SACD, Vivaldi (composer)
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Special offer. Grandissima Gravita
RecommendedMusic by Pisenel, Tartini, Veracini & Vivaldi
Rachel Podger (violin)
Brecon Baroque
Her playing is intoxicated and intoxicating in equal measure, buoyed up by the wonderful improvisatory camaraderie of a continuo battery…Podger, inevitably, is the star, but ultimately the disc’s... — More…
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BBC Music Magazine, December 2017, Chamber Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2017
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Gramophone Magazine, December 2017, Editor's Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2018, Shortlisted - Chamber
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Special offer. Vivaldi: La cetra - 12 concerti, Op. 9
RecommendedRachel Podger (violin)
Holland Baroque Society
Unlike some of her continental rivals Podger's light bowing and well-judged tempos effortlessly discover the tenderly poetic content of Vivaldi's music, and here that dimension is abundant...Podger's... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 25th June 2012
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Gramophone Magazine, August 2012, Editor's Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2013, Finalist - Baroque Instrumental
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Special offer. Vivaldi & Piazzolla: The Four Seasons
Arabella Steinbacher (violin), Munich Chamber Orchestra
For those who despair at the number of recent ‘HIP’ versions…in which Vivaldi’s onomatopoeic effects have been allowed to run riot, Steinbacher’s alluring tone, espressivo phrasing, subtle vibrato... — More…
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Presto Editor's Choice, June 2020
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Venezia Millenaria (Venice 700-1797)
2 x SACD and book
Le Concert des Nations - Hespèrion XXI, La Capella Reial de Catalunya - Panagiotis, Neochoritis, Jordi Savall
Venezia Millenaria is as kaleidoscopic as the city itself, Venice’s trademark cosmopolitanism reflected in Savall’s augmenting of his home team(s) with Ensemble Panagiotis Neochoritis, and an... — More…
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Presto Editor's Choice, December 2017
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Gramophone Magazine, April 2018, Editor's Choice
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Record Review, 3rd March 2018, Recording of the Week
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Vivaldi: Juditha Triumphans
Marianne Beate Kielland (Judith), Rachel Redmond (Vagaus), Marina de Liso (Holopherne), Lucía Martín-Cartón (Abra), Kristin Mulders (Ozias)
La Capella Reial de Catalunya, Le Concert des Nations, Jordi Savall
Jordi Savall eats this kind of thing for breakfast and marshals his forces with military efficiency – except the performance is looser and more spontaneous than that sounds, and riveting from... — More…
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International Classical Music Awards, 2019, Nominee - Assorted Program
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Although Tamsin Little isn’t a Baroque specialist there is some influence from historically informed performance: rubato is used discreetly, and vibrato, although more present than might be... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, December 2016, Editor's Choice
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Special offer. Stabat Mater
Daniel Taylor (counter-tenor and Director), Emma Kirkby (soprano)
Theatre of Early Music
Emma Kirkby at her most serene is matched by Taylor as if they were two faces of a single musical entity. With first-rate surround-sound recording and a warm ambience, this is a disc not to... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, November 2009, Editor's Choice
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Dixit Dominus: Vivaldi, Mozart, Handel
Marta Mathéu, Marta Bayodi-Hirt (sopranos), Anthony Roth Costanzo (alto), Makoto Sakurada (tenor), Furio Zanasi (bass) & Manfredo Kraemer (concertino)
La Capella Reial de Catalunya & Le Concert des Nations, Jordi Savall
glorious singing and playing of irrepressable effervescence ... Superb SACD sound and a lavishly designed booklet — More…
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Vivaldi, Le Quattro Stagioni & Concerti d'Ll Cimento Dell'armonia E Dell'invenzione
Alfia Bakieva, Les Musiciennes Du Concert Des Nations, Jordi Savall
Album-wide, the musicians themselves serve up an attractively lightly buoyant, silvery-sounding, refined sound whose continuo combination of lute, chitaronne and harpsichord has at times an... — More…
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International Classical Music Awards, 2025, Nominated - Baroque Instrumental
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a live recording of an excellent programme with the theme of musical ‘tone painting'...I enjoyed the discs very much. — More…
