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Neither small nor solemn: Rossini's Petite Messe Solennelle at the Proms in Greenwich

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“confronted with such bel canto delights, how could God possibly resist?”
Reviewed at Old Royal Naval College: Chapel, London on 6 August 2016
Rossini, Petite messe solennelle
Elizabeth Watts, Soprano
Kathryn Rudge, Mezzo-soprano
Peter Auty, Tenor
James Platt, Bass
Richard Pearce, Harmonium
Iain Farrington, Piano
David Hill, Conductor
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