SACD, Handel (composer)
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Handel: Messiah
RecommendedErin Wall (soprano), Elizabeth DeShong (mezzo-soprano), Andrew Staples (tenor), John Relyea (bass-baritone)
Toronto Mendelssohn Choir, Toronto Symphony Orchestra, Sir Andrew Davis
Astonishingly well controlled…the solo voices are rich and weighty…[the] flute provides a charming obbligato to ‘How beautiful are the feet’, while the tenor’s ‘Thy rebuke…’ is intensely moving…a... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 2nd December 2016
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BBC Music Magazine, January 2017, Choral & Song Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2016
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Grammy Awards, 60th Awards (2017), Nominee - Choral Performance
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Handel: Amadigi di Gaula
Tim Mead (Amadigi), Mary Bevan (Melissa), Anna Dennis (Oriana), Hilary Summers (Dardano), Patrick Terry (Orgando), Early Opera Company, Christian Curnyn
Handel took a less-is-more approach to his Amadigi di Gaula. Christian Curnyn’s answering restraint reveals the stark solos, shimmering textures, ringing silences and stunning one-to-a-part... — More…
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BBC Music Magazine, November 2022, Opera Choice
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Gramophone Magazine, November 2022, Editor's Choice
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International Classical Music Awards, 2023, Nominated - Baroque Vocal
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Gramophone Magazine, Critics' Choice 2022
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Handel: Acis and Galatea
Lucy Crowe (Galatea), Allan Clayton (Acis), Benjamin Hulett (Damon), Jeremy Budd (Coridon) & Neal Davies (Polyphemus)
Early Opera Company, Christian Curnyn
Curnyn has hit on a secret that eluded previous interpreters of this work: it was conceived specifically to showcase the beauty of the English language…Channelling Handel’s enthusiasm, Curnyn... — More…
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Record Review, 16th June 2018, Recording of the Week
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The Times Records of the Year, 2018
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2019, Finalist - Opera
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2019, Winner - Opera
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Pamela Thorby, a regular member of the Palladian Ensemble, demonstrates versatility and virtuosity beyond question and is imaginatively accompanied by Richard Egarr, who also contributes a sparkling... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, August 2004, Editor's Choice
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Coming soon. Brahms: Ein Deutsches Requiem
Recreation of the 1868 Bremen Premiere
Kate Lindsey (mezzo-soprano), Jóhann Kristinsson (baritone), Veronika Eberle (violin), Thomas Cornelius (organ), Chor der KlangVerwaltung, Philharmonisches Staatsorchester Hamburg, Kent Nagano
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Handel: Messiah
Susan Gritton (soprano), Sara Mingardo (contralto), Mark Padmore (tenor), Alastair Miles (bass)
Tenebrae Choir, London Symphony Orchestra, Sir Colin Davis
Sir Colin Davis's way with Messiah, as recorded live at the Barbican last December, is old-fashioned by present-day standards. His soloists are all good. The Tenebrae Choir, with its thirty-odd... — More…
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An outstanding disc which I foolishly overlooked back in 1993, not realising Savall et al. were such fine Handelians; it sounds spectacular now, remastered from stereo to effective but not overblown... — More…
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New. A Gift For Your Garden (Georg Philipp Telemann; George Frideric Handel; Johann Gottlieb Graun; James Oswald)
Ensemble Hesperi
The young members of award-winning London-based early music Ensemble Hesperi have brought this carefully considered collection to multicoloured and attractively soft-polished life – think of... — More…
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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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Coming soon. The Berliner Philharmoniker and Herbert von Karajan: 1953–1969 live in Berlin
Berliner Philharmoniker, Herbert von Karajan, Géza Anda (piano), Glenn Gould (piano), Gundula Janowitz, Christa Ludwig, Jess Thomas, Walter Berry, Irmgard Seefried, Wolfgang Schneiderhan, Jörg Demus (piano), Wilhelm Kempff (piano), Christoph Eschenbach (piano)