Uplifting interpretation of a rare Mass in Malta

By Anthony Hart, 21 January 2016

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Reviewed at Jesuits' Church, Valletta on 18 January 2016

Rubino, Requiem

Rossi, Sinfonia Grave a 5, from Il Primo Libro delle Sinfonie et Gagliarde(Venice, 1607)

Carissimi, Praeambulum Tonus primus (Verses 6 & 7)

Froberger, Ricercare IX

Frescobaldi, Toccata Ottava di durezze et ligature from Secondo Libro di Toccate1637

Rossi, Sinfonia IX da Il Primo Libro delle Sinfonie et Gagliarde

Frescobaldi, Toccata

Cavalli, Missa Pro Defunctis, Libera me

La Cantoria Campitelli

Studio di Musica Antica Antonio il Verso di Palermo

Ensemble La Pifarescha

Ensemble La Cantoria

Dazzling Prokofiev from Alim Beisembayev and the RLPO

Peter Connors, 26th April

In an all-Russian programme in Liverpool, Alim Beisembayev gives a breathtaking performance of Prokofiev's fiendishly difficult Second Piano Concerto.

****1

A Evgeny Kissin tour de force in Boston

Kevin Wells, 25th April

Andrey Boreyko makes an impressive debut with the Boston Symphony, where Evgeny Kissin performs in not one, but two piano concertos.

****1

Stephen Hough makes a convincing case for Rachmaninov 1 with the RSNO

Simon Thompson, 24th April

On a return visit to the Royal Scottish National Orchestra, John Wilson shapes A London Symphony with melancholy sweep.

****1

Patriotic angst with the Royal Northern Sinfonia and Thomas Zehetmair

Nick Butters, 24th April

Patriotic Sibelius and early Mendelssohn are served up at the Glasshouse in Gateshead.

***11

Yunchan Lim at Carnegie Hall: unmooring musical time

Edward Sava-Segal, 24th April

Schubert and Scriabin are shaped by expansion and suspension in the Korean pianist’s Carnegie Hall recital.

****1

Barbara Hannigan makes a powerful connection in La Voix humaine

Thomas May, 23rd April

The Canadian soprano and conductor fuses live performance and video in a taut, volatile account of Poulenc’s punch-packing monodrama with the New York Philharmonic, sharing the bill with Strauss’ valedictory Metamorphosen.

****1

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Anthony Hart

Anthony Hart, born in the UK, now lives in Malta. He was presented papers for Società Italiana di Musicologia and the International Musicological Society. He a Licentiate of the London College of Music. He has had papers published in Early Music, Studi Musicali and Fonti Musicali Italiane.

A brilliant and uplifting interpretation of a rare Mass in Malta