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Special offer. Johann S/Bernhard/Ludwig Bach: Ouvertures For Orchestra
RecommendedRinaldo Alessandrini (soloist), Concerto Italiano
Alessandrini’s new recording of Bach’s Orchestral Suites may well be the danciest ever...he has turned to these four noble creations and infused them with a choreographic shape and swing that... —
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2019
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Special offer. Vivaldi: Griselda, RV718
Recommendedworld première recording
Griselda: Marie-Nicole Lemieux (contralto), Costanza: Veronica Cangemi (soprano), Ottone: Simone Kermes (soprano), Roberto: Philippe Jaroussky (countertenor), Gualtiero: Stefano Ferrari (tenor) & Corrado: Iestyn Davies (countertenor)
Ensemble Matheus, Jean-Christophe Spinosi
…one of Vivaldi's strongest and most cohesive operas. Jean-Christophe Spinosi's intuitive and vital direction achieves rewarding results. His instrumentalists are first-rate and the choice... —
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BBC Music Magazine, October 2006, Disc of the month
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2007, Opera Award Winner
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Special offer. Schoenberg, Berg & Webern: Complete Works for String Quartet
Sandrine Piau (soprano), Marie-Nicole Lemieux (contralto)
Quatuor Diotima
The extreme refinement and minutely focused intensity, in recordings to match, make the Webern a singularly beautiful, if somewhat unsettling experience. —
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Gramophone Magazine, June 2016, Editor's Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2017, Shortlisted - Chamber
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Special offer. Handel: Tamerlano
RecommendedXavier Sabata (Tamerlano), Max Emanuel Cencic (Andronico), John Mark Ainsley (Bajazet), Karina Gauvin (Asteria), Ruxandra Donose (Irene), Pavel Kudinov (Leone)
Il Pomo d’Oro, Riccardo Minasi
The cast is of exceptional and even strength...[Sabata and Cencic] deliver brilliant tone and lively fioritura, while the scenes between Sabata and Ainsley crackle with fury...An all-round outstanding... —
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BBC Music Magazine, August 2014, Disc of the month
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Gramophone Magazine, August 2014, Editor's Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2014
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Building a Library, January 2021, Recommended Recording
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Special offer. Franck: Symphonic Variations & Piano Pieces
RecommendedBertrand Chamayou (piano), Olivier Latry (harmonium)
Royal Scottish National Orchestra, Stéphane Denève
This is an outstanding release in every way. In fact, I cannot recall another that included all Franck's masterpieces for the piano on a single disc and in which, moreover, every performance... —
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Gramophone Magazine, September 2010, Editor's Choice
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Presto Favourites, Recommended Recording
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The result is sprightly orchestral playing, textures absolutely dripping with ornamentation and a proclivity for highly varied speeds...Emiliano Toro brings an easy fluencytotheroleofOrfeo,and... —
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Opera, December 2020
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The Times Records of the Year, 2020
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Like many [Azzolini] makes bold strokes...but there is never a hint of gratuitousness or bad taste. In music that everyone knows can sound routine, he shapes and characterises every movement,... —
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Diapason d’Or de l’Année, 2010, Winner - Musique Baroque Instrumentale
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It's a touching yet potentially nebulous concept for an album, but the Ukrainian pianist turns it into something truly special. His playing, too, brims with heart and life force: impassioned,... —
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Special offer. Vivaldi: Orlando Furioso, RV728
Marie-Nicole Lemieux, Jennifer Larmore, Veronica Cangemi, Philippe Jaroussky, Lorenzo Regazzo, Ann Hallenberg, Blandine Staskiewicz
Choeur Les Eléments & Ensemble Matheus, Jean-Christophe Spinosi
Jean-Christophe Spinosi's imaginative interpretation of Vivaldi's Orlando, excellently cast and performed. —
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BBC Music Magazine, March 2005, Opera Choice
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Gramophone Magazine, April 2005, Editor's Choice
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Special offer. Vivaldi: Vespri solenni per la festa dell’Assunzione di Maria Vergine
RecommendedGemma Bertagnolli (soprano), Roberta Invernizzi (soprano), Anna Simboli (soprano), Sara Mingardo (contralto), Gianluca Ferrarini (tenor), Matteo Bellotto (baritone), Antonio De Secondi (violin)
Concerto Italiano ensemble vocale e strumentale, Rinaldo Alessandrini
This isn't the 'Vivaldi Vespers', or even a reconstruction of a specific event, but a kind of 'sacred concert' in Vespers form, of the sort that Venetian churches in Vivaldi's time would mount... —
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Gramophone Awards, 2004, Winner - Baroque Vocal
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