Naive
-
Special offer. Baroque Voices 11 - Pergolesi & Scarlatti: Stabat Mater
RecommendedGemma Bertagnolli & Sara Mingardo
Concerto Italiano, Rinaldo Alessandrini
This is a totally Italianate performance of both high drama and moving pathos...Alessandrini's instrumental support could not be more telling, and the recording is made in an ideal acoustic. —
Awards:
-
Gramophone Magazine, July 2026, Editor's Choice
-
Penguin Guide, Rosette
Purchase product
Downloads
Audio formats guide -
-
Alessandrini has opened a window on to Bach's music and let a refreshing current of air run through it —
Awards:
-
Gramophone Awards, 2006, Finalist
-
BBC Music Magazine, November 2005, Disc of the month
-
Gramophone Magazine, November 2005, Editor's Choice
Purchase product
Downloads
Audio formats guide -
-
The Mosaïques, at a rather slower tempo than usual, find in the themeand- variation finale of the G major Quartet, No 5, an unsuspected reflective tenderness.
The theme itself is played with... —Awards:
-
Gramophone Awards, 1996, Winner - Chamber
Purchase product
Downloads
Audio formats guide -
-
Special offer. Vivaldi: Concerti per violino VIII ‘Il teatro'
Julien Chauvin (violin), Le Concert de la Loge
Chauvin and Concert de la Loge explore the myriad subtleties and gestures of the music with infectious vitality. They enliven Vivaldi’s thrilling tonal landscape at every turn with intuitive... —
Awards:
-
Diapason d’Or, April 2020, Nouveauté
-
BBC Music Magazine, June 2020, Concerto Choice
Purchase product
Downloads
Audio formats guide -
-
He breezes through the salvo of technical challenges…Yet he also brings a refined musicality and a sense of period style to these concertos, so alongside the fireworks there’s playing of exquisite... —
Awards:
-
Diapason d’Or, November 2019, Nouveauté
-
BBC Music Magazine, February 2020, Concerto Choice
-
-
Awards:
-
Building a Library, October 2001, First Choice
Purchase product
Downloads
Audio formats guide -
-
Special offer. Vivaldi: Arsilda
Benedetta Mazzucato (Arsilda), Vasilisa Berzhanskaya (Lisea), Marie Lys (Mirinda), Shira Patchornik (Nicandro), José Coca Loza (Cisardo), Nicolò Balducci (Barzane), Leonardo Cortellazzi (Tamese)
La Cetra Basel, Andrea Marcon
Vivaldi actually reserves his most highly charged music for the more complex character of Lisea, ardently sung here by mezzo-soprano Vasilisa Berzhanskaya who draws on an expressive palette... —
Awards:
-
BBC Music Magazine, March 2025, Opera & Stage Choice
-
-
Special offer. Vivaldi: Concerti Per Violino IX, 'le Nuove Vie'
Boris Begelman (violin), Rinaldo Alessandrini
Begelman, who currently leads Concerto Italiano, is an eloquent conveyor of the spirited and lyrical charms of these concertos. His intonation is faultless and his articulation sharply defined... —
Awards:
-
BBC Music Magazine, September 2021, Concerto Choice
-
-
Lootens's expansive, mature take on Castelnuovo-Tedesco's Paganini homage, the multifaceted Capriccio diabolico, is not so much the programme's apotheosis as the casting of a musical eye back... —
-
Special offer. Sibelius, Khachaturian: Violin Concertos
Sergey Khachatryan (violin)
Sinfonia Varsovia, Emmanuel Krivine
Sergey Khachatryan is among the most compelling players of his generation. Being the youngest- ever winner of the Sibelius Competition (2000) he was bound to record the Sibelius Concerto.
Interestingly,... —Awards:
-
Gramophone Magazine, January 2004, Editor's Choice
-
