CD, Telemann (composer)
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This is an album that proclaims the viola as a distinctive, individual solo instrument, ideally served here by its skilled interpreter...this [Bach] Chaconne seems to sum up Ridout's whole approach... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 21st February 2025
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Gramophone Magazine, April 2025, Editor's Choice
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BBC Music Magazine, June 2025, Recording of the Month
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2025, Young Talent of the Year
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2025
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Gramophone Awards, 2025 Finalists, Instrumental
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2026, Winner - Instrumental
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Where Ibragimova is often at her most appealing is when addressing dance metres. Here her lightly articulated bowing and her softly spoken melodic declamation make for considerable appeal...Elsewhere... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 7th October 2022
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2022
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International Classical Music Awards, 2023, Nominated - Baroque Instrumental
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Special offer. Telemann: Ouvertures à 8 for 3 oboes, bassoon, strings and continuo
Zefiro Baroque Orchestra, Alfredo Bernardini
The much-vaunted lean muscularity of the Ensemble Zefiro...produces a freshly balanced sonority that alters our experience of these works...Special praise is due to the superb, unstinting continuo... —
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Gramophone Magazine, March 2014, Editor's Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2014, Shortlisted - Baroque Instrumental
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Antonini proves an athletic and affectionate communicator of this sophisticated music, enlivening the dances with well-judged tempos, cogent articulation and a light tread that would grace any... —
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ECHO Klassik Awards, 2017, Winner
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Diapason d’Or de l’Année, 2017, Winner - Musique Baroque
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Purists may of course object, but I think the decision to go hunting for concertos from the violin and oboe repertoire is amply justified. Baroque Concertos is a wide-ranging collection that... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 18th October 2024
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalists 2024
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Georg Philipp Telemann: Ino · Opera Arias for Soprano
RecommendedAmanda Forsythe (soprano), Boston Early Music Festival Orchestra, Paul O'Dette
Amanda Forsythe and the orchestra of the Boston Early Music Festival conjure exceptional stylish elegance and theatrical vitality in the flowing sequence of orchestrally accompanied recitatives,... —
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Gramophone Magazine, January 2025, Editor's Choice
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International Opera Awards, 2025, Shortlisted - Solo Recording
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Grammy Awards, 68th Awards (2026), Nominated - Best Classical Solo Vocal Album
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Gramophone Awards, 2025 Finalists, Voice & Ensemble
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Special offer. Telemann: Ino Cantata and Double Concertos
Rachel Podger (violin), Elizabeth Watts (soprano), Hannah Parry, Florilegium, Ashley Solomon
Concise dances of Tritons are played gracefully and Watts's valorous characterisation is shared emphatically by Florilegium's full-tilt verve in an ecstatic tour de force in praise of Neptune. —
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Telemann: Viola Concertos, Overtures & Fantasias
Antoine Tamestit (viola), Akademie Für Alte Musik Berlin, Sabine Fehlandt, Bernhard Forck
Tamestit’s celebration of Telemann’s viola writing, and the characterful vignettes which provide indelible colour to his orchestral suites, is an evenly sustained delight. —
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International Classical Music Awards, 2023, Nominated - Baroque Instrumental
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If Chandler’s programming of oddities and fragments sometimes looks like a musicological download, the sound his orchestra makes soon makes you forget that. Bright, clear, open and gloriously... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 15th November 2019
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2019
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The Danish horn player Ursula Paludan Monberg, thoroughly in command of her instrument, produces a miraculously smooth and agile line with secure tuning…the continuo section of Arcangelo, led... —
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BBC Music Magazine, May 2020, Chamber Choice
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