Choral, Masses, Vivaldi (composer)
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Vivaldi: The Great Venetian Mass
Les Arts Florissants (early music ensemble), Paul Agnew (tenor), Sophie Karthäuser (soprano), Lucile Richardot (mezzo-soprano), Renata Pokupić (mezzo-soprano)
The whole is expressively shaped by Paul Agnew, whose supple moulding of the musical lines and vivid contrasts of tempos serve, above all, to highlight the words...In sum, a creative idea that... —
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Record Review, 25th June 2022, Record of the Week
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BBC Music Magazine, September 2022, Choral & Song Choice
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Vivaldi: Gloria in D major, RV589, etc.
RecommendedSarah Fox, Deborah Norman, Michael Chance, James Gilchrist, Jonathan Lemalu
Academy of Ancient Music, Choir of King's College Cambridge, Stephen Cleobury
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Building a Library, December 2018, Also Recommended
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Vivaldi: Gloria & Bach: Magnificat
RecommendedEmma Kirkby, Tessa Bonner (sopranos), Michael Chance (counter-tenor), John Mark Ainsley (tenor), Stephen Varcoe (baritone)
Collegium Musicum 90, Richard Hickox
Hickox sets effective tempos in Bach's Magnificat and points up the many striking contrasts in colour and texture with which the piece abounds. From among the many successful features of the... —
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Building a Library, December 2018, Recommended Recording
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Special offer. The Art of the Countertenor - Michael Chance
Works by Vivaldi, Bach, Purcell & Handel
Michael Chance (countertenor)
English Chamber Orchestra & English Concert, John Nelson & Trevor Pinnock
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Vivaldi - Sacred Music 10
Carolyn Sampson, Joanne Lunn, Joyce DiDonato, Hilary Summers, Tuva Semmingsen, Robin Blaze
Choir of The King’s Consort, The King’s Consort, Robert King
Robert King had the good fortune that a lost Vivaldi Nisi Dominus turned up just as his project to record the composer's complete sacred music reached its 10th and final volume. This is its... —
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Gramophone Magazine, April 2004, Editor's Choice
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Genaux brings a fascinating swagger to the solo motets. Her chest voice has a baritone richness; in higher registers, she can sound virginal or diva-ish. Zooming through scalar passages and... —
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Presto Editor's Choice, August 2018
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Special offer. Vivaldi: Pietà
Sacred Works for Alto
Philippe Jaroussky (counter-tenor)
Ensemble Artaserse
Like all the finest recordings of Vivaldi's sublime hymn...Jaroussky strikes a contoured balance between poetic tenderness in the narrative, emotional expressiveness in the descriptions of Mary's... —
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International Classical Music Awards, 2015, Winner - Baroque Vocal
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Special offer. Vivaldi: Nisi Dominus & Stabat Mater
Philippe Jaroussky (countertenor), Marie-Nicole Lemieux (contralto), Ensemble Matheus, Jean-Christophe Spinosi (director)
…Jaroussky's expressive delicacy is beguiling and he is everywhere accompanied with acute sensibility by Ensemble Matheus. —
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Special offer. The Sixteen - Sounds Sublime
Includes some of The Sixteen’s most celebrated recordings in this beautiful 2CD digi-pack set
The Sixteen, With the Academy of St Martin in the Fields, With the BBC Philharmonic, Harry Christophers
