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CD, Schmelzer (composer)
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Their performances apply conversational sophistication to contrapuntal intricacy, nowhere more so than in the softly rapturous slow passages during Sonata IX...These outstanding performances... —
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Gramophone Magazine, March 2014, Editor's Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2014, Shortlisted - Baroque Instrumental
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‘La Notte’: Concertos and Pastorales for Christmas Night
RecommendedBojan Čičić (violin), The Illyria Consort
This joyful album brings together 17th and 18th-century music written for Christmas and its related Catholic feasts...One for every December! —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 25th November 2022
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Seventy minutes with Death for company may look like hard going but such is the expressive depth and profound consoling beauty of the works assembled here, and so committed and responsive the... —
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Gramophone Magazine, Awards Issue 2020, Editor's Choice
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Gramophone Magazine, Critics' Choice 2020
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Cesti - Le disgrazie d'Amore
Cristiana Arcari, Maria Grazia Schiavo, Furio Zanasi, Paolo Lopez, Enea Sorini, Antonio Abete, Luigi de Donato, Carlos Natale, Gabriella Martellacci, Martin Oro, Elena Cecchi Fedi, Francesco Ghelardini & Francesco Ghelardini
Auser Musici, Carlo Ipata
Most of these singers are accomplished, but the male soprano Paolo Lopez as Cupid is truly exceptional. The sound is good and the music is well-crafted. —
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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... —
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ex Vienna Volume II: Scordato
Violin music in scordatura from Manuscript XIV 726 of the Minoritenkonvent in Vienna
Gunar Letzbor (violin)
Ars Antiqua Austria
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