Orlando, A Melancholic Portrait
La Tempete, Simon-Pierre Bestion
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If Lassus had a TikTok account I’d like to think that some of his posts would sound a bit like this: Renaissance genius with modern filters. This album is an expanded version of a documentary soundtrack featuring music by Lassus projected via the imagination of Simon-Pierre Bestion ‘into our 21st century world’. Inspiration, however, came not just from Orlando's music but also from Virginia Woolfe’s eponymous hero[ine]: also born in the renaissance and also timeless. [...]



For the full text of this review please visit gramophone.co.uk (February 2025)

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