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Special offer. Pergolesi: Stabat Mater & Vivaldi: Nisi Dominus
Shira Patchornik (soprano), Maarten Engeltjes (counter-tenor), Prjct Amsterdam
All in all a very moving and engaging performance from one of the newest and slickest ensembles on the scene. —
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Gramophone Magazine, April 2024, Editor's Choice
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International Classical Music Awards, 2025, Nominated - Baroque Vocal
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New. Pergolesi: L'Olimpiade
Anicio Zorzi Giustiniani (Clistene), Carlotta Colombo (Aristea), Silvia Frigato (Argene), José Maria Lo Monaco (Licida), Matteo Straffi (Aminta), Theodora Raftis (Megacle), Francesca Ascioti (Alcandro); Orchestra Ghislieri, Giulio Prandi
Prandi's performance captures the elegance and urgency of the score, bringing precision, expressive freedom and sensitivity to Pergolesi's exquisite lyricism. Orchestra Ghislieri responds with... —
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BBC Music Magazine, August 2026, Opera Choice
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Special offer. Baroque Voices 11 - Pergolesi & Scarlatti: Stabat Mater
RecommendedGemma Bertagnolli & Sara Mingardo
Concerto Italiano, Rinaldo Alessandrini
This is a totally Italianate performance of both high drama and moving pathos...Alessandrini's instrumental support could not be more telling, and the recording is made in an ideal acoustic. —
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Gramophone Magazine, July 2026, Editor's Choice
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Penguin Guide, Rosette
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Special offer. Invocazioni Mariane
RecommendedAndreas Scholl (countertenor), Accademia Bizantina, Alessandro Tampieri
The only relatively familiar piece is Vivaldi’s Stabat mater...In the other pieces, Scholl sings with a grave beauty, with impeccable intonation and no changes of gear. —
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalists 2024
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International Classical Music Awards, 2025, Nominated - Baroque Vocal
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Pergolesi: Stabat Mater
Sandrine Piau (soprano), Christopher Lowrey (countertenor), Les Talens Lyriques, Christophe Rousset
Piau finds just the right balance between beauty of sound and fervent expressivity…[Lowrey] combines lucid diction with an aptly plangent sound – always beautifully controlled. Though they’re... —
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Record Review, 11th April 2020, Record of the Week
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BBC Music Magazine, June 2020, Choral & Song Choice
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Special offer. Giovanni Battista Pergolesi: La Serva Padrona and Livietta e Tracollo
Amanda Forsythe (soprano), Christian Immler (bass-baritone), Carlotta Colombo (soprano), Jesse Blumberg (baritone), Boston Early Music Festival, Paul O'Dette, Stephen Stubbs, Robert Mealy
Soprano Amanda Forsythe and baritone Christian Immler make a lovely pairing...Under the joint direction of Paul O’Dette and Stephen Stubbs, these productions possess all the fizz they must have... —
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BBC Music Magazine, April 2024, Opera Choice
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Arie Napoletane: Max Emanuel Cencic
Max Emanuel Cencic (countertenor)
Il Pomo D'Oro, Maxim Emelyanychev
Cencic negotiates this complex emotional parabola wonderfully well. This is a great voice, dark in tone, beguiling in its liquidity and finely equalised. His coloratura flows with great ease...though... —
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Gramophone Magazine, December 2015, Editor's Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2016, Finalist - Recital
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Pergolesi: Stabat Mater
Jodie Devos (soprano), Adèle Charvet (mezzo-soprano), Maitrise de Radio France, Le Concert De La Loge, Julien Chauvin
The two solo voices are well matched, though the mezzo’s tone is edgier than that of her soprano colleague. Violinist/director Julien Chauvin presides over a pacy account that occasionally robs... —
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Record Review, 19th February 2022, Record of the Week
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Presto Editor's Choice, February 2022
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Pergolesi - Stabat Mater
RecommendedBarbara Bonney (soprano), Andreas Scholl (countertenor)
Les Talens Lyriques, Christophe Rousset
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Building a Library, April 2005, First Choice
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Building a Library, October 2020, Recommended Recording
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Pergolesi: Stabat Mater (Standard edition)
RecommendedAnna Netrebko (soprano), Marianna Pizzolato (contralto), Anna Netrebko (soprano) & Marianna Pizzolato (contralto)
Orchestra dell’ Accademia di Santa Cecilia, Antonio Pappano
the Russian diva's singing certainly won't disappoint - as thrillingly passionate here as it is in Romantic opera. She's impressively partnered, too, by Marianna Pizzolato, whose full-bodied... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 14th March 2011
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Gramophone Magazine, April 2011, Editor's Choice
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