Pentatone
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New. From Venice to Buenos Aires
Andrés Gabetta (violin), Gabetta Consort, Mario Stefano Pietrodarchi (accordion), Veronica Cangemi (soprano)
A thrillingly original recording, proving that music can tell a saga of migration, memory and devotion far beyond the reach of words. —
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BBC Music Magazine, July 2026, Recording of the Month
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Record Review, 11th July 2026, Record of the Week
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New. The Leipzig Collegium Musicum Vol. 1: Music before Bach
Neues Bachisches Collegium Musicum Leipzig, Reinhard Goebel
Goebel's programme is appealing and contains music by Johann Beer and Melchior Hoffmann, for which world premiere recording status is claimed...A stimulating issue which explores some untrodden... —
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BBC Music Magazine, August 2026, Choral Choice
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Shibe brings a lively charisma and a vibrant array of musical colour to the album, conjuring everything from 17th-century lute to Arabic oud across this wide-reaching programme. Sulayman’s performance... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 12th May 2023
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Grammy Awards, 66th Awards (2024), Nominee - Best Classical Solo Vocal Album
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Special offer. Handel: Alcina
RecommendedMagdalena Kožená (Alcina), Anna Bonitatibus (Ruggiero), Erin Morley (Morgana), Elizabeth DeShong (Bradamante), Alois Mühlbacher (Oberto), Alex Rosen (Melisso), Valerio Contaldo (Oronte)
Les Musiciens du Louvre, Marc Minkowski
The orchestra plays with fastidious attention to Handel’s ever-changing palette, and its support for the singers – particularly with the obbligatos – is unfailingly sensitive. And the singers... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 9th February 2024
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International Classical Music Awards, 2025, Nominated - Opera
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The B’Rock Orchestra, consisting of two choirs, one of strings and the other of the cornett-trombone group, is welded together by no fewer than four bassoons, all proving the rich and all-encompassing... —
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Gramophone Magazine, November 2022, Editor's Choice
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International Classical Music Awards, 2023, Nominated - Baroque Vocal
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'Plucked Bach' may not be the most enticing title, but, once you hear this release, you'll find it hard not to be enchanted by Sariel's profound artistry. This is Bach-playing for the ages. —
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Gramophone Magazine, June 2026, Editor's Choice
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Weilerstein’s special qualities? Her resolve to allow each movement of each suite to shine on its own terms. Hers is not an overview systematically imposed but more a way to facilitate the cycle’s... —
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Gramophone Magazine, Critics' Choice 2020
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Gramophone Awards, 2021, Shortlisted - Instrumental
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Special offer. Handel's Unsung Heroes
Iestyn Davies (countertenor), Paul Sharp (trumpet), Christine Rice (mezzo), Roger Montgomery (horn), Joe Walters (horn), Lucy Crowe (soprano), Leo Duarte (oboe), Thomas Gould (violin), Joe Qiu (bassoon), La Nuova Musica, David Bates
This is a stunning collection of Handel opera numbers. For originality, risk-taking and erudition, it towers above its predecessors. It also benefits from its mix of soloists – having chosen... —
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Presto Editor's Choice, October 2021
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BBC Music Magazine, Christmas 2021, Recording of the Month
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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. Bach Harpsichord Concertos Part III
RecommendedFrancesco Corti (harpsichord), Andrea Buccarella (harpsichord), Emmanuel Laporte (oboe), Il Pomo d'Oro
So is [Corti's reconstruction] a success? Listening to it here in context with three other authentic Bach concertos, I find myself not only accepting it at face value, but actually enjoying... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 22nd July 2022
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Gramophone Magazine, October 2022, Editor's Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2022
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