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Roberta Invernizzi: Handel in Italy
Recorded in Saint Michel en Thiérache, Chiesa di San Salvatore (Rodengo Saiano, Brescia, Italy) between 2005 and 2009
Roberta Invernizzi (soprano) & Fabio Bonizzoni (harpsichord & direction)
La Risonanza
With her bright tone and brilliant technique, Roberto Invernizzi is an ideal interpreter of the florid numbers; but she is equally adept in gentler arias...Singing, playing and direction are... —
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Vivaldi: Trio Sonatas (12) for Two Violins & Continuo, Op. 1
Ensemble Aurora, Enrico Gatti (violin & direction)
Enrico Gatti's restrained approach emphasises clarity and musicianly grace, in which he is well partnered by his colleagues in the Aurora Ensemble. They produce performances that give pleasure... —
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Cesena: Songs for Popes, Princes & Mercenaries
Codex Chantilly [C1400]
Olalla Alemán, Eurudike De Beul (superius), Yves Van Handenhove, Albert Riera, Marius Peterson, Lieven Gouwy (tenor) & Tomàs Maxé, Antoni Fajardo, Thomas Vanlede (basses)
Graindelavoix, Björn Schmelzer
everything is done with considerable precision and there are some superb voices, carefully controlled. Equally, it is clear that a powerful mind has gone to work on trying to see and hear this... —
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Gustave Charpentier: Music for the Prix de Rome
Manon Feubel, Sabine Devieilhe (sopranos), Helena Bohuszewicz (contralto), Julien Dran (tenor), Bernard Richter (tenor), Marc Barrard & Alain Buet (baritone)
Flemish Radio Choir, Royal Symphonic Band of the Belgian Guides & Brussels Philharmonic, Hervé Niquet
Two of the works here [Didon and La vie du Poete] pointed to a serious future for Charpentier in opera...the standard of performance under Herve Niquet and his chosen Belgian soloists and ensembles... —
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What increases the appeal of this programme is the accompanying selection of fine motets by Striggio's compatriot Orazio Benevoli's...and some settings of plainchants by Francesco Corteccia... —
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Campra: Le Carnaval de Venise
Salomé Haller (Isabelle), Marina de Liso (Léonore), Andrew Foster-Williams (Rodolphe), Alain Buet (Léandre), Mathias Vidal (Orphée), Sarah Tynan (Euridice), Blandine Staskiewicz (Minerve/La Fortune), Luigi de Donato (Le Carnaval/Pluton)
Le Concert Spirituel, Hervé Niquet
Hervé Niquet directs a fine instrumental ensemble whose players are entirely at ease with the score's stylistic niceties. The singing is more variable, though Salome Haller is magnificent as... —
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Forqueray: Pièces de viole avec la basse continuë Paris, 1747
Recorded in Montevarchi di Arezzo, Italy, in February 1994 and April 1995
Paolo Pandolfo (viola da gamba), Guido Balestracci (viola da gamba), Rolf Lislevand (theorbo & Baroque guitar), Eduardo Egüez (theorbo & Baroque guitar) & Guido Morini (harpsichord)
I love the shifting textures in this recording as plucked and bowed strings entwine themselves in different combinations in the continuo parts. Pandolfo frees himself from metric restraints,... —
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André Campra: Gli strali d’Amore Divertimento immaginario
Recorded in Brunello, Italy, in November 2010
Roberta Invernizzi (Leonora), Cyril Auvity (Lelio), Salvo Vitale (Il Dottore) & Fabio Bonizzoni (harpsichord & direction)
La Risonanza
The instrumental contribution is superb. Roberta Invernizzi is dramatically effective and often delightful in the more extended lyrical moments, if not always comfortable in terms of pitch.... —
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