Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin
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JS Bach: Violin Concertos
RecommendedIsabelle Faust (violin), Bernhard Forck, (violin), Xenia Loeffler (oboe)
Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin
Faust's tone is both lean and exquisitely sweet, combined with consistent stylistic elegance which reaches the heights of eloquence in the slow movement of the E major Concerto. —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 15th March 2019
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Gramophone Magazine, April 2019, Editor's Choice
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BBC Music Magazine, June 2019, Concerto Choice
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Building a Library, November 2019, Also Recommended
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2019
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International Classical Music Awards, 2019, Nominee - Baroque Instrumental
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Gramophone Magazine, December 2019, Critics' Choice
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2020, Nominee - Instrumentalist of the Year
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Mozart: Die Zauberflöte, K620
RecommendedDaniel Behle (Tamino), Marlis Petersen (Pamina), Daniel Schmutzhard (Papageno), Sunhae Im (Papagena), Anna-Kristiina Kaappola (Königin der Nacht), Marcos Fink (Sarastro), Kurt Azesberger (Monostatos)
Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin, René Jacobs
...this is a total experience, perfectly tailored for private listening. René Jacobs thinks of it as a Hörspiel: it's a play to be heard - I don't know a recorded Zauberflöte more thrillingly... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 13th September 2010
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Sunday Times, 2010, Albums of the Year
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Gramophone Awards, 2011, Finalist - Opera
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BBC Music Magazine, November 2010, Opera Choice
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Record Review, December 2010, Critics' Disc of the Year
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Gramophone Magazine, Awards Issue 2010, Editor's Choice
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2011, Opera Award Winner
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Building a Library, November 2020, Recommended Recording
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Vivaldi: Sacro Furore - Stabat Mater, Nisi Dominus, Concerti
Carlo Vistoli (counter-tenor), Akademie Für Alte Musik Berlin, Georg Kallweit
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Gramophone Magazine, January 2025, Recording of the Month
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International Classical Music Awards, 2026, Nominated - Baroque Vocal
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CPE Bach: Magnificat
RecommendedElizabeth Watts (soprano), Wiebke Lehmkuhl (alto), Lothar Odinius (tenor) & Markus Eiche (bass)
RIAS Kammerchor & Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin, Hans-Christoph Rademann
a fine reconstruction of the second half of a concert [CPE Bach] conducted in Hamburg on Palm Sunday, 1786. So vivacious is the choral singing and orchestral playing under Hans-Chrisoph Rademann... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 10th February 2014
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Gramophone Magazine, April 2014, Editor's Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Winner 2014
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Gramophone Awards, 2014, Winner - Baroque Vocal
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Telemann: Viola Concertos, Overtures & Fantasias
Antoine Tamestit (viola), Akademie Für Alte Musik Berlin, Sabine Fehlandt, Bernhard Forck
Tamestit’s celebration of Telemann’s viola writing, and the characterful vignettes which provide indelible colour to his orchestral suites, is an evenly sustained delight. —
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International Classical Music Awards, 2023, Nominated - Baroque Instrumental
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Special offer. Elgar & Tchaikovsky: Cello Works
Johannes Moser (cello)
L'Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, Andrew Manze
Moser is an unfailingly elegant soloist…the Tchaikovsky Variations have a suitably Rococo grace and spirit —
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Gramophone Magazine, May 2017, Editor's Choice
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Special offer. Mozart: Paris & Haffner Symphonies & Oboe Concerto
Xenia Loffler (oboe), Akademie Fur Alte Musik Berlin, Bernhard Forck
The excellent period instrument Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin treat [the Paris Symphony] with due sophistication and restraint...The Akademie’s great clarity in this recording gives a frequently... —
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BBC Music Magazine, December 2023, Orchestral Choice
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International Classical Music Awards, 2024, Nominated - Assorted Programs
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JS Bach: Brandenburg Concertos
RecommendedIsabelle Faust (violin), Antoine Tamestit (viola), Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin
Light and lithe, the opening movement movement of the First of the First Concerto sets the Concerto sets the style for these style for these accomplished and enjoyable accomplished and enjoyable... —
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2021
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Telemann: Violin Concertos. Overture. Suite. Fantasie
RecommendedIsabelle Faust (violin), Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin (early music ensemble), Ute Hartwich, Edi Kotlyar, Clemens-Maria Nuszbaumer, Katharina Litschig, Bernhard Forck
Faust's playing, as ever is alluring and she is affectionately complemented by the Akademie für Alte Musik, Berlin directed by violinist Bernhard Forck. —
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2025
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Gluck: Italian Arias
RecommendedCecilia Bartoli (mezzo)
Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin, Bernhard Forck
on this disc Cecilia Bartoli makes clear that Gluck was a formidable musical dramatist even in his early, pre-'reform' works...This CD, in short, is a tour de force of dramatic singing, in the... —
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Gramophone Awards, 2002, Winner - Recital
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Gramophone Magazine, Awards Issue 2001, Disc of the Month
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Grammy Awards, 44th Awards (2001), Best Classical Solo Vocal Album
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