Opera , Opera Arias, Handel (composer)

EDEN

Joyce DiDonato (mezzo), Il Pomo d'Oro, Maxim Emelyanychev

Gramophone Magazine, March 2022, Editor's Choice
Presto Recording of the Week, 25th February 2022
Opus Klassik, 2022, Winner - Solo Vocal Recording
Gramophone Awards, 2022, Shortlisted - Voice & Ensemble
Grammy Awards, 65th Awards (2023), Nominee - Best Classical Solo Vocal Album
International Classical Music Awards, 2023, Nominated - Vocal Music

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

Presto Editor's Choice, October 2021
BBC Music Magazine, Christmas 2021, Recording of the Month

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In War & Peace | Harmony Through Music

Joyce DiDonato (mezzo) Il Pomo d'Oro, Maxim Emelyanychev

Gramophone Magazine, November 2016, Editor's Choice
Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2016
Gramophone Awards, 2017, Winner - Recital
ECHO Klassik Awards, 2017, Winner
Grammy Awards, 60th Awards (2017), Nominee - Classical Solo Vocal Album
Opera, January 2017, Recording of the Month

Handel: Arias

Alice Coote (mezzo-soprano) The English Concert, Harry Bicket

Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2014
Opera, November 2014, Recording of the Month

Facce d'Amore

Jakub Józef Orliński (countertenor) Il Pomo d’Oro, Maxim Emelyanychev

The Times Records of the Year, 2019
Presto Recording of the Week, 20th December 2019
International Opera Awards, 2020, Winner - Solo Recital Recording
Opus Klassik Awards, 2020, Nominee - Male Singer of the Year
Opus Klassik Awards, 2020, Nominee - Conductor of the Year
Gramophone Awards, 2020, Finalist - Recital

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EDEN

Joyce Didonato (mezzo-soprano), Il Pomo d'Oro, Maxim Emelyanychev

Gramophone Magazine, March 2022, Editor's Choice
Presto Recording of the Week, 25th February 2022
Opus Klassik, 2022, Winner - Solo Vocal Recording
Gramophone Awards, 2022, Shortlisted - Voice & Ensemble
Grammy Awards, 65th Awards (2023), Nominee - Best Classical Solo Vocal Album

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Mark Padmore (tenor), Lucy Crowe (soprano), Robin Blaze (countertenor) & Katharina Spreckelsen (oboe obligato) The English Concert, Andrew Manze

Presto Recording of the Week, 11th June 2007
Gramophone Magazine, May 2007, Editor's Choice
BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2008, Vocal Award Winner

Serpent & Fire

Anna Prohaska (soprano) Il Giardino Armonico, Giovanni Antonini

Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2016
Gramophone Awards, 2017, Finalist - Recital
International Classical Music Awards, 2017, Winner - Baroque Vocal

Tiranno

Kate Lindsey (mezzo), Arcangelo, Jonathan Cohen

Presto Editor's Choice, May 2021
Gramophone Magazine, July 2021, Editor's Choice
BBC Music Magazine, September 2021, Opera Choice
Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2021
International Classical Music Awards, 2022, Nominated - Baroque Vocal
BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2022, Shortlisted - Vocal

Handel: Enchantresses

Sandrine Piau (soprano), Les Paladins, Jérôme Correas,

Presto Editor's Choice, January 2022
BBC Music Magazine, March 2022, Opera Choice
International Classical Music Awards, 2023, Nominated - Baroque Vocal
BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2023, Nominated - Vocal

Handel Arias

Franco Fagioli (countertenor) Il Pomo d'Oro, Zefira Valova

Presto Editor's Choice, January 2018
Gramophone Magazine, March 2018, Editor's Choice
Opera, May 2018, Recording of the Month
Presto Recordings of the Year, Winner 2018

New. La Luce

Simone Kermes (soprano), Julien Salemkour (soprano), Warsaw Chamber Opera Orchestra, Warsaw Chamber Opera Chorus

Arias for Guadagni | the first modern castrato

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Iestyn Davies (countertenor) Arcangelo, Jonathan Cohen

