Porpora
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His technical strengths emerge clearly in the way in which he negotiates the switchback turns of Vivaldi’s ‘Cada pur sul capo’ (from Artabano), the cascading melodies of Porpora’s ‘Nocchier,... —
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Presto Editor's Choice, April 2023
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Gramophone Magazine, May 2023, Editor's Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2023 Finalists, Finalist - Voice & Ensemble
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2023
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International Classical Music Awards, 2024, Nominated - Vocal Music
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Gramophone Magazine, Critics' Choice 2023
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An often feisty recital of operatically-influenced 17th and 18th century sacred music intercut with instrumental items by Dantone’s firebrand ensemble. —
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Gramophone Awards, 2018, Winner - Recital
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New. Salterio obbligato
Arias and instrumental music with salterio from 18th-century Italy
Christian Dietz, Elisabeth Seitz, nuovo aspetto, Valer Barna-Sabadus, Franz Vitzthum, Manfred Bittner
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RecommendedAndreas Scholl (countertenor), Accademia Bizantina, Alessandro Tampieri
The only relatively familiar piece is Vivaldi’s Stabat mater...In the other pieces, Scholl sings with a grave beauty, with impeccable intonation and no changes of gear. —
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalists 2024
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International Classical Music Awards, 2025, Nominated - Baroque Vocal
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Arias from each role might as well have been tailor-made for Hallenberg’s pinpoint virtuosity and lyricism, communicative use of language, idiomatic embellishment, intelligently sculpted phrasing... —
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BBC Music Magazine, September 2017, Disc of the month
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Gramophone Magazine, Awards Issue 2017, Editor's Choice
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The Times Records of the Year, 2017
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2018, Finalist - Opera
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Record Review, 8th July 2017, Recording of the Week
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Gramophone Awards, 2018, Shortlisted - Recital
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Pergolesi: Stabat Mater
Sandrine Piau (soprano), Christopher Lowrey (countertenor), Les Talens Lyriques, Christophe Rousset
Piau finds just the right balance between beauty of sound and fervent expressivity…[Lowrey] combines lucid diction with an aptly plangent sound – always beautifully controlled. Though they’re... —
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Record Review, 11th April 2020, Record of the Week
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BBC Music Magazine, June 2020, Choral & Song Choice
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A Night in London
Ophelie Gaillard (cello), Pulcinella Orchestra, Sandrine Piau (soprano), Gabriel Pidoux, Lucile Richardot (mezzo-soprano)
Among the disc’s many highlights are the virtuoso cello concertos by Cirri and Porpora which showcase Gaillard’s athletic technique as well as her extraordinary ability to make the cello sing. —
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Presto Editor's Choice, March 2022
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2023, Nominated - Concerto
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2023, Nominated - Solo Instrumental
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Special offer. Porpora: Il Maestro
RecommendedOpera Arias
Franco Fagioli (countertenor)
Academia Montis Regalis, Alessandro de Marchi
Fagioli forges his own powerful execution out of practices that Porpora helped invent. Ornaments of fiendish length, tempo and range spur Fagioli onto ever-greater displays, racing ahead of... —
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Winner 2014
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Opera, January 2015, Recording of the Month
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Hallenberg is on scintillating form, fluent alike in bravura, of which Graun's 'Mi paventi' with horns provides a dazzling example, and cantilena. The instrumental support provided by Il Pomo... —
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Sunday Times, 2015, Albums of the Year
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2016, Vocal Finalist
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Opera, July 2015, Recording of the Month
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International Classical Music Awards, 2016, Winner - Baroque Vocal
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[Bartoli] darts from note to note with admirable precision in Porpora’s ‘Nell’attendere il mio bene’, with octave leaps and drops into the chest register. If Farinelli delighted in adagio arias,... —
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Diapason d’Or, December 2019, Nouveauté
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2020, Nominee - Female Singer of the Year
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2020, Nominee - Conductor of the Year
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Grammy Awards, 63rd Awards (2021), Nominee - Best Classical Solo Vocal Album
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