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L’alba separa dalla luce l’ombra

Anna Caterina Antonacci’s Cassandra in the recent Covent Garden Troyens was a performance whose appalling emotional truth I have rarely...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 12/2012

WOLF Italienisches Liederbuch

No typical Italienisches Liederbuch, this. Neither Janet Baker nor John Shirley-Quirk was particularly known for this repertoire – though they’re...

Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 12/2012

VIVALDI La Senna Festeggiante

Of Vivaldi’s three surviving serenatas – large-scale cantatas with orchestra in which nothing much happens except to flatter a patron...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 12/2012

PARRY Te Deum. Birds of Aristophanes. Magnificat

Few have realised that, shortly after Parry’s glorious setting of Blake’s ‘Jerusalem’, he also wrote a comparable anthem in his...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 12/2012

PALESTRINA Missa Hodie Christus natus est. Magnificat Quinti toni

With its Christmas theme and grand double-choir layout, Palestrina’s Mass Hodie Christus natus est is well represented in the discography....

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 12/2012

The Complete C W Orr Songbook Vols 1 & 2

Charles Wilfred Orr, born in 1893, has been described as ‘the unsung hero of English song’. He began his academic...

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 12/2012

ORFF Carmina Burana

Subtlety was not at the forefront of Orff’s mind when he wrote Carmina Burana, or so you might suppose from...

Reviewed by Geoffrey Norris in issue: 12/2012

NØRGÅRD Will-o’-the-Wisps in Town. Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking

Will-o’-the-Wisps in Town is one of 10 commissions to Danish composers for music to celebrate the 200th anniversary of Hans...

Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 12/2012

MOZART Requiem

Here is a curious beast. The event was the anniversary (in 2010) of the death of Chopin (in 1849). Chopin’s...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 12/2012

MOZART Coronation Mass

This is a pleasing mini-concert, not least because it’s a special pleasure when a Haydn symphony is chosen which isn’t...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 12/2012

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