Download, Carissimi (composer)
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Orazio Benevoli: Missa Benevola
RecommendedI Fagiolini (early music ensemble), The City Musick, Robert Hollingworth
The keynote here again is sheer sonic splendour, captured by a detailed sound recording that’s almost overwhelming at times (but in the best sense), with a particularly powerful bass register. — More…
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalists 2024
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New. Arianna in Rome
Arias, Cantatas and Laments for the Seventeenth-Century Virtuose
Carlotta Colombo, Anima & Corpo and Gabriele Pro
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Sara Mingardo: Monteverdi, Vivaldi & Handel
Sara Mingardo (contralto)
Concerto Italiano, Rinaldo Alessandrini
A genuine contralto with accompaniments of vivid spontaneity by Rinaldo Alessandrini — More…
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BBC Music Magazine, March 2005, Choral & Song Choice
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Gramophone Magazine, December 2004, Editor's Choice
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Special offer. The Queen’s Music
Italian vocal duets and trios
Emma Kirkby and Susanne Rydén (sopranos), Peter Harvey (baritone), Mime Yamahiro Brinkmann (cello), & Lars Ulrik Mortensen (harpsichord)
Many of the settings exploit the sensual intertwining of two soprano voices over a basso continuo...Emma Kirkby, dewy-voiced as ever, and Swedish soprano Susanne Rydén make exquisite partners,... — More…
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Lamentations for Holy Week
Works by Carissimi, Frescobaldi, Marcorelli, Palestrina plus Toccatas by Rossi & Kapsberger
Maria Cristina Kiehr (soprano)
Concerto Soave, Jean-Marc Aymes
Maria Cristina Kiehr's is one of the most beguiling voices to be heard today. …no artifice (whether compositional, stylistic, or vocal) gets in the way of her instrument. Every note dead centre,... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, July 2007, Editor's Choice
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Building a Library, May 2010, First Choice (as SACD)
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Special offer. Vivaldi, Bononcini, Scarlatti, Legrenzi: Dolce Pupillo
Sonia Prina (contralto), Luan Goes, Les Furiosi Galantes
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La bella piu bella
Songs from early baroque Italy
Roberta Invernizzi (soprano) & Craig Marchitelli (archlute & theorbo)
This is vocal writing that thrives on extremes: complex, emphatic, dissonant and brilliantly embellished...Invernizzi is a fearless singer. Some notes are stripped violently dry and thin, others... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, June 2014, Editor's Choice
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