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CLINIO Passio Secundum Joannem HEROLDT Matthäuspassion

Lassus, Victoria and Schütz composed the only Passion settings before Bach that retain currency. This enterprising release presents two still...

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 07/2016

LEONCAVALLO Zazà

To have Opera Rara record a work dating from 1900 (and to record it in the composer’s revision of 1919)...

Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 07/2016

REGER 3 Motets. Complete Choral Cantatas

Reger’s Op 110 motets belong to a select group of a cappella works (Friede auf Erden, Figure humaine, Jolivet’s Epithalamium...

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 07/2016

Nicole Car: The Kiss

This is a timely release from ABC Classics. The Australian soprano Nicole Car made her Royal Opera debut last autumn,...

Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 06/2016

OFFENBACH The Tales of Hoffmann

Stefan Herheim’s production of Offenbach’s opéra fantastique raised more than a few eyebrows when it opened in Bregenz last year,...

Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 06/2016

The Lion's Ear: A Tribute to Leo X

The enthusiasm of Leo X for music was often commented upon by contemporaries. ‘The Pope,’ wrote the Venetian ambassador in...

Reviewed by Iain Fenlon in issue: 06/2016

Crudo Amor

If the music of Agostino Steffani is no longer a complete unknown (thanks largely to the efforts of Cecilia Bartoli...

Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 06/2016

SATIE Socrate. Hymne. Trois Melodies

This celebratory nod towards the 150th anniversary of Erik Satie’s birth aptly demonstrates something that every Satie aficionado ought to...

Reviewed by Philip Clark in issue: 06/2016

How Fair Thou Art: Biblical Passions by Palestrina

Several complete recordings exist of Palestrina’s sacred madrigal cycle on the biblical Song of Songs. For this reason, perhaps, The...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 06/2016

MONTEVERDI Il pianto della Madonna

Most of Arianna’s Lament from Monteverdi’s lost opera Arianna (1608) survives in his Sixth Book of Madrigals (1614) as a...

Reviewed by David Fallows in issue: 06/2016

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