Venice Baroque Orchestra
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Sparks (and rosin) really do fly on this high-octane album of violin concertos by what Siranossian calls the 'four musketeers' of Venice - Veracini, Locatelli, Tartini and Vivaldi. It's perhaps... —
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Record Review, 27th May 2023, Record of the Week
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International Classical Music Awards, 2024, Nominated - Baroque Instrumental
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Presto Editor's Choice, May 2023
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2024, Nominated - Concerto Recording of the Year
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Vivaldi: Four Seasons & Violin Concertos RV257, 376 & 211
Giuliano Carmignola (baroque violin), Andrea Marcon (harpsichord & organ)
Venice Baroque Orchestra
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…Magdalena Kožená beguiles and enchants throughout this captivating collection. The Czech mezzo's mature voice combines radiant purity with burnished intensity and…she negotiates Handel's quick-fire... —
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BBC Music Magazine, November 2007, Choral & Song Choice
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Record Review, December 2007, Critics Disc of the Year
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Kermes is on top form, singing with vocal clarity, tonal precision and inflective subtlety. —
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BBC Music Magazine, April 2008, Opera Choice
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Gramophone Magazine, May 2008, Editor's Choice
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Handel Gold
RecommendedKiri Te Kanawa (soprano), Crispian Steele-Perkins (trumpet), Cecilia Bartoli, Plácido Domingo, Joan Sutherland, Anne Sofie von Otter, Luciano Pavarotti, Renée Fleming, Rolando Villazón, Joyce DiDonato, Russell Oberlin, Nigel Robson, Kathleen Ferrier, Bryn Terfel, Janet Baker, Magdalena Kozena, Grace...
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Penguin Guide, Rosette
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Six unfamiliar concertos… show how skilled Vivaldi was at turning baroque clichés in unexpected directions. Carmignola finds wit in the first, and tenderness in the second, all articulated... —
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Gramophone Magazine, August 2006, Editor's Choice
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Vivaldi - Concertos for Two Violins
Giuliano Carmignola & Viktoria Mullova (violins)
Venice Baroque Orchestra, Andrea Marcon
…sparkling playing with slow movements, in particular those belonging to RV 516 and RV 509 yielding an air of pure enchantment. —
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Diapason d’Or de l’Année, 2009
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There’s a wonderfully spontaneous, almost rough-and-ready quality to these performances: resin flies and rhythms swing in the stomping gigas, whilst the mesmerising siciliana of the first concerto... —
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Presto Editor's Choice, March 2020
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Special offer. Porpora: Farinelli Arias
Philippe Jaroussky (countertenor), Cecilia Bartoli (mezzo)
Venice Baroque Orchestra, Andrea Marcon
Jaroussky's rapid passagework in quick heroic arias is precise...but the outstanding moments are slow arias that could have been tailor-made for Jaroussky's sweetly graceful melodic singing...Marcon... —
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Gramophone Awards, 2014, Shortlisted - Recital
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Special offer. L'Olimpiade: The Opera
RecommendedRomina Basso (Megacle), Franziska Gottwald (Licida), Karina Gauvin (Argene), Nicholas Phan (Clistene), Ruth Rosique (Aristea), Nicholas Spanos (Aminta)
Venice Baroque Orchestra, Markellos Chryssicos
Within individual numbers the performances can be thrilling...the band nimbly negotiates the huge range of effects demanded by this composite score...Franziska Gottwald is spellbinding in Vivaldi's... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 23rd July 2012
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