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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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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... —
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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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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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‘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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an excellent collection of some of the most colourful and imitative instrumentals pieces written in the reign of Leopold I in Vienna, Salzburg and Rome … colourful playing, a rich recording... —
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Gramophone Magazine, May 2016, Editor's Choice
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De Profundis Clamavi: German Sacred Cantatas
Peter Kooij (bass)
L’Armonia Sonora, Mieneke Van Der Velden
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BBC Music Magazine, February 2007, Choral & Song Choice
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In Nativitate Domini
Festliche Weihnachtsmusik (Festive Christmas Music)
Emma Kirby, Susanne Ryden (sopranos)
Bell'arte Salzburg, Annegret Siedel
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…it is Manze, perhaps, who best captures the radiant character of Biber's score and who seems most readily to revel in its sheer vitality. His upper and middle vocal strands illuminate the... —
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