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PERGOLESI Mass in D; Motet "Dignas laudes resonemus"

Pergolesi’s name was unusually popular in the misattribution stakes within only a few years of his death from tuberculosis at...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 08/2018

PARRY Twelve Sets of English Lyrics, Vol 2

This is the second volume in Somm’s three-disc survey encompassing all 12 sets of Hubert Parry’s English Lyrics and I’m...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 08/2018

MONTEVERDI Madrigals Books 5 & 6

This is the last instalment of Le Nuove Musiche’s complete Monteverdi madrigal cycle, of which Books 5 and 6 mark...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 08/2018

MONTEVERDI Lettera amorosa

Soprano Mariana Flores’s last collaboration with Leonardo Garcia Alarcón and the musicians of Cappella Mediterranea, ‘Cavalli: Heroines of the Venetian...

Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 08/2018

ŁUKASZEWSKI Daylight Declines

Hitting two anniversary targets with one release, Tenebrae celebrate both the 100th anniversary of Polish independence and the 50th birthday...

Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 08/2018

HANDEL Acis and Galatea (Curnyn)

James Brydges, Earl of Carnarvon – later the Duke of Chandos – lived in some style at Cannons, his Palladian...

Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 08/2018

COUPERIN Leçons de Ténèbres (Les Ombres)

Although one of the many fine baroque chamber ensembles to have emerged from the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis, Les Ombres have...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 08/2018

JS BACH The Solo Cantatas for Bass (Christian Senn)

The inherited gravitas of Bach’s bass cantatas in post-war recorded history began with the iconic reflections of Hans Hotter and...

Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 08/2018

Francesca Aspromonte : Prologue

Starting with the earliest Italian operas, the prologue occupied the important function of preparing the audience for the main business,...

Reviewed by Iain Fenlon in issue: 08/2018

Archetypon

Medea, Euridice, Alceste, Andromeda: the women that people Mary-Ellen Nesi’s first solo disc might all be Classical characters but, far...

Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 08/2018

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