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Beethoven: Missa Solemnis in D major, Op. 123
RecommendedCharlotte Margiono, Catherine Robbin, William Kendall, Alastair Miles
Monteverdi Choir, Orchestre Revolutionnaire et Romantique, John Eliot Gardiner
A disc that revealed Gardiner's Beethoven credentials but which also showed off his magnificent Monterverdi Choir as it edged into the 19th century. Another Record of the Year. —
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Gramophone Magazine, July 2026, 100 Greatest Recordings
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Gramophone Awards, 1991, Recording of the Year
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Gramophone Awards, 1991, Winner - Choral
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Haydn: The Creation
Recommended(sung in English)
Sandrine Piau (Gabriel), Miah Persson (Eve), Ruth Massey (alto), Mark Padmore (Uriel), Neal Davies (Raphael), Peter Harvey (Adam)
Gabrieli Consort, Gabrieli Players & Chetham's Chamber Choir, Paul McCreesh
The sheer magnificence of the choruses that provide the oratorio's structural pillars has rarely been so effectively realised on disc. McCreesh also has an exceptional set of soloists. The... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 17th March 2008
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BBC Music Magazine, May 2008, Disc of the month
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Gramophone Awards, 2008, Winner - Choral
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Special offer. Johann Christian Bach: 3 Quintets & Sextet
Trevor Pinnock (harpsichord/fortepiano/square piano), Lisa Beznosiuk (flute), David Reichenberg (oboe), Simon Standage (violin), Anthony Pleeth (cello), Anthony Halstead & David Cox (horns), Trevor Jones (viola)
The English Concert
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Special offer. Bach, C P E: Hamburg Symphonies (6) for Strings, Wq. 182 (H657-662)
RecommendedThe English Concert, Trevor Pinnock
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Gramophone Awards, 1980, Winner - Early Music
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Mozart: Idomeneo, K366
RecommendedAnthony Rolfe Johnson (Idomeneo), Anne Sofie von Otter (Idamantes), Sylvia McNair (Ilia), Hillevi Martinpelto (Elettra), Nigel Robson (Arbace)
Monteverdi Choir, English Baroque Soloists, John Eliot Gardiner
Here's a performance that blends this conductor's love of scholarship with an unerring sense of theatre. The English Baroque Soloists are magnificent in a work that puts the chorus only one... —
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Building a Library, June 2007, First Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 1991, Winner - Opera
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Gramophone Magazine, September 2004, Disc of the Month
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Haydn: Nelson Mass & Te Deum
RecommendedFelicity Lott, Carolyn Watkinson, Maldwyn Davies, David Wilson-Johnson
The English Concert & Choir, Trevor Pinnock
The British Admiral had ousted the Napoleonic fleet at the Battle of the Nile just as Haydn was in the middle of writing his Nelson Mass. Although the news could not have reached him until after... —
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Building a Library, April 2003, First Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 1988, Winner - Period performance
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Gluck: Paride ed Elena
Magdalena Kozená (Paride), Susan Gritton (Elena), Carolyn Sampson (Amore), Gillian Webster (Pallade)
Gabrieli Consort & Players, Paul McCreesh
Paride el Elena contains much striking and sensuously beautiful music, and this new set does it proud. —
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BBC Music Magazine, July 2005, Opera Choice
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Gramophone Magazine, August 2005, Editor's Choice
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Mozart: Don Giovanni, K527
RecommendedRodney Gilfry (Don Giovanni), Luba Orgonasova (Anna), Charlotte Margiono (Elvira), Eirian James (Zerlina), Christoph Prégardien (Don Ottavio), Ildebrando d'Arcangelo (Leporello), Julian Clarkson (Masetto), Andrea Silvestrelli (Commendatore)
English Baroque Soloists, John Eliot Gardiner
Gardiner's set has a great deal to commend it.
The recitative is sung with exemplary care over pacing so that it sounds as it should, like heightened and vivid conversation, often to electrifying... —Awards:
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Building a Library, July 2018, Also recommended
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Special offer. The Early Viennese School
Heinz Holliger (oboe), Thomas Füri (violin), Thomas Demenga (cello)
Camerata Bern
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