Harmonia Mundi
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This is an attractive addition to the vast array of recordings of Monteverdi’s 1610 Vespers collection. —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 1st September 2023
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International Classical Music Awards, 2024, Nominated - Baroque Vocal
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Winner 2023
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2024, Winner - Choral
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Gramophone Awards, 2024 Shortlist, Shortlisted - Choral
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Special offer. Monteverdi: L'incoronazione di Poppea
Sonya Yoncheva (Poppea), Kate Lindsey (Nerone), Les Arts Florissants, William Christie
Cognitive dissonance reigns as gorgeous music engulfs a drama about moral implosion. —
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BBC Music Magazine, November 2019, Opera Choice
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International Classical Music Awards, 2020, Nominee – Baroque Vocal
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2020, Nominee – Conductor of the Year
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Special offer. Stravaganza d'Amore!
The Birth of Opera at the Medici Court
Pygmalion, Raphaël Pichon
Harmonia Mundi's production has all the sumptuousness of the original Medici spectacle...The performances are highly polished, chorus and ensemble, producing a glossy and liberally embellished... —
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BBC Music Magazine, October 2017, Opera Choice
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Gramophone Magazine, Awards Issue 2017, Editor's Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2018, Shortlisted – Early Music
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2018, Winner - Opera Recording (up to and including 17th/18th century)
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Gesualdo: Madrigali, Libri Quinto & Sesto
Les Arts Florissants (early music ensemble), Paul Agnew (tenor)
Here, the singers zone in on Gesualdo’s final two anthologies (perhaps the rawest of all) with their usual crystalline clarity. —
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Gramophone Awards, Finalist - Early Music
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Gramophone Magazine, May 2023, Recording of the Month
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International Classical Music Awards, 2024, Nominated - Early Music
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Nei Giardini d'Amore: Baroque Arias For Two Alti
RecommendedCarlo Vistoli, Hugh Cutting (countertenors), Les Arts Florissants, William Christie
Carlo Vistoli brings both pathos and rage to Medea's vehement outpourings...Equally compelling is Hugh Cutting's interpretation of Vivaldi's Cessate, omai cessate. His youthful countertenor... —
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BBC Music Magazine, September 2025, Vocal Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2025
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Pichon favours brisk tempos and draws lively and crisply articulated singing from his vocal ensemble. Textures are luminous and transparent, though just occasionally I found phrases a shade... —
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Opus Klassik, 2021, Winner - Choral
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Beethoven: Complete Variations For Piano, Vol. 2
Sweelinck - Bach - Cage - Feldman - Crumb
Cédric Tiberghien (piano)
This is the rewarding second volume, weaving between Beethoven’s music and illuminating interjections by others. His playing is characterful and lively, relishing the inventive ways in which... —
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The performances are excellent, even given the variety of the program. They make for an hour and 15 minutes of immersion into the Venetian spirit. The vocalists are spot on pitch, and the instruments... —
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Diapason d’Or, November 2019, Nouveauté
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Gramophone Magazine, March 2020, Editor's Choice
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Gramophone Magazine, Critics' Choice 2020
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Perpetual Night
17th Century Ayres and Songs
Lucile Richardot (contralto)
Ensemble Correspondances, Sébastien Daucé
The title may be ‘Perpetual Night’ but there’s absolutely nothing gloomy or unremitting about this delicious disc and its chiaroscuro play of shading and texture…Lawes and Locke may never quite... —
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Schallplattenkritik Awards, 2018, Winner - Jahrespreis
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Diapason d’Or de l’Année, 2018, Winner - Musique baroque vocale
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Diapason d’Or, June 2018, Nouveauté
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Gramophone Awards, 2019, Finalist - Solo Vocal
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Unsurprisingly, refinement abounds, though sometimes at the expense of ‘bite’. —
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Presto Editor's Choice, January 2019
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The New York Times, Recordings of the Year 2019
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International Classical Music Awards, 2020, Nominee - Early Music
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