Concerto Köln
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Mozart: Le nozze di Figaro, K492
RecommendedSimon Keenlyside (Count), Véronique Gens (Countess), Patrizia Ciofi (Susanna), Lorenzo Regazzo (Figaro), Angelika Kirchschlager (Cherubino), Marie McLaughlin (Marcellina)
Collegium Vocale Gent, Concerto Köln, René Jacobs
René Jacobs always brings new ideas to the operas he conducts, and even to a work as familiar as Figaro he adds something of his own. First of all he offers an orchestral balance quite unlike... —
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Gramophone Magazine, May 2004, Editor's Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2004, Recording of the Year
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Gramophone Awards, 2004, Winner - Opera
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Grammy Awards, 47th Awards (2004), Best Opera Recording
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Building A Library, April 2022, Recommended Recording
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Her impressive breath control so often draws us in to the continuity of the melodic lines (Handel’s ‘Se pietà’), and her vocal acrobatics are bright and dynamically flexible…this is a terrific... —
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Presto Editor's Choice, November 2021
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Gramophone Magazine, February 2022, Editor's Choice
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Opera, March 2022, Disc of the Month
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Opus Klassik, 2022, Winner - Solo Vocal Recording
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International Classical Music Awards, 2023, Nominated - Baroque Vocal
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Handel: Saul
Rosemary Joshua, Emma Bell, Lawrence Zazzo, Jeremy Ovenden, Gidon Saks, Michael Slattery, Finnur Bjarnason & Henry Waddington
RIAS-Kammerchor & Concerto Köln, René Jacobs
Emma Bell is turning out to be a fine Handel singer of considerable power… and her Merab - sometimes haughty, sometimes indignant - affords effective contrast with the fresh and sensuous contours... —
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Gramophone Awards, 2006, Finalist
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BBC Music Magazine, October 2005, Disc of the month
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Gramophone Magazine, November 2005, Editor's Choice
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2023, Winner - Concerto
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Bach, J S: Mass in B minor, BWV232
Christina Landshamer (soprano), Anke Vondung (mezzo-soprano), Kenneth Tarver (tenor) & Andreas Wolf (bass-baritone)
Chor des Bayerischen Rundfunks & Concerto Köln, Peter Dijkstra
This is a classy, large-scale Bach, a live recording with real depth and passion. The choral singing and orchestral playing both possess tremendous heft and shape – the Gloria, in particular,... —
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International Classical Music Awards, 2022, Nominated - Symphonic Music
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Patricia Petibon's choice of arias by the three greatest of late 18th-century opera composers is tailor-made to display her range, in terms of both drama and sheer vocal compass. …her debut... —
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2009, Opera Award Winner
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Special offer. Vinci: Artaserse
RecommendedPhilippe Jaroussky (Artaserse), Max Emanuel Cencic (Mandane), Daniel Behle (Artabano), Franco Fagioli (Arbace), Valer Barna-Sabadus (Semira), Yuiry Mynenko (Megabise), Coro delle Radiotelevisione svizzera, Lugano, Concerto Koln, Diego Fasolis
Jaroussky is agile and artless in the title role...Cencic (Mandane) offers both eloquent and virtuoso singing...Fagioli makes a compelling Arbace, flitting effortlessly from flamboyant vocal... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 12th November 2012
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Gramophone Magazine, January 2013, Recording of the Month
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