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Special offer. Monteverdi: Tutti i madrigali - Complete Madrigals
Concerto Italiano, Rinaldo Alessandrini
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Special offer. Vivaldi: Dorilla in Tempe
RecommendedRomina Basso (Dorilla), Serena Malfi (Elmiro), Marina de Liso (Nomio), Lucia Cirillo (Filindo), Sonia Prina (Eudamia), Christian Senn (Admeto)
I Barocchisti, Diego Fasolis
Fasolis and I Barocchisti deliver a ripe and zesty performance…In this new account there is dramatic tautness to recitatives…Elmiro’s energetic Neapolitan-style arias by Hasse and Leo are sung... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 22nd December 2017
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Special offer. Vivaldi: Orlando finto pazzo, RV727
Antonio Abete, Gemma Bertagnolli, Marina Comparato, Sonia Prina, Martin Oro, Marianna Pizzolato
Coro del Teatro Regio di Torino, Academia Montis Regalis, Alessandro de Marchi
Orlando finto pazzo ('Orlando feigns madness') was the second of Vivaldi's numerous operas, and his first for the Venetian stage. The story of Orlando's madness is taken not from the usual source,... —
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Gramophone Magazine, September 2004, Editor's Choice
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Special offer. Vivaldi: La Fida Ninfa
Lorenzo Regazzo, Veronica Cangemi, Philippe Jaroussky, Sandrine Piau, Marie-Nicole Lemieux, Topi Lehtipuu & Sara Mingardo
Ensemble Matheus, Jean-Christophe Spinosi
Vivaldi's score is a ravishing one, offering a rewarding sequence of beguiling arias, duets, a trio and a quartet. Sandrine Piau (Licori) and Verónica Cangemi (Morasto) take on the considerable... —
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Diapason d’Or de l’Année, 2009
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They are striking for the Trio Sōra’s razor-sharp articulation, and ideal balances in both the rhythmic and harmonic realm. Also impressive and welcome is the ensemble’s observance of Beethoven’s... —
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The Times Records of the Year, 2020
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Special offer. Vivaldi: Tito Manlio RV 738
Nicola Ulivieri, Karina Gauvin, Debora Beronesi, Ann Hallenberg, Marijana Mijanovic, Barbara Di Castri, Mark Milhofer, Christian Senn
Accademia Bizantina, Ottavio Dantone
The cast, headed by Karina Gauvin in the heroic castrato role of Manlio, son of Tito Manlio, is very good indeed. Notwithstanding a few cuts, this production is a triumph prefaced, in the absence... —
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Gramophone Magazine, April 2006, Disc of the Month
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Building a Library, February 2021, Also Recommended
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Chamayou (on a Steinway) offers a luminous, supple, poetic sensibility that you sense is uncannily close to how Liszt himself would have imagined and played these wondrous pieces. Chamayou's... —
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Gramophone Magazine, March 2012, Editor's Choice
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How do you like your Bartók quartets served? With precision, passion, a sense of mystery or a sense of humour? With spontaneity or with a pinch of paprika?...Quatuor Diotima offer a balanced... —
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International Classical Music Awards, 2019, Nominee - Chamber Music
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Special offer. Vivaldi: L'Olimpiade RV725
RecommendedMarianna Kulikova (mezzo-soprano), Sara Mingardo (contralto), Laura Giordano (soprano), Riccardo Novaro (baritone), Sergio Foresti (bass)
Concerto Italiano, Rinaldo Alessandrini
there's some beautiful music here, and fine performances...Alessandrini only relaxes his grip on the score to allow the most beautiful passages breathing space, and the playing is brilliant. —
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Building a Library, April 2012, First Choice
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