Choral, Anthems & Motets, Vivaldi (composer)
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Vivaldi: Le Quattro Stagioni (The Four Seasons)
Théotime Langlois de Swarte (violin), Julie Roset (soprano), Le Consort
Above all, it’s Swarte’s solo playing (on a 1733 fiddle by Carlo Bergonzi) that steals the show: pliant, expressive, wild and virtuosic. Particularly admirable is his elastic, almost jazzy flexibility... —
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BBC Music Magazine, February 2025, Recording of the Month
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International Classical Music Awards, 2026, Nominated - Baroque Instrumental
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2026, Shortlisted - Concerto
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The Sound of the Trumpet
RecommendedPeter Hurford (organ), Alan Stringer (trumpet), Gwynne Howell (bass), John Wilbraham (trumpet), Philip Jones (trumpet), Leslie Pearson (organ), The Michael Laird Brass Ensemble, Academy of St Martin in the Fields, Philip Jones Brass Ensemble, London Festival Orchestra, Sir Neville Marriner, Elgar...
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Penguin Guide, Rosette
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Vivaldi: Sacro Furore - Stabat Mater, Nisi Dominus, Concerti
Carlo Vistoli (counter-tenor), Akademie Für Alte Musik Berlin, Georg Kallweit
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Gramophone Magazine, January 2025, Recording of the Month
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International Classical Music Awards, 2026, Nominated - Baroque Vocal
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Special offer. Pergolesi: Stabat Mater & Vivaldi: Nisi Dominus
Shira Patchornik (soprano), Maarten Engeltjes (counter-tenor), Prjct Amsterdam
All in all a very moving and engaging performance from one of the newest and slickest ensembles on the scene. —
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Gramophone Magazine, April 2024, Editor's Choice
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International Classical Music Awards, 2025, Nominated - Baroque Vocal
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Special offer. Invocazioni Mariane
RecommendedAndreas Scholl (countertenor), Accademia Bizantina, Alessandro Tampieri
The only relatively familiar piece is Vivaldi’s Stabat mater...In the other pieces, Scholl sings with a grave beauty, with impeccable intonation and no changes of gear. —
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalists 2024
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International Classical Music Awards, 2025, Nominated - Baroque Vocal
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Special offer. Vivaldi: Vespri solenni per la festa dell’Assunzione di Maria Vergine
RecommendedGemma Bertagnolli (soprano), Roberta Invernizzi (soprano), Anna Simboli (soprano), Sara Mingardo (contralto), Gianluca Ferrarini (tenor), Matteo Bellotto (baritone), Antonio De Secondi (violin)
Concerto Italiano ensemble vocale e strumentale, Rinaldo Alessandrini
This isn't the 'Vivaldi Vespers', or even a reconstruction of a specific event, but a kind of 'sacred concert' in Vespers form, of the sort that Venetian churches in Vivaldi's time would mount... —
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Gramophone Awards, 2004, Winner - Baroque Vocal
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Antonini’s virtuosity is, we might say, literally breathtaking as he dispatches the fast outer movements with agility and stylistic aplomb. For my own sensibilities, though, this comes at a... —
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Diapason d’Or, May 2020, Nouveauté
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Special offer. Vivaldi: Stabat Mater, RV621, etc.
David Daniels (countertenor)
Europa Galante, Fabio Biondi
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Gramophone Magazine, April 2002, Editor's Choice
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Julia Lezhneva: Alleluia
RecommendedJulia Lezhneva (soprano)
Il Giardino Armonico, Giovanni Antonini
Lezhneva is at her most accomplished [in the Mozart], providing spirited and focused vocalism, running up and down the scales with effortless abandon and to fine effect. Elsewhere there are... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 1st April 2013
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Gramophone Magazine, May 2013, Editor's Choice
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Here's a very attractively prepared menu whose main course is the Stabatmater for countertenor and strings.
Hors-d'oeuvres and side-dishes consist of a ripieno concerto (RV114), a chamber cantata... —Awards:
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Gramophone Awards, 1996, Winner - Baroque Vocal
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