Challenge Classics
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Handel: Concerti grossi Op. 3 Nos. 1-6, HWV312-317
RecommendedCombattimento Consort Amsterdam, Jan Willem de Vriend
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Building a Library, October 2017, Also Recommended
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Koopman achieves a truly astonishing clarity and focus from 16 voices… He's superbly served, too, by his instrumentalists, horns flying effortlessly through uplifting strands of figures in... —
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BBC Music Magazine, June 2008, Disc of the month
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Bach, J S: Musical Offering, BWV1079
Ton Koopman (harpsichord & director)
Members of the Amsterdam Baroque
Played with telling clarity and suppleness by members of Amsterdam Baroque, the canons never sound dry or academic… —
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MacMillan: St. Luke Passion
RecommendedPeter Dicke (organ)
Netherlands Radio Chamber Philharmonic, Netherlands Radio Choir & National Youth Choir, Markus Stenz
The music is good at portraying the extremes of almighty power. —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 6th April 2015
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Wartime Consolations
Linus Roth (violin) & José Gallardo (piano)
Württemberg Chamber Orchestra Heilbronn, Ruben Gazarian
[Weinberg's] delicate Concertino steals the show in Linus Roth's elegant and tender performance. The opening melody is a lyrical gift from God. —
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Gramophone Magazine, September 2015, Editor's Choice
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James MacMillan: Works for Chamber Orchestra with Soloists
Linus Roth (violin), Lars Wouters van den Oudeweijer (clarinet), Julius Berger (cello)
Netherlands Radio Chamber Philharmonic, James MacMillan
[From Ayrshire] is played here with burnished lyricism by the German violinist Linus Roth, who scorches the brief, 'fast-reel', second movement with virtuosity...MacMillan elicits a magnificent... —
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BBC Music Magazine, September 2014, Concerto Choice
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Performing on two copies of Stefanini and Ruckers harpsichords, Ton Koopman completes the exquisite solo oeuvre by Buxtehude with captivating élan. For a musician with somewhat precipitous tendencies,... —
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Gramophone Magazine, May 2008, Editor's Choice
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The solos and duos on this radiant release from Fedorov, Daniel Rowland and Maja Bogdanović are in themselves powerfully intimate, and are imbued with still greater intensity in light of the... —
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BBC Music Magazine, March 2023, Chamber Choice
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Italophilia - Discovering the Italian Style in Handel's London
Aljosja Mietus, Thomas Triesschijn, Matthea de Muynck, Petr Hamouz, Giulio Quirici, Kristen Witmer (leadvocalist), Anne-Linde Visser, The Counterpoints
Though the larger, formalised structures are excellently performed, the more folky, embroidered, improvisatory moments of the album stand out as exceptional. —
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Gramophone Magazine, February 2025, Editor's Choice
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