Luciana Mancini
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Just as the torrent of joyful music-making rests on the extraordinary skills of the musicians, Pluhar herself modestly stays under the radar by design since her programming is the key to success... —
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Special offer. Wonder Women
Luciana Mancini (mezzo-soprano), Céline Scheen (soprano), Vincenzo Capezzuto (contralto), Benedetta Mazzucato (mezzo-soprano), L'Arpeggiata, Christina Pluhar
The singers bring passion and intensity to each vocal number...Pluhar’s liberally-ornamented arrangements exploit the rhythmic energ y of late-Renaissance and early-Baroque music, and L’Arpeggiata... —
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Gramophone Magazine, June 2024, Editor's Choice
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Special offer. Monteverdi: l'Orfeo
Marc Mauillon (Orfeo), Luciana Mancini (Euridice), La Capella Reial de Catalunya, Le Concert des Nations, Jordi Savall
Marc Mauillon is a magnificent Orfeo. Everything is real: his early bliss, his distress at his loss, his plea, even his swagger out of Hades and his fatal impulse to turn back and look at Euridice,... —
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Scarlatti: Il giardino di rose
La Ritirata, Victor Sordo (tenor), Luciana Mancini (mezzo-soprano), Nuria Rial (soprano), Alicia Amo (soprano), José Coca Loza (bass), Josetxu Obregon
Alessandro Scarlatti’s fertile inventiveness and variety of musical means repay La Ritirata’s attention handsomely. —
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International Classical Music Awards, 2026, Nominated - Baroque Vocal
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This beautifully-performed and produced recording is one of a kind…a mesmerising voyage through the history and possibilities of the chaconne…The O/Modernt Chamber Orchestra traverses these... —
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Gramophone Awards, 2020, Concept Album of the Year
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Speech-like song tumbles out of tenor Alessandro Giangrande like coins from a sack; it’s glorious. But my favourite voice on the album is that of Zachary Wilder. —
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Special offer. L'Arpeggiata: Los Pajaros Perdidos (Standard Version)
The South-American Project
Philippe Jaroussky (countertenor)
L'Arpeggiata, Christina Pluhar (direction)
This may be a crossover disc, but it offers a fascinating fusion of early European and Latin American music, in what Pluhar, its director-theorbist, calls “South America’s living baroque”...If... —
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Handel: Aci, Galatea e Polifemo
Stephanie True (Aci), Luciana Mancini (Galatea), Mitchell Sander (Polifemo)
Contrasto Armonico, Marco Vitale (harpsichord & direction)
The performance is noteworthy for Marco Vitale's natural tempi and obvious affection for the subtleties in Handel's notation… The fast music is quick enough, but never at the expense of articulacy.... —
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