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Concertos, Strings Concertos
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Plaisirs illuminés
Veress - Ginastera - Coll
Camerata Bern (chamber ensemble), Patricia Kopatchinskaja (violin), Thomas Kaufmann, Marko Milenkovic, Sonja Starke, Suyeon Kang, Sol Gabetta (cello), Käthi Steuri
Two threads run through this adventurous disc – the spirit of Béla Bartók and the Camerata Bern’s prowess – but the force of personality at the centre of it all comes from the violinist Patricia... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, January 2021, Editor's Choice
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BBC Music Magazine, March 2021, Concerto Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2021, Shortlisted - Contemporary
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International Classical Music Awards, 2022, Nominated - Assorted Programs
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2022, Winner - Concerto
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The Italian Job
RecommendedBaroque Instrumental Music from the Italian States
Gail Hennessy, Rachel Chaplin (oboes) & Peter Whelan (bassoon)
La Serenissima, Adrian Chandler
The highlight of the disc for me is Chandler’s performance of a seldom-played E major Violin Concerto by Tartini: he explores fully the rich poetic content of its slow movement while projecting... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, May 2017, Editor's Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2017, Winner - Baroque Instrumental
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Part of the freshness stems from the interaction between Podger and her one-to-a-part ensemble. She’s first among equals and the dynamic couldn’t be further removed from the usual notion of... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 13th April 2018
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Gramophone Magazine, May 2018, Editor's Choice
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BBC Music Magazine, June 2018, Concerto Choice
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Record Review, 21st April 2018, Recording of the Week
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Gramophone Awards, 2018, Shortlisted - Concerto
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Winner 2018
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Diapason d’Or, June 2018, Nouveauté
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Vivaldi: Concertos for 2 violins
Giuliano Carmignola (violin) & Amandine Beyer (violin)
Gli incogniti
The musical chemistry between Carmignola and Beyer is intuitive and gratifying. Outer movements sparkle with playful vigour while centrally placed solo movements are poetically declaimed...soloists... — More…
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BBC Music Magazine, January 2017, Concerto Choice
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Gramophone Magazine, December 2016, Editor's Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2017, Finalist - Baroque Instrumental
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International Classical Music Awards, 2022, Nominated - Baroque Instrumental
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If Chandler’s programming of oddities and fragments sometimes looks like a musicological download, the sound his orchestra makes soon makes you forget that. Bright, clear, open and gloriously... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 15th November 2019
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2019
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New. Vivaldi: La Gloria e Imeneo
Vivaldi Edition Vol. 73
Teresa Iervolino (mezzo-soprano), Carlo Vistoli (countertenor), Abchordis Ensemble, Andrea Buccarella
Teresa Iervolino and countertenor Carlo Vistoli deliver all with fervour and an assured understanding of Vivaldi's vocal requirements, while Andrea Buccarella's sparkling direction is all that... — More…
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Vivaldi: Sacro Furore - Stabat Mater, Nisi Dominus, Concerti
Carlo Vistoli (counter-tenor), Akademie Für Alte Musik Berlin, Georg Kallweit
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Gramophone Magazine, January 2025, Recording of the Month
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Vivaldi: Le Quattro Stagioni (The Four Seasons)
Théotime Langlois de Swarte (violin), Julie Roset (soprano), Le Consort
Above all, it’s Swarte’s solo playing (on a 1733 fiddle by Carlo Bergonzi) that steals the show: pliant, expressive, wild and virtuosic. Particularly admirable is his elastic, almost jazzy flexibility... — More…
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BBC Music Magazine, February 2025, Recording of the Month
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What's Next Vivaldi?
RecommendedPatricia Kopatchinskaja (violin), Il Giardino Armonico, Giovanni Antonini
No one cooks up a Vivaldian storm like Patricia Kopatchinskaja. The opening movement of La tempesta di mare is a churning cauldron of tempestuous fury that would surely have terrified Poseidon... — More…
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Presto Editor's Choice, September 2020
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2020
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Opus Klassik, 2021, Winner - Concerto
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