Choral, Scarlatti, A (composer)
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Ardent, brilliant, stately: mezzo-soprano Kate Lindsey probes the inner states of the mythical Cretan princess Ariadne…Cohen adds hugely to these performances, in the Haydn especially. Cohen... —
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Record Review, 14th March 2020, Record of the Week
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BBC Music Magazine, April 2020, Choral & Song Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2020, Finalist - Recital
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2020
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This is perfect ground for Lindsey and Cohen, both extremely accomplished and transformative performers of Baroque music...Her extraordinary vocal evocations are complemented throughout by the... —
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Presto Editor's Choice, May 2021
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Gramophone Magazine, July 2021, Editor's Choice
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BBC Music Magazine, September 2021, Opera Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2021
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International Classical Music Awards, 2022, Nominated - Baroque Vocal
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2022, Shortlisted - Vocal
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Aspromonte’s voluptuous, velvety soprano and vivid diction capture the emotional and rhetorical tensions of works that veer from grief to joy; my one caveat is that her colour palette and dynamic... —
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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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International Classical Music Awards, 2023, Nominated - Baroque Vocal
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The interweaving voices produce an attractive juxtaposition of density and transparency. Texts are declaimed crisply yet sensitively, melismatic vowels possess compassionate luminosity, and... —
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Gramophone Magazine, January 2017, Editor's Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2017, Shortlisted - Baroque Vocal
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Special offer. Baroque Voices 11 - Pergolesi & Scarlatti: Stabat Mater
RecommendedGemma Bertagnolli & Sara Mingardo
Concerto Italiano, Rinaldo Alessandrini
This is a totally Italianate performance of both high drama and moving pathos...Alessandrini's instrumental support could not be more telling, and the recording is made in an ideal acoustic. —
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Gramophone Magazine, July 2026, Editor's Choice
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Penguin Guide, Rosette
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Special offer. Alessandro Scarlatti - Variations on La Folia
Lynne Dawson (soprano)
The Purcell Quartet
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Opera Proibita
includes arias from Handel, A Scarlatti & Caldara
Cecilia Bartoli
Les Musiciens du Louvre, Marc Minkowski
Bartoli is on marvellous form in these arias - a truly wonderful disc —
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BBC Music Magazine, November 2005, Opera Choice
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Gramophone Magazine, November 2005, Disc of the Month
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Lucrezia (portraits of A Woman)
Sandrine Piau, Amel Brahim-Djelloul (sopranos), Karine Deshayes, Lucile Richardot (mezzos), Les Paladins, Jérôme Corréas
Beauty alone makes bearable each soloist ’s visceral enactment of female suffering. —
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Gramophone Magazine, January 2025, Editor's Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2025 Shortlist, Voice & Ensemble
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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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Special offer. Un Viaggio A Roma
Sandrine Piau (soprano), Sara Mingardo (contralto). Concerto Italiano, Rinaldo Alessandrini
