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Tales of Song and Sadness
Over a period of around 50 years, important creative alliances were forged between Dutch recorder player, flautist, conductor and early...
Reviewed by Pwyll ap Siôn in issue: 02/2025
La Comedie humaine: Chansons Balzaciennes
Baritone and conductor Arnaud Marzorati and his ensemble Les Lunaisiens have been specialising for more than a decade now in...
Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 02/2025
ZELENKA Missa Gratias agimus tibi
Bohemian double-bass player Zelenka acted as de facto Hofkapellmeister at the Dresden court’s Roman Catholic chapel from the start of...
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 02/2025
VIVALDI Dixit Dominus. Magnificat (Prandi)
It’s hard to believe that the Vivaldi project is three-quarters through, it has seemed so everlasting, so generous and so...
Reviewed by Edward Breen in issue: 02/2025
F SCARLATTI Il Daniele nel Lago de' Leoni
Francesco Scarlatti worked as a violinist in his older brother Alessandro’s orchestra at the viceroyal court of Naples for seven...
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 02/2025
Palestrina Revealed; Palestrina The Golden Renaissance
Both these recordings were done at All Hallows’ Church, Gospel Oak, by English mixed choral ensembles who perform in a...
Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 02/2025
ORFF Carmina Burana (Järvi)
The stakes are always higher when a piece is as over-exposed, as much a part of popular culture, as this...
Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 02/2025
MONTEVERDI Testamento. Vespro della Madonna 1643
Alternative Monteverdi Vespers that draw speculatively from anthologies printed many years after his move to Venice (ie post-1613) have been...
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 02/2025
LASSUS 'Orlando: A Melancholic Portrait'
If Lassus had a TikTok account, I’d like to think that some of his posts would sound a bit like...
Reviewed by Edward Breen in issue: 02/2025
HASSE Serpentes ignei in deserto
This oratorio is a leisurely setting comprising eight arias and a duet, all da capo, of an episode in the...
Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 02/2025
Hi-Fi, Books, Reissues & Archive Reviews
Book review - Monteverdi’s Voices: A Poetics of the Madrigal (by Tim Carter)
'The forensic study of Monteverdi’s madrigals bears ripe fruit from four decades of philological...
Review - Philadelphia Orchestra and Eugene Ormandy: The Columbia Stereo Recordings 1964-1983
Jed Distler delves into a massive collection focusing on the conductor’s later discography
Review - 'Vienna: From Mozart to Schoenberg' (London Sinfonietta / David Atherton)
Richard Whitehouse on a collection taking in the London Sinfonietta’s 1970s recordings
Book review - Edward Elgar and Adrian Boult (by Nigel Simeone)
'A veritable treasure trove for enthusiasts'
Box-set round-up: April 2025 (Stokowski, Dorati, Fiorentino)
Rob Cowan on three collections of vintage recorded performances
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