Harmonia Mundi
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Telemann: Passion Oratorio 'Mich vom Stricke meiner Sünden' ('Brockes Passion'), TWV 5:1
RecommendedBirgitte Christensen, soprano (Tochter Zion I, Gläubige Seele I, Maria, 3. Magd), Lydia Teuscher, soprano (Tochter Zion II, Gläubige Seele II, 2. Magd), Marie-Claude Chappuis, mezzosoprano (Judas, Gläubige Seele III, 1. Magd), Donát Havár, tenor (Petrus, Pilatus, Gläubige Seele IV, Hauptmann), Daniel...
…Jacobs…has mustered, with characteristic discernment, a highly responsive cast of soloists. Daniel Behle is a communicative Evangelist, responding alertly to Telemann's elegantly shaped recitative…... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 19th October 2009
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2010, Choral Finalist
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His mature affinity for Scriabin comes through in the way he contours phrases, sentences and paragraphs, and in his sensitive layering of complex textures…Where Kholodenko is least persuasive... —
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Diapason d’Or de l’Année, 2018, Winner - Piano
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Diapason d’Or, July/August 2018, Nouveauté
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In the sacred music, Stile Antico deliver performances of admirable contrapuntal clarity, sonic bloom and opulence; devotees of their approach won’t be disappointed. They could hardly dispute,... —
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Diapason d’Or, December 2019, Nouveauté
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Presto Recording of the Week, 29th November 2019
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The singers make a beautifully balanced sound with impressive fluency across each style...there is a pleasing tension between a consort blend and the vital quirkiness of individual voices...Jourdain’s... —
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Gramophone Magazine, October 2018, Editor's Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2019, Finalist - Early Music
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Uncertainty over the authenticity of the violin sonatas, coupled with the fact that Handel and his publisher were notoriously imprecise about which instruments his various solo sonatas were... —
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Gramophone Magazine, November 2001, Editor's Choice
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this album – the fourth in a series from Bezuidenhout and the Freiburger Barockorchester – is brightly and engagingly played. —
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Brahms: Ein Deutsches Requiem
RecommendedSabine Devieilhe (soprano), Stéphane Degout (baritone), Pygmalion, Raphaël Pichon
Pichon's rapport with his singers results in a moment-to-moment intensity of concentration that grips throughout. Discipline and precision are paramount but without the superhuman (and, as a... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 10th October 2025
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International Classical Music Awards, 2026, Nominated - Choral
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Special offer. Morton Feldman: The Viola in My Life
Antoine Tamestit (viola), Gürzenich-Orchester Köln, Harry Ogg, François-Xavier Roth
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As always, Paul Lewis offers playing of rare insight and intelligence. He is just as much at home in the dazzling brilliance of the C major Sonata, Op. 2 No. 3...as in the graceful lyricism... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 23rd July 2007
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Gramophone Magazine, November 2007, Editor's Choice
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Mozart: Don Giovanni, K527
RecommendedJohannes Weisser (Don Giovanni), Lorenzo Regazzo (Leporello), Alexandrina Pendatchanska (Donna Elvira), Olga Pasichnyk (Donna Anna), Kenneth Tarver (Don Ottavio), Sunhae Im (Zerlina), Nikolay Borchev (Masetto), Alessandro Guerzoni (Il Commendatore)
Freiburger Barockorchester, René Jacobs
If Jacobs is hardly the first modern conductor to present the opera in its 'original colours', his Don Giovanni is among the liveliest and most enjoyable on offer. It is certainly one of the... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 1st October 2007
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Gramophone Magazine, Awards Issue 2007, Disc of the Month
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