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Handel: Rinaldo
RecommendedCecilia Bartoli (Almirena), David Daniels (Rinaldo), Bernarda Fink (Goffredo), Gerald Finley (Argante), Luba Orgonasova (Armida), Daniel Taylor (Eustazio), Bejun Mehta (A Christian Magician)
Academy of Ancient Music, Christopher Hogwood
most familiar and unfamiliar opera: familiar because, as his lavish first stage work for London, it has been much written about both by modern historians and by the composer's contemporaries;... — More…
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Gramophone Awards, 2001, Winner - Editor's Choice
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Opera Proibita
includes arias from Handel, A Scarlatti & Caldara
Cecilia Bartoli
Les Musiciens du Louvre, Marc Minkowski
Bartoli is on marvellous form in these arias - a truly wonderful disc — More…
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BBC Music Magazine, November 2005, Opera Choice
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Gramophone Magazine, November 2005, Disc of the Month
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Building a Library, June 2014, First Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 1992, Winner - Baroque Instrumental
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Arie Napoletane: Max Emanuel Cencic
Max Emanuel Cencic (countertenor)
Il Pomo D'Oro, Maxim Emelyanychev
Cencic negotiates this complex emotional parabola wonderfully well. This is a great voice, dark in tone, beguiling in its liquidity and finely equalised. His coloratura flows with great ease...though... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, December 2015, Editor's Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2016, Finalist - Recital
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Vivaldi: L'estro armonico - 12 concerti, Op. 3
RecommendedAcademy of St Martin in the Fields, Neville Marriner
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Building a Library, December 1999, Modern Instruments Choice
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Bach - Complete Violin Sonatas
RecommendedArthur Grumiaux (violin), Christiane Jaccottet (harpsichord), Philippe Mermoud (cello)
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Penguin Guide, Rosette
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Handel Gold
RecommendedKiri Te Kanawa (soprano), Crispian Steele-Perkins (trumpet), Cecilia Bartoli, Plácido Domingo, Joan Sutherland, Anne Sofie von Otter, Luciano Pavarotti, Renée Fleming, Rolando Villazón, Joyce DiDonato, Russell Oberlin, Nigel Robson, Kathleen Ferrier, Bryn Terfel, Janet Baker, Magdalena Kozena, Grace...
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Penguin Guide, Rosette
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Mission
RecommendedDeluxe edition
Cecilia Bartoli (mezzo), Philippe Jaroussky (countertenor)
I Barocchisti, Diego Fasolis
Bartoli's plummy mezzo soars, smoulders and seduces, milking the music's vocal and expressive scope to dramatic effect. It's hard to resist her sparkling personality and infectious passion for... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 15th October 2012
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Gramophone Magazine, December 2012, Editor's Choice
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The set’s high point is ‘Das war sehr gut, Mandryka’ from Arabella, in which the gradual expansion of her tone quality becomes a visceral dramatisation of how her character fearlessly opens... — More…
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JS Bach: Violin Concertos
RecommendedJanine Jansen (violin), with Ramón Ortega Quero (oboe), with Jan Jansen (harpsichord)
Jansens's approach is clearly influenced by the period instrument movement but by no means slavishly so...Sometimes there's a touch of creative tension between the historically-aware Jansen... — More…
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Building a Library, November 2019, Also Recommended
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