Handel - Samson: Total eclipse!
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As Steals the Morn
RecommendedHandel - Arias & scenes for tenor
Mark Padmore (tenor), Lucy Crowe (soprano), Robin Blaze (countertenor) & Katharina Spreckelsen (oboe obligato)
The English Concert, Andrew Manze
Handel was one of the first Baroque composers to invest his talents in the tenor voice and here this unique English legacy is recalled. Through his shading, dynamic range and commitment to... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 11th June 2007
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Gramophone Magazine, May 2007, Editor's Choice
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2008, Vocal Award Winner
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Awards:
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Diapason d’Or, October 2019, Réédition
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International Classical Music Awards, 2019, Nominee - Best Collection
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Karl Richter - The Universal Musician
Many first-time international releases on CD , including Handel and Bach solo harpsichord music, CPE Bach Symphonies, Schütz Musikalische Exequien, Haydn Symphonies, Mozart, Brahms and Liszt organ works.
Ernst Haefliger, Karl Richter, Peter Schreier, Maria Stader, Elisabeth Lindermeier/Heinrich-Schütz-Kreis
Münchener Bach-Orchester, Berliner Philharmoniker
Imperious, expansive, overly emphatic - yes, Karl Richter's second Goldbergs can answer to various negative charges. Heard differently, the grandeur is inspiring, the sure rhythmic sense and... —
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Gramophone Magazine, July 2026, Best-kept Secrets
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Great Handel - Ian Bostridge
Ian Bostridge (tenor)
Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, Harry Bicket
Bostridge is sharply attuned to the subtlety of Handel's work setting, colouring his sound with a rich palette of timbres and effects: sonorous and sensuous in 'Ombra mai fù', hauntingly stark... —
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Total Eclipse - Handel At Home, Vol. 2
Silas Wollston (soloist, organ), Rachel Brown (flute), Adrian Butterfield (violin), Oliver Webber, Rachel Byrt, Gavin Kibble, Naomi Burrell, Carina Cosgrave
An incandescent presence, Brown deploys her invention, and the particular qualities of the traverse flute – its sensitivity to touch and breath, its audible woodiness, its luminous colours –... —
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Handel: Tenor Arias
Christoph Genz (tenor), with Julia Wagner (soprano)
Handel Festival Orchestra, David Timm
