Harmonia Mundi
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Mozart: La finta giardiniera, K196
Recommendedposthumous version from 1796
Sophie Karthäuser (Sandrina/Violante), Nicolas Rivenq (La Podesta), Jeremy Ovenden (Il Contino Belfiore), Alex Penda (Arminda), Marie-Claude Chappuis (Ramiro), Sunhae Im (Serpetta), Michael Nagy (Nardo/Roberto)
Freiburger Barockorchester, René Jacobs
Jacobs's interpretations are always interesting, but here they slip between the magically unique and the quirky. The magical elements include the beautifully effective new orchestration of the... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 10th September 2012
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Charpentier: Médée
RecommendedLes Arts Florissants and William Christie, William Christie, Les Arts Florissants, Marie-Claude Vallin, Catherine Bignalet, Dominique Visse, Jill Feldman, Sophie Boulin, Gilles Ragon, Michel Laplénie, Jacques Bona, Philippe Cantor, Agnès Mellon, Françoise Paut, François Fauché, Monique Zanetti, Catherine...
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Gramophone Awards, 1985, Winner - Early Music (Baroque)
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Scarlatti: Griselda
Dorothea Röschmann (Griselda), Lawrence Zazzo (Gualtiero), Bernarda Fink (Roberto), Silvia Tro Santafé (Ottone), Veronica Cangemi (Costanza), Kobie Van Rensburg (Corrado)
Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin, René Jacobs
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The Schumann Trilogy. Complete Concertos & Piano Trios
Isabelle Faust (violin), Jean-Guihen Queyras (cello), Alexander Melnikov (piano), Freiburger Barockorchester, Pablo Heras-Casado
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Coming soon. Handel's Italians: Italian Castrati in the London Oratorios
Le Concert d'Astrée, Emmanuelle Haïm, Carlo Vistoli, Giulia Semenzato
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Needless to say, there’s much to enjoy in Lewis’s playing – not least the lyricism of the C minor Sonata’s opening movement, or the depth of the Adagio in the E minor Sonata and the brilliance... —
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Special offer. Rameau: Platée
Marcel Beekman (Platée), Jeanine De Bique (La Folie), Cyril Auvity (Thespis/Mercure), Marc Mauillon (Momus/Cithéron), Edwin Crossley-Mercer (Jupiter)
Les Arts Florissants, Arnold Schoenberg Chor, William Christie
Under Christie, overtures and dances are terse, with tense articulation and precise meter. While carefully shaping soloists’ ensembles, Christie gives tenor Marcel Beekman, cross-dressed in... —
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Coming soon. Mozart: Piano Concertos K. 175, 449 & 466
Kristian Bezuidenhout (early keyboard instruments), Freiburger Barockorchester
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An extraordinary hypnotic account of music from 12-century Jerusalem associated with the Templars, sung with vigour by Ensemble Organum. —
