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GIORDANO Fedora (Galli)

When Daniela Dessì died in August 2016, the opera world lost an Italian spinto in the old-school mould. This Blu-ray...

Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 06/2018

EINEM Der Besuch der alten Dame

In the late 1950s or ’60s, if you were studying for A level, the tragicomedy The Visit of the Old...

Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 06/2018

The Road Home

In the (admittedly unlikely) scenario that an alien landed on earth and demanded to be brought up to speed on...

Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 06/2018

VAUGHAN WILLIAMS Mass in G minor (Nethsingha)

‘O radiant Luminary’: composers down the ages have attempted to catch light in music, but the opening of Prayer to...

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 06/2018

SCHÜTZ Historia der Auferstehung Jesu Christi

Following his intriguing Machaut/Stravinsky Mass pairing (5/17), Simon-Pierre Bestion offers us a Resurrection History similarly recontextualised, associating it with selections...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 06/2018

RICCHEZZA Los Santos Niños

Antonio Florio and his enterprising accomplices continue to mine the rich seams of forgotten Neapolitan Baroque composers. Donato Ricchezza (c1650-1722)...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 06/2018

PROKOFIEV Ivan the Terrible (Strobel)

Purists immune to the charms of Martha Argerich and Sergei Babayan’s Prokofiev for Two (see page 65) might prefer the...

Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 06/2018

MOZART Masonic Works – Cantatas and Funeral Music

With one exception, Mozart’s works for Masonic functions are among his most neglected. True, they are mainly occasional works, often...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 06/2018

Messa a quattro voci et salmi of 1650, Vol 2

Monteverdi published two monumental collections of church music during his lifetime (in 1610 and 1641), but these must have been...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 06/2018

Dorothee Mields: Monteverdi - La dolce vita

This delectable collection of Monteverdi for soprano and ensemble is titled ‘La dolce vita’, and while it’s a perfect fit...

Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 06/2018

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