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[Degout] possesses the rare facility to mix raw muscle with the subtlest caresses…In the infernal symphonies that pepper Enfers, the band attacks the score with an almost fiendish ferocity…Don’t... — More…
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Che puro ciel
The Rise of Classical Opera
Bejun Mehta (counter-tenor)
Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin, René Jacobs
Jacobs and Bejun Mehta unleash the primal energies buried in magnificent yet largely forgotten operas...Jacobs's abrupt tempo twists, the instrumentalists' boldness and the chorus's power make... — More…
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Offer, Gluck: Orfeo ed Euridice
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Philippe Jaroussky (Orfeo), Amanda Forsythe (Euridice), Emőke Baráth (Amore)
Coro della Radiotelevisione Svizzera & I Barocchisti, Diego Fasolis
Jaroussky manages the edition’s higher keys well enough (Vienna’s Orfeo was a castrato alto, Naples’s a soprano) and sings sweetly so long as forceful declamation isn’t required. — More…
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Revolution: Flute Concertos
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Emmanuel Pahud (flute)
Kammerorchester Basel, Giovanni Antonini
[Pahud's] sound is by turns silvery as a coloratura soprano, dusky as a dramatic contralto…there is suave and polished playing, too, by the Basel Chamber Orchestra under Giovanni Antonini who... — More…
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Oh, Boy!
Mozart & French Opera Arias
Marianne Crebassa (mezzo-soprano)
Mozarteum Orchestra Salzburg, Marc Minkowski
Boy - can she wear the trousers well! Her Cherubino in 'Voi che sapete' trembles with anxious desire. Only the stoniest hearted woman could resist this 'Non so piu', Crebassa by turns eager and... — More…
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Camilla Tilling sings Gluck and Mozart Arias
Camilla Tilling (soprano)
Musica Saeculorum, Philipp von Steinaecker
In this outstandingly accomplished selection of 18th-century operatic arias, Camilla Tilling demonstrates just how rewarding such albums can be when executed with the most genuine kind of musico-dramatic... — More…
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The SACD sound is first-class and the booklet notes by both artists attractive, not least in drawing attention to the great artists of the past whose performances and arrangements are saluted... — More…
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Gluck: Heroes in Love
Sonia Prina (contralto)
La Barocca, Rubin Jais
It’s a disc full of fast-flying vocal runs, jagged leaps and show-off turns of phrase, also moments of reflection and starkly simple declamation prefiguring the mature Gluck. The period band... — More…
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Offer, The New Sound of Maria Callas
Maria Callas (soprano)
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Arias for Anna de Amicis
Teodora Gheorghiu (soprano)
Les Talens Lyriques, Christophe Rousset
It's stylishly presented and excellently accompanied by the Talens Lyriques and Christophe Rousset; a slight letdown, though, comes with young Gheorghiu hersel. Her appealingly bright, agile... — More…
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