Glossa
-
Pierre Bouteiller: Requiem pour Voix d’Hommes
Recorded in the Église de Notre Dame du Liban, Paris, Feb. 2010
Frédéric Bétous, Didier Bouture, Eric de Fontenay, Yann Rolland (hautes-contre), Gauthier Fenoy, Edmond Hurtrait (hautes-taille), Nicolas Maire, Pascal Richardin (tailles), Justin Bonnet, David Witczak (basses-taille) & Paul-Henry Vila, Frédéric Albou (basses-contre)
Le Concert Spirituel,...
What lends the performance some interest is Niquet's reconstruction of a 17th-century service...Brossard's Stabat Mater, as conventional as Bouteiller's Requiem, is redeemed by a vigorous final... —
Purchase product
Downloads
Audio formats guide -
’Round M: Monteverdi Meets Jazz
Recorded in Mondovì (Sala Ghisleri), Italy, in November 2009
Roberta Mameli (soprano). Also featuring Emanuele Cisi (soprano and tenor saxophones), Fausto Beccalossi (accordion), Alberto Lo Gatto (double bass) & Donato Stolfi (drums)
La Venexiana, Claudio Cavina
The effect is strangely touching...Throughout, Roberta Mameli and saxophonist Emanuele Cisi are superb. —
Purchase product
Downloads
Audio formats guide -
Scarlatti, A: Lamentazioni per la Settimana Santa
Cristina Miatello (soprano) & Gian Paolo Fagotto (tenor)
Ensemble Aurora, Enrico Gatti (direction)
The musical writing is contained, even austere, as if Scarlatti wanted to find purity of expressive yield through the plainest of means. In other words, this is a setting in which the music... —
-
Monteverdi - Scherzi Musicali
Recorded Chiesa di San Carlo, Modena (Italy), in February 2008
Emanuela Galli (soprano)
La Venexiana, Claudio Cavina
…Emanuela Galli… brings panache and rhythmic flexibility to 'Quel sguardo', and plaintiveness to 'Si dolc'è il tormento' - helped by the jazzy languidity of Doron Sherwin's cornett playing.... —
Purchase product
Downloads
Audio formats guide -
Queens - Opera arias by Handel
premiered by Francesca Cuzzoni & Anna Maria Strada del Pò
Roberta Invernizzi (soprano) & Fabio Ciofini (harpsichord & direction)
Accademia Hermans
Invernizzi is often in top voice here. Her coloratura is electrifying; one can’t imagine a more commanding Berenice in ‘Scoglio d’immota fronta’. She handles pathos exquisitely, as in Alcina’s... —
Purchase product
Downloads
Audio formats guide -
Above all one is drawn to the ensemble’s tone, uncommonly deep, rich, absorbing in itself, and departing significantly from the treble-dominated spectrum that is so prevalent with English-speaking... —
Purchase product
Downloads
Audio formats guide -
Telemann: Chamber music with flute
Wilbert Hazelzet (traverso), Jaap ter Linden (cello), Konrad Junghänel (lute) & Jacques Ogg (harpsichord)
Hazelzet dips into the treasure trove of Telemann’s chamber music providing a conspectus of his inventive legacy. Various instrumental configurations appear alongside two of the celebrated Fantasias... —
Purchase product
Downloads
Audio formats guide -
delightful...Mozart steals the show, but there are enjoyable pieces by Salieri, Stadler, Druschetzky and Martin y Soler (from his opera Una cosa rara); and a divertimento by Nudera rounds it... —
Purchase product
Downloads
Audio formats guide -
the singing and playing is generally convincing and the performers are clearly well acquainted with this quirky repertoire. —
Purchase product
Downloads
Audio formats guide -
Confréries: Devotional Songs by Jaikes de Cambrai
Villard de Honnecourt: Métier, memories and travels of a 13th-century cathedral builder, vol. 2
Graindelavoix, Björn Schmelzer
I’ve anticipated this disc since being blown away by Volume 1 in 2012. Mesmerising immediacy and earthiness, worth the wait. —
Purchase product
Downloads
Audio formats guide
