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Portraits de La Folie

The figure of ‘La Folie’, announced here in an impulsive air from André Campra’s Les fêtes vénitiennes, was a perennial...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 10/2020

Flax & Fire: Songs of Devotion

A former Oxford choral scholar – though he hardly sounds like one – Stuart Jackson has made his mark on...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 10/2020

After Silence

Anniversary releases carry a certain pressure – a need to define, represent, embody. Do you gather up your greatest hits...

Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 10/2020

TARKIAINEN The Earth, Spring's Daughter. Saivo

Outi Tarkiainen is a composer of rare moral conviction and geographical attachment, with a longing for the far north that...

Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 10/2020

SHEPPARD Media Vita in Morte Sumus

John Sheppard’s monumental antiphon Media vita in morte sumus (‘In the midst of life we are in death’) is one...

Reviewed by Edward Breen in issue: 10/2020

ROSSINI Le nozze di Teti e di Peleo (Rizzo)

Rossini was 24 and recently arrived in Naples when, early in 1816, he was commissioned to provide the music for...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 10/2020

MOZART Mass in C minor (Manze)

His tercentenary and its aftermath have shown how there is so much more to Leopold Mozart than silly sound-effect symphonies...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 10/2020

MARTINI Requiem pour Louis XVI

Bavarian-born Jean-Paul-Gilles Martini (1741-1816) settled in Paris and was promised a senior court post in 1788, just in time for...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 10/2020

LOBO Masses, Responsories & motets (Cupertinos)

Following their Award-winning debut disc for Hyperion (1/19), Cupertinos turn their attention to Manuel Cardoso’s contemporary, Duarte Lobo, not to...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 10/2020

KASTALSKY Requiem

Kastalsky’s Requiem was written as a response to the First World War. Its genesis was complicated and it exists in...

Reviewed by Ivan Moody in issue: 10/2020

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