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Georg Friedrich Händel: Water & Fire - Water Music & the Music for the Royal Fireworks
Collegium 1704, Vaclav Luks
Collegium 1704’s reading is so joyous and brashly nonchalant that I felt like I was hearing this music for the first time. Despite being 41 musicians strong, the band brings bounce and curl... —
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2026, Shortlisted - Orchestral
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Diapason d’Or, June 2018, Découverte
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Handel: Messiah
Giulia Semenzato (soprano), Benno Schachtner (countertenor), Krystian Adam (tenor), Kresimir Strazanac (bass)
Collegium 1704 & Collegium Vocale 1704, Vaclav Luks
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International Classical Music Awards, 2019, Nominee - Baroque Vocal
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Beethoven - Complete Violin Sonatas Volume 1
RecommendedHiro Kurosaki (violin) & Linda Nicholson (fortepiano)
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Building a Library, October 2010, Also Recommended
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The muscular athleticism of his singing on this long-overdue debut solo album comes across just as strongly without his compelling stage-presence: the moustache-twirling virtuosity of villains... —
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Presto Editor's Choice, March 2020
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Kirnberger - Flute Sonatas
Frank Theuns (transverse flute), Ewald Demeyere (harpsichord) & Richte van der Meer (violoncello)
It's scintillatingly communicative. Some of the players are noticeably a touch nervous; it makes the Tchaikovsky grippingly heartfelt while the Berg...has an edgy quality that really brings... —
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BBC Music Magazine, January 2011, DVD Choice
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Zelenka: Responsoria pro hebdomada sancta & Lamentatio leremiae Prophetae
Collegium 1704 & Collegium Vocale 1704, Vaclav Luks
This compassionately stylish recording confirms Zelenka's Responsoria pro Hebdomada Sancta as a devout masterpiece —
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Gramophone Awards, 2012, Finalist - Baroque Vocal
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Haydn: Die Tageszeiten
The Day Trilogy - Symphonies Nos. 6, 7 & 8
La Petite Bande, Sigiswald Kuijken
these readings by a line-up of around 15 players - which seems to have been the size of Haydn's orchestra in his first years in Eisenstadt - sound freshly thought out, with bright solo timbres,... —
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Gramophone Magazine, March 2013, Editor's Choice
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Zelenka: Italian Arias, ZWV176
RecommendedHana Blazíková (soprano), Markéta Cukrová (alto) & Tomás Selc (bass-baritone)
Ensemble Tourbillon, Petr Wagner
the strings are superb … Lenka Torgersen, who’s the lead violinist is…a star on this recording. —
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Building A Library, November 2021, Also Recommended
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This disc came as an agreeable surprise, providing constant pleasure for more than an hour…Weidanz produces wonders of variety on her harpsichord, and the pair are clearly intimate enough to... —
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International Classical Music Awards, 2019, Nominee - Baroque Instrumental
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