Orchestral, Gluck (composer)
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It is perhaps no surprise that the various 18th-century works included find DiDonato on especially thrilling form...Yet DiDonato shines, too, in the more contemporary works…This is a highly... —
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Gramophone Magazine, March 2022, Editor's Choice
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Presto Recording of the Week, 25th February 2022
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Opus Klassik, 2022, Winner - Solo Vocal Recording
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Gramophone Awards, 2022, Shortlisted - Voice & Ensemble
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Grammy Awards, 65th Awards (2023), Nominee - Best Classical Solo Vocal Album
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International Classical Music Awards, 2023, Nominated - Vocal Music
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Hewitt’s spacious, uncluttered approach revels unashamedly in the pianism while still letting the original songs sing. The real treats are Hewitt’s own arrangements...In all, this beautifully... —
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Presto Editor's Choice, July 2021
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BBC Music Magazine, September 2021, Instrumental Choice
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[Degout] possesses the rare facility to mix raw muscle with the subtlest caresses…In the infernal symphonies that pepper Enfers, the band attacks the score with an almost fiendish ferocity…Don’t... —
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Presto Editor's Choice, March 2018
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Gramophone Magazine, May 2018, Editor's Choice
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Record Review, 24th February 2018, Recording of the Week
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2018
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The Times Records of the Year, 2018
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2019, Finalist - Vocal
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International Opera Awards, 2019, Winner - Recital Album
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It is perhaps no surprise that the various 18th-century works included find DiDonato on especially thrilling form...Yet DiDonato shines, too, in the more contemporary works…This is a highly... —
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Gramophone Magazine, March 2022, Editor's Choice
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Presto Recording of the Week, 25th February 2022
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Opus Klassik, 2022, Winner - Solo Vocal Recording
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Gramophone Awards, 2022, Shortlisted - Voice & Ensemble
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Grammy Awards, 65th Awards (2023), Nominee - Best Classical Solo Vocal Album
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A Tribute To Pauline Viardot
RecommendedMarina Viotti (mezzo-soprano), Les Talens Lyriques, Christophe Rousset
Imperceptibly Viotti makes them her own, tender but tough in Rosina’s ‘Una voce poco fa’ and producing a cascade of diamondbright coloratura in ‘Bel raggio lusinghier’, as well as an astonishing... —
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2022
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2023, Nominated - Conductor of the Year & Solo Vocal
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International Opera Awards, 2023, Nominated - Recording (Solo Recital)
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Nuits blanches: Opera Arias at the Russian Court of the 18th Century
Karina Gauvin (soprano), Pacific Baroque Orchestra, Alexander Weimann
Gauvin’s Gluck is particularly classy...Of the vocal music by the Russians, Berezovsky’s is the more interesting, with two well-crafted arias from Demofoonte...The Pacific Baroque Orchestra... —
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Presto Editor's Choice, April 2020
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Juno Awards, 2021, Nominated - Classical Album of the Year (Vocal or Choral)
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Arias for Guadagni
Recommendedthe first modern castrato
Iestyn Davies (countertenor)
Arcangelo, Jonathan Cohen
Through his effortless line, countertenor Iestyn Davies revivifies Guadagni's Orphic powers...Whether drawing out sustained notes or knitting together filigreed coloratura, he is a paragon of... —
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Gramophone Magazine, August 2012, Editor's Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2012, Winner - Recital
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Special offer. Véronique Gens: Tragediennes 1 (French Operatic Tragedies)
Véronique Gens (soprano)
Ensemble les Talens Lyrique, Christophe Rousset
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BBC Music Magazine, Opera Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2006, Finalist
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Gramophone Magazine, August 2006, Editor's Choice
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Sturm Und Drang, Vol. 1
RecommendedBeck, Gluck, Haydn, Jommelli, Traetta
Chiara Skerath, The Mozartists, Ian Page
The Mozartists play this repertoire with a mix of urgent spirit and plumbed depths…Skerath voices the various heroes and heroines, exploring the full emotional range of the lesser-known parts... —
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Gramophone Magazine, May 2020, Editor's Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2020
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Building A Library, February 2022, Also Recommended
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The fierce agitation of the outer movements of Haydn’s Symphony No. 39 certainly exemplify such qualities [Sturm und Drang], just as the dynamic sweep and hair-trigger precision of Ian Page’s... —
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Gramophone Magazine, November 2020, Editor's Choice
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