Monteverdi
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This is an attractive addition to the vast array of recordings of Monteverdi’s 1610 Vespers collection. —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 1st September 2023
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International Classical Music Awards, 2024, Nominated - Baroque Vocal
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Winner 2023
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2024, Winner - Choral
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Gramophone Awards, 2024 Shortlist, Shortlisted - Choral
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Charlston's mezzo is as dark and full-bodied as a good claret, and she offers highly expressive readings of the texts, plumbing their depths with cut-glass diction and a glorious range of colours... —
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Presto Editor's Choice, May 2022
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BBC Music Magazine, August 2022, Choral & Song Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2022
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2023, Winner - Vocal
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Gramophone Awards, 2023 Winners, Concept Album of the Year
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Special offer. Monteverdi: Concerto & Settimo Libro De' Madrigali
Concerto Italiano (early music ensemble), Elena Carzaniga, Maria Galassi, Valerio Contaldo, Monica Piccinini, Sonia Tedla, Andrés Montilla, Raffaele Giordani, Salvo Vitale, Rinaldo Alessandrini
this is an admirable recording of a rich and fascinating collection. —
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Gramophone Magazine, January 2023, Editor's Choice
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2023, Nominated - Conductor of the Year
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Gramophone Awards, 2023 Finalists, Finalist - Choral
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International Classical Music Awards, 2024, Nominated - Baroque Vocal
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Shibe brings a lively charisma and a vibrant array of musical colour to the album, conjuring everything from 17th-century lute to Arabic oud across this wide-reaching programme. Sulayman’s performance... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 12th May 2023
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Grammy Awards, 66th Awards (2024), Nominee - Best Classical Solo Vocal Album
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Monteverdi - Vespers
RecommendedCarolyn Sampson, Rebecca Outram, Daniel Auchincloss & Nicholas Mulroy
The King’s Consort, Robert King
Despite four wonderful volumes of Monteverdi's sacred music from The King's Consort, nothing will prepare you for the ecstatic consequences of taking seriously at least one aspect of Monteverdi's... —
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Building a Library, April 2007, First Choice
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Building a Library, December 2010, First Choice
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Gramophone Magazine, June 2006, Editor's Choice
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This is perfect ground for Lindsey and Cohen, both extremely accomplished and transformative performers of Baroque music...Her extraordinary vocal evocations are complemented throughout by the... —
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Presto Editor's Choice, May 2021
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Gramophone Magazine, July 2021, Editor's Choice
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BBC Music Magazine, September 2021, Opera Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2021
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International Classical Music Awards, 2022, Nominated - Baroque Vocal
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2022, Shortlisted - Vocal
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The creative and attentively researched programme knits together musical and textual threads into a fast-moving sequence...Orliński carries off the programme with great élan: his bell-like voice... —
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BBC Music Magazine, December 2023, Choral & Song Choice
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Sunday Times, 10 Best Classical Albums of 2023
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2024, Winner - Vocal
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Special offer. Monteverdi: L'incoronazione di Poppea
Sonya Yoncheva (Poppea), Kate Lindsey (Nerone), Les Arts Florissants, William Christie
Cognitive dissonance reigns as gorgeous music engulfs a drama about moral implosion. —
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BBC Music Magazine, November 2019, Opera Choice
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International Classical Music Awards, 2020, Nominee – Baroque Vocal
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2020, Nominee – Conductor of the Year
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Treasures of Baroque Opera
RecommendedJanet Baker, Teresa Berganza, Catherine Bott, Luciano Pavarotti
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Penguin Guide, Rosette
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This is one of the best programmes that I have encountered in recent years, both in concept and execution, and it begins with an icon of early music, Allegri’s Miserere…The singers of Le Poème... —
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Diapason d’Or, October 2019, Nouveauté
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Gramophone Magazine, Awards Issue 2019, Recording of the Month
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International Classical Music Awards, 2019, Nominee - Baroque Vocal
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Gramophone Magazine, December 2019, Critics' Choice
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