Download, Porpora (composer)
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His technical strengths emerge clearly in the way in which he negotiates the switchback turns of Vivaldi’s ‘Cada pur sul capo’ (from Artabano), the cascading melodies of Porpora’s ‘Nocchier,... —
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Presto Editor's Choice, April 2023
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Gramophone Magazine, May 2023, Editor's Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2023 Finalists, Finalist - Voice & Ensemble
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2023
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International Classical Music Awards, 2024, Nominated - Vocal Music
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Gramophone Magazine, Critics' Choice 2023
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An often feisty recital of operatically-influenced 17th and 18th century sacred music intercut with instrumental items by Dantone’s firebrand ensemble. —
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Gramophone Awards, 2018, Winner - Recital
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Arias from each role might as well have been tailor-made for Hallenberg’s pinpoint virtuosity and lyricism, communicative use of language, idiomatic embellishment, intelligently sculpted phrasing... —
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BBC Music Magazine, September 2017, Disc of the month
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Gramophone Magazine, Awards Issue 2017, Editor's Choice
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The Times Records of the Year, 2017
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2018, Finalist - Opera
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Record Review, 8th July 2017, Recording of the Week
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Gramophone Awards, 2018, Shortlisted - Recital
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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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New. Salterio obbligato
Arias and instrumental music with salterio from 18th-century Italy
Christian Dietz, Elisabeth Seitz, nuovo aspetto, Valer Barna-Sabadus, Franz Vitzthum, Manfred Bittner
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Hallenberg is on scintillating form, fluent alike in bravura, of which Graun's 'Mi paventi' with horns provides a dazzling example, and cantilena. The instrumental support provided by Il Pomo... —
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Sunday Times, 2015, Albums of the Year
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2016, Vocal Finalist
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Opera, July 2015, Recording of the Month
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International Classical Music Awards, 2016, Winner - Baroque Vocal
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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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[Bartoli] darts from note to note with admirable precision in Porpora’s ‘Nell’attendere il mio bene’, with octave leaps and drops into the chest register. If Farinelli delighted in adagio arias,... —
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Diapason d’Or, December 2019, Nouveauté
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2020, Nominee - Female Singer of the Year
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2020, Nominee - Conductor of the Year
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Grammy Awards, 63rd Awards (2021), Nominee - Best Classical Solo Vocal Album
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Cecilia & Sol: Dolce Duello
RecommendedDeluxe Hardcover 1CD (Limited Edition)
Cecilia Bartoli (mezzo), Sol Gabetta (cello)
Cappella Gabetta, Andres Gabetta
Bartoli and cellist Sol Gabetta make for valiant duelling partners who converse, parry and riposte in spirited combat. Bartoli is velvet-toned, vivacious and voluptuous as ever. Her diction... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 10th November 2017
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2017
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Gramophone Magazine, January 2018, Editor's Choice
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BBC Music Magazine, February 2018, Opera Choice
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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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