Cesti
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2023, Winner - Chamber
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Strozzi, Cavalli, Cesti, Marini, Merula
Emöke Baráth (soprano), Il Pomo d'Oro, Francesco Corti
With extrovert support from Il Pomo d’Oro and harpsichordist-director Francesco Corti, each song becomes a vocal and dramatic showcase, emphasising abrupt switches between extreme psychologist... —
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2019, Winner - Newcomer (singer)
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International Opera Awards, 2020, Nominated - Solo Recital Recording
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Bostridge is at his best in those pieces requiring technically adroit command and intelligent poise...The sunlight returns at the end when Bostridge serves up a wonderfully captivating performance... —
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Presto Editor's Choice, February 2022
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This is not quite a complete lexicon (there are no ‘mad songs’ for example) but it offers a worthy platform for the acclaimed musical and dramatic skills of Randall Scotting and Stephen Stubbs. —
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Stokowski's Symphonic Baroque
Symphonic Transcriptions by Leopold Stokowski (1882-1977)
Christopher Blake (oboe), Cynthia Millar (ondes martenot), Peter Dixon (cello), Richard Davis (flute)
BBC Philharmonic, Matthias Bamert
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Coming soon. Joyce DiDonato: Drama Queens
Royal Arias from the 17th and 18th Centuries
Joyce DiDonato (mezzo-soprano)
Il Complesso Barocco, Alan Curtis
DiDonato and Alan Curtis...have unearthed some Baroque rarities. Instead of Handel's Berenice, we have Orlandini's Berenice, whose 'Da torbida procella' is an ideal fit for DiDonato's spitfire... —
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Opera, January 2013, Recording of the Month
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The album makes a welcome change from the endless recycling of clarinet warhorses elsewhere in the catalogue. Plaudits to Sony for giving Fröst freedom to traverse this breadth of repertoire,... —
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2023, Nominated - Chamber
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Cesti: La Dori
Francesca Ascioti (Dori), Emoke Barath (Tolomeo), Francesca Lombardi Mazzuli (Arsinoe), Rupert Enticknap (Oronte), Federico Sacchi (Artaxerse), Bradley Smith (Arsete), Alberto Allegrezza (Dirce), Pietro Di Bianco (Erasto), Rocco Cavalluzzi (Golo), Konstantin Derri (Bagoa), Accademia Bizantina (early...
It contains some of the finest operatic music to have been composed in the course of the entire 17th century, and Dantone and the Accademia Bizantina do it proud. Capitalising on the work’s... —
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Gramophone Magazine, Critics' Choice 2020
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Cesti - Le disgrazie d'Amore
Cristiana Arcari, Maria Grazia Schiavo, Furio Zanasi, Paolo Lopez, Enea Sorini, Antonio Abete, Luigi de Donato, Carlos Natale, Gabriella Martellacci, Martin Oro, Elena Cecchi Fedi, Francesco Ghelardini & Francesco Ghelardini
Auser Musici, Carlo Ipata
Most of these singers are accomplished, but the male soprano Paolo Lopez as Cupid is truly exceptional. The sound is good and the music is well-crafted. —
