A Musical Picture - up to 25% off selected titles
Until 9th September, we are offering up to 25% off selected titles from participating labels, on CD, SACD, Vinyl, Blu-Ray & DVD, & Downloads. Please note, some downloads are excluded from this offer
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Special offer. Telemann: Ouvertures à 8 for 3 oboes, bassoon, strings and continuo
Zefiro Baroque Orchestra, Alfredo Bernardini
The much-vaunted lean muscularity of the Ensemble Zefiro...produces a freshly balanced sonority that alters our experience of these works...Special praise is due to the superb, unstinting continuo... —
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Gramophone Magazine, March 2014, Editor's Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2014, Shortlisted - Baroque Instrumental
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Special offer. Beyond Vivaldi: Lute Concertos
Evangelina Mascardi (lute), Estrovagante, Riccardo Doni
The disc's centrepiece is Vivaldi's RV93...Mascardi's reading of the Largo is especially affecting, its wistful melody breathed rather than declaimed. The real revelation of the programme, though,... —
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BBC Music Magazine, May 2026, Concerto Choice
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Special offer. Francesco Landini: L’Occhio del Cor
The Heart’s Eye
La Reverdie, Christophe Deslignes
Whether singing or playing instruments, the musicians take great care not to overplay the composer’s subtle, complex counterpoint or to lose a sense of the overall line in the many virtuosic... —
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Gramophone Magazine, August 2019, Editor's Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2020, Shortlisted - Early Music
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This is only the third anthology devoted to Loyset Compère, whose 500th death-anniversary falls next year; but it is a fitting commemoration, for both music and performance are on a pleasingly... —
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Gramophone Magazine, November 2017, Editor's Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2018, Finalist - Early Music
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New. Pergolesi: L'Olimpiade
Anicio Zorzi Giustiniani (Clistene), Carlotta Colombo (Aristea), Silvia Frigato (Argene), José Maria Lo Monaco (Licida), Matteo Straffi (Aminta), Theodora Raftis (Megacle), Francesca Ascioti (Alcandro); Orchestra Ghislieri, Giulio Prandi
Prandi's performance captures the elegance and urgency of the score, bringing precision, expressive freedom and sensitivity to Pergolesi's exquisite lyricism. Orchestra Ghislieri responds with... —
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BBC Music Magazine, August 2026, Opera Choice
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Special offer. Vivaldi 100. 13 Violin Concertos
Giuliano Carmignola (violin), Daniele Orlando, I Solisti Aquilani
this compilation doesn't include any of the best-known Vivaldi concertos, but there are some pearls among this set. They all glitter under the ferverish fingers of Carmignola. —
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New. Mandoline. Dans Les Salons Fin-de-Siècle
Raffaele La Ragione (mandolin), François Dumont (piano), Sandrine Piau
This is charming...A sequence of arrangements of Chaminade at the heart of the disc sounds entirely idiomatic on the mandolin, while La Ragione is delightfully teasing in the 'Pizzicato' from... —
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Building A Library, November 2021, Also Recommended
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Special offer. Bach on Nine Strings
Suite, Partita and Sonata for Two Piccolo Cellos
Mario Brunello (cello), Mauro Valli
Even without bow on string, such as in the [Fifth] Suite's Sarabande, Brunello and Valli mysteriously shape melodic contours in pizzicato that somehow seem to resonate not just in plucked vibration... —
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Gramophone Magazine, April 2026, Editor's Choice
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