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PHILIPS; DERING Motets

The idea of putting Dering and Philips together is obvious enough: two English composers who landed up on the Continental...

Reviewed by David Fallows in issue: 09/2023

CALDARA; LOTTO; VIVALDI Antonio

Three Antonios – Vivaldi, Caldara and Lotti, all close contemporaries, all pupils of Legrenzi – supply a snapshot of 18th-century...

Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 09/2023

BYRD Mass for Five Voices

Other ensembles have marked the Byrd anniversary with celebratory, large-scale offerings; The Gesualdo Six opt for the five-voice Mass, framed...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 09/2023

BUXTEHUDE Salvator Mundi (Pierlot)

This selection of works by the composer of the well-known Membra Jesu nostri showcases a range of vocal scorings against...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 09/2023

ZUBEL Oresteja (Wyrzykowski)

Agata Zubel (b1978), a Polish composer and singer who has worked with some frequency with electronics, describes Oresteja as a...

Reviewed by Ivan Moody in issue: 09/2023

MUSSORGSKY Boris Godunov (Pappano)

It’s Boris Godunov, but not as we know it. Gone is the grandeur and melodrama, the uprising, the fountains, dancing...

Reviewed by Marina Frolova-Walker in issue: 09/2023

LINCKE Frau Luna (Froschauer)

>‘Berlin: whenever I hear that name I simply have to smile!’ If you’re after a recording of ‘Berliner Luft’, the...

Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 09/2023

HANDEL Theodora (Bicket)

Librettist Thomas Morell modelled the story of the martyrdom of Theodora and Didymus during the reign of the Roman emperor...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 09/2023

FRANCK Hulda (Madaras)

The Franck bicentenary last year saw something of a resurgence of interest in Hulda, his third opera, completed in 1885,...

Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 09/2023

CAVALLI Il Xerse (Sardelli)

Here is another opera more familiar from the history books than in the theatre. It was staged in the Louvre...

Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 09/2023

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