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Fux
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Though there are versions that have a weightier choral sound, the advantage of this one is that the Requiem’s words (which so fuelled the composer’s creative imagination) and all the details... — More…
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Record Review, 27th February 2021, Record of the Week
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Presto Recording of the Week, 26th February 2021
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Gramophone Awards, 2021, Shortlisted - Choral
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2021
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International Classical Music Awards, 2022, Nominated - Baroque Vocal
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Be prepared for some dazzling displays…in Zelenka’s psalm setting ‘Laetatus sum’, Orlinski is partnered by the assured, pliant and blended singing of Fatma Said…[Nucci's] aria ‘Un giusto furore’... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, Awards Issue 2021, Editor's Choice
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Presto Recording of the Week, 22nd October 2021
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Building A Library, November 2021, Also Recommended
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2021
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International Classical Music Awards, 2022, Winner - Baroque Vocal
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Rondeau’s interpretations of this music suggest that for the likes of Haydn, Clementi, Beethoven and Debussy, harpsichord sonorities were very much in their mind’s ear. In particular, Rondeau’s... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, May 2023, Editor's Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2023 Finalists, Shortlisted - Instrumental
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Gramophone Magazine, Critics' Choice 2023
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Vox Luminis’s consummate mastery of polyphonic textures, plangent sonorities and contoured phrasing is profoundly beautiful; the five soloists and five additional ‘ripieno’ singers declaim text... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 12th August 2016
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Gramophone Magazine, November 2016, Editor's Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2016
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While the schabernacks or ‘pranks’ here won’t quite have you guffawing, it’s certainly all delivered with a merry wink…[this repertoire is] rewarding thanks to Lüthi’s playful teasings-out of... — More…
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Ensemble Diderot’s invigorating approach has considerable appeal...Among the musical highlights is a sonata by Austrian Johann Heinrich Schmelzer. Best known for his string writing, his music... — More…
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BBC Music Magazine, July 2021, Chamber Choice
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International Classical Music Awards, 2022, Nominated - Baroque Instrumental
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Fux: La Corona d'Arianna
Monica Piccinini (Venere), Carlotta Colombo (Arianna), Marianne Beate Kielland (Teti), Rafał Tomkiewicz (Bacco), Meili Li (Peleo)
Zefiro, Arnold Schoenberg Chor, Alfredo Bernardini
La Corona d'Arianna is wonderful in this version by director Alfredo Bernardini, who drastically shortened the opera due to 2022 COVID measures...The stand-out principal is Carlotta Colombo.... — More…
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BBC Music Magazine, November 2023, Opera Choice
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Johann Joseph Fux: Operas & Oratorios For the Viennese Court
Maria Ladurner (soprano), Biber Consort
The soprano Maria Ladurner gives sensitive and pleasing accounts of the arias. The voice is fresh and youthfulsounding, and it must frequently come close to the sweetness so admired in the 18th... — More…
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Bernardini conducts with impeccable dramatic pacing and perceptive shaping of details...as one expects from Zefiro, there is magnificent playing from assorted woodwinds. — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, Awards Issue 2021, Editor's Choice
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