Opera, Masques, Blow (composer)
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John Blow: Venus & Adonis; Henry Purcell: Dido & Aeneas
Ida Ränzlöv, Bernt Ola Volungholen, Christina Larsson Malmberg, Rupert Enticknap, Lisa Carlioth, Mathilda Sidén Silfver, Mikael Stenbaek, Arash Azarbad, Confidencen Opera & Music Festival Orchestra, William Relton (director), Olof Boman
alluring performances, sumptuous costumes and clever set designs. All the principals are strong, but mezzo-soprano Ida Ränzlöv stands out. Technically flawless, texturally lush and dramatically... —
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Gramophone Magazine, May 2023, DVD/Blu-ray of the Month
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John Blow: Venus & Adonis; Henry Purcell: Dido & Aeneas
Ida Ränzlöv, Bernt Ola Volungholen, Christina Larsson Malmberg, Rupert Enticknap, Lisa Carlioth, Mathilda Sidén Silfver, Mikael Stenbaek, Arash Azarbad, Confidencen Opera & Music Festival Orchestra, William Relton (director), Olof Boman
alluring performances, sumptuous costumes and clever set designs. All the principals are strong, but mezzo-soprano Ida Ränzlöv stands out. Technically flawless, texturally lush and dramatically... —
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Gramophone Magazine, May 2023, DVD/Blu-ray of the Month
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Special offer. Purcell: Tyrannic Love
Ensemble Les Surprises, Louis-Noël Bestion de Camboulas, Eugénie Lefebvre, Etienne Bazola (baritone)
The theme is love, but there’s nothing coy or sugary about either music or performances that embrace extremes of emotion and expression...Much of this is theatre music, and in the absence of... —
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Gramophone Magazine, February 2021, Editor's Choice
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Their playing is clean, polished, razor sharp, yet there’s nothing sterile about these performances, which bristle with energy, dynamic contrasts and dramatic gestures… Above all, there’s a... —
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Diapason d’Or, March 2020, Découverte
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Mead’s theatrical experience comes through most clearly in his dramatic rendering of some of the songs from the odes…The stage songs are often presented with an affecting fluidity, as in William... —
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Blow: Venus and Adonis
Catherine Bott, Libby Crabtree & Michael George
New London Consort & Choristers of Westminster Abbey School, Philip Pickett
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John Blow: Venus and Adonis
Theatre of the Ayre (early music ensemble), Elizabeth Kenny (lute), Elin Manahan Thomas (soprano), Sophie Daneman (soprano), Roderick Williams (baritone)
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Blow: Venus and Adonis
Rosemary Joshua, Gerard Finley & Robin Blaze
Clare College Chapel Choir & OAE, René Jacobs
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Lost is My Quiet
Daniel Taylor (countertenor), Nancy Argenta (soprano)
Theatre of Early Music
Christopher Jackson
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Special offer. English Mad Songs And Ayres
Julianne Baird (soprano), Colin Tilney (harpsichord), Alison Mackay (viola da gamba)