Gramophone Magazine, August 2012, Editor's Choice
Gramophone Awards, 2012, Winner - Recital

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Dame Joan Sutherland (soprano), Chorus & Orchestra of the ROH, Covent Garden, Francesco Molinari-Pradelli

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Agrippina - Opera Arias

Ann Hallenberg (mezzo) Il Pomo d’Oro, Riccardo Minasi

Sunday Times, 2015, Albums of the Year
BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2016, Vocal Finalist
Opera, July 2015, Recording of the Month
International Classical Music Awards, 2016, Winner - Baroque Vocal

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Händel Goes Wild | (jewel-case)

Valer Sabadus (countertenor), Nuria Rial (soprano) L’Arpeggiata, Christina Pluhar

Opus Klassik Awards, 2018, Winner - Ensemble (instrumental)

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Contralto

Nathalie Stutzmann (contralto/director), Orfeo 55

Gramophone Magazine, March 2021, Editor's Choice
Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2021
International Classical Music Awards, 2022, Nominated - Baroque Vocal

Dualità

Emöke Baráth (soprano), Artaserse, Philippe Jaroussky

BBC Music Magazine, April 2022, Opera Choice
Gramophone Magazine, April 2022, Editor's Choice
International Classical Music Awards, 2023, Nominated - Baroque Vocal

Special offer. Mr Charles the Hungarian. Handel's Rival in Dublin

Irish Baroque Orchestra, Peter Whelan

Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2023

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Ensemble Marsyas, Peter Whelan

Gramophone Magazine, Awards Issue 2017, Editor's Choice
Presto Editor's Choice, August 2017

Casta Diva

Cecilia Bartoli (mezzo-soprano, soprano), Maria Goldschmidt (flute), Una Prelle (harp), Daniel Pezzotti (cello), Luciano Pavarotti (tenor), Sumi Jo (soprano), Juan Diego Flórez (tenor), Alessandro Corbelli (baritone), Celso Albelo (tenor), Luca Pisaroni (baritone), James Levine (piano), Bryn Terfel (bassbaritonevocalist), Bernhard Forck (concertmaster), International Chamber Vocalists, Orchestra La Scintilla, Orchestra del Teatro Comunale di Bologna, Orchestra Sinfonica di Milano Giuseppe Verdi, Chor des Opernhauses Zürich, Teatro alla Scala, International Chamber Soloists, Wiener Philharmoniker, Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin, Il Giardino Armonico, Les Musiciens du Prince-Monaco, Giovanni Antonini, Riccardo Chailly, Ádám Fischer, Alessandro De Marchi, Claudio Abbado, Myung-Whun Chung, Gianluca Capuano

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Kathleen Battle at Carnegie Hall

Kathleen Battle (soprano), Margot Garrett (piano)

Grammy Awards, 35th Awards (1992), Best Classical Solo Vocal Album

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Angelica diabolica

Giulia Semenzato (soprano) Basel Chamber Orchestra

International Classical Music Awards, 2023, Nominated - Baroque Vocal

Russell Oberlin - Handel Arias

Russell Oberlin (countertenor) & Albert Fuller (harpsichord) Baroque Chamber Orchestra, Thomas Dunn

Penguin Guide, Rosette

Ah! mio cor | Handel arias

Magdalena Kožená Venice Baroque Orchestra, Andrea Marcon

BBC Music Magazine, November 2007, Choral & Song Choice
Record Review, December 2007, Critics Disc of the Year

Special offer. Duel: Porpora and Handel in London

Giuseppina Bridelli (mezzo) Le Concert de l'Hostel Dieu, Franck-Emmanuel Comte

BBC Music Magazine, July 2019, Opera Choice
Opera, July 2019, Disc of the Month

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Special offer. Ombra mai fú | Airs, Overtures & Concerti

Andreas Scholl (counter-tenor) Berlin Akademie for Alte Musik

Penguin Guide, Rosette

Arias for Senesino

Andreas Scholl Accademia Dantone, Ottavio Dantone

BBC Music Magazine, September 2005, Opera Choice
Gramophone Magazine, Awards Issue 2005, Editor's Choice

