Handel - Ariodante
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RecommendedJoyce DiDonato (Ariodante), Karina Gauvin (Ginevra), Marie-Nicole Lemieux (Polinesso), Sabina Puértolas (Dalinda), Topi Lehtipuu (Lurcanio), Matthew Brook (King of Scotland), Anicio Zorzi Giustiniani (Odoardo)
Il Complesso Barocco, Alan Curtis
in Alan Curtis's scrupulously detailed performance, Joyce diDonato's gleaming legato and coloratura are upstaged by the elegance of Karina Gauvin's Ginevra. While diDonato offers recklessly... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 9th May 2011
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Building a Library, January 2019, Recommended Recording
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Cecilia Bartoli (Ariodante), Kathryn Lewek (Ginevra), Nathan Berg (King of Scotland), Christophe Dumaux (Polinesso), Sandrine Piau (Dalinda), Rolando Villazón (Lurcanio), Kristofer Lundin (Odoardo)
Les Musiciens du Prince - Monaco, Gianluca Capuano, Christof Loy
This is no routine Ariodante…Bartoli is Bartoli. Those who find her trilling mannered and freighted with excessive vibrato will wrinkle their noses. But who can doubt her remarkable presence... —
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Gramophone Magazine, July 2021, DVD/Blu-ray of the Month
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2022, Shortlisted - Opera
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Handel: Ariodante
RecommendedLorraine Hunt Lieberson (Ariodante), Juliana Gondek (Ginevra), Jennifer Lane (Polinesso), Jörn Lindemann (Odoardo), Lisa Saffer (Dalinda), Nicolas Cavallier (Il Re di Scozia), Rufus Müller (Lurcanio)
Freiburger Barockorchester, Nicholas McGegan
Handel's Ariodante contains some achingly beautiful music. Here it is given the finest of performances. Lorraine Hunt as Ariodante is a compelling hero, tender in love and bitter in suspicion….... —
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Gramophone Awards, 1996, Winner - Early Opera
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RecommendedDame Janet Baker (Ariodante), Edith Mathis (Ginevre), Norma Burrowes (Dalinda), James Bowman (Polinesso), David Rendall (Lurcanio), Samuel Ramey (Il Re di Scozia), Alexander Oliver (Odoardo)
English Chamber Orchestra, London Voices, Raymond Leppard
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Building a Library, January 2019, Also Recommended
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Handel: Terpsicore & Ballet Scenes from Ariodante
Ava Pine (soprano), Nell Snaidas (soprano), Kirsten Sollek (mezzo-soprano)
Concert Royal Orchestra, Concert Royal Chorus, James Richman
Richman directs with a sure sense of texture and graceful pacing in Concert Royal's courtly performance. Apollo's brilliant 'Gran tonante' is sung rightly as a fervent invocation by Kirsten... —
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Cecilia Bartoli (Ariodante), Kathryn Lewek (Ginevra), Nathan Berg (King of Scotland), Christophe Dumaux (Polinesso), Sandrine Piau (Dalinda), Rolando Villazón (Lurcanio), Kristofer Lundin (Odoardo)
Les Musiciens du Prince - Monaco, Gianluca Capuano, Christof Loy
This is no routine Ariodante…Bartoli is Bartoli. Those who find her trilling mannered and freighted with excessive vibrato will wrinkle their noses. But who can doubt her remarkable presence... —
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Gramophone Magazine, July 2021, DVD/Blu-ray of the Month
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Janet Baker, Edith Mathis, Norma Burrowes, James Bowman, David Rendall, Samuel Ramey, Alexander Oliver
London Voices, English Chamber Orchestra, Raymond Leppard
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Handel: Ariodante
Anne Sofie von Otter (Ariodante), Lynne Dawson (Ginevra), Verónica Cangemi (Dalinda), Ewa Podles (Polinesso), Richard Croft (Lurcanio), Denis Sedov (Il Re di Scozia), Luc Coadou (Odoardo)
Musiciens du Louvre, Marc Minkowski
Lynne Dawson is the star of this show. In Act 2, where Ginevra finds herself inexplicably rejected and condemned by everyone, Dawson brings real depth of tone and feeling to her E minor lament,... —
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Ann Murray (Ariodante), Joan Rodgers (Ginevra), Christopher Robson (Polinesso), Julie Kaufmann (Dalinda), James Anderson (Odoardo), Paul Nilon (Lurcanio)
Bavarian State Orchestra, Ivor Bolton
