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Monteverdi: Il ottavo libro de madrigali, 1638 'Madrigali guerrieri et amorosi'
RecommendedConcerto Italiano, Rinaldo Alessandrini
This is a sublime example of the madrigalian art. The disc oozes a sense of intelligent poetic response. — More…
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Gramophone Awards, 2007, Finalist - Baroque Vocal
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Penguin Guide, Rosette
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Monteverdi: Vespri solenni per la festa di San Marco
RecommendedMonica Piccinini, Anna Simboli (sopranos), Andrea Arrivabene, Gianluca Ferrarini (altos), Luca Dordolo, Raffaele Giordani (tenors) & Matteo Bellotto, Salvo Vitale (bass)
Concerto Italiano, Rinaldo Alessandrini
Alessandrini’s Monteverdi interpretations resound with passion…a brilliantly conceived, scholastically sound and liturgically plausible sequence, burnished with spiritual sincerity. — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, Awards Issue 2014, Disc of the Month
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2014
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Gramophone Awards, 2015, Winner - Baroque Vocal
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The sound these players make is intensely alluring without ever being slick. This is a disc to sink into and savour with the lights turned low: highest bliss … — More…
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How do you like your Bartók quartets served? With precision, passion, a sense of mystery or a sense of humour? With spontaneity or with a pinch of paprika?...Quatuor Diotima offer a balanced... — More…
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International Classical Music Awards, 2019, Nominee - Chamber Music
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[Gastinel] and Claire Desert have a wonderfully intuitive partnership and both draw on subtle, inimitable soundworlds....Gastinel brings the right note of nonchalant simplicity to Debussy's... — More…
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BBC Music Magazine, March 2012, Chamber Choice
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Gramophone Magazine, April 2012, Editor's Choice
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Sara Mingardo: Monteverdi, Vivaldi & Handel
Sara Mingardo (contralto)
Concerto Italiano, Rinaldo Alessandrini
A genuine contralto with accompaniments of vivid spontaneity by Rinaldo Alessandrini — More…
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BBC Music Magazine, March 2005, Choral & Song Choice
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Gramophone Magazine, December 2004, Editor's Choice
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Building a Library, March 2002, Period Instrument Choice
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Building a Library, November 2018, Also Recommended
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Kopatchinskaja: Rapsodia
Patricia Kopatchinskaja (violin), Emilia Kopatchinskaja (violin & viola), Viktor Kopatchinsky (cimbalom), Martin Gjakonovski (double bass) & Mihaela Ursuleasa (piano)
[in the Enescu] both Kopatchinskaya and her partner Mihaela Ursuleasa [project] an instinctive feeling for the almost improvisatory musical line. Finally Ravel's Tzigane is presented not as... — More…
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BBC Music Magazine, December 2010, Chamber Choice
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Gramophone Magazine, January 2011, Editor's Choice
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Haydn: String Quartet, Op. 77 No. 1 in G major, etc.
RecommendedQuatuor Mosaïques (on period instruments)
Anyone who thinks that period-instrument performance means austerity and coolness should listen to this disc. Here's playing full of expressive warmth and vigour. The opening of Op 77 No 1 is... — More…
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Building a Library, May 2016, First Choice
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The Mosaïques, at a rather slower tempo than usual, find in the themeand- variation finale of the G major Quartet, No 5, an unsuspected reflective tenderness.
The theme itself is played with... — More…Awards:
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Gramophone Awards, 1996, Winner - Chamber
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