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STRADELLA Lagrime e sospiri – Opera and Oratorio Arias

Alessandro Stradella’s music is currently enjoying a moment, and not before time. Ensemble Mare Nostrum’s Stradella Project is now four...

Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 12/2017

ROSSINI Demetrio e Polibio

It was in 1809‑10, during Rossini’s final year at Bologna’s Liceo Musicale, that he was invited by the singer-composer Domenico...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 12/2017

PURCELL The Fairy Queen - Lewis and d’Hérin

Anthony Lewis edited The Fairy Queen for the Purcell Society and conducted its first complete recording (L’Oiseau-Lyre, 1957). This long-overdue...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 12/2017

MONTEVERDI L'Orfeo (Agnew)

This production, filmed at the Théâtre de Caen in February 2017, is a natural extension of Les Arts Florissants’ five-year madrigals...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 12/2017

Sabine Devieilhe: Mirages

You’d be forgiven for assuming that this release, featuring a French coloratura soprano in repertoire that includes the Hamlet Mad...

Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 12/2017

Grandissima Gravita

It’s not often worth devoting many words of a CD review to the contents of the CD’s booklet. However, what...

Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 12/2017

GRANADOS Goyescas (Menor)

Regarding Granados and Goyescas, José Menor is as much a scholar as a pianist. In his booklet notes to this...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 12/2017

SCHUBERT Nacht und Träume

A lot of thought has gone into this lovely album of orchestrated Schubert songs, as conductor Laurence Equilbey makes clear in...

Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 12/2017

Parle qui veut: Moralizing songs of the Middle Ages

This has to be one of the most exciting and engaging releases of medieval song in recent years. The Sollazzo...

Reviewed by Edward Breen in issue: 12/2017

Marianne Crebassa: Secrets

Marianne Crebassa’s French song album surveys the fin de siècle mélodie from Duparc to late Fauré, placing the emphasis on...

Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 12/2017

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