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Special offer. Barbara Strozzi. Virtuosissima Sirena
Laura Catrani, Accademia dell'Annunciata, Riccardo Doni
the soprano's voice has steely harshness occasionally, but lucid characterisation of quicksilver shifting sentiments captures the spirited fickleness, wit and emotional gamut of Strozzi's creations. —
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Special offer. Mandolin on Stage
Raffaele La Ragione, Il Pomo d'Oro (early music ensemble), Francesco Corti (harpsichord)
There’s a convivial and intimate atmosphere in the one-to-a-part account of Vivaldi’s C major concerto: a breezy energy drives its outer movements while the filigree Largo is delicate as Venetian... —
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Presto Editor's Choice, April 2022
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Special offer. Michele Mascitti: Sonate a Violino Solo E Basso; Opera Ottava
Quartetto Vanvitelli, Luigi Accardo, Nicola Brovelli, Gian Andrea Guerra
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there is much to be said for Zefiro's cherry-picking...Grazzi's dazzling virtuosity in the most fiendish rapid and wide-leaping passages and lyrical tenderness in slow movements catches the... —
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Special offer. 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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Special offer. Biber: Sonaten über die Mysterien des Rosenkranzes
Ars Antiqua Austria, Gunar Letzbor (violin)
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Special offer. Fux: La Corona d'Arianna
Monica Piccinini (Venere), Carlotta Colombo (Arianna), Marianne Beate Kielland (Teti), Rafał Tomkiewicz (Bacco), Meili Li (Peleo)
Zefiro, Arnold Schoenberg Chor, Alfredo Bernardini
La Corona d'Arianna is wonderful in this version by director Alfredo Bernardini, who drastically shortened the opera due to 2022 COVID measures...The stand-out principal is Carlotta Colombo.... —
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BBC Music Magazine, November 2023, Opera Choice
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Zefiro’s playing remains an abiding pleasure. Yet for my taste, Wörner’s clean, stylish singing never seems quite enough in some of Bach’s most searching and, it’s tempting to say, intensely... —
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Special offer. Heretical Angels. Rituals of Medieval Bosnia and Herzegovina
Norbert Rodenkirchen, Albrecht Maurer, Katarina Livljanić (soloist), Jure Miloš (soloist), Srećko Damjanović (soloist), Joško Ćaleta (soloist), Kantaduri, Dialogos
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International Classical Music Awards, 2025, Nominated - Early Music
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