Harmonia Mundi
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Handel: Concerti a Due Cori
RecommendedPetra Müllejans
Freiburger Barockorchester, Gottfried von der Goltz
Divided into two large groups, the Freiburg period players relish the distinctive sounds of their instruments, with particularly strongly flavoured oboes and proud horns. The vital overall sound... —
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Building a Library, May 2018, Recommended Recording
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Philippe Herreweghe… employ a choir of two or three voices to a part, with good singers, and has opted for a warm resonant acoustic. In 'Respicit Dominus'… there are constant inflections of... —
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Diapason d’Or de l’Année, 2009
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Sanctissima
RecommendedVespers and Benediction For the Feast of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary
ORA Singers, Suzi Digby
Olivier Tarney’s awestruck depiction of the Assumption in In Homeward Flight – the only English-language setting on the programme – was the work which made the strongest initial impact on me,... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 18th August 2023
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a varied treasure trove of seldom heard but extremely affecting music, nicely sung and spliced together with some darkly-glittering string In Nomines played by Fretwork...[They] easily persuade... —
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Gramophone Magazine, May 2012, Editor's Choice
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Satie - Avant-Dernieres Pensees
Alexandre Tharaud (piano), with Juliette (voice), with Jean Delescluse (tenor), with Eric le Sage (piano), with Isabelle Faust (violin), with David Guerrier (trumpet)
Few collections of Satie's music have captured this much misunderstood, multi-faceted composer remotely as well as this marvellous two-disc set from Alexandre Tharaud. His approach is more intelligent... —
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Diapason d’Or de l’Année, 2009
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While on paper there's obvious common ground - Vivaldian sequences, dazzling arpeggios across the strings, languid aria-like slow movements - when imbued with the intensity and imagination of... —
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BBC Music Magazine, Concerto Choice
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Gloryland
Folk songs, Spirituals, Gospel hymns of Hope & Glory
Darol Anger (violin & mandolin) & Mike Marshal (mandolins)
Anonymous 4
Anonymous 4 is the team of four women who were acclaimed for "American Angels", which stayed in the Billboard classical charts almost a year and a half, ending at the top. "Gloryland" is a... —
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Gramophone Magazine, Awards Issue 2006, Editor's Choice
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These are virtuoso performances of some quite extraordinary music. Each sonata has its own descriptive subtitle and a movement layout which seems reluctant to conform to any set pattern. Presumably... —
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Gramophone Awards, 2000, Winner - Baroque Instrumental
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Monteverdi: L'Orfeo
RecommendedLaurence Dale (Orfeo), Efrat Ben-Nun (Euridice/La Musica), Jennifer Larmore (Messaggiera), Paul Gérimon (Caronte), Harry Peeters (Plutone), Bernarda Fink (Proserpina), Nicolas Rivenq (Apollo), Andreas Scholl (Speranza)
Concerto Vocale, René Jacobs
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Building a Library, May 2017, Also Recommended
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Elizabeth Watts, with her voice combining warmth and purity, is well suited to Bach's personal outpouring of both penitence and jubilation...[she] is on top form and the playing under Harry... —
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Gramophone Magazine, May 2011, Editor's Choice
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