SACD, Corelli (composer)
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the most striking aspects of Podger’s playing throughout this recital (compared to most 20th-century ‘golden-agers’), is her enhanced range of tone and articulation, her vastly more flexible... — More…
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Presto Editor's Choice, October 2022
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2022
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2023, Recording of the Year
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2023, Winner - Instrumental
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2023, Winner - Solo Instrumental
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Gramophone Awards, 2023 Finalists, Finalist - Instrumental
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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... — More…
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BBC Music Magazine, December 2005, Chamber Choice
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Petri and Esfahani's is an invigorating ensemble effort, each sparking off the other to foster a captivating directness whether sparkling or soulful. Nothing is safe or reverential, and yet... — More…
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BBC Music Magazine, February 2015, Chamber Choice
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Gramophone Magazine, January 2015, Editor's Choice
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Building a Library, May 2018, Also recommended
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International Classical Music Awards, 2016, Winner - Baroque Instrumental
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Along with the Telemann, the Handel Sonata in D minor for treble recorder affords especial pleasure...Petri’s fluent and modestly ornamented playing addresses itself to the varied humours of... — More…
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International Classical Music Awards, 2024, Nominated - Baroque Instrumental
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These 12 arrangements (by the ensemble) are of stylistic and historical diversity...Muhly’s Look for Me invests a US folk song with dark jazz; Janacek’s Zdenka Variations is an appealing discovery. — More…
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Telemann, Corelli & Bach: Chamber Music
RecommendedEmelie Roos (recorder), Anna Paradiso (harpsichord), Dan Laurin (recorder)
Höör Barock
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Building a Library, June 2017, Also Recommended
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Special offer. Le Concert Spirituel
At the time of Louis XV
Jordi Savall (bass viola da gamba & direction)
Le Concert des Nations
Savall reaches out to explore the expressive extremes. Corelli's textures are dense and complex, three solo strings set against, here, ten more strings, playing immaculately. SACD helps greatly... — More…
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The 17-member chamber orchestra plays without conductor and imbues these Baroque selections with a verve and burnished tone that sounds fresh and new. The musical sound effects and tone-painting... — More…
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La Folia (folly) 1490-1701
Jordi Savall (viola da gamba), Rolf Lislevand (vihuela, guitar, theorbo), Michael Behringer (keyboard), Arianna Savall (triple harp), Bruno Cocset (bass viol), Pedro Estevan (percussion), Adela Gonzalez-Campa (castanets)
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her poise remains absolute thanks to lightning fingerwork, precision tonguing, faultless breath control and unfailing evenness of tone and tuning...there are times when the final sparks of human... — More…
