Gasparini
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the most striking aspects of Podger’s playing throughout this recital (compared to most 20th-century ‘golden-agers’), is her enhanced range of tone and articulation, her vastly more flexible... —
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Presto Editor's Choice, October 2022
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2022
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2023, Recording of the Year
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2023, Winner - Instrumental
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2023, Winner - Solo Instrumental
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Gramophone Awards, 2023 Finalists, Finalist - Instrumental
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Kožená’s dramatic and vocal powers are wonderfully displayed in Gasparini’s kaleidoscope aria ‘Ombre, cure, sospetti’ (with its unrestrained runs and the bursts of emotion in its recitative-like... —
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International Classical Music Awards, 2019, Nominee - Baroque Vocal
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2020, Nominee - Female Singer of the Year
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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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Stutzmann’s deep burgundy contralto, like a freakishly rich, wide-ranging countertenor, is the perfect fit for this repertoire...[Her] characterisation and vocal colouring are always true and... —
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Gramophone Magazine, March 2021, Editor's 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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Special offer. Gasparini: Atalia
Camille Poul (Atalia), Bastien Rimondi (Ormano), Furio Zanasi (Sacerdote), Mélodie Ruvio (Nurse); Ensemble Hemiolia, Emmanuel Resche-Caserta
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Divine Impresario
Nicolini On Stage
Randall Scotting (countertenor), Mary Bevan (soprano), Academy of Ancient Music, Laurence Cummings
Throughout this album Scotting is at times demanding, impatient, dramatic and flamboyant, as one would expect from roles written for Nicolini, but always poised and richly toned...But this is... —
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Special offer. The Ghosts of Hamlet
Lost Arias From Italian Baroque Operas
Roberta Mameli (soloist), Le Concert de l’Hostel Dieu, Franck-Emmanuel Comte
Stonking performances and brilliant programming unite in this solo album...This recording brings together numbers from various settings of Zeno’s Ambleto. Roberta Mameli’s singing burns with... —
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BBC Music Magazine, April 2025, Opera & Stage Choice
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Andreas Scholl - Arcadia
Vocal cantatas by Italian composers associated with the Arcadian Academy of Rome
Andreas Scholl (countertenor)
Accademia Byzantina, Ottavio Dantone
Scholl's polished counter-tenor is suitably seductive, his interpretative instincts engaging...The playing of the Italian ensemble Accademia Bizantina, led from the harpsichord by Ottavio Dantone,... —
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Gramophone Magazine, March 2004, Editor's Choice
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Gasparini: Il Bajazet
Leonardo De Lisi (Bajazet), Filippo Mineccia (Tamerlano), Giuseppina Bridelli (Asteria), Ewa Gubanska (Irene), Antonio Giovannini (Andronico), Benedetta Mazzucato (Clearco), Raffaele Pe (Leone), Giorgia Cinciripi (Zaida)
Auser Musici, Carlo Ipata
Leonardo De Lisi commands Borosini's odd tenor-baritone register…and communicates Bajazet's brooding complexity even in the shortest of numbers. Countertenor Filippo Mineccia's edgy, ferocious... —
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Gramophone Magazine, July 2015, Editor's Choice
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Pace e Guerra
Arias for Bernacchi
Terry Wey (countertenor), Vivica Genaux (mezzo), Valer Sabadus (countertenor)
Bach Consort Wien, Ruben Dubrovsky
