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Cecilia Bartoli: Unreleased

'Unreleased’, proclaims the minimalist cover of this Bartoli album from November 2013. Why the wait? In the booklet Bartoli explains...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 01/2022

The Tree

What perfect timing. Just weeks after the announcement that, from 2022, girls and women will be included alongside boys and...

Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 01/2022

Messes anonymes

Anonymous Renaissance Mass cycles rarely make it into the catalogue, not even those that have helped form our understanding of...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 01/2022

Alla Napoletana

In 17th-century Naples, the delineation between church, palace and street music was deliciously and dangerously porous. This mix of sacred...

Reviewed by Mark Seow in issue: 01/2022

VIVALDI Cantatas for Soprano Vol 1 (Arianna Venditelli)

Twenty one years and nearly 60 releases in, and still there are new series to open up in Naïve’s Vivaldi...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 01/2022

VERDI Requiem (Muti)

This release constitutes the fourth officially available recording of Verdi’s Requiem conducted by Riccardo Muti. It’s a very welcome addition...

Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 01/2022

MUSSORGSKY 'Unorthodox Music'

Curiously titled and more curiously conceived, this album of Mussorgsky songs and solo piano music is performed on a level...

Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 01/2022

MONTEVERDI 'Daylight. Stories of Songs, Dances and Loves'

In 2017 master of madrigals Rinaldo Alessandrini and Concerto Italiano ripped up the rulebook with ‘Night – Stories of Lovers...

Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 01/2022

MAHLER; WAGNER Live from Salzburg (Elina Garanča)

Recorded at two concerts in consecutive years of the Salzburg Festival, this album sees the Latvian star mezzo Elīna Garanča...

Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 01/2022

MACMILLAN Consecration

Linn’s survey of James MacMillan’s choral music with the Scottish professional chamber choir Cappella Nova has now reached its fourth...

Reviewed by Malcolm Riley in issue: 01/2022

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