CD, Arne (composer)
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I love a good concept album and this one is simultaneously thoughtful, fun and prescient...Along the way there’s much upbeat musicmaking and extemporisation, a cornucopia of instrumental wonder... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 31st January 2025
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Special offer. Arias for Guadagni
Recommendedthe first modern castrato
Iestyn Davies (countertenor)
Arcangelo, Jonathan Cohen
Through his effortless line, countertenor Iestyn Davies revivifies Guadagni's Orphic powers...Whether drawing out sustained notes or knitting together filigreed coloratura, he is a paragon of... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, August 2012, Editor's Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2012, Winner - Recital
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Mozart in London
RecommendedAna Maria Labin (soprano), Helen Sherman (mezzo), Ben Johnson (tenor), Anna Devin (soprano), Rebecca Bottone (soprano), Robert Murray (tenor), Martene Grimson (soprano), Eleanor Dennis (soprano)
The Mozartists, Ian Page
Bold yet highly sensitive, Page and his musicians show what makes this musicians show what makes this music great. Page draws on a deep bench of vocal talent; of his eight soloists, Rebecca... — More…
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Presto Editor's Choice, May 2018
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Gramophone Magazine, July 2018, Recording of the Month
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2018
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Special offer. Treasures of Baroque Opera
RecommendedJanet Baker, Teresa Berganza, Catherine Bott, Luciano Pavarotti
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Penguin Guide, Rosette
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Special offer. The Trials of Tenducci: A Castrato in Ireland
RecommendedTara Erraught (mezzo-soprano), Irish Baroque Orchestra, Peter Whelan
[The Mozart] is given a very capable performance by mezzo Tara Erraught, whose attractive tone and warmth are heard to particular advantage in the second aria (‘Tu virginum’)...she copes well... — More…
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2021
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Collegium Musicum 90 rarely get the adulation they deserve. This anthology of overtures by Arne, featuring a who's who of the English period-instrument scene, is a charming disc of beautifully... — More…
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Gramophone Awards, 2007, Finalist - Baroque Instrumental
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Julian Perkins has chosen an eclectic variety of pieces ranging from the first half of the 17th to the middle of the 18th century. New to my ears was a Capriccio by Wolfgang Ebner, whose dance-like... — More…
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BBC Music Magazine, August 2023, Instrumental Choice
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Special offer. Arne: Artaxerxes
Elizabeth Watts, Caitlin Hulcup, Rebecca Bottone, Christopher Ainslie, Daniel Norman, Andrew Staples, The Mozartists, Ian Page
Revisiting this exhilarating performance, it is little wonder that Haydn exclaimed he ‘had no idea we had such an opera in the English language’. — More…
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Special offer. The Pleasures of the Imagination
English 18th-Century Music for the Harpsichord
Sophie Yates (harpsichord)
Although several of the composers here have occasionally been the subjects of dedicated recordings, it is nice to have a selection sampling across the range…as usual, Yates plays with precision... — More…
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