Handel - Serse
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Emily D’Angelo (Serse), Lucy Crowe (Romilda), Paula Murrihy (Arsamene), Mary Bevan (Atalanta), Daniela Mack (Amastre), Ariodate (Neal Davies), William Dazeley (Elviro), The English Concert, Harry Bicket
With his ravishing, hilarious and profound recording of Serse, conductor Harry Bicket once again puts all rivals in the shade...The suave assurance of Bicket and the English Concert is expressed... —
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Record Review, 10th June 2023, Record of the Week
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Gramophone Magazine, July 2023, Recording of the Month
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BBC Music Magazine, August 2023, Opera Choice
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Anna Stéphany (Serse), Rosemary Joshua (Romilda), David Daniels (Arsamene), Hilary Summers (Amastre), Joélle Harvey (Atalanta), Andreas Wolf (Elviro), Brindley Sherratt (Ariodate)
Early Opera Company, Christian Curnyn
[Stéphany's] is a stunning central performance, comfortably matched by incisive playing from the Early Opera Company orchestra. Sopranos Rosemary Joshua (as Romilda) and Joelle Harvey (Atalanta)... —
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Gramophone Magazine, September 2013, Editor's Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2014, Finalist - Baroque Vocal
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Handel: Serse
RecommendedFranco Fagioli (Serse), Vivica Genaux (Arsamente), Inga Kalna (Romilda), Francesca Aspromonte (Atalanta), Andrea Mastroni (Ariodate), Delphine Galou (Amastre), Biagio Pizzuti (Elviro)
Il Pomo d ́Oro Orchestra, Maxim Emelyanychev
I’d guess that a voice like Franco Fagioli’s…comes as close as we can get today to the mingled brilliance, suppleness and power of the great castrati in their pomp… few if any falsettists today... —
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2018
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Presto Editor's Choice, November 2018
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Record Review, 29th December 2018, Disc of the Week
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Gramophone Magazine, February 2019, Editor's Choice
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International Classical Music Awards, 2020, Winner - Baroque Vocal
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Gaëlle Arquez (Xerxes), Elizabeth Sutphen (Romilda), Lawrence Zazzo (Arsamene), Louise Alder (Atalanta), Tanja Ariane Baumgartner (Amastre), Thomas Faulkner (Elviro), Brandon Cedel (Ariodate)
Frankfurter Opern- und Museumsorchester, Constantinos Carydis, Tilmann Köhler
Köhler stages the emotional rollercoaster of the first two acts around a huge dining table…The idea of the broken feast perfectly captures the disruptive nature of Xerxes’s tyranny…Arquez is... —
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Handel: Serse
Luigi Alva (Serse), Mirella Freni (Romilda), Rolando Panerai (Arsamene), Irene Campaneez (Amastre), Fiorenza Cossotto (Atalanta), Leonardo Monreale (Ariodate), Franco Calabrese (Elviro)
Orchestra e Coro del Teatro alla Scala, Piero Bellugi
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Handel: Serse
Luigi Alva (Serse), Mirella Freni (Romilda), Rolando Panerai (Arsamene), Irene Campaneez (Amastre), Fiorenza Cossotto (Atalanta), Leonardo Monreale (Ariodate), Franco Calabrese (Elviro)
Orchestra e Coro del Teatro alla Scala, Piero Bellugi
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Ann Murray (Xerxes), Christopher Robson (Arsamenes), Patricia Bardon (Amastris), Umberto Chiummo (Ariodates), Yvonne Kenny (Romilda), Julie Kaufmann (Atalanta), Jan Zinkler (Elviro)
Bavarian State Orchestra, Bolton Farao
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Handel: Serse
Carolyn Watkinson (Serse), Paul Esswood (Arsamene), Barbara Hendricks (Romilda), Ortrun Wenkel (Amastre), Anne-Marie Rodde (Atalanta), Ulrik Cold (Ariodate), Ulrich Studer (Elviro)
Jean Bridier Vocal Ensemble & La Grande Ecurie et la Chambre du Roy, Jean-Claude Malgoire
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Anne Sofie von Otter (Serse), Lawrence Zazzo (Arsamene), Sylvia Tro Santafe (Amastre), Giovanni Furlanetto (Ariodate), Elizabeth Norberg-Schulz (Romilda), Sandrine Piau (Atalanta), Antonio Abete (Elviro)
Les Arts Florissants, William Christie
Christie masterminds proceedings with his stylish Les Arts Florissants in the pit...The cast is strong throughout. —
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Handel: Serse, HWV 40
Accademia Bizantina (early music ensemble), Ottavio Dantone (early keyboard instruments), Alessandro Tampieri, Delphine Galou (contralto), Arianna Vendittelli, Marina de Liso, Luigi De Donato, Biagio Pizzuti, Francesca Aspromonte, Monica Piccinini
Rarely have the 17th-century antecedents of Serse been as apparent as they are in this sharply-etched and fleet-footed live performance...At its heart lies an Ottavio Dantone trademark—total... —
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