Opera, Myslivecek (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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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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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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Grammy Awards, 35th Awards (1992), Best Classical Solo Vocal Album
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Cecilia Bartoli - Unreleased
RecommendedCecilia Bartoli (mezzo-soprano), Kammerorchester Basel, Muhai Tang
Some of Bartoli’s best singing comes in [the Myslivecek]. Elsewhere there are passages where her characteristic commitment to textual expression becomes overvehement...Yet much of her more delicate... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 19th November 2021
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Pilar Lorengar
RecommendedBerlin, 1959 - 1962
Pilar Lorengar, Richard Klemm (viola da gamba), Siegfried Behrend (guitar), Hertha Klust (piano)
RIAS-Kammerchor, RIAS-Orchester RSO Berlin & Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra
[an] abundance of delights … if you want to revel in the beauty and freshness of one of the postwar era’s most lovable soprano voices in its youthful prime, this is a set to head for. —
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Opera, September 2014, Recording of the Month
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Building a Library, July 2019, Also Recommended
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Il Boemo
Emőke Baráth, Simona Šaturová, Raffaella Milanesi (sopranos), Sophie Harmsen (mezzo), Philippe Jaroussky, Benno Schachtner (countertenors), Juan Sancho, Krystian Adam (tenors), Collegium 1704, Václav Luks
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2024, Nominated - Film Music/Score of the Year
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It's stylishly presented and excellently accompanied by the Talens Lyriques and Christophe Rousset; a slight letdown, though, comes with young Gheorghiu hersel. Her appealingly bright, agile... —
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Opera, May 2012, Recording of the Month
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Arias for Luigi Marchesi
The great castrato of the Napoleonic era
Ann Hallenberg (mezzo)
Stile Galante, Stefano Aresi
There is perhaps no singer better able to meet this challenge than Swedish mezzo-soprano Ann Hallenberg: her rich timbre, the evenness of her register and the precision of her intonation evoke... —
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BBC Music Magazine, December 2015, Opera Choice
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Special offer. L'Olimpiade: The Opera
RecommendedRomina Basso (Megacle), Franziska Gottwald (Licida), Karina Gauvin (Argene), Nicholas Phan (Clistene), Ruth Rosique (Aristea), Nicholas Spanos (Aminta)
Venice Baroque Orchestra, Markellos Chryssicos
Within individual numbers the performances can be thrilling...the band nimbly negotiates the huge range of effects demanded by this composite score...Franziska Gottwald is spellbinding in Vivaldi's... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 23rd July 2012
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