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DONIZETTI Alfredo il grande (Rovaris)

Hard on the heels of the Bergamo Festival’s memorable 2022 bicentenary realisation of Donizetti’s Chiara e Serafina (4/24), we have...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 08/2024

BRIAN The Cenci (Kelleher)

As Martin Anderson, founder of Toccata Classics, comments in his introductory note, Brian’s one-time reputation as ‘the most prolific symphonist...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 08/2024

Echo Vocal Ensemble - Innocence

If you’re in search of an album of choral music that embraces the rich diversity and encyclopaedic range of the...

Reviewed by Pwyll ap Siôn in issue: 08/2024

Nadine Sierra & Pretty Yende in Concert

This sounds like an enjoyable concert to have attended. Two of today’s brightest soprano stars – both friends and rivals...

Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 08/2024

De Pasión Mortal - Songs from Two Golden Ages

Reminiscent of the cross-cultural crossover projects of L’Arpeggiata and Hespèrion XXI, this imaginative, deliciously sombre recording brings together 17th-century English...

Reviewed by William Yeoman in issue: 08/2024

Héloïse Werner: close-ups. J STANLEY Cerulean Orbits

Contrasts and continuities combine to create some fascinating and revealing results on two recent releases of vocal and instrumental music...

Reviewed by Pwyll ap Siôn in issue: 08/2024

G WILLIAMS 'Songs - Y Deryn Pur; Lights Out; Cariad Cyntaf'

Grace Williams’s reputation has, for many years, been predicated on her abilities as an instrumental composer, notably the two works...

Reviewed by Jeremy Dibble in issue: 08/2024

S S WESLEY Sacred Choral Music

This significant and highly enjoyable release offers a generous cross-section of both well-known and hitherto neglected repertory by, arguably, the...

Reviewed by Malcolm Riley in issue: 08/2024

VECCHI Le veglie di Siena

Orazio Vecchi had two stints as maestro di cappella at the cathedral in his native Modena, although early in his...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 08/2024

SCHÜTZ Musikalische Exequien

As Fabrice Fitch explained in his Gramophone Collection in the last issue, there is already an extensive discography for Heinrich...

Reviewed by Edward Breen in issue: 08/2024

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