorio Ein Lämmlein geht und trägt die Schuld was originally written in about 1720 for Gotha, where its...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: AW21

REGNART Missa Christ ist erstanden & other works

Regular readers will know that I hold Cinquecento in especially high regard so it will come as no surprise if...

Reviewed by Edward Breen in issue: AW2021

PURCELL Birthday Odes for Queen Mary (The King's Consort)

For the second time in a career, 30 years since their last account, Robert King and The King’s Consort are...

Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: AW21

MARSH Sanctifica Nos: Works for Choir, Organ and Viol Consort

Imagine, if you will, an alternative history, or a parallel musical universe perhaps, where the violin family did not usurp...

Reviewed by Malcolm Riley in issue: AW21

LLOYD WEBBER Cinderella

Tale as old as time … but clearly with half an eye on the Instagram age. Hearing this concept album...

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: AW21

LISZT 'Freudvoll und Leidvoll' (Jonas Kaufmann)

Songs of the legendarily charismatic Franz Liszt would seem – at least in theory – a great fit for magnetic...

Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: AW21

JOSQUIN 'Josquin Desprez in Italia'

‘Giosquino’ is the title of this album from Italian ensembles, which brings together several works composed during Josquin’s periods of...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: AW21

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