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LALANDE Grands Motets

These three motets were composed for the Chapelle Royale at Versailles: not the present building, but its predecessor. Though the...

Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 01/2019

HOLLOWAY The Lover's Well

Song forms (or, more generally, vocal music) do not play such an important role in Robin Holloway’s creative output as...

Reviewed by Pwyll ap Siôn in issue: 01/2019

DESSY Requiems (Joost)

Though I was familiar with the name of Jean-Paul Dessy as a conductor and cellist, this is the first time...

Reviewed by Ivan Moody in issue: 01/2019

CONTI Missa Sancti Pauli

The Florentine theorbist Francesco Bartolomeo Conti (1681/82 1732) worked for over 30 years at the Habsburg court in Vienna. The...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 01/2019

CARDOSO Requiem. Magnificat (Cupertinos)

It’s more than 20 years since a clutch of recordings put Cardoso on the map, including one of his six-voice...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 01/2019

CALDARA Brutus: Cantatas for Bass

These six cantatas for bass voice with only basso continuo accompaniment are in a manuscript preserved in Bologna but perhaps...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 01/2019

BROWN The Heavens and the Heart

The music of James Francis Brown (b1969) is one of Britain’s well-kept secrets. Too well kept for my liking. This...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 01/2019

BEETHOVEN Mass HUMMEL Trumpet Concerto (Jansons)

Unlike several of the Mass settings Haydn made late in life for Prince Esterházy, Beethoven did not subtitle his C...

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 12/2018

Marina Rebeka: Spirito

After Mozart (Sony, 1/14) and Rossini (BR-Klassik, 1/18), the Latvian soprano Marina Rebeka here presents a selection of meaty bel...

Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 01/2019

Venera Gimadieva: Momento Immobile

Venera Gimadieva burst on to the UK scene as Violetta in Glyndebourne’s 2014 production of La traviata (since issued by...

Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 12/2018

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