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DVD Video, Concerto Köln (early music ensemble)
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Special offer. Vinci, Leonardo: Artaserse
Philippe Jaroussky (Artaserse), Max Emanuel Cencic (Mandane), Franco Fagioli (Arbace), Valer Barna-Sabadus (Semira), Yuriy Mynenko (Megabise), Juan Sancho (Artabano)
Concerto Köln & Coro della Radiotelevisione Svizzera, Diego Fasolis
The production takes itself none too seriously, the Baroque absurdities of the plot enhanced by absurd costumes...Fagioli rises to the challenge, as he offsets vocal pyrotehcnics with poignancy...[Cencic... —
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Cavalli: Ercole Amante
Luca Pisaroni (Ercole), Veronica Cangemi (Iole), Anna Bonitatibus (Giunone), Jeremy Ovenden (Hyllo), Anna Maria Panzarella (Deianira), Marlin Miller (Licco), Umberto Chiummo (Nettuno/Tevere/Spirit of Eutyro), Wilke te Brummelstroete (Bellezza/Venere), Johannette Zomer (Cinzia/Parsitea/Spirit of Clerica),...
This is a ravishing production in every department - scenery, stage effects, costumes, dancing, acting and music. Luca Pisaroni is an assured and vigorous Hercules...but it is Cavalli's women... —
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Opera, October 2011, Recording of the Month
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Handel: Deidamia
Sally Matthews (Deidamia), Veronica Cangemi (Nerea), Olga Pasichnyk (Achille), Silvia Tro Santafé (Ulisse), Andrew Foster-Williams (Fenice), Umberto Chiummo (Licomede) & Jan-Willem Schaafsma (Nestore)
Concerto Köln, Ivor Bolton (conductor) & David Alden (director)
Alden's approach is lightly ironic, matching well with a piece that treats its material with a knowing air...Ivor Bolton and Concerto Koln provide the expert musical underpinning. Sally Matthews... —
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Opera, April 2013, Recording of the Month
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Mozart: Le nozze di Figaro, K492
Pietro Spagnoli (Count), Annette Dasch (Countess), Rosemary Joshua (Susanna), Luca Pisaroni (Figaro), Angelika Kirchschlager (Cherubino, Concerto Köln & Choeur du Théâtre des Champs-Elysées, René Jacobs
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Bach, J S: St John Passion, BWV245
Maximilian Schmitt (Evangelist), Tareq Nazmi (Christ), Christina Landshamer (soprano), Anke Vondung (mezzo-soprano), Tilman Lichdi (tenor), Krešimir Stražanac (bass-baritone / Pilate), Simona Brüninghaus (Maid), Andreas Burkhart (Petrus) & Moon Yung Oh / Andreas Hirtreiter (Servant)
Chor...
Schmitt’s Evangelist is a knowing, centred and sage creation, sung with a conviction underlined by emotional subtlety and ringing clarity of diction. A touch understated for some, perhaps, Tareq... —
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Bach, J S: Mass in B minor, BWV232
Christina Landshamer (soprano), Anke Vondung (mezzo-soprano), Maximilian Schmitt (tenor) & Andreas Wolf (bass-baritone)
Chor des Bayerischen Rundfunks & Concerto Köln, Peter Dijkstra
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Bach, J S: St Matthew Passion, BWV244
Karina Gauvin, Gerhild Romberger, Julian Prégardien, Maximilian Schmitt, Michael Nagy, Karl-Magnus Fredriksson
Chor des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Regensburger Domspatzen, Concerto Köln, Peter Dijkstra
The soloists are led by the superb Julian Pregardien...His pacing of the text is exemplary...As Jesus, Karl-Magnus Fredriksson is no victim: he is firm, forthright, with a bass-like solidity. —
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