Deutsche HM
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Alessandro Scarlatti: Baroque Influencer
Dorothee Oberlinger (recorder), Ensemble 1700, Bruno de Sá (soprano), Helena Rasker (alto)
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Partimenti Napoletani. Music for Keyboard Instruments by Paisiello, Durante & Dol
Katharina Heutjer (violin), Nicoleta Paraschivescu (harpsichord), Nicoleta Paraschivescu (organ)
Her playing…is agreeably feisty, forthright and conspicuously vibrant, as she approaches the music with the unstoppable assuredness of a local Vespa aficionado negotiating the bustling alleys... —
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Pastorale
Ensemble 1700, Li piffari e le muse, Dorothee Oberlinger (recorder), Dorothee Mields (soprano)
This beguiling collection of Baroque Italian Christmas music includes a cantata by Scarlatti and a winter concerto by Giovanni Guido. Corelli’s famous Christmas Concerto also features, arranged... —
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Il soffio di Partenope - Music for Woodwinds from 18th Century Naples
Ensemble Barocco di Napoli & Abchordis Ensemble, Tommaso Rossi (recorder), Fabio D'Onofrio (oboe), Giovanni Battista Graziadio (bassoon), Raffaele Di Donna (recorder)
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In short, this is great music, performed by stunning voices, but this live recording just falls short of the high polish I associate with this ensemble. —
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Pace e Guerra
Arias for Bernacchi
Terry Wey (countertenor), Vivica Genaux (mezzo), Valer Sabadus (countertenor)
Bach Consort Wien, Ruben Dubrovsky
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While the schabernacks or ‘pranks’ here won’t quite have you guffawing, it’s certainly all delivered with a merry wink…[this repertoire is] rewarding thanks to Lüthi’s playful teasings-out of... —