Harmonia Mundi
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Conductorless Stile Antico may be, but they could never be accused of lacking direction or clear-sighted commitment to the works on this generously-filled album...The approach encourages long-range... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 29th November 2010
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Pergolesi: Stabat Mater
RecommendedAnna Prohaska (soprano) & Bernarda Fink (mezzo-soprano)
Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin, Bernhard Forck
Bernhard Forck and the orchestra balance the various emotions with skill...[the Salve Regina] is an attractive piece of no great profundity. —
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Building a Library, October 2020, Also Recommended
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Hasselhorn’s ductile baritone, with its dark middle register and free-ringing top, is a fine, wholesome instrument; and he uses it with imagination and an unexaggerated relish for the German... —
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Presto Editor's Choice, September 2020
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Staier here plays a 2004 copy of a 1734 two-manual instrument made by Hieronymus Albrecht Hass. On this aural evidence, it’s a wonderfully versatile Rolls Royce of a harpsichord, offering a... —
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International Classical Music Awards, 2023, Nominated - Baroque Instrumental
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Gli Incogniti, under the stylistically assured direction of its violinist director Amandine Beyer, captures this music’s mercurial temperament with panache. Crisp articulation, eloquently shaped... —
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2021
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Mozart: Serenata
Eine kleine Nachtmusik - Posthorn - Haffner
Münchener Kammerorchester, Enrico Onofri
[The ‘Haffner’ Serenade] has the luxury of Isabelle Faust in the three movements that constitute a mini-concerto. She brings a more organic approach to rubato than Onofri manages elsewhere,... —
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Puccini: Messa Di Gloria & Orchestral Works
Charles Castronovo (tenor), Ludovic Tézier (baritone), Orchestre Philharmonique Du Luxembourg, Gustavo Gimeno
Oscillating between benign and highspirited in character, Puccini’s 1880 mass comes with moments that would not sound out of place in a Verdi opera. Don’t expect to plunge the emotional depths;... —
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International Classical Music Awards, 2024, Nominated - Choral
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Pergolesi: Septem verba a Christo in cruce moriente prolata
World-premiere recording
Sophie Karthäuser (soprano), Christophe Dumaux (countertenor), Julien Behr (tenor), Konstantin Wolff (bass)
Akademie für Alte Musik, René Jacobs
Jacobs draws a mood of passionate concentration, throwing into high relief that work's quasi-operatic drama...There's some persuasive playing, too, by the Berlin ensemble: taut strings, magisterial... —
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BBC Music Magazine, July 2013, Choral & Song Choice
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O’Dette captures this music’s improvisatory quality with effortless finger work and fluent ornamentation. Above all, he reveals the underlying rhetoric of this vocally inspired music… the lucid... —
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Gramophone Magazine, July 2013, Editor's Choice
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Gramophone Magazine, June 2003, Editor's Choice
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