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SCARLATTI La Gloria di Primavera

The serenata La gloria di Primavera (1716) was commissioned by the Neapolitan Duke Nicola Gaetani dell’Aquila d’Aragona for his wife...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 07/2016

GOUNOD Faust

One ring to rule them all: a giant metallic ring dominates the set of this new production of Faust from...

Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 07/2016

DESTOUCHES & DELALANDE Les Éléments

Les Surprises was co-founded by Louis-Noël Bestion de Camboulas in 2010. In what has become a French tradition, the group...

Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 07/2016

CAVALLI Opera duets and arias

At his death, Monteverdi left us a small, precious handful of operas. Even allowing for those lost, his output in...

Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 07/2016

Wild Men of the Seicento. The Genteel Companion

You only have to compare the titles of these two recordings to realise what an inspired idea it was to...

Reviewed by William Yeoman in issue: 07/2016

Les Voyages de l’Amour

‘Les voyages de l’Amour’ takes its name from a 1736 opéra-ballet by Boismortier. Looking at the instrumentation for that work,...

Reviewed by Julie Anne Sadie in issue: 07/2016

Pardessus de Viole

A pardessus recital is a rarity, indeed! Fine treble viol plays are reasonably thick on the ground these days but...

Reviewed by Julie Anne Sadie in issue: 07/2016

Alison Balsom: Légende

Enescu’s Légende gives its title to this album, and it sets the mood. It’s too serious to count as a...

Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 07/2016

Kerson Leong: Bis - Music for Violin and Piano

Hot on the heels of the astonishing Leonidas Kavakos and his unfashionable programme of violin encores (Decca, 6/16) comes a...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 07/2016

MATTHEWS. SHOSTAKOVICH Piano Quintets

David Matthews’s Piano Quintet is modest both in dimensions and in ambitions: the titles of its four movements – Praeludio,...

Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 07/2016

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