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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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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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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
2 SACDs + Book
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Heroines of Love and Loss vocal chamber music from the 17th century
Ruby Hughes (soprano), Mime Yamahiro Brinkmann (cello) & Jonas Nordberg (lute / theorbo / archlute)
Ruby Hughes’s soprano has an effortless beauty: pliant, subtly expressive, never forced. She captures the chaste fervour of the sacred works…Brinkmann and Nordberg proffer aptly spontaneous continuo... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, May 2017, Editor's Choice
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Vivaldi: La stravaganza - 12 concerti, Op. 4
RecommendedRachel Podger (violin)
Arte Dei Suonatori Baroque Orchestra
By the standards of the average Vivaldi violin concerto, the La stravaganza set is quite extravagant stuff, full of fantasy and experiment – novel sounds, ingenious textures, exploratory melodic... — More…
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Gramophone Awards, 2003, Winner - Concerto
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Building a Library, November 2017, First Choice
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Building a Library, November 2017, First Choice
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Doppio espressivo Rick Stotijn (double bass), Johannes Rostamo (cello), Olivier Thiery (double bass), Bram van Sambeek (bassoon)
Camerata RCO
The recording’s playful title, Doppio espressivo, brings to mind the dark intensity of a double espresso and, certainly, the group’s high-octane playing on dusky-hued double basses, cellos and... — More…
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BBC Music Magazine, January 2023, Concerto Choice
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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 expected... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, December 2016, Editor's Choice
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Offer, Amore Dolore Nicolò Balducci (countertenor), Baroque Academy Gothenburg Symphony, Dan Laurin
The flexibility and assertiveness of his singing is best heard in excitable arias featuring storms or revenge…That said one of the best tracks here is Handel's superb aria for Cleopatra, 'Se... — More…
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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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If an hour and a quarter of music based on 16 bars appears daunting, take courage from the immense stylistic variety over 200 years and the splendidly colourful range of instruments playing it.... — More…
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BBC Music Magazine, December 2005, Chamber Choice
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