Orchestral, Handel (composer)
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Special offer. Handel: Alceste
RecommendedLucy Crowe (soprano), Benjamin Hulett (tenor) & Andrew Foster-Williams (bass-baritone)
Early Opera Company, Christian Curnyn
Curnyn's delicious recording of the surviving score is amplified with a sinfonia from Admeto and a passacaglia from Radamisto. These fizzily, sexily swung orchestral additions emphasise the... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 14th May 2012
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BBC Music Magazine, July 2012, Opera Choice
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Gramophone Magazine, August 2012, Editor's Choice
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2013, Opera Award Winner
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An English Coronation, 1902-1953
RecommendedEdward VII, George V, George VI, Elizabeth II
Gabrieli, Paul McCreesh
Some may find the extensive spoken liturgy excessive but such is Simon Russell Beale’s compelling delivery that the sheer beauty of the words offers a musical diversion of a different kind.... —
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Gramophone Magazine, June 2019, Editor's Choice
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Presto Editor's Choice, May 2019
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Diapason d’Or, September 2019, Nouveauté
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2019
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Winner 2019
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Limelight Magazine Recordings of the Year, 2019, Nominated - Vocal
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International Classical Music Awards, 2019, Nominee - Choral
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Gramophone Magazine, December 2019, Critics' Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2020, Finalist - Choral
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Special offer. Handel's Unsung Heroes
Iestyn Davies (countertenor), Paul Sharp (trumpet), Christine Rice (mezzo), Roger Montgomery (horn), Joe Walters (horn), Lucy Crowe (soprano), Leo Duarte (oboe), Thomas Gould (violin), Joe Qiu (bassoon), La Nuova Musica, David Bates
This is a stunning collection of Handel opera numbers. For originality, risk-taking and erudition, it towers above its predecessors. It also benefits from its mix of soloists – having chosen... —
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Presto Editor's Choice, October 2021
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BBC Music Magazine, Christmas 2021, Recording of the Month
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It is perhaps no surprise that the various 18th-century works included find DiDonato on especially thrilling form...Yet DiDonato shines, too, in the more contemporary works…This is a highly... —
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Gramophone Magazine, March 2022, Editor's Choice
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Presto Recording of the Week, 25th February 2022
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Opus Klassik, 2022, Winner - Solo Vocal Recording
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Gramophone Awards, 2022, Shortlisted - Voice & Ensemble
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Grammy Awards, 65th Awards (2023), Nominee - Best Classical Solo Vocal Album
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International Classical Music Awards, 2023, Nominated - Vocal Music
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Seong-Jin Cho’s latest project shows all the consideration and respect for the music that we’ve come to expect from this South Korean artist. He talks in the booklet of how he has immersed himself... —
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Gramophone Magazine, May 2023, Editor's Choice
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2023, Nominated - Solo Instrumental
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International Classical Music Awards, 2024, Nominated - Solo Instrument
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Treasures of Baroque Opera
RecommendedJanet Baker, Teresa Berganza, Catherine Bott, Luciano Pavarotti
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Penguin Guide, Rosette
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Alison Balsom: Sound The Trumpet
RecommendedRoyal Music of Purcell and Handel
Alison Balsom (trumpet), Iestyn Davies (countertenor), Lucy Crowe (soprano)
The English Concert, Trevor Pinnock
This charming disc contains some of the most imaginative and polished trumpet playing you're ever likely to hear...Born-again authenticists may cavil at Balsom's vented trumpet, a modern development... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 8th October 2012
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Gramophone Magazine, December 2012, Editor's Choice
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The Sound of the Trumpet
RecommendedPeter Hurford (organ), Alan Stringer (trumpet), Gwynne Howell (bass), John Wilbraham (trumpet), Philip Jones (trumpet), Leslie Pearson (organ), The Michael Laird Brass Ensemble, Academy of St Martin in the Fields, Philip Jones Brass Ensemble, London Festival Orchestra, Sir Neville Marriner, Elgar...
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Penguin Guide, Rosette
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With St Paul's Deptford standing in for Westminster Abbey the acoustic is ideally focused - no 'billow' blurring the edges of a wonderfully buoyant 'The King Shall Rejoice' (its ensuing 'Exceeding... —
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Gramophone Magazine, April 2009, Disc of the Month
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Gramophone Awards, 2009, Winner - Baroque Vocal
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Purists may of course object, but I think the decision to go hunting for concertos from the violin and oboe repertoire is amply justified. Baroque Concertos is a wide-ranging collection that... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 18th October 2024
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalists 2024
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