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Monteverdi: L'Orfeo
RecommendedEmanuela Galli (La Musica/Eurydice), Mirko Guadagnini (Orfeo), Marina De Liso (Messaggiera), Cristina Calzolari (Proserpina), Matteo Bellotto (Plutone), Josè Lo Monaco (Speranza), Salvo Vitale (Caronte), Vincenzo Di Donato (Apollo), Francesca Cassinari (Ninfa), Giovanni Caccamo (Pastore I), Makoto...
Emanuela Galli (Euridice/La Musica) is splendid in voice and emotion and Mirko Guadagnini (Orfeo) is arresting in the low-lying lamenting sections of Act V but rather dry in the upper range. —
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Building a Library, November 2007, First Choice
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Gramophone Magazine, November 2007, Editor's Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2008, Winner - Baroque Vocal
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New. Arias for Giovanni Rubinelli
Filippo Mineccia (countertenor), Istante Collective, Alexandra Tarniceru
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Handel - Italian Cantatas Volume 7
RecommendedRecorded in the English Church, Den Haag and in Saint-Michel en Thiérache in January 2007 & June 2009
Roberta Invernizzi (soprano), Thomas E. Bauer (bass), Furio Zanasi (bass) & Fabio Bonizzoni (harpsichord & direction)
La Risonanza
The vocalists here are electrifying...Above all, it is the instrumentalists that make this a stellar disc; their eloquence equals and at times overflows that of the vocalists. The invention... —
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Gramophone Magazine, October 2010, Disc of the Month
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Gramophone Awards, 2011, Winner - Baroque Vocal
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I Viaggi di Faustina
Faustina Bordoni’s journeys to Naples
Roberta Invernizzi (soprano)
I Turchini, Antonio Florio
Invernizzi triumphs in this recording, re-animating Baroque prima donna Faustina Bordoni's legacy with grace and authority. The Italian soprano deftly captures Bordoni's celebrated qualities... —
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BBC Music Magazine, June 2013, Disc of the month
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Gramophone Magazine, July 2013, Editor's Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2014, Finalist - Recital
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Marenzio: Primo Libro di Madrigali 1580
RecommendedLa Compagnia del Madrigale: Rossana Bertini, Francesca Cassinari (sopranos), Elena Carzaniga (alto), Giuseppe Maletto, Raffaele Giordani (tenors), Daniele Carnovich (bass) with: Paolo Borgonovo (tenor), Marco Ricagno (bass)
La Compagnia del Madrigale has done him proud with sublime, gorgeously toned and exquisitely expressive interpretations, moreover, the clarity and depth of the recording itself draws the listener... —
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Gramophone Magazine, October 2013, Editor's Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2014, Winner - Early Music
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Muscular arpeggiata preludes cede to pizzicato dances of ineffable suavity, and a fugue of dazzling complexity. The sound is intoxicating, Pandolfo’s expressivity and technique beyond praise. —
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2010, Instrumental Finalist
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Gramophone Awards, 2010, Finalist - Baroque Instrumental
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Gramophone Magazine, July 2009, Editor's Choice
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One of Invernizzi's virtues is her ability to be fluently articulate and expressive, both in show-stoppers and arias that call for compassion, contemplation and reflection. Unlike some of her... —
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Gramophone Awards, 2012, Finalist - Recital
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Gramophone Magazine, July 2012, Editor's Choice
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BBC Music Magazine, September 2012, Opera Choice
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These extremely accomplished singers makes sense of these notoriously wayward and enigmatic works… they are able to capture the kaleidoscopic thoughts of the poetry, producing clarity of utterance... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 4th March 2013
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Diapason d’Or de l’Année, 2013, Winner - Musique ancienne
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Rachmaninoff: Liturgy of St John Chrysostom, Op. 31
RecommendedFlemish Radio Choir, Kaspars Putninsh
Rachmaninov's Liturgy is less well known than his Vigil ('Vespers'), but has nevertheless gained in popularity with western choirs as a concert item in recent years, though the double-choir... —
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Gramophone Magazine, January 2007, Editor's Choice
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Presto Favourites, Recommended Recording
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It’s a disc full of fast-flying vocal runs, jagged leaps and show-off turns of phrase, also moments of reflection and starkly simple declamation prefiguring the mature Gluck. The period band... —
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BBC Music Magazine, July 2017, Opera Choice
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Opera, September 2017, Recording of the Month
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