Sara Mingardo
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Special offer. Baroque Voices 11 - Pergolesi & Scarlatti: Stabat Mater
RecommendedGemma Bertagnolli & Sara Mingardo
Concerto Italiano, Rinaldo Alessandrini
This is a totally Italianate performance of both high drama and moving pathos...Alessandrini's instrumental support could not be more telling, and the recording is made in an ideal acoustic. —
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Gramophone Magazine, July 2026, Editor's Choice
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Penguin Guide, Rosette
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Berlioz: Les Troyens
RecommendedBen Heppner (Enée), Michelle DeYoung (Didon), Petra Lang (Cassandre), Sara Mingardo (Anna), Peter Mattei (Chorèbe), Stephen Milling (Narbal), Kenneth Tarver (Iopas), Toby Spence (Hylas), Alan Ewing (Priam), Guang Yang (Hécube), Isabelle Cals (Ascagne), Tigran Martirossian (Panthée), Bülent Bezdüz...
So what's so special about the performance? Try Canadian tenor Ben Heppner, outdoing his fellow countryman Jon Vickers on Sir Colin's first recording of Les Troyens. The other principals are... —
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Building a Library, November 2012, First Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2002, Winner - Opera
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Gramophone Magazine, August 2001, Editor's Choice
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Penguin Guide, Rosette
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Special offer. Vivaldi: Vespri solenni per la festa dell’Assunzione di Maria Vergine
RecommendedGemma Bertagnolli (soprano), Roberta Invernizzi (soprano), Anna Simboli (soprano), Sara Mingardo (contralto), Gianluca Ferrarini (tenor), Matteo Bellotto (baritone), Antonio De Secondi (violin)
Concerto Italiano ensemble vocale e strumentale, Rinaldo Alessandrini
This isn't the 'Vivaldi Vespers', or even a reconstruction of a specific event, but a kind of 'sacred concert' in Vespers form, of the sort that Venetian churches in Vivaldi's time would mount... —
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Gramophone Awards, 2004, Winner - Baroque Vocal
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Special offer. Monteverdi: L'Orfeo
RecommendedMonica Piccinini, Anna Simboli (soprano), Sara Mingardo (contralto), Furio Zanasi, Luca Dordoli (tenor) & Sergio Foresti, Antonio Abete (bass)
Concerto Italiano, Rinaldo Alessandrini
…this is unquestionably the most subtle rendering of the Orfeo text that's available on compact disc. Furio Zanasi (Orfeo) is exceptionally good. Simboli (Euridice) is pure-voiced and clear,... —
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BBC Music Magazine, November 2007, Opera Choice
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Building A Library, December 2025, Top Choice
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Rossini: Petite Messe solennelle
RecommendedMarina Rebeka (soprano), Sara Mingardo (contralto), Francesco Meli (tenor), Alex Esposito (bass)
Orchestra e Coro dell’Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, Sir Antonio Pappano
Pappano opts for a strong-limbed, purposeful approach that has the music sounding neither trite nor portentous, pleasingly bringing together its charm and expansiveness...The four high-quality... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 22nd April 2013
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Handel: Germanico
RecommendedSara Mingardo (Germanico), Maria Grazia Schiavo (Agrippina), Laura Cherici (Antonia), Magnus Staveland (Celio), Franco Fagioli (Lucio), Sergio Foresti (Cesare)
Il Rossignolo, Ottaviano Tenerani
If the discovery of Germanico marks a career boost for Tenerani, he has repaid the favour in this stylishly executed performance...Laura Cherici brings warmth to Antonia's 'Sorti piu belle',... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 26th September 2011
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BBC Music Magazine, October 2011, Opera Choice
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Special offer. Bononcini: Stabat Mater & Messa
World premiere recording live from the Wiener Konzerthaus
Silvia Frigato, Raffaella Milanesi (sopranos), Andrea Arrivabene (countertenor), Elena Biscuola, Sara Mingardo (contraltos), Valerio Contaldo, Raffaele Giordani (tenors) & Salvo Vitale (bass)
Concerto Italiano, Rinaldo Alessandrini
This disc is a tour de force, a world premiere recording of stunning music splendidly performed...Alessandrini engages deeply with the composer's imagination, opening up his dense counterpoint...Mingardo... —
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BBC Music Magazine, Choral & Song Choice
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Special offer. Monteverdi: Vespers
Roberta Invernizzi, Monica Piccinini, Anna Simboli (sopranos), Sara Mingardo (contralto), Francesco Ghelardini (countertenor), Vincenzo di Donato, Luca Dordolo, Gianluca Ferrarini (tenors), Pietro Spagnoli, Furio Zanasi (baritones), Antonio Abete, Daniele Carnovich (basses)
Concerto Italiano,...
Rinaldo Alessandrini has waited long before committing to disc his thoughts on Monteverdi's most famous sacred publication. On the issues that have divided modern performers he's unflappably... —
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Gramophone Magazine, July 2026, Collection
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Gramophone Magazine, February 2005, Editor's Choice
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Special offer. Sara Mingardo: Monteverdi, Vivaldi & Handel
Sara Mingardo (contralto)
Concerto Italiano, Rinaldo Alessandrini
A genuine contralto with accompaniments of vivid spontaneity by Rinaldo Alessandrini —
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BBC Music Magazine, March 2005, Choral & Song Choice
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Gramophone Magazine, December 2004, Editor's Choice
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Special offer. Vivaldi: Vespri per l'Assunzione di Maria Vergine
RecommendedFrancesco Moi (organ), Mauro Lopes Ferreira (violin), Francesca Vicari (violin), Ignazio Schifani (organ), Marco Scavazza (bass), Roberta Invernizzi (soprano), Gemma Bertagnolli (soprano), Sara Mingardo (alto), Matteo Bellotto (baritone), Gianluca Ferrarini (tenor), Anna Simboli (soprano)
Concerto...
Alessandrini's reading has an energy which is both forthright and controlled. His solo singers are of high quality; Roberta Invernizzi and Sara Mingardo are from the front rank of Italian Baroque... —
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Gramophone Awards, 2004, Winner - Baroque Vocal
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