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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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Special offer. Venetian Vespers
RecommendedFive Vespers of the Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin as it might have been celebrated in St. Marks in 1643
Timothy Roberts (organ)
Gabrieli Consort and Players, Paul McCreesh
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Gramophone Awards, 1993, Winner - Early Music
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Kermes is on top form, singing with vocal clarity, tonal precision and inflective subtlety. —
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BBC Music Magazine, April 2008, Opera Choice
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Gramophone Magazine, May 2008, Editor's Choice
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Handel: Orlando
RecommendedBejun Mehta (Orlando), Sophie Karthäuser (Angelica), Kristina Hammarström (Medoro), Sunhae Im (Dorinda), Konstantin Wolff (Zoroastro)
B'Rock Orchestra, René Jacobs
Mehta brings lively characterisation to the mythical hero's subtle duality. I the uppermost notes of his vocal range sound a little pinched, there is ample compensation in bravura passagework...Im... —
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Building a Library, September 2014, First Choice
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Special offer. Handel: Acis and Galatea
RecommendedNorma Burrowes (Galatea), Anthony Rolfe Johnson (Acis), Martyn Hill (Damon), Willard White (Polyphemus) & Paul Elliot (Corydon)
The English Baroque Soloists, John Eliot Gardiner
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Gramophone Awards, 1978, Winner - Early Music
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Gramophone Awards, 1984, Winner - Early Music - Baroque
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Of all the great cellists, Pierre Fournier came closer to the heart of the music than almost any other. He seems to have possessed all the virtues of his fellow cellists without yielding to... —
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Special offer. Telemann: Der getreue Music-Meister
RecommendedEdith Mathis, Hertha Topper, Ernst Haefliger, Gerhard Unger
Josef Ulsamer
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Penguin Guide, Rosette
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Handel: Rodelinda
Simone Kermes (Rodelinda), Marijana Mijanovic (Bertarido), Sonia Prina (Eduige), Marie-Nicole Lemieux (Unolfo), Steve Davislim (Grimoaldo), Vito Priante (Garibaldo)
Il Complesso Barocco, Alan Curtis
Of available recordings this set has the edge, for its greater dramatic urgency and richer characterisation. —
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BBC Music Magazine, Opera Choice
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Gramophone Magazine, September 2005, Editor's Choice
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Handel: Alcina
RecommendedJoyce DiDonato (Alcina), Maite Beaumont (Ruggiero), Karina Gauvin (Morgana), Sonia Prina (Bradamante), Kobie Van Rensburg (Oronte), Laura Cherici (Oberto), Vito Priante (Melisso)
Il Complesso Barocco, Alan Curtis
…mezzo-soprano Joyce DiDonato brings firebrand fioritura (vocal embellishment), impeccably naturalistic recitative and an inimitable everywoman pathos to the soprano title-role. —
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Gramophone Magazine, May 2009, Editor's Choice
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Building a Library, May 2016, Also Recommended
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