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Handel: Arminio
Christopher Lowrey, Anna Devin, Sophie Junker, Helena Rasker, Paul Hopwood, Owen Willetts & Cody Quattlebaum
Festspielorchester Göttingen, Laurence Cummings
Lowrey is as expressive as he is athletic, and his characterisation carries the action…Sometimes Devin steals the show with her sincerity, vocal lustre, wistful pathos and knock-out extemporising.... —
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Handel: Susanna, HWV66
Emily Fons (Susanna), Christopher Lowrey (Joacim), Colin Balzer (1st Elder), Raimund Nolte (2nd Elder) & Ciara Hendrick (Daniel)
Göttingen Festival Orchestra & NDR Choir, Laurence Cummings
[This recording] is conducted sagely by Laurence Cummings, whose direction is alert to the broad range of dramatic atmospheres, situations, characterisations and musical styles in the oratorio.... —
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Mozart: Così fan tutte, K. 588 (Live)
Markus Schäfer (tenor), Per Vollestad, Huub Claessens, Soile Isokoski (soprano), Monica Groop (mezzo-soprano), Nancy Argenta (soprano), La Petite Bande, Sigiswald Kuijken
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Handel: Siroe, King of Persia, HWV24
Yosemeh Adjei (Siroe), Anna Dennis (Emira), Aleksandra Zamojska (Laodice), Antonio Giovannini (Medarse), Lisandro Abadie (Cosroe) & Ross Ramgobin (Arasse)
FestspielOrchester Göttingen, Laurence Cummings
The arias are without exception quite stunning and it is surprisingly fresh and has moments of real beauty and imagination. —
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At its best, the music of Rodrigo has an invigorating freshness, its raw, sometimes gawky energy tempered by an Italianate melodic suavity that Handel had honed in his cantatas...Cummings directs... —
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Handel: Agrippina
Ulrike Schneider (Agrippina), João Fernandes (Claudio), Christopher Ainslie (Ottone), Jake Arditti (Nerone), Ida Falk Winland (Poppea), Ross Ramgobin (Pallante), Owen Willetts (Narciso) & Ronaldo Steiner (Lesbo)
Festspielorchester Göttingen, Laurence Cummings
Cummings focuses on the excitement of live production: with furious tempos, eloquent silences and spurts to the finish line, he and the band are dramatic from first measure to last. Cummings... —
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Handel: Rodelinda
Anna Dennis (Rodelinda), Christopher Lowrey (Bertarido), Thomas Cooley (Grimoaldo), Franziska Gottwald (Eduige), Julien Van Mellaerts (Garibaldo), Owen Willetts (Unulfo)
FestspielOrchester Göttingen, Laurence Cummings
Cummings, a seasoned and sensitive Handelian, directs his firstrate period band with a vivid sense of colour, character and dramatic situation. The Göttingen cast is uniformly strong. —
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A thoughtful intelligence and quiet eloquence underpin this crop of early recordings by Cantus Cölln’s founding director. Introspective Piccinini steals the disc devoted to Italy. —
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Mozart: Don Giovanni, K. 527 (Live)
Werner van Mechelen (bass-baritone), Elena Vink, Huub Claessens, Harry van der Kamp (bass), Markus Schäfer (tenor), Christina Högman (soprano), Nancy Argenta (soprano), Nanco de Vries, La Petite Bande, Collegium Compostellanum, Sigiswald Kuijken
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Mozart: Le nozze di Figaro, K492
Christiane Oelze (Susanna), Hubert Claessens (Figaro), Patrizia Biccire (La Contessa), Werner Van Mechelen (Il Conte), Monica Groop (Cherubino), Yves Saelens (Basilio), Béatrice Cramoix (Marcellina), Harry Van der Kamp (Bartolo), Philip Defrancq (Curzio), Marie Kuijken (Barbarina), Jean-Guy Devienne...
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