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Vivaldi: L'estro armonico - 12 concerti, Op. 3
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Rachel Podger (violin & director)
Brecon Baroque
There's a sense of Podger and her players examining and analysing every note in their preparation, deciding on its role, and placing it carefully back into context, without ever disturbing the... — More…
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2 CDs
$27.50
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Esfahani's contributions are the extraordinary range and delicacy of his touch and his scrupulous attention to matching phrasing. — More…
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CD
$14.00
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Dynastie: Bach Concertos
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Jean Rondeau (harpsichord), Sophie Gent, Louis Creac'h (violin), Fanny Paccoud (viola), Antoine Touche (cello), Thomas de Pierrefeu (contrabass) & Evolène Kiener (bassoon)
This spirited and eloquently ornamented playing serves the music of JS Bach and three of his sons uncommonly well — More…
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CD
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Handel: Finest Arias for Base Voice
Christopher Purves (bass)
Arcangelo, Jonathan Cohen
one to treasure both for the sensitive and well-sustained singing of Christopher Purves and for the wonderfully wide expressive range of Handel's music...Purves has an acute ear, serving well... — More…
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CD
$14.00
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Bach - Motets
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Yukari Nonoshita & Aki Matsui (soprano), Damien Guillon (counter-tenor), Satoshi Mizukoshi (tenor) & Dominik Wörner (bass)
Bach Collegium Japan, Masaaki Suzuki
The performance is, as you'd now expect from [Suzuki's] Collegium, excellent. Voices range from delicate soloists to a splendidly light and transparent 18-strong chorus. Instrumental support... — More…
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Guardian Angel: Rachel Podger
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Music by Bach, Matteis, Tartini, Pisendel, Biber
Rachel Podger (violin)
Characteristically unforced and natural, the playing manages to sound endlessly considered yet spontaneous. There's a sureness to the placing of every note, whether poised or bristling with bite... — More…
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Offer, Bach, J S: St Matthew Passion, BWV244
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contains 2 DVDs and Blu-ray disc
Mark Padmore (Evangelist), Christian Gerhaher (Jesus), Camilla Tilling (soprano), Magdalena Kozena (mezzo), Topi Lehtipuu (tenor), Thomas Quasthoff (bass)
Berliner Philharmoniker, Rundfunkchor Berlin, Knaben des Staats- und Domchors Berlin, Sir Simon Rattle
Some of Sellars's gestures...are searing, and the rapt attention of the audience leaps out of the screen...Padmore is a great Evangelist and this must be his greatest performance of the role...while... — More…
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2 DVD Videos + Blu-ray
($42.75) $38.50
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Blow: An Ode on the Death of Mr Henry Purcell
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& other works
Emma Walshe (soprano), Zoë Brookshaw (soprano), Samuel Boden (tenor), Thomas Walker (tenor), William Gaunt (bass)
Arcangelo, Jonathan Cohen
Duets for high tenor seem to have been something of a Blow speciality…and in Samuel Boden and Thomas Walker, director Jonathan Cohen has harnessed a quintessentially English sound whose lyricism... — More…
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CD
$14.00
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Watkin's profound musicianship is more than enough to accelerate this recording of Bach's Cello Suites to the top of the tiny league of 'definitive' recordings...it's as if all the work that... — More…
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2 CDs
$18.25