Opera, Vinci, Leonardo (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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Her impressive breath control so often draws us in to the continuity of the melodic lines (Handel’s ‘Se pietà’), and her vocal acrobatics are bright and dynamically flexible…this is a terrific... —
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Presto Editor's Choice, November 2021
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Gramophone Magazine, February 2022, Editor's Choice
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Opera, March 2022, Disc of the Month
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Opus Klassik, 2022, Winner - Solo Vocal Recording
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International Classical Music Awards, 2023, Nominated - Baroque Vocal
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Kožená’s dramatic and vocal powers are wonderfully displayed in Gasparini’s kaleidoscope aria ‘Ombre, cure, sospetti’ (with its unrestrained runs and the bursts of emotion in its recitative-like... —
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International Classical Music Awards, 2019, Nominee - Baroque Vocal
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2020, Nominee - Female Singer of the Year
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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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Cecilia Bartoli - Sacrificium (Jewel Case Version)
RecommendedCecilia Bartoli
Il Giardino Armonico, Giovanni Antonini
a classic Bartoli offering – an almost painfully slickly produced product that nevertheless sees off critical cynicism with its dramatic, technical and vocal prowess...[The arias'] virtuosity... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 26th October 2009
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Grammy Awards, 53rd Awards (2010), Best Classical Solo Vocal Album
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Diapason d’Or de l’Année, 2009
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Coming soon. Semiramide - La Signora Regale
RecommendedArias & Scenes from Porpora to Rossini
Anna Bonitatibus (mezzo-soprano)
Accademia degli Astrusi, Federico Ferri
There is much coloratura and here, as elsewhere, Anna Bonitatibus is spot-on...This set, sumptuously illustrated, is an absolute must-have. —
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Gramophone Magazine, September 2014, Editor's Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2014
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Gramophone Awards, 2015, Finalist - Recital
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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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Crowe and Bevan recreate two prime donne through their own blazing talents. —
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BBC Music Magazine, October 2019, Recording of the Month
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Gramophone Awards, 2020, Shortlisted - Recital
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Farinelli - A Portrait
Live in Bergen
Ann Hallenberg (mezzo-soprano)
Les Talens Lyriques, Christophe Rousset
Hallenberg is a force of nature, in stark contrast to the synthetic singing of the film, for which sound engineers fuse a mezzo with a male alto voice. Hallenberg’s voice is unmistakably her... —
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BBC Music Magazine, March 2017, Opera Choice
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Opera, February 2017, Recording of the Month
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Special offer. Vinci: Artaserse
RecommendedPhilippe Jaroussky (Artaserse), Max Emanuel Cencic (Mandane), Daniel Behle (Artabano), Franco Fagioli (Arbace), Valer Barna-Sabadus (Semira), Yuiry Mynenko (Megabise), Coro delle Radiotelevisione svizzera, Lugano, Concerto Koln, Diego Fasolis
Jaroussky is agile and artless in the title role...Cencic (Mandane) offers both eloquent and virtuoso singing...Fagioli makes a compelling Arbace, flitting effortlessly from flamboyant vocal... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 12th November 2012
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Gramophone Magazine, January 2013, Recording of the Month
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