Orchestral, Albinoni (composer)
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The Italian Job
RecommendedBaroque Instrumental Music from the Italian States
Gail Hennessy, Rachel Chaplin (oboes) & Peter Whelan (bassoon)
La Serenissima, Adrian Chandler
The highlight of the disc for me is Chandler’s performance of a seldom-played E major Violin Concerto by Tartini: he explores fully the rich poetic content of its slow movement while projecting... —
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Gramophone Magazine, May 2017, Editor's Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2017, Winner - Baroque Instrumental
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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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Famous Classical Trumpet Concertos
RecommendedHåkan Hardenberger, I Musici, Simon Preston
Academy of St Martin in the Fields and London Philharmonic, Neville Marriner and Elgar Howarth
This is probably the finest single collection of trumpet concertos in the catalogue. When it first appeared in 1987 (the Hummel and Haydn have since been recoupled with a later set as listed... —
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Penguin Guide, Rosette
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Special offer. Masters of Baroque
Le Poème Harmonique (early music ensemble), Capella Cracoviensis (early music ensemble), Benoît Arnould, Ensemble 415 (chamber ensemble), Leila Schayegh (violin), David Plantier, Stéphanie Pfister, Café Zimmermann (early music ensemble), Ensemble Pygmalion (early music ensemble), Emiliano Gonzalez-Toro,...
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Xavier de Maistre: Notte Veneziana
Xavier de Maistre (harp)
l’arte del mondo, Werner Ehrhardt (Artistic Director)
This is a superb display of harp-playing at its best. At one extreme, the so-called 'Albinoni Adagio'...displays astonishingly warm harp tone, fingers barely caressing strings - indulgently... —
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Albrecht Mayer & The King's Singers: Let It Snow
RecommendedAlbrecht Mayer (oboe)
The King’s Singers
More cheese than a Wensleydale-and-cranberry sandwich, then, but it’s all done with bags of panache and good humour – the perfect tree-dressing or present-wrapping soundtrack. —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 9th December 2013
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One only has to sample the excitingly animated account of Holst's 'St. Paul's Suite' (which also has much delicay of feeling), or the ideally paced Warlock 'Capriol Suite' ... to discover the... —
