George Petrou
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Handel: Ottone
RecommendedMax Emanuel Cenčić (Ottone), Lauren Snouffer (Teofane), Pavel Kudinov (Emireno), Ann Hallenberg (Gismonda), Xavier Sabata (Adalberto), Anna Starushkevych (Matilda)
Il Pomo d’Oro, George Petrou
The leading man is Max Emanuel Cenčić (Ottone), his tone keen, flexible and brilliant…[Xavier Sabata] brings emotionality and intelligence to the role of Adalberto…Ann Hallenberg as Gismonda,... —
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Gramophone Magazine, September 2017, Editor's Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2017
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Grammy Awards, 60th Awards (2017), Nominee - Opera Recording
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Record Review, 17th June 2017, Recording of the Week
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Opera, August 2017, Recording of the Month
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Gramophone Awards, 2018, Shortlisted - Opera
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Hasse, J A: Siroe re di Persia
RecommendedDresden version (1763)
Max Emanuel Cencic (Siroe), Franco Fagioli (Medarse), Julia Lezhneva (Laodice), Juan Sancho (Cosroe), Mary-Ellen Nesi (Emira), Laureen Snouffer (Arasse)
Armonia Atenea, George Petrou
a triumph. It reveals the full splendour of Hasse's score, from tender lyricism to eye-popping virtuosity...Petrou storms his way through the score, pushing the artists beyond what seems physically... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 3rd November 2014
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BBC Music Magazine, February 2015, Disc of the month
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Gramophone Magazine, January 2015, Editor's Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2014
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Nicola Porpora: Opera Arias
RecommendedMax Emanuel Cencic (countertenor)
Armonia Atenea, George Petrou
There are three absolute gems here: 'Quando s'oscura is cielo' (Carlo il Calvo, Rome, 1738), with its ambiguous tonality, the gentle flute-inflected pastoral siciliana 'Ove l'erbetta', a love... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 2nd March 2018
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2018
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International Opera Awards, 2019, Nominated - Recital Album
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Diapason d’Or, April 2018, Nouveauté
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Handel: Alessandro, HWV21
Max Emanuel Cencic (Alessandro), Karina Gauvin (Lisaura), Julia Lezhneva (Roxana), Xavier Sabata (Tassile), Juan Sancho (Leonato)
Armonia Atenea, George Petrou
These discs should come with an asbestos slipcase, so incendiary is the performance they convey...Cencic is imperious hot-bloodedness personified...perhaps best of all is Karina Gauvin's utterly... —
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BBC Music Magazine, Disc of the month
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Diapason d’Or de l’Année, 2013, Winner - Opéra baroque
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Dimitris Papadimitriou: Piano Concerto No. 1
Titos Gouvelis (piano), Athens State Orchestra, George Petrou
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2023, Nominated - Conductor of the Year
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a recording that has you an the edge of your seat...The grainy sound of the period instruments gives a lightness and transparency to the texture, and George Petrou keeps the music moving so... —
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BBC Music Magazine, October 2014, Orchestral Choice
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Nicola Antonio Porpora: Carlo Il Calvo
Franco Fagioli (Adalgiso), Max Emanuel Cenčić (Lottario), Julia Lezhneva (Gildippe), Suzanne Jerosme (Giuditta), Petr Nekoranec (Asprando), Bruno de Sá (Berardo), Nian Wang (Eduige)
Armonia Atenea, George Petrou
The singers are all first-rate. Max Cencic’s Lothar is spot on in terms of coloratura, while Franco Fagioli’s Adalgiso has a nice, almost transparent voice. Both Julia Leszhnova and Suzanne... —
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Handel: Giulio Cesare in Egitto
RecommendedKristina Hammarström (Cesare), Emanuela Galli (Cleopatra), Mary-Ellen Nesi (Sesto), Irini Karaianni (Cornelia), Romina Basso (Tolomeo), Tassis Christoyannis (Achilla), Petros Magoulas (Curio), Nikos Spanatis (Nireno)
Orchestra of the Patras (period instruments), George Petrou
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Presto Recording of the Week, 15th February 2010
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Special offer. Handel: Oreste
Mary-Ellen Nesi (mezzo-soprano), Maria Mitsopoulou (soprano), Mata Katsuli (soprano), Antonis Koroneos (tenor), Petros Magoulas (bass), Nicholas Spanos (counter-tenor)
Camerata Stuttgart, George Petrou
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[Fagioli] certainly has a distinctive, plum-coloured voice, very mezzo-ish in timbre, ranging somewhere between Cecilia Bartoli and Ewa Podlés…he certainly throws himself into high notes with... —
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2016
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