Irish Baroque Orchestra
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Special offer. Handel: Messiah
Hilary Cronin (soprano), Helen Charlston (mezzo), Alexander Chance, Nathan Mercieca (countertenors), Guy Cutting (tenor), Frederick Long, Edward Grint (bass-baritones), Irish Baroque Orchestra & Choir, Peter Whelan
My spirits were uplifted almost throughout the recording. A current of gentle zephyrs refreshes every bar of the music...Complementing the instrumental vitality is the invigorating choral singing... —
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Gramophone Magazine, April 2026, Editor's Choice
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BBC Music Magazine, May 2026, Choral Choice
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Special offer. Mr Charles the Hungarian. Handel's Rival in Dublin
RecommendedIrish Baroque Orchestra, Peter Whelan
Here is an unusual and delightful programme from bassoonist and director Peter Whelan...Irish Baroque Orchestra with its several concertante players imbue the music with lucidity and a spirited... —
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2023
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The Irish Baroque Orchestra play with devil-may-care aplomb. —
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BBC Music Magazine, August 2016, Concerto Choice
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Special offer. The Trials of Tenducci: A Castrato in Ireland
RecommendedTara Erraught (mezzo-soprano), Irish Baroque Orchestra, Peter Whelan
[The Mozart] is given a very capable performance by mezzo Tara Erraught, whose attractive tone and warmth are heard to particular advantage in the second aria (‘Tu virginum’)...she copes well... —
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2021
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Special offer. Rachel Baptist: Ireland's Black Syren
RecommendedRachel Redmond (soloist), Aisling Kenny (soloist), Irish Baroque Orchestra, Peter Whelan
this is an adventurous album and a timely reminder of our multicultural musical past...Redmond’s soprano voice makes an immediate impression. —
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalists 2024
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Flights of Fantasy
Early Italian Chamber Music
Irish Baroque Orchestra, Monica Huggett (director/violin)
There’s always an electric jolt about Huggett’s gut-stringed violin, and she needs every surge of energy for the virtuoso tricks of 17th-century Italian and Italianate chamber music...Huggett’s... —
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This disc is a treasure trove of world premieres, exploring the musician’s double life as both composer and virtuoso performer…The Australian violinist Sophie Gent takes the Dubourg role throughout... —
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Special offer. The Hibernian Muse. Music for Ireland by Purcell and Cousser
Irish Baroque Orchestra, Sestina, Peter Whelan
Whelan’s alert direction ensures an effortless fluency that strikes a fruitful rapport between the well-matched vocal quartet and instrumental playing instinct with freshness and vitality. —
