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Choral, Cantatas, Beethoven (composer)
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Immortal Beloved: Beethoven Arias
RecommendedChen Reiss (soprano), Oliver Wass (harp)
Academy of Ancient Music, Richard Egarr
Reiss manages coloratura passages with ease, her tone bright and clear, her voice firm throughout its considerable range and she is always wonderfully in tune…The Academy of Ancient Music gives... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 20th March 2020
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Opera, May 2020, Disc of the Month
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2020
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Special offer. Cecilia Bartoli - Unreleased
RecommendedCecilia Bartoli (mezzo-soprano), Kammerorchester Basel, Muhai Tang
Some of Bartoli’s best singing comes in [the Myslivecek]. Elsewhere there are passages where her characteristic commitment to textual expression becomes overvehement...Yet much of her more delicate... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 19th November 2021
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an experience that is somehow much more than the sum of its diverse parts. —
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Beethoven: Cantatas
RecommendedJudith Howarth, Janice Watson, Jean Rigby, John Mark Ainsley, José Van Dam
Corydon Singers & Orchestra, Matthew Best
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Penguin Guide, Rosette
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La Passione
Haydn, Mozart & Beethoven
Christina Landshamer (soprano), Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin, Bernhard Forck
Landshamer’s delivery of this material is consistently beautiful, technically top-class, and pitched with laser-like accuracy….matched at every point by the accompaniments, whose range of period-instrument... —
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Record Review, 6th August 2022, Record of the Week
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International Classical Music Awards, 2023, Nominated - Assorted Programs
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Perfido!
Concert-arias by Mozart, Haydn and Beethoven
Sophie Bevan (soprano)
The Mozartists, Ian Page
Bevan’s energy and assurance see her through some demanding vocal writing…Page conducts with vigour and the orchestra makes a strong showing. —
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Presto Editor's Choice, May 2017
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International Opera Awards, 2018, Nominated - Solo Recital
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'excellence’ doesn’t begin to do him justice. The grace and refinement of his playing seemed preternatural, a kind of perfection to which many pianists aspire but few attain – and none with... —
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Karg, a splendidly accomplished artist, delivers every item with acute sensitivity to mood and verbal nuance…with Arcangelo in perfectly weighted period-instrument support, the disc gives uninterrupted... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 22nd June 2015
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Sunday Times, 2015, Albums of the Year
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Gramophone Magazine, July 2015, Editor's Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2016, Finalist - Recital
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Beethoven: Emperor Concerto
Yefim Bronfman (piano)
Tonhalle Orchestra, Schweizer Kammerchor, David Zinman
…the strange, lovely, late Becalmed Sea and Prosperous Voyage receives a performance of real discernment and beauty, with a still opening which hardly allows you to breath. —
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Gramophone Magazine, Awards Issue 2006, Editor's Choice
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