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FUX Dafne in Lauro (Bernardini)

The ‘componimento per camera’ Dafne in lauro celebrated Charles VI’s birthday in October 1714 at the imperial family’s pleasure palace...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: AW21

Threads of Gold II

This follow-up to 2017’s ‘Threads of Gold’ reinforces much of what was good about the earlier release, as The Choir...

Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: AW21

Psalms and Motets from Renaissance Switzerland (Ensemble Lamaraviglia)

The basis of this album lies in the Geneva Psalter, published in 1562 with metrical translations by Clément Marot and...

Reviewed by David Fallows in issue: AW21

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

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