Challenge Classics
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Purcell: Dido and Aeneas
Raffaella Milanesi (Dido), Richard Helm (Aeneas), Stefanie True (Belinda), Iason Marmaras (Sorceress), Michela Antenucci (First Witch, Sailor) & Anna Bessi (Second Witch, Spirit)
La Risonanza & Coro Constanzo Porta, Fabio Bonizzoni
The real star is the instrumental playing (how the dances swing!); and with less at stake, warmly stylish, The Love of Mars and Venus proves a delightful postscript. —
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Mozart: Gran Partita
Vinciane Baudhuin (oboe), Annelies Decock (violin), Mika Akiha (viola), Ronan Kernoa (cello), Ewald Demeyere (fortepiano)
Quatuor Dialogues
Quatuor Dialoguees and the fortepianist Ewald Demeyere make a decent case for the arrangement…[and] there’s some touching extempore ornamentation throughout —
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Berlioz: La Damnation de Faust, Op. 24
Charlotte Margiono (soloist), Thomas Quasthoff (soloist), Vinson Cole (soloist), Jaco Huijpen (soloist)
Radio Filharmonisch Orkest, Groot Omroepkoor, Bernard Haitink
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Bach, J S: Brandenburg Concertos Nos. 1-6 BWV1046-1051
Combattimento Consort Amsterdam, Jan Willem de Vriend
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Michel-Richard DeLalande: Symphonies pour les Soupers du Roy
Elbipolis Baroque Orchestra of Hamburg, Jürgen Gross
This is their first recording of French music and is characterised by delicacy, warmth and clarity. —
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Muffat, Georg: Florilegium primum
Jochen Grüner (violin), Kathrin Tröger (violin), Clarissa Miller (viola), Lothar Haass (viola), Günter Holzhausen (bass viol), Veronika Brass (harpsichord)
Ensemble Salzburg Barock
Ensemble Salzburg Barock perform the eight suites of Florilegium primum with style and what has come to seem a typically Austrian forthright and grainy sound —
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