Biber
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Podger one of the finest of today's Baroque violinists takes up the challenge posed by Biber's 1681 sonata collection with élan. Her affinity with the material allows a free and spontaneous... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 4th July 2025
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Gramophone Magazine, August 2025, Editor's Choice
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BBC Music Magazine, September 2025, Recording of the Month
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International Classical Music Awards, 2026, Nominated - Baroque Instrumental
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2025
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Special offer. Biber: The Rosary Sonatas
RecommendedRachel Podger (violin), Marcin Świątkiewicz (harpsichord/organ), Jonathan Manson (cello/viola da gamba), David Miller (theorbo/archlute)
it stretches the instrument and the violinist to the limit. For this recording Rachel Podger uses the same instrument throughout, putting it through the pain, as part of the fascination for... —
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2015
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Gramophone Awards, 2016, Winner - Baroque Instrumental
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Though there are versions that have a weightier choral sound, the advantage of this one is that the Requiem’s words (which so fuelled the composer’s creative imagination) and all the details... —
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Record Review, 27th February 2021, Record of the Week
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Presto Recording of the Week, 26th February 2021
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Gramophone Awards, 2021, Shortlisted - Choral
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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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Special offer. Guardian Angel: Rachel Podger
RecommendedMusic by Bach, Matteis, Tartini, Pisendel, Biber
Rachel Podger (violin)
Characteristically unforced and natural, the playing manages to sound endlessly considered yet spontaneous. There's a sureness to the placing of every note, whether poised or bristling with... —
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Gramophone Magazine, November 2013, Editor's Choice
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2014, Instrumental Award Winner
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Bojan Cičić is an athletic virtuoso who is comfortably able to communicate the myriad expressive subtleties of Biber's music, sometimes gently and alluringly expressive, at others exuberant... —
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Gramophone Magazine, July 2025, Recording of the Month
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Presto Recording of the Week, 4th July 2025
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2025
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New. Spiritillo Mediterraneo
Cristina Prats Costa (violin), Lucas Harris, Naghmeh Farahmand, Joseph Phillips, Esmeralda Enrique, Michael Unterman, Charlotte Nediger
'Il Spiritillo Brando' gets things off to an engaging start with its brightly rhythmic, lightly skipping ease, and thereafter you do genuinely hear that spright's influence...this is a polished... —
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It is as fresh and exciting as anything I've heard in recent years...The architectural shaping, dynamic vitality and sheer passion of the Biber performances lifts them right to the top of their... —
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Seventy minutes with Death for company may look like hard going but such is the expressive depth and profound consoling beauty of the works assembled here, and so committed and responsive the... —
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Gramophone Magazine, Awards Issue 2020, Editor's Choice
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Gramophone Magazine, Critics' Choice 2020
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The range and power of Ernman’s voice is a delight. Her dark, rich colouring adds drama to Handel’s ‘Twas when the seas’ and the final item by Eden Ahbez brings out her bluesy soul. Fun and... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 31st January 2025
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Biber: Missa Bruxellensis
RecommendedLa Capella Reial de Catalunya, Le Concert des Nations, Jordi Savall
The performance here, superlatively recorded in the echoing - but never blurring - acoustics of Salzburg Cathedral, re-creates the work's premiere and is truly inspired. This marvellous disc... —
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Penguin Guide, Rosette
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