Special offer. Handel - Operatic Arias

Emma Bell (soprano) Scottish Chamber Orchestra, Richard Egarr

BBC Music Magazine, October 2005, Opera Choice
Gramophone Magazine, December 2005, Editor's Choice

Handel's Queens | Cuzzoni and Faustina

Lucy Crowe, Mary Bevan, London Early Opera, Bridget Cunningham

BBC Music Magazine, October 2019, Recording of the Month
Gramophone Awards, 2020, Shortlisted - Recital

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My Christmas

Diana Damrau (soprano), Matthias Höfs (trumpet), NDR Radiophilharmonie, Knabenchor Hanover, Richard Whilds, Riccardo Minasi

Presto Recording of the Week, 2nd December 2022
Opus Klassik Awards, 2023, Nominated - Female Singer of the Year

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Farinelli - A Portrait | Live in Bergen

Ann Hallenberg (mezzo-soprano) Les Talens Lyriques, Christophe Rousset

BBC Music Magazine, March 2017, Opera Choice
Opera, February 2017, Recording of the Month

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Lorraine Hunt Lieberson and Roger Vignoles

Lorraine Hunt Lieberson (mezzo-soprano) & Roger Vignoles (piano)

Gramophone Awards, 2007, Finalist - Solo
BBC Music Magazine, April 2007, Choral & Song Choice

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My Hero

Greta Bradman (soprano) English Chamber Orchestra, Richard Bonynge

Presto Recording of the Week, 28th August 2015
Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2015

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Choristers of St. Paul's Cathedral, John Scott (organ), The St. Anthony Singers, Anne Sofie von Otter (mezzo-soprano), Andrew Semple (treble), Jonathan Chinchen (treble), Choir of St. John's College, Cambridge, Peter White (organ), Luciano Pavarotti (tenor), Wandsworth School Boys' Choir, Academy of St. Martin in the Fields Chorus, Kiri Te Kanawa (soprano), The Mormon Tabernacle Choir, Kathleen Ferrier (contralto), Sir Geraint Evans (baritone), James Bowman (countertenor), Brighton Festival Chorus Goldsbrough Orchestra, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Academy of St. Martin in the Fields, The National Philharmonic Orchestra, Utah Symphony Orchestra, London Philharmonic Orchestra, BBC Welsh Orchestra, Christopher Dearnley, Sir Colin Davis, Sir Georg Solti, George Guest, Kurt Herbert Adler, Sir Neville Marriner, Julius Rudel, Sir Adrian Boult, Thomas Mansel, Laszlo Heltay

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Special offer. Handel and the Oratorio for Concerts

Collegium Musicum 90, Simon Standage

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The Record of Singing – The Very Best of Volumes 1-4 | From 1899 to the end of the 78 era: 1899-1952

Gramophone Awards, 1989, Winner - Historic vocal
Gramophone Awards, 1979, Winner - Historical
Gramophone Awards, 1986, Winner - Historic vocal
Gramophone Awards, 2009, Finalist - Historic Reissue
Gramophone Awards, 1977, Winner - Historical

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Special offer. Pilar Lorengar | Berlin, 1959 - 1962

Pilar Lorengar, Richard Klemm (viola da gamba), Siegfried Behrend (guitar), Hertha Klust (piano) RIAS-Kammerchor, RIAS-Orchester RSO Berlin & Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra

Opera, September 2014, Recording of the Month
Building a Library, July 2019, Also Recommended

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Giulio Tampalini (guitar)

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Barnaby Smith: Handel

Barnaby Smith, Bojan Čičić (violin), Catriona McDermid, Mary Bevan (soprano), Gavin Edwards, The Illyria Consort

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Bruno Walter

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Je n'aime pas le classique, mais ça j'aime bien!

