Arcana
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The disc's centrepiece is Vivaldi's RV93...Mascardi's reading of the Largo is especially affecting, its wistful melody breathed rather than declaimed. The real revelation of the programme, though,... —
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BBC Music Magazine, May 2026, Concerto Choice
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Telemann: Ouvertures à 8 for 3 oboes, bassoon, strings and continuo
Zefiro Baroque Orchestra, Alfredo Bernardini
The much-vaunted lean muscularity of the Ensemble Zefiro...produces a freshly balanced sonority that alters our experience of these works...Special praise is due to the superb, unstinting continuo... —
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Gramophone Magazine, March 2014, Editor's Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2014, Shortlisted - Baroque Instrumental
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New. Vivaldi 100. 13 Violin Concertos
Giuliano Carmignola (violin), Daniele Orlando, I Solisti Aquilani
this compilation doesn't include any of the best-known Vivaldi concertos, but there are some pearls among this set. They all glitter under the ferverish fingers of Carmignola. —
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Bach on Nine Strings
Suite, Partita and Sonata for Two Piccolo Cellos
Mario Brunello (cello), Mauro Valli
Even without bow on string, such as in the [Fifth] Suite's Sarabande, Brunello and Valli mysteriously shape melodic contours in pizzicato that somehow seem to resonate not just in plucked vibration... —
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Gramophone Magazine, April 2026, Editor's Choice
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Stradella: Un angelo del Paradiso - The Orrigoni Songbook
Silvia Frigato (soloist), Ensemble Mare Nostrum, Andrea De Carlo
Frigato is devastatingly good. Frankly, if Andrea De Carlo’s Stradella project isn’t already on your radar, this selection makes a very good place to start. —
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Gramophone Magazine, December 2024, Editor's Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2025 Shortlist, Voice & Ensemble
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New. Mandoline. Dans Les Salons Fin-de-Siècle
Raffaele La Ragione (mandolin), François Dumont (piano), Sandrine Piau
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This is only the third anthology devoted to Loyset Compère, whose 500th death-anniversary falls next year; but it is a fitting commemoration, for both music and performance are on a pleasingly... —
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Gramophone Magazine, November 2017, Editor's Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2018, Finalist - Early Music
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The Age of Extremes: W.F. Bach, G. Benda & C.P.E. Bach
RecommendedFrancesco Corti (harpsichord), Il Pomo d'Oro
The performances are first-rate, perhaps unlikely to be bettered, as we have learned to expect both from Il Pomo d’Oro with their tight, punchy yet sensuously yielding sound, and from Corti,... —
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2025
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Carmignola asserts his own special interpretative proclivities: the magical musical intakes of breath during and at the ends of phrases, the endlessly flexible handling of dynamics, and a temporal... —
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Gramophone Magazine, Awards Issue 2022, Editor's Choice
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International Classical Music Awards, 2023, Nominated - Baroque Instrumental
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