Decca
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Casta Diva
Cecilia Bartoli (mezzo-soprano, soprano), Maria Goldschmidt (flute), Una Prelle (harp), Daniel Pezzotti (cello), Luciano Pavarotti (tenor), Sumi Jo (soprano), Juan Diego Flórez (tenor), Alessandro Corbelli (baritone), Celso Albelo (tenor), Luca Pisaroni (baritone), James Levine (piano), Bryn Terfel...
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Handel: Messiah
Elly Ameling, Anna Reynolds, Philip Langridge, Gwynne Howell
Academy & Chorus of St Martin in the Fields, Neville Marriner
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Arnold van Mill sings Favourite Opera Arias
Decca Most Wanted Recitals Vol. 30
Arnold van Mill (bass), Raphael Arié (bass), Wilfred Parry (piano)
Robert Wagner
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Gramophone Awards, 1985, Winner - Instrumental
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Cecilia Bartoli & Sol Gabetta: Dolce Duello - Vinyl Edition
RecommendedA delectable collection of Baroque arias for voice and cello
Cecilia Bartoli (voice) & Sol Gabetta (cello)
Cappella Gabetta
Bartoli and cellist Sol Gabetta make for valiant duelling partners who converse, parry and riposte in spirited combat. Bartoli is velvet-toned, vivacious and voluptuous as ever. Her diction... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 10th November 2017
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2017
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Gramophone Magazine, January 2018, Editor's Choice
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BBC Music Magazine, February 2018, Opera Choice
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Time and again you are left to admire the way he never burdens Bach's transparency and profundity with a portentous or heavy air of significance. Touchingly and admirably, he always allows... —
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BBC Music Magazine, May 2006, Disc of the month
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Donizetti: Lucia di Lammermoor
RecommendedJoan Sutherland (Lucia), Luciano Pavarotti (Edgardo), Sherrill Milnes (Enrico), Nicolai Ghiaurov (Raimondo)
Chorus & Orchestra of Royal Opera House Covent Garden, Richard Bonynge
As Callas's star waned so Joan Sutherland's rose. Her Lucia is different, moving the heart through beauty of tone. Sutherland recorded the role four times - the first two have vocal freshness... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 18th November 2010
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Presto Favourites
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Ashkenazy makes the climax of the Adagio [in the Scottish] dramatically urgent rather than sombrely massive, and conducts perhaps the most ferocious finale on disc, steely trumpets to the fore.... —
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Building a Library, September 2008, First Choice
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Building a Library, June 2009, First Choice
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