Sonia Prina
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Special offer. Handel: Il Trionfo del Tempo e del Disinganno, HWV46a
RecommendedNatalie Dessay (Bellezza), Ann Hallenberg (Piacere), Sonia Prina (Disinganno), Pavol Breslik (Tempo)
Le Concert d’Astrée, Emmanuelle Haïm
Beauty's final aria (sung by Natalie Dessay) is unconventionally slow and intensely moving, accompanied by obbligato violin possibly intended for Corelli who may have led the first performance.... —
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BBC Music Magazine, May 2007, Disc of the month
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2008, Opera Award Winner
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It’s a disc full of fast-flying vocal runs, jagged leaps and show-off turns of phrase, also moments of reflection and starkly simple declamation prefiguring the mature Gluck. The period band... —
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BBC Music Magazine, July 2017, Opera Choice
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Opera, September 2017, Recording of the Month
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Handel: Rodelinda
Simone Kermes (Rodelinda), Marijana Mijanovic (Bertarido), Sonia Prina (Eduige), Marie-Nicole Lemieux (Unolfo), Steve Davislim (Grimoaldo), Vito Priante (Garibaldo)
Il Complesso Barocco, Alan Curtis
Of available recordings this set has the edge, for its greater dramatic urgency and richer characterisation. —
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BBC Music Magazine, Opera Choice
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Gramophone Magazine, September 2005, Editor's Choice
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Handel: Alcina
RecommendedJoyce DiDonato (Alcina), Maite Beaumont (Ruggiero), Karina Gauvin (Morgana), Sonia Prina (Bradamante), Kobie Van Rensburg (Oronte), Laura Cherici (Oberto), Vito Priante (Melisso)
Il Complesso Barocco, Alan Curtis
…mezzo-soprano Joyce DiDonato brings firebrand fioritura (vocal embellishment), impeccably naturalistic recitative and an inimitable everywoman pathos to the soprano title-role. —
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Gramophone Magazine, May 2009, Editor's Choice
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Building a Library, May 2016, Also Recommended
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Special offer. Monteverdi: L'Orfeo
Ian Bostridge, Natalie Dessay, Patrizia Ciofi, Alice Coote, Sonia Prina, Mario Luperi, Véronique Gens, Lorenzo Regazzo, Christopher Maltman, Paul Agnew, Pascal Bertin, Richard Burkhard, Carolyn Sampson
Concert d'Astrée, Emmanuelle Haïm
Haïm's terrific dramatic pace enables normally rather static moments to sparkle with purpose and intensity. —
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Gramophone Magazine, May 2004, Editor's Choice
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Special offer. Handel: Alcina
Anja Harteros (Alcina), Vesselina Kasarova (Ruggiero), Deborah York (Oberto), Sonia Prina (Bradamante), Veronica Cangemi (Morgana), John Mark Ainsley (Oronte), Christopher Purves (Melisso)
Bayerisches Staatsorchester, Ivor Bolton
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Special offer. Vivaldi: Ottone in Villa
RecommendedSonia Prina (Ottone), Julia Lezhneva (Caio Silio), Veronica Cangemi (Cleonilla), Roberta Invernizzi (Tullia) & Topi Lehtipuu (Decio)
Il Giardino Armonico, Giovanni Antonini (director)
A major attraction of Antonini's version is the casting of Sonia Prina as Roman Emperor Ottone. Her rounded vocal timbre and powerful declamation bring strong characterisation to the role...Antonini... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 6th December 2010
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This award-winning set of Vivaldi's most popular orchestral works is as colourful as its cover-art would suggest – the seasons are presented in gloriously vivid tones by Rinaldo Alessandrini... —
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Gramophone Magazine, August 2003, Disc of the Month
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Special offer. Conti, F: David
Marijana Mijanovic (contralto), Simone Kermes (soprano), Furio Zanasi (baritone), Birgit Christensen (soprano), Sonia Prina (contralto) & Vito Priante (baritone)
Il Complesso Barocco, Alan Curtis
David is a great find - an exceptionally inventive dramatic oratorio, its action carried vigorously along in powerful and highly original recitative. Jonathan (sung by Birgit Christensen) begs... —
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BBC Music Magazine, August 2007, Disc of the month
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Special offer. Gluck: Ezio
RecommendedOriginal Prague version (1750)
Sonia Prina (Ezio), Max Emanuel Cencic (Valentiniano), Ann Hallenberg (Fulvia), Topi Lehtipuu (Massimo), Julian Pregardien (Varo), Mayuko Karasava (Onorio)
Il Complesso Barocco, Alan Curtis
What it reveals may surprise listeners. Though couched in the classic opera seria mode of the time...it shows that, like Handel [Gluck] could imbue the traditional form with drama...the succession... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 26th September 2011
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