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Berlioz Les Nuits d’Eté & Handel Arias
Lorraine Hunt Lieberson (mezzo-soprano)
Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra, Nicholas McGegan
her warm and maternal tone combine with her interpretative commitment and spontaneity to produce wonderful results...Hunt Lieberson's inimitable approach makes a wonderful thing, for instance,... —
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Gramophone Magazine, November 2011, Editor's Choice
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Haydn: Symphonies 88, 101 ‘Clock’ & 104 ‘London’
Recorded live First Congregational Church, Berkeley, CA 2007-9
Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra, Nicholas McGegan
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Avery Amereau’s sonorous contralto is ideal for this repertoire. ‘Cara sposa’ from Rinaldo is exquisitely shaded with a beautifully ornamented da capo, and the two arias from Giulio Cesare are... —
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Gramophone Magazine, September 2020, Editor's Choice
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Scarlatti, A: La Gloria di Primavera
Diana Moore (mezzo-soprano), Suzana Ograjenšek (soprano), Clint van der Linde (countertenor), Nicholas Phan (tenor) & Douglas Williams (baritone)
Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra & Philharmonia Chorale, Nicholas McGegan
McGegan and his ensemble are responsive to the varied instrumental shades, and their alert playing highlights Scarlatti’s fleet, dancing rhythms. Of the soloists, soprano Suzana Ograjensek (Summer)... —
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Gramophone Magazine, July 2016, Editor's Choice
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The principal virtues in this coupling concern clarity (especially with regard to inner voices) and musical intelligence...These performances are interesting, even instructive to hear but lack... —
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Vivaldi: The Four Seasons
Elizabeth Blumenstock (violin)
Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra, Nicholas McGegan
[the B flat Violin Concerto's] slow movement finds Elizabeth Blumenstock at her most eloquent....McGegan is rhythmically incisive [in the Seasons], but strong beats are often leant on unsubtly —
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Rameau: Le Temple de la Gloire
Gabrielle Philiponet (soprano), Chantal Santon-Jeffery (soprano), Camille Ortiz (soprano), Artavazd Sargsyan (haute-contre), Aaron Sheehan (haute-contre), Philippe-Nicolas Martin (baritone), Marc Labonnette (baritone), Tonia D’Amelio (soprano)
Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra & Chorale, Nicholas...
McGegan’s touch has never been surer, and he pushes artists and moods to their expressive limits…Steering a superb cast, McGegan also makes sense of the allegory’s bonkers mix of affects within... —
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Beethoven: Symphonies Nos. 4 & 7
Recorded live at First Congregational Church, Berkeley, CA on November 10-11, 2012 (Symphony No. 4) and September 12-13, 2009 (Symphony No. 7)
Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra, Nicholas McGegan
'Neat' was the word that came to mind as I began to listen to the Fourth Symphony. And that could apply to all aspects of the performance: rhythms, phrasing and balance are mostly precise and... —
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The symphonies of the 1770s don’t always get the attention they deserve, and it is good that these works have here got such a special airing on period instruments. —
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Special offer. Handel: Teseo (highlights)
Dominique Labelle (Medea), Amanda Forsythe (Teseo), Amy Freston (Agilea), Robin Blaze (Arcane), Drew Minter (Egeo), Céline Ricci (Clizia), Jeffrey Fields (Priest of Minerva) & Jonathan Smucker (Chorus)
Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra, Nicholas McGegan
This is a fine live memento of what must have been a thoroughly enjoyable evening … excellent. —
