CD, India (composer)
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Many vocal skills we now admire in opera were born in the early 17th century. These performances centre upon the techniques of the early solo singer-composers, wonderfully resurrected here by... —
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Diapason d’Or de l’Année, 2021
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Diapason d’Or de l’Année, 2021, Baroque vocal
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Sunday Times, 10 Best Classical Albums of 2021
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The singers of Les Cris de Paris are here combined in different arrangements throughout the album, to produce a richly resonant sound with a strong bass and bright, clear upper textures. —
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It seems to me that they have taken time to properly hit their stride, but here they rediscover the heights scaled with Claudio Cavina at the helm. These are near-flawless readings, effortlessly... —
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Gramophone Magazine, January 2020, Editor's Choice
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Songs of Orpheus
RecommendedMonteverdi, Caccini, Merula, Brunelli, Castello, Cima, Landi
Karim Sulayman (tenor)
Apollo's Fire, Jeannette Sorrell
Sulayman’s approach tends more towards the lyrical than the rhetorical – his lucid, velvety tenor and pop-star charisma best suited to melodious arias rather than the text-driven stile recitativo…Under... —
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Grammy Awards, 61st Awards (2018), Winner - Classical Solo Vocal Album
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O dolce nocte
Korneel Van Neste (vocalist), Rosalyn Stuerzer (soprano), André Pérez Muíño (tenor), Andrés Soler Castaño (bass-baritone), Pauline Delannoy (soprano), Paradise Repaired, Delle Donne Consort, Rosalyn Stürzer
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Speech-like song tumbles out of tenor Alessandro Giangrande like coins from a sack; it’s glorious. But my favourite voice on the album is that of Zachary Wilder. —
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On the Breath of Angels
Veronika Skuplik, Matthias Müller, Mieneke van der Velden (viola da gamba), Jakob Lindberg (lute), Hana Blažiková (soprano), Bruce Dickey, Kris Verhelst, Catherine Aglibut, The Breathtaking Collective
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Amore Siciliano
Mariana Flores (soloist), Matteo Bellotto (soloist), Léo Fernique (soloist), Valerio Contaldo (soloist), Ana Vieira Leite (soloist), Cappella Mediterranea, Leonardo García Alarcón
There’s a fabulously frantic air to the sequence of the opening movements, and in general this is the approach to the playing throughout: totally gung-ho, extreme and unexpected. —
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