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Corina Belcea’s willingness to soar and slide with such sensual abandon makes it deliciously seductive… The second Szymanowski a decade later takes us even further with its post-Ravel impressionisms,... —
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2025
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Mozart: Complete Works For Clarinet, Vol. 2
Nicolas Baldeyrou (clarinet), Gabriel Pidoux, David Guerrier, David Douçot, Kölner Akademie (chamber ensemble), Michael Alexander Willens
Baldeyrou's recording shines a spotlight on this genre which despite flourishing between 1770 and 1830, particularly in Paris, is now sadly neglected on the concert platform and in the recording... —
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as a whole Nevermind’s well recorded, illuminating approach offers an enjoyable and engaging supplement to the abundant versions for harpsichord and piano available. —
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The disc opens appropriately with an unpretentious but nevertheless accomplished unmeasured Prelude...then follows it with a thoughtfully commanding performance of the first 1747 suite. Two... —
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Gramophone Magazine, November 2016, Editor's Choice
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Hannigan’s luminous voice perfectly suits this music. She conveys the uneasy, almost unhinged feel of the fin de siècle not only in her lyric singing, but also in her crooning, swopping, sliding,... —
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Presto Editor's Choice, September 2018
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Haydn 2032 Volume 3: Solo e pensoso
RecommendedFrancesca Aspromonte (soprano)
Il Giardino Armonico, Giovanni Antonini
As in the previous volumes, the orchestral playing is breathtaking in its accuracy - the sort of Haydn playing you dream of…this may well become the period-instrument Haydn cycle by which all... —
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2016
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Antonini’s performances are as lively as ever, keeping the players of the Kammerorchester Basel on their toes throughout. Followers of this series needn’t hesitate. —
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International Classical Music Awards, 2025, Nominated - Symphonic Music
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As always, Antonini coaxes first-class performances from the members of Il Giardino Armonico. —
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BBC Music Magazine, March 2023, Orchestral Choice
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As an album it radiates an inventive glee similar to Uri Caine’s Goldberg Variations (Winter & Winter, 10/00). Consider the Ikea-esque build-your-own-motet approach of Super flumina Babylonis. —
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Gramophone Awards, 2025 Shortlist, Early Music
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