Vocal, Haydn (composer)
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Shakespeare Songs
RecommendedIan Bostridge (tenor), Antonio Pappano (piano), Elizabeth Kenny (lute), Adam Walker (flute), Lawrence Power (viola), Michael Collins (clarinet)
Five songs from Finzi’s incomparable Let us Garlands Bring see the tenor’s head voice floating sympathetically through the melismatic vowels and ever-shifting metres of Finzi’s most sensitive... —
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Gramophone Magazine, October 2016, Editor's Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2016
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ECHO Klassik Awards, 2017, Winner
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Grammy Awards, 59th Awards (2016), Best Classical Solo Vocal Album
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Special offer. Christiane Karg: Scene!
RecommendedChristiane Karg (soprano)
Arcangelo, Jonathan Cohen
Karg, a splendidly accomplished artist, delivers every item with acute sensitivity to mood and verbal nuance…with Arcangelo in perfectly weighted period-instrument support, the disc gives uninterrupted... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 22nd June 2015
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Sunday Times, 2015, Albums of the Year
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Gramophone Magazine, July 2015, Editor's Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2016, Finalist - Recital
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Coming soon. Joyce & Tony
RecommendedLive at the Wigmore Hall
Joyce DiDonato (mezzo-soprano) & Antonio Pappano (piano)
both of these artists know how to deliver popular material with skill and grace...[in the Haydn] DiDonato's interpretative imagination matches Tony Pappano's thoughtful and pianistic approach...[Pappano]... —
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2015
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Gramophone Awards, 2016, Shortlisted - Solo Vocal
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Grammy Awards, 58th Awards (2015), Best Classical Solo Vocal Album
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International Classical Music Awards, 2016, Winner - Vocal Recital
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Haydn 2032 Volume 3: Solo e pensoso
RecommendedFrancesca Aspromonte (soprano)
Il Giardino Armonico, Giovanni Antonini
As in the previous volumes, the orchestral playing is breathtaking in its accuracy - the sort of Haydn playing you dream of…this may well become the period-instrument Haydn cycle by which all... —
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2016
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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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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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Special offer. La Passione
Haydn, Mozart & Beethoven
Christina Landshamer (soprano), Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin, Bernhard Forck
Landshamer’s delivery of this material is consistently beautiful, technically top-class, and pitched with laser-like accuracy….matched at every point by the accompaniments, whose range of period-instrument... —
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Record Review, 6th August 2022, Record of the Week
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International Classical Music Awards, 2023, Nominated - Assorted Programs
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Christian Gerhaher: Ferne Geliebte (Distant Beloved)
Christian Gerhaher (baritone) & Gerold Huber (piano)
a recital of rare and compelling musical intelligence and integrity of response...But as well as the intellectual satisfaction of this recital, there is also the sheer delight of Gerhaher's... —
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2013, Vocal Finalist
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Gramophone Magazine, October 2012, Editor's Choice
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Perfido!
Concert-arias by Mozart, Haydn and Beethoven
Sophie Bevan (soprano)
The Mozartists, Ian Page
Bevan’s energy and assurance see her through some demanding vocal writing…Page conducts with vigour and the orchestra makes a strong showing. —
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Presto Editor's Choice, May 2017
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International Opera Awards, 2018, Nominated - Solo Recital
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