B'Rock
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The B’Rock Orchestra, consisting of two choirs, one of strings and the other of the cornett-trombone group, is welded together by no fewer than four bassoons, all proving the rich and all-encompassing... —
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Gramophone Magazine, November 2022, Editor's Choice
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International Classical Music Awards, 2023, Nominated - Baroque Vocal
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The period instruments bring a litheness and transparency, with vigour in the third movement allegro molto [in No. 5], the more pastorally phrased interlude liltingly done by the B’Rock, before... —
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Record Review, 21st August 2021, Record of the Week
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International Classical Music Awards, 2022, Nominated - Symphonic Music
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Those expecting provocative speeds and micromanaged detail from Jacobs might be surprised at the centrality of his reading. —
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The braying of the brass, the keen but never acid oboes, the fleetness of the strings: all are a delight from first to last. —
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International Classical Music Awards, 2024, Nominated - Baroque Instrumental
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Handel: Orlando
RecommendedBejun Mehta (Orlando), Sophie Karthäuser (Angelica), Kristina Hammarström (Medoro), Sunhae Im (Dorinda), Konstantin Wolff (Zoroastro)
B'Rock Orchestra, René Jacobs
Mehta brings lively characterisation to the mythical hero's subtle duality. I the uppermost notes of his vocal range sound a little pinched, there is ample compensation in bravura passagework...Im... —
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Building a Library, September 2014, First Choice
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Jacobs locates the music firmly among the great 19th-century symphonic tradition, and his admiration for it can be heard in these performances...Jacobs’s interpretations certainly aren’t without... —
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Record Review, 26th September 2020, Record of the Week
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BR-KLASSIK Greatest Moments
CD Sampler plus Catalogue 2016
Chor and Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks & Münchner Rundfunkorchester, Mariss Jansons, Peter Dijkstra and Ulf Schirmer, Bernard Haitink, Andris Nelsons, Simon Rattle
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Handel: Messiah
Julia Doyle (soprano), Lawrence Zazzo (counter-tenor), Steve Davislim (tenor) & Neal Davies (bass baritone)
Chor des Bayerischen Rundfunks B’Rock, Belgisches Barockorchester Gent, Peter Dijkstra
a performance that is never less than stylish and, perhaps most importantly, heartfelt...[Davies and Zazzo] opt for visceral theatricality in their delivery of text, Zazzo tiring somewhat in... —
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Special offer. Spätburgunder: Celebrating Orchestral Music
Aisslinn Nosky (violin), Simon Murphy, Georg Kallweit, WDR Symphony Orchestra Cologne, Marek Janowski, Orchestra of the Bolshoi Theatre, Moscow & Children Choir, Orchestra del Teatro Comunale di Bologna, Copenhagen Philharmonic Orchestra, NDR Radiophilharmonie, B'Rock, Holland Baroque, New Dutch...
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Special offer. Schubert: Famous Pieces
Anna Lucia Richter (soprano), Gerold Huber (piano), Christian Tetzlaff (violin), Marie-Elisabeth Hecker (cello), Alois Posch, Antoine Tamestit (viola), Martin Helmchen (piano), Julia Fischer (violin), Ian Bostridge (tenor), Saskia Giorgini (piano), Matt Haimovitz (cello), Francesco Piemontesi (piano),...
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