Arcana
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Special offer. Telemann: Ouvertures à 8 for 3 oboes, bassoon, strings and continuo
Zefiro Baroque Orchestra, Alfredo Bernardini
The much-vaunted lean muscularity of the Ensemble Zefiro...produces a freshly balanced sonority that alters our experience of these works...Special praise is due to the superb, unstinting continuo... —
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Gramophone Magazine, March 2014, Editor's Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2014, Shortlisted - Baroque Instrumental
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Special offer. Beyond Vivaldi: Lute Concertos
Evangelina Mascardi (lute), Estrovagante, Riccardo Doni
The disc's centrepiece is Vivaldi's RV93...Mascardi's reading of the Largo is especially affecting, its wistful melody breathed rather than declaimed. The real revelation of the programme, though,... —
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BBC Music Magazine, May 2026, Concerto Choice
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The interweaving voices produce an attractive juxtaposition of density and transparency. Texts are declaimed crisply yet sensitively, melismatic vowels possess compassionate luminosity, and... —
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Gramophone Magazine, January 2017, Editor's Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2017, Shortlisted - Baroque Vocal
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New. Pergolesi: L'Olimpiade
Anicio Zorzi Giustiniani (Clistene), Carlotta Colombo (Aristea), Silvia Frigato (Argene), José Maria Lo Monaco (Licida), Matteo Straffi (Aminta), Theodora Raftis (Megacle), Francesca Ascioti (Alcandro); Orchestra Ghislieri, Giulio Prandi
Prandi's performance captures the elegance and urgency of the score, bringing precision, expressive freedom and sensitivity to Pergolesi's exquisite lyricism. Orchestra Ghislieri responds with... —
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BBC Music Magazine, August 2026, Opera Choice
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Special offer. Vivaldi 100. 13 Violin Concertos
Giuliano Carmignola (violin), Daniele Orlando, I Solisti Aquilani
this compilation doesn't include any of the best-known Vivaldi concertos, but there are some pearls among this set. They all glitter under the ferverish fingers of Carmignola. —
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Special offer. Bach on Nine Strings
Suite, Partita and Sonata for Two Piccolo Cellos
Mario Brunello (cello), Mauro Valli
Even without bow on string, such as in the [Fifth] Suite's Sarabande, Brunello and Valli mysteriously shape melodic contours in pizzicato that somehow seem to resonate not just in plucked vibration... —
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Gramophone Magazine, April 2026, Editor's Choice
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Carmignola asserts his own special interpretative proclivities: the magical musical intakes of breath during and at the ends of phrases, the endlessly flexible handling of dynamics, and a temporal... —
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Gramophone Magazine, Awards Issue 2022, Editor's Choice
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International Classical Music Awards, 2023, Nominated - Baroque Instrumental
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Building A Library, November 2021, Also Recommended
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Special offer. Stradella: Un angelo del Paradiso - The Orrigoni Songbook
Silvia Frigato (soloist), Ensemble Mare Nostrum, Andrea De Carlo
Frigato is devastatingly good. Frankly, if Andrea De Carlo’s Stradella project isn’t already on your radar, this selection makes a very good place to start. —
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Gramophone Magazine, December 2024, Editor's Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2025 Shortlist, Voice & Ensemble
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Special offer. Bach - Vivaldi: Double Concertos for Violin & Cello Piccolo
Giuliano Carmignola (violin), Mario Brunello (cello)
The soloists are not only superb virtuosos but they converse with the rapport of chamber musicians, and are keenly aware of period style…They parry with daring abandon Vivaldi’s barrage of challenges…while... —
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BBC Music Magazine, July 2020, Concerto Choice
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