Hana Blažiková
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JS Bach: Matthäus-Passion
RecommendedJulian Prégardien (Evangelist), Stéphane Degout (Christus), Sabine Devieilhe & Hana Blažiková (sopranos), Lucile Richardot (mezzo), Tim Mead (countertenor), Reinoud Van Mechelen & Emiliano Gonzalez Toro (tenors), Christian Immler (bass-baritone)
Pygmalion, Raphaël Pichon
The choirs are razor-sharp in their ensemble, and if they seem initially soft-grained (in keeping with Pichon’s essentially intimate approach), their incisiveness eventually locates real venom... —
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Gramophone Magazine, April 2022, Recording of the Month
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Presto Recording of the Week, 15th April 2022
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Gramophone Awards, 2022, Recording of the Year and Choral Award
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Building a Library, October 2022, Also Recommended
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International Classical Music Awards, 2023, Nominated - Baroque Vocal
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Winner 2022
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Special offer. Bach, J S: Mass in B minor, BWV232
RecommendedCollegium Vocale Gent, Philippe Herreweghe
Herreweghe's account proves outstanding. The Collegium Vocale Gent, from which the soloists are drawn, is numerous enough [to] create warm lines, contrasting with the crisper tone of the instruments... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 4th June 2012
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Gramophone Awards, 2012, Finalist - Baroque Vocal
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J.S. Bach: St. John Passion, BWV 245
James Gilchrist (tenor), Christian Immler (bass), Damien Guillon (alto), Hana Blažiková (soprano), Zachary Wilder (tenor), Yusuke Watanabe (bass), Bach Collegium Japan, Masaaki Suzuki
Suzuki directs a performance of dramatic urgency and probing vision. —
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Gramophone Magazine, Awards Issue 2020, Editor's Choice
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Record Review, 10th October 2020, Record of the Week
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New. Vivaldi in Prague
The Harmonious Society of Tickle-Fiddle Gentlemen, Robert Rawson, Hana Blažiková (soprano), Tassilo Erhardt, Ciara Hendrick (soprano), Sally Holman, Mark Baigent
Plaudits to all six soloists, The TFG and Rawson for such stylish interpretations which must surely draw attention to this unjustly neglected repertoire. —
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Barbara Strozzi: A portrait in Five Acts
Duets for Two Sopranos
Dorothee Mields (soprano), Hana Blažiková (soprano), Hathor Consort, Romina Lischka
I could listen to Dorothee Mields and Hana Blažíková's dovetailed duetting all day long. —
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Monteverdi: Il ritorno d’Ulisse in patria
Hana Blažíková (Minerva/Fortuna), Furio Zanasi (Ulisse), Lucile Richardot (Penelope), Michał Czerniawski (Pisandro), Gareth Treseder (Anfinomo), Gianluca Buratto (Tempo/Nettuno/Antinoo), English Baroque Soloists, Monteverdi Choir, John Eliot Gardiner
Gardiner and Rooke’s conception for Ulisse is simple, direct and subtle. Richardot captures Penelope’s loneliness and constrained emotions...Furio Zanasi is a world-weary yet dignified Ulisse. —
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Gramophone Magazine, Awards Issue 2022, DVD/Blu-ray of the Month
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International Classical Music Awards, 2023, Nominated - Video: Opera
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Bach - Cantatas Volume 55
RecommendedHana Blažíková (soprano), Robin Blaze (counter-tenor), Gerd Türk (tenor) & Peter Kooij (bass)
Bach Collegium Japan, Masaaki Suzuki
There's a striking transparency in even the densest of counterpoint...Over 18 years Suzuki seems to have subtly changed his relationship with Bach, from a reverential approach to confident familiarity.... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 11th November 2013
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Gramophone Magazine, December 2013, Editor's Choice
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Zelenka: Missa Divi Zaverii & Litaniae de Sancto Xaverio
Collegium 1704, Collegium Vocale 1704, Vaclav Luks
Performances are uniformly satisfying under Václav Luks’s sensitive and experienced direction, with strong contributions from Hana Blazíková, Lucile Richardot and the instrument obbligato players —
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Diapason d’Or de l’Année, 2016, Winner - Baroque Vocal
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Gramophone Magazine, June 2016, Editor's Choice
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Special offer. J. S. Bach: Mass in B Minor
Miriam Feuersinger (soloist), Hana Blažiková (soloist), Jakob Pilgram (soloist), Carlos Mena (soloist), Tobias Berndt (soloist), La Cetra Basel, Andrea Marcon
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International Classical Music Awards, 2025, Nominated - Baroque Vocal
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Legrenzi: La Morte Del Cor Penitente
Raffaele Giordani (tenor), Cristina Fanelli (soprano), Hana Blažíková (soprano), Ensemble Masques, Olivier Fortin