Alicia de Larrocha (piano), Nelly Kokinos (piano), Vladimir Spivakov (violin), Sergei, Steven Isserlis (cello), Xavier De Maistre (piano), Julian Bream (guitar), Johns Williams (guitar), James Galway (flute), Lorenzo Ghielmi (organ), Samuel Lipman & Leo Litwin (pianos), Martin Hoherman (xylophone), Ambrosian Opera Chorus, Sylvia Gestzy (soprano), Nathalie Stutzmann (soprano), Elizabeth Norberg-Schulz, Alfred Scholz (piano), Karl-Heinz Steffens (clarinet), Andreas Staier (harpsichord), Ben Heppner (tenor), Leontyne Price (soprano), Will Sanders (horn), Eugene Istomin (piano), Isaac Stern (violin), Leonard Rose (cello), Emanuel Ax (piano), Guarneri Quartet I Soloisti di Zaghreb, London Musici, Boston Pops Orchestra, Charles Munch, Arthur Fiedler, Sir Thomas Beecham, John McCarthy, Eduardo Mata, Riccardo Muti, Fritz Reiner, Dmitri Kitayenko, Georg Solti

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'Where'er You Walk' | Arias For Handel's Favourite Tenor

Allan Clayton (tenor) & Mary Bevan (soprano) The Mozartists, The Choir of Classical Opera, Ian Page

Gramophone Awards, 2017, Shortlisted - Recital

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Art of the Prima Donna

Joan Sutherland (soprano) Orchestra of the Royal Opera House Covent Garden, Francesco Molinari-Pradelli

Grammy Awards, 4th Awards (1961), Best Classical Solo Vocal Album

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Joyce DiDonato - Furore (Handel Opera Arias)

Joyce DiDonato (mezzo) Les Talens Lyriques, Christophe Rousset

Opera, February 2009, Recording of the Month

Handel: Arias

Christophe Dumaux (countertenor), Festspiel Orchester Göttingen, Laurence Cummings

Presto Editor's Choice, March 2020

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Divine Impresario | Nicolini On Stage

Purcell: Dido and Aeneas

Kirsten Flagstad, Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, Eilidh McNab, Arda Mandikian, Sheila Rex, Anna Pollak, Thomas Hemsley & David Lloyd The Mermaid Singers and Orchestra, Geraint Jones

Building a Library, November 2019, Also Recommended

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Randall Scotting (countertenor), Mary Bevan (soprano), Academy of Ancient Music, Laurence Cummings

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Collegium Musicum 90, Simon Standage

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The Sixteen, With the Academy of St Martin in the Fields, With the BBC Philharmonic, Harry Christophers

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Arianna a Naxos

David DQ Lee (countertenor), Yannick Nézet-Séguin (piano)

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Inés Lorans Millán (soprano), Orchestra Da Camera Benedetto Marcello, Maurizio Colasanti

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Leontyne Price: Great Soprano Arias from Handel to Britten | Prima Donna Vol. 5

Leontyne Price (soprano) The Philharmonia Orchestra, Henry Lewis

Grammy Awards, 23rd Awards (1980), Best Classical Solo Vocal Album

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Berlioz Les Nuits d’Eté & Handel Arias

Lorraine Hunt Lieberson (mezzo-soprano) Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra, Nicholas McGegan

Gramophone Magazine, November 2011, Editor's Choice

Amate Stelle - Arias For Anna Maria Strada

Marie Lys (soprano), Abchordis Ensemble, Andrea Buccarella

Opus Klassik Awards, 2023, Nominated - Female Singer of the Year & Solo Vocal

Patricia Petibon: Nouveau Monde | Baroque Arias & Songs

Patricia Petibon (soprano) La Cetra Baroque Orchestra, Andrea Marcon

Gramophone Magazine, January 2013, Editor's Choice

Coming soon. Joyce DiDonato: Drama Queens | Royal Arias from the 17th and 18th Centuries

Joyce DiDonato (mezzo-soprano) Il Complesso Barocco, Alan Curtis

Opera, January 2013, Recording of the Month

La traversée

Patricia Petibon (soprano), Cetra Barockorchester Basel, La Cetra Barockorchester Basel, Andrea Marcon

Opus Klassik Awards, 2023, Nominated - Female Singer of the Year & Solo Vocal