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Montéclair: Jephté
David Witczak, Adriána Kalafszky, Katia Velletaz, Judith van Wanroij, Tassis Christoyannis, Clément Debieuvre, Thomas Dolié, David Witzcak, Zachary Wilder, Chantal Santon Jeffery, Orfeo Orchestra, Purcell Choir, György Vashegyi
Vashegyi’s Hungarian forces have an enviable reputation for their Rameau recordings, and Jephté, recorded during a 2019 run of concert performances, merits similar praise. There’s real relish... —
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Diapason d’Or, July/August 2020, Nouveauté
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International Classical Music Awards, 2023, Nominated - Baroque Instrumental
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Couperin, F: Pièces de violes avec la basse chiffrée
Paolo Pandolfo (viola da gamba), Amélie Chemin (viola da gamba), Thomas Boysen (theorbo & Baroque guitar), Markus Hünninger (harpsichord)
Pandolfo is a master of the style; in slow movements barely a note passes without some subtle bowing nuance or full blown ornament… recorded sound is excellent. —
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2014, Chamber Finalist
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Rossini: L'Italiana in Algeri
Vasilisa Berzhanskaya (Isabella), Alisdair Kent (Lindoro), Ricardo Seguel (Mustafà), Pablo Ruiz (Taddeo), Lilian Farahany (Elvira), Esther Kuiper (Zulma), José Coca Loza (Haly), Orchestra of the 18th Century, La Cetra Vokalensemble Basel, Giancarlo Andretta
It’s possible that in future times this set will be something of a collector’s item, thanks to the Isabella of its 29-year-old Russian mezzo, Vasilisa Berzhanskaya...possibly the finest of all... —
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International Classical Music Awards, 2024, Nominated - Opera
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Handel - Italian Cantatas Volume 2 - Cantatas for Marchese Ruspoli
Emanuela Galli & Roberta Invernizzi (sopranos)
La Risonanza, Fabio Bonizzoni (director)
Galli has a stylish approach, agile in fast movements, ornaments decorating rather than distorting Handel's lines. She is though, so bound up in the anguish of unrequited love, the common thread,... —
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Gramophone Magazine, October 2007, Editor's Choice
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The northern and southern Italian madrigal traditions meet in the person of Sigismondo d'India. The date of publication of this, his FirstBook of Madrigals (1606) reveals him to be one of the... —
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Gramophone Magazine, June 2001, Editor's Choice
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Arias for Luigi Marchesi
The great castrato of the Napoleonic era
Ann Hallenberg (mezzo)
Stile Galante, Stefano Aresi
There is perhaps no singer better able to meet this challenge than Swedish mezzo-soprano Ann Hallenberg: her rich timbre, the evenness of her register and the precision of her intonation evoke... —
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BBC Music Magazine, December 2015, Opera Choice
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Marenzio: Quinto Libro di Madrigali a sei voci
Elena Biscuola (mezzo-soprano)
La Compagnia del Madrigale
the singers infuse their accounts with the true spirit of chamber music and, as native Italian speakers, are highly responsive to the drama and nuances of the texts...offering ardent and expressive... —
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Gramophone Magazine, May 2015, Editor's Choice
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These seem to have been works for no mere amateur, and I am glad to say that in Paolo Pandolfo we have a gambist who is more than up to the task. He exploits every nuance of this music. He navigates... —
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Record Review, 30th September 2017, Recording of the Week
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Telemann: Fantasias (12) for solo violin, TWV 40:14-25
Fabio Biondi (Ferdinando Gagliano violin from the 18th century)
Biondi coaxes some ravishingly sumptuous colours to offset the invigorating brilliance of his 1767 Gagliano – the recorded sound at once supportive and graciously sympathetic. He is a man for... —
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Gramophone Awards, 2017, Shortlisted - Baroque Instrumental
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