More extrovert is Lamentazione, featuring 20 voices and a small continuo group from Les Arts Florissants, directed by Paul Agnew, exploring the plangent world of Italian early baroque in a vivid live recording from the Abbaye d’Ambronay. Particularly piquant are the 8- and 10-part settings of the Crucifixus by Antonio Lotti in surprisingly brisk, startlingly mannered interpretations.
REBECCA TAVENER
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