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Handel: Acis and Galatea RecommendedNorma Burrowes (Galatea), Anthony Rolfe Johnson (Acis), Martyn Hill (Damon), Willard White (Polyphemus) & Paul Elliot (Corydon)
The English Baroque Soloists, John Eliot Gardiner
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Gramophone Awards, 1978, Winner - Early Music
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Mozart: Idomeneo, K366
RecommendedAnthony Rolfe Johnson (Idomeneo), Anne Sofie von Otter (Idamantes), Sylvia McNair (Ilia), Hillevi Martinpelto (Elettra), Nigel Robson (Arbace)
Monteverdi Choir, English Baroque Soloists, John Eliot Gardiner
Here's a performance that blends this conductor's love of scholarship with an unerring sense of theatre. The English Baroque Soloists are magnificent in a work that puts the chorus only one... — More…
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Building a Library, June 2007, First Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 1991, Winner - Opera
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…Magdalena Kožená beguiles and enchants throughout this captivating collection. The Czech mezzo's mature voice combines radiant purity with burnished intensity and…she negotiates Handel's quick-fire... — More…
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BBC Music Magazine, November 2007, Choral & Song Choice
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Record Review, December 2007, Critics Disc of the Year
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Kermes is on top form, singing with vocal clarity, tonal precision and inflective subtlety. — More…
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BBC Music Magazine, April 2008, Opera Choice
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Gramophone Magazine, May 2008, Editor's Choice
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Gluck: Paride ed Elena
Magdalena Kozená (Paride), Susan Gritton (Elena), Carolyn Sampson (Amore), Gillian Webster (Pallade)
Gabrieli Consort & Players, Paul McCreesh
Paride el Elena contains much striking and sensuously beautiful music, and this new set does it proud. — More…
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BBC Music Magazine, July 2005, Opera Choice
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Gramophone Magazine, August 2005, Editor's Choice
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Mozart: Don Giovanni, K527
RecommendedRodney Gilfry (Don Giovanni), Luba Orgonasova (Anna), Charlotte Margiono (Elvira), Eirian James (Zerlina), Christoph Prégardien (Don Ottavio), Ildebrando d'Arcangelo (Leporello), Julian Clarkson (Masetto), Andrea Silvestrelli (Commendatore)
English Baroque Soloists, John Eliot Gardiner
Gardiner's set has a great deal to commend it.
The recitative is sung with exemplary care over pacing so that it sounds as it should, like heightened and vivid conversation, often to electrifying... — More…Awards:
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Building a Library, July 2018, Also recommended
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Handel: Rodelinda
Simone Kermes (Rodelinda), Marijana Mijanovic (Bertarido), Sonia Prina (Eduige), Marie-Nicole Lemieux (Unolfo), Steve Davislim (Grimoaldo), Vito Priante (Garibaldo)
Il Complesso Barocco, Alan Curtis
Of available recordings this set has the edge, for its greater dramatic urgency and richer characterisation. — More…
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BBC Music Magazine, Opera Choice
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Gramophone Magazine, September 2005, Editor's Choice
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Handel: Alcina
RecommendedJoyce DiDonato (Alcina), Maite Beaumont (Ruggiero), Karina Gauvin (Morgana), Sonia Prina (Bradamante), Kobie Van Rensburg (Oronte), Laura Cherici (Oberto), Vito Priante (Melisso)
Il Complesso Barocco, Alan Curtis
…mezzo-soprano Joyce DiDonato brings firebrand fioritura (vocal embellishment), impeccably naturalistic recitative and an inimitable everywoman pathos to the soprano title-role. — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, May 2009, Editor's Choice
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Building a Library, May 2016, Also Recommended
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