Chamber, Sonatas, Vivaldi (composer)
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Special offer. Grandissima Gravita
RecommendedMusic by Pisenel, Tartini, Veracini & Vivaldi
Rachel Podger (violin)
Brecon Baroque
Her playing is intoxicated and intoxicating in equal measure, buoyed up by the wonderful improvisatory camaraderie of a continuo battery…Podger, inevitably, is the star, but ultimately the disc’s... —
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BBC Music Magazine, December 2017, Chamber Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2017
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Gramophone Magazine, December 2017, Editor's Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2018, Shortlisted - Chamber
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New. Echoes of My Childhood
Daniel Müller-Schott (cello), Irina Zahharenkova (piano), Anderson Fiorelli
Childhood revisited with flair, playfulness and abiding affection. —
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Gramophone Magazine, August 2026, Editor's Choice
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New. Spiritillo Mediterraneo
Cristina Prats Costa (violin), Lucas Harris, Naghmeh Farahmand, Joseph Phillips, Esmeralda Enrique, Michael Unterman, Charlotte Nediger
'Il Spiritillo Brando' gets things off to an engaging start with its brightly rhythmic, lightly skipping ease, and thereafter you do genuinely hear that spright's influence...this is a polished... —
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More than half a century separates the earliest and the latest of the works here. The C major Trio Sonata was one of Bach's earliest compositions, written at the age of 17 more or less under... —
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Building a Library, September 2005, Highly Recommended
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Penguin Guide, Rosette
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If an hour and a quarter of music based on 16 bars appears daunting, take courage from the immense stylistic variety over 200 years and the splendidly colourful range of instruments playing... —
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BBC Music Magazine, December 2005, Chamber Choice
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Bach - Piano Transcriptions Volume 3
Arrangements by Ignaz Friedman, Percy Grainger and William Murdoch
Piers Lane (piano)
Lane commands the golden tone and effortless, spirited virtuosity needed to make these transcriptions come alive, and makes them sound easy to boot. A honey of a release —
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Joshua Bell plays Vivaldi's Four Seasons
RecommendedJoshua Bell (violin and conductor) & John Constable (harpsichord continuo)
Academy of St. Martin in the Fields
If you like your Baroque music with a Romantic gloss, this will be for you. —
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Penguin Guide, Rosette
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Zefiro’s own expertise in these pieces is itself of impeccable quality and gladsome spirit. The oboes of Alfredo Bernardini and Paolo Grazzi are excellently matched, creamy and focused in tone... —
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Italophilia - Discovering the Italian Style in Handel's London
Aljosja Mietus, Thomas Triesschijn, Matthea de Muynck, Petr Hamouz, Giulio Quirici, Kristen Witmer (leadvocalist), Anne-Linde Visser, The Counterpoints
Though the larger, formalised structures are excellently performed, the more folky, embroidered, improvisatory moments of the album stand out as exceptional. —
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Gramophone Magazine, February 2025, Editor's Choice
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