Choral, Rossi, Luigi (composer)
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This is one of the best programmes that I have encountered in recent years, both in concept and execution, and it begins with an icon of early music, Allegri’s Miserere…The singers of Le Poème... —
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Diapason d’Or, October 2019, Nouveauté
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Gramophone Magazine, Awards Issue 2019, Recording of the Month
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International Classical Music Awards, 2019, Nominee - Baroque Vocal
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Gramophone Magazine, December 2019, Critics' Choice
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Special offer. Sogno Barocco (Baroque Dream)
Anne Sofie von Otter (mezzo soprano), Sandrine Piau (soprano), Susanna Sundberg (contralto)
Cappella Mediterranea, Leonardo García Alarcón
Every rhetorical device is skilfully exploited, every phrase glows...For many listeners, however, Von Otter's duets with Sandrine Piau will be the highlight. Stylistically, temperamentally and... —
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BBC Music Magazine, January 2013, Opera Choice
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Le Louvre des Musiciens
La Chapelle Royale (early music ensemble), Ensemble Organum (early music ensemble), Andrew Lawrence-King (harp), The Harp Consort (miscellaneous ensemble), Orlando Consort (early music ensemble), Ensemble Clément Janequin (early music ensemble), Les Arts Florissants (early music ensemble), London...
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La bella piu bella
Songs from early baroque Italy
Roberta Invernizzi (soprano) & Craig Marchitelli (archlute & theorbo)
This is vocal writing that thrives on extremes: complex, emphatic, dissonant and brilliantly embellished...Invernizzi is a fearless singer. Some notes are stripped violently dry and thin, others... —
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Gramophone Magazine, June 2014, Editor's Choice
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Speech-like song tumbles out of tenor Alessandro Giangrande like coins from a sack; it’s glorious. But my favourite voice on the album is that of Zachary Wilder. —
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Carissimi - Music in Rome 1640
A 2 CD collection of choral music, motets and anthems which would have been sung and performed in Rome in and around the period of 1640.
Ensemble William Byrd, Graham O'Reilly
There are so many reasons to recommend this exemplary set. The recording quality provides crystal-clear
reproduction of the voices, perfectly balanced, whether they are accompanied by harpsichord... — -
Lamenti Barocchi, Vol. 3
Anna Caterina Antonacci (soprano)
San Petronio Cappella Musicale Soloists, Sergio Vartolo
This proves as well as any disc that Naxos offers more than duplication of the standard repertoire. —
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TENET: UNO + ONE
TENET: Jolle Greenleaf, Molly Quinn (soprano), Robert Mealy, Daniel Lee (violin), Hank Heijink (theorbo), Daniel Swenberg (tiorbino and baroque guitar) & Avi Stein (harpsichord)
each voice has a specific timbre. But somehow they converge into what often feels like a single sound, aided by their near-telepathic musical rapport...And they don't inject their own pathos:... —
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The instrumental playing, in both the sacred works and Marini's famous Passacaglia is very assured —
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The sheer joy of hearing Italian singers in this repertoire where so much rests on the text, especially since these are singers whose accuracy of pitch and sureness of focus means that they... —
