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Rameau: Les Fêtes de l'Hymen et de l'Amour, ou Les Dieux d'Égypte
RecommendedCarolyn Sampson, Chantal Santon-Jeffery, Blandine Staskiewicz (sopranos), Jennifer Borghi (alto), Reinoud Van Mechelen, Mathias Vidal (countertenors), Tassis Christoyannis, Alain Buet (basses)
Le Concert Spirituel, Hervé Niquet
The music, with Rameau very much in his prime, matches the spectacle and drama...While Herve Niquet's musical direction is generally and excellently consistent, this performance is by no means... —
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2014
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Caresana: L’Adoratione de’ Maggi
Recorded in Naples in December 2009
Maria Grazia Schiavo, Valentina Varriale (sopranos), Filippo Mineccia (countertenor), Giuseppe De Vittorio, Rosario Totaro (tenors) & Giuseppe Naviglio (bass)
I Turchini, Antonio Florio (direction)
This collection of Nativity cantatas suggests a richly colourful, dramatically inclined musical personality...Antonio Florio directs the period instruments of I Turchini pliantly. This is a... —
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BBC Music Magazine, December 2010, Christmas Choice
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Steffan’s style is ultimately original and distinctive...Having dusted off these forgotten scores for her swansong recording, Mitzi Meyerson makes for a persuasive advocate...In sum, Steffan... —
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BBC Music Magazine, October 2021, Instrumental Choice
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Purcell: King Arthur, Z628
Véronique Gens, Hanna Bayodi, Béatrice Jarrige, Cyril Auvity, Joseph Cornwell, Peter Harvey
Le Concert Spirituel, Hervé Niquet
…none of the spoken dialogue is included in this new recording of Purcell's music - brought to life with energy and a pleasing element of bucolic high spirits by Hervé Niquet's singers and instrumentalists.... —
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Gramophone Magazine, October 2004, Editor's Choice
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Monteverdi: Il ottavo libro de madrigali, 1638 'Madrigali guerrieri et amorosi'
RecommendedLa Venexiana
In their Monteverdi Editions, La Venexiana bring a dramatic delivery of the words and a uniquely Italian blend of solo voices to this glorious music, unrivalled on disc. —
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Building a Library, May 2009, First Choice
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Gasparini: Il Bajazet
Leonardo De Lisi (Bajazet), Filippo Mineccia (Tamerlano), Giuseppina Bridelli (Asteria), Ewa Gubanska (Irene), Antonio Giovannini (Andronico), Benedetta Mazzucato (Clearco), Raffaele Pe (Leone), Giorgia Cinciripi (Zaida)
Auser Musici, Carlo Ipata
Leonardo De Lisi commands Borosini's odd tenor-baritone register…and communicates Bajazet's brooding complexity even in the shortest of numbers. Countertenor Filippo Mineccia's edgy, ferocious... —
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Gramophone Magazine, July 2015, Editor's Choice
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Monteverdi: L'incoronazione di Poppea
RecommendedEmanuela Galli (Poppea), Roberta Mameli (Nerone), Josè Maria Lo Monaco (Ottone), Xenia Meijer (Ottavia), Ian Honeyman (Arnalta) & Raffaele Costantini (Seneca)
La Venexiana, Claudio Cavina (direction)
The star of the show is the splendid Seneca (Raffaele Costantini), and there are notable cameos from Romina Tomasoni (Venus and Pallas), and Makoto Sakurada (as Ottavia's nurse). There is plenty... —
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Building a Library, January 2014, First Choice
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This new recording...surpasses all others. The singers not only reveal the depths of Gesualdo's emotional understanding, but also his formal, harmonic and textural control...La Compagnia del... —
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BBC Music Magazine, July 2014, Choral & Song Choice
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Jean-Baptiste Stuck: Polydore
Cyrille Dubois (tenor), David Witczak, Chloé Briot, Judith van Wanroij (soprano), Hélène Guilmette, Thomas Dolié (baritone), Tassis Christoyannis (bass), Orfeo Orchestra, Purcell Choir, György Vashegyi
Vashegyi’s excellent choir and orchestra respond to his demands with their usual idiomatic insight, making this an irresistible acquisition for all lovers of French Baroque opera. —
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Opera, July 2023, Disc of the Month
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Cavalli: Artemisia
Francesca Lombardi Mazzulli (Artemisia), Roberta Mameli (Artemia), Valentina Coladonato (Oronta), Maarten Engeltjes (Meraspe), Andrea Arrivabene (Alindo), Marina Bartoli (Ramiro), Silvia Frigato (Eurillo), Salvo Vitale (Indamoro), Alberto Allegrezza (Erisbe) & Alessandro Giangrande (Niso)
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The score is a musky pot pourri of dewy love songs, indignant recitatives, balmy passacaglias, lullabies and laments...Together with Silvia Frigato's nimble page Eurillo, Allegrezza delivers... —
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Gramophone Magazine, September 2011, Editor's Choice
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