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How Fair Thou Art: Biblical Passions by Palestrina

Several complete recordings exist of Palestrina’s sacred madrigal cycle on the biblical Song of Songs. For this reason, perhaps, The...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 06/2016

MONTEVERDI Il pianto della Madonna

Most of Arianna’s Lament from Monteverdi’s lost opera Arianna (1608) survives in his Sixth Book of Madrigals (1614) as a...

Reviewed by David Fallows in issue: 06/2016

MONTEVERDI Messa a Quattro voci et salmi of 1650

Posthumous prints of music by the recently deceased often consist of offcuts and dredgings-up from the bottom of the drawer,...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 06/2016

MENDELSSOHN Elias

This is the third period-instrument Elijah (or Elias, as it must be here) on the market. No less than the...

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 06/2016

MACHAUT Messe de Nostre Dame

A new recording of Machaut’s Mass is always an event, and this one is compelling and provocative in equal measure:...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 06/2016

GODARD Mélodies

Tassis Christoyannis and Jeff Cohen’s Benjamin Godard album forms a sequel to their surveys of Félicien David and Edouard Lalo...

Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 06/2016

DELLA CIAIA Lamentations

Even diligent Italian Baroque specialists won’t know much about Alessandro Della Ciaia (c1605-c1670), an aristocrat in mid-17th-century Siena reputed to...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 06/2016

JS BACH St Matthew Passion

Frieder Bernius is a Bachian whose work with his choir and period orchestra in Stuttgart has quietly made its mark...

Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 06/2016

JS BACH St John Passion

René Jacobs’s rethinking of the spatial relationships between choirs, players and soloists in his recording of the St Matthew Passion...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 06/2016

Bengt Forsberg: Neglected Works for Piano

‘Neglected Works for Piano’ is all that the front of Bengt Forsberg’s new CD reveals. The fact that they’re all...

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 06/2016

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