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Hotteterre: Pièces pour la flute traversière
Recorded: Iglesia de San Miguel, Cuenca May 1996
Wilbert Hazelzet (flute), Jaap Ter Linden (viola da gamba), Konrad Junghanel (theorbo) & Jacques Ogg (harpsichord)
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Mozart - Music for Horn
Teunis van der Zwart (natural horn), Marc Destrubé (violin), Staas Swierstra (violin & viola), Emilio Moreno (viola), Albert Brüggen (cello) & Robert Franenberg (double bass), Claron McFadden (soprano), Erwin Wieringa (natural horn)
Orchestra of the Eighteenth Century, Frans Brüggen
Zwart is unafraid to explore the sonorous extremes offered by his natural horn, shaping melodic lines sensitively while also making the most of fruitier long notes (both low and high)...Some... —
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This vivid act of reclamation has so much to teach, and to enjoy. It shows that Stokowski's arrangements were made not only with love but acuity; that their flair and poetry may survive beyond... —
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Bach, J S: St John Passion, BWV245
Markus Schäfer (Evangelist), Thomas Oliemans (Jesus), Carolyn Sampson (soprano), Michael Chance (alto), Marcel Beekman (tenor) & Peter Kooij (bass)
Cappella Amsterdam & Orchestra of the 18th Century, Frans Brüggen (direction)
Brüggen bases this performance on the 1724 original version - retaining noticeably brisk tempos for the concluding chorus and chorale as though already party to the message of Easter...Beyond... —
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Tenebrae
Neapolitan music for the Holy Week
Valentina Varriale (soprano)
I Turchini, Antonio Florio (direction)
[The Lamentations of Caresana] provide Varriale with opportunities to beautifully emote long, arching phrases that convey restrained yet judicious word-painting, and the instrumental writing... —
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Bo Holten has an ideal solution presented in SACD surround-sound, leaving only a narrow space between double choirs… it works to perfection in the heart-rending 'Good night' of the soul leaving... —
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This recording is one of the best in La Venxiana's Monteverdi series - musically sustained with a convincing sense of ensemble and pace, and crisply recorded. —
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