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Handel: Almira
Emöke Barath, Amanda Forsythe, Colin Balzer, Christian Immler, Zachary Wilder, Robert Mealy
Boston Early Music Festival Orchestra, Paul O'Dette, Stephen Stubbs
Paul O’Dette and Stephen Stubbs’ musical direction is slick … Emöke Barath and Amanda Forsythe possess pleasingly contrasting sopranos, the former darker-toned, the latter brighter – and both... —
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Special offer. Bruch: Die Loreley
Michaela Kaune, Magdalena Hinterdobler, Danae Kontora, Thomas Mohr, Benedikt Eder, Jan-Hendrik Rootering, Thomas Hamberger, Sebastian Campione, Christian Brembeck
Münchner Rundfunkorchester, Prager Philharmonischer Chor, Stefan Blunier
Die Loreley turns out to be very worthwhile. Bruch offers first-rate technical skills, and the idiom – misty Mendelssohnian Romanticism, with a few touches of early Wagner and a certain kinship... —
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Opera, April 2019, Disc of the Month
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Special offer. Mozart: Die Verstellte Gärtnerin ('La finta giardiniera')
Sandrine Piau (Violante), Susanne Bernhard (Arminda), Lydia Teuscher (Serpetta), Olivia Vermeulen (Ramiro), Julian Prégardien (Graf Belfiore), Wolfgang Ablinger-Sperrhacke (Don Anchise), Michael Kupfer-Radecky (Roberto), Munchner Rundfunkorchester, Andrew Parrott
The sufferings of the disguised Violante are f inely captured by Sandrine Piau, while the complexities of her errant (and at one time violent) lover Belfiore are well realised by Julian Prégardien... —
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Opera, April 2023, Disc of the Month
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Special offer. Lully: Thesée
Howard Crook, Laura Pudwell, Ellen Hargis & Harry van der Kamp
Boston Early Music Festival Orchestra & Chorus, Paul O’Dette & Stephen Stubbs
This studio recording follows staged performances at the Boston Early Music Festival and is well presented in every aspect… The whole is driven with taste, style and sure dramatic sense by the... —
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Gramophone Awards, 2008, Finalist - Baroque Vocal
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Special offer. Lully: Psyché
Carolyn Sampson, Karina Gauvin, Aaron Sheehan, Colin Balzer, Amanda Forsythe, Mireille Lebel, Yulia Van Doren, Olivier Laquerre, Jason McStoots, Matthew Shaw, Aaron Engebreth, Ricard Bordas, Teresa Wakim & José Lemos
Boston Early Music Festival Orchestra & Chorus, Paul O’Dette &...
It's a slight story but the opera contains dramatic dialogues of typical realism and emotional power. Carolyn Sampson, charming of voice and intelligent with detail as ever, is Psyché, and... —
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Gramophone Awards, 2009, Finalist - Baroque Vocal
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Special offer. Strauss, R: Die Liebe der Danae, Op. 83
Franz Grundheber (Jupiter), Hans-Juergen Schoepflin (Merkur), Paul McNamara (Pollux), Manuela Uhl (Danae), Cornelia Zach (Xanthe), Robert Chafin (Midas), Susanne Bernard (Semele), Gro Bente Kjellevold (Alkmene), Katharina Peetz (Leda), Renate Behle, Martin Fleitmann, Simon Pauly, Hans Georg Ahrens...
Where the account under Ulrich Windfuhr consistently scores is in the dramatic bite of the performance...Standing out from an excellent cast is the magnificent Jupiter of Franz Grundheber, weightily... —
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Francesco Bartolomeo Conti: Il trionfo della Fama
Nicolò Balducci (Fama), Sophie Rennert (Gloria), Benedetta Mazzucato (Genio), Martin Vanberg (Destino), Riccardo Novaro (Valore), Accademia Bizantina, NovoCanto, La Stagione Armonica, Ottavio Dantone
listeners might opt to pay cursory attention to the embarrassingly sycophantic libretto (especially in recitatives) and instead simply relish Conti's high-quality synthesis of theatrical vigour... —
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International Classical Music Awards, 2026, Nominated - Baroque Vocal
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David Porcelijn secures some excellent playing from the NDR Radiophilharmonie, and the recording is absolutely top-notch. —
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this CPO release sounds thoroughly idiomatic and shows an appreciation of the composer’s clever orchestration. —
