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Special offer. Facce d'Amore
RecommendedJakub Józef Orliński (countertenor)
Il Pomo d’Oro, Maxim Emelyanychev
It's music by Luca Antonio Predieri (a nearcontemporary of Handel’s) that really hits the mark. Predieri’s gentle lyricism and clean lines suit Orliński’s soft-grained voice well. He’s no convincing... —
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The Times Records of the Year, 2019
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Presto Recording of the Week, 20th December 2019
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International Opera Awards, 2020, Winner - Solo Recital Recording
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2020, Nominee - Male Singer of the Year
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2020, Nominee - Conductor of the Year
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Gramophone Awards, 2020, Finalist - Recital
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Bruno de Sá sings with immaculate legato, and has a gift for scintillating decoration, dramatic octave drops and stratospheric ascents above the stave...The dependable Il Pomo d’Oro conducted... —
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Presto Editor's Choice, September 2022
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International Classical Music Awards, 2023, Nominated - Baroque Vocal
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Gramophone Magazine, December 2022, Editor's Choice
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2023, Nominated - Male Singer of the Year & Solo Vocal
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Pletnev dazzles in the Mussorgsky, caressing its sublime poetry with a velvet-gloved sensitivity while throttling its chilling angularities into piano-shattering submission. His Tchaikovsky... —
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Building a Library, January 2010, First Choice
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Penguin Guide, Rosette
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He dispenses tantalising apercus with a touch that delights in nuanced voicing of the most rarefied expressiveness...He oxygenates everything he touches...For anyone who loves Bach (or the piano),... —
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Gramophone Magazine, February 2015, Disc of the Month
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Gramophone Awards, 2015, Winner - Instrumental
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[Rondeau's] performance of Le vertigo is a thing of pugilistic wonder, flouncing around like an operatic diva succumbing to a hissy fit…he cuts a virtuosic swathe through Royer’s Marche des... —
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2016
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2018, Winner - Solo Recording - harpsichord (music up to and including 18th century)
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Special offer. Steffani: Niobe Regina di Tebe
Karina Gauvin (Niobe), Philippe Jaroussky (Anfione), Amanda Forsythe (Manto), Aaron Sheehan (Clearte), Terry Wey (Creonte), Jesse Blumberg (Poliferno), Colin Balzer (Tiberino) & José Lemos (Nerea)
Boston Early Music Festival Orchestra, Paul O’Dette and Stephen Stubbs
it is a scrupulously detailed, slow-burning performance with an outstanding viol consort...The supporting roles are strongly cast...Jaroussky is at his best in music of penetrating sweetness... —
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Gramophone Magazine, March 2015, Disc of the Month
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Diapason d’Or de l’Année, 2015, Winner - Opéra
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Special offer. Wonder Women
Luciana Mancini (mezzo-soprano), Céline Scheen (soprano), Vincenzo Capezzuto (contralto), Benedetta Mazzucato (mezzo-soprano), L'Arpeggiata, Christina Pluhar
The singers bring passion and intensity to each vocal number...Pluhar’s liberally-ornamented arrangements exploit the rhythmic energ y of late-Renaissance and early-Baroque music, and L’Arpeggiata... —
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Gramophone Magazine, June 2024, Editor's Choice
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The range and power of Ernman’s voice is a delight. Her dark, rich colouring adds drama to Handel’s ‘Twas when the seas’ and the final item by Eden Ahbez brings out her bluesy soul. Fun and... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 31st January 2025
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Special offer. Berlioz, Ravel & Saint-Saëns
RecommendedMarie-Nicole Lemieux (contralto), Orchestre philharmonique de Monte Carlo, Kazuki Yamada
The Berlioz and Ravel cycles are natural partners, and Lemieux’s beguiling performance sets a formidable benchmark...Kazuki Yamada ensures that the Monte-Carlo players support every nuance,... —
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2023
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International Classical Music Awards, 2024, Nominated - Vocal Music
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Special offer. R. Strauss: Lieder
RecommendedDiana Damrau (soprano)
Munich Philharmonic Orchestra, Christian Thielemann
What wins this disc the five stars are the facts that Damrau, singing in her native German, is poised ideally between dreamy haze and Schwarzkopfian fussiness...her hallowed pianissimos allow... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 17th January 2011
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Gramophone Awards, 2011, Shortlisted - Solo Vocal
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BBC Music Magazine, February 2011, Choral & Song Choice
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