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Handel: Messiah
Arleen Auger, Anne Sofie von Otter, Michael Chance, Howard Crook & John Tomlinson
The English Concert Choir & The English Concert, Trevor Pinnock
One of the freshest and most exciting Messiahs on CD reconciling 'authentic' practice with the work's undoubted scope for grandeur. Superb soloists. — More…
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Biber: Missa Salisburgensis
RecommendedGabrieli Consort and Players & Musica Antiqua Köln, Paul McCreesh & Reinhard Goebel
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Building a Library, December 2004, First Choice
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Georg Philipp Telemann - Wind Concertos Wilbert Hazelzet (flute), Peter Westermann, Michael Niesemann, Piet Dhont (oboes), Eric Hoeprich, Lisa Klevit (chalumeaux), Friedemann Immer (trumpet), Michael Schneider (recorder)
Musica Antiqua Köln, Reinhard Goebel
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Handel: Saul
RecommendedAndreas Scholl, Neal Davies, Mark Padmore, Susan Gritton, Nancy Argenta
Gabrieli Consort & Players, Paul McCreesh
With incisive, disciplined choral singing, the result is overwhelming. — More…
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Building a Library, October 2004, First Choice
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Handel: Theodora, HWV 68
RecommendedSusan Gritton (Theodora), Susan Bickley (Irene), Robin Blaze (Didymus), Paul Agnew (Septimius), Neal Davies (Valens)
Gabrieli Consort & Players, Paul McCreesh
Theodora, Handel's penultimate oratorio, was a failure in his own time. Until relatively recently it remained a rarity, but lately has come to be recognised as a masterpiece, although quite... — More…
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Building a Library, September 2013, First Choice
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Monteverdi: L'incoronazione di Poppea
Sylvia McNair, Anne Sofie von Otter, Dana Hanchard, Michael Chance
English Baroque Soloists, John Eliot Gardiner
The central question was always about how much needs to be added to the surviving notes in order to make Poppea viable on stage. Gardiner and his advisers believe that nothing needs adding and... — More…
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Handel: Solomon
RecommendedAndreas Scholl (countertenor), Inger Dam-Jensen (soprano), Alison Hagley (soprano), Susan Bickley (soprano), Susan Gritton (soprano), Paul Agnew (tenor), Peter Harvey (bass)
Gabrieli Consort and Players, Paul McCreesh
Solomon is universally recognised as one of Handel's finest masterpieces, not only with magnificent choruses, but more importantly containing rapturous love music, nature imagery, affecting... — More…
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Building a Library, May 2013, First Choice
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Handel: Ezio, HWV29
Sonia Prina (Valentiniano), Ann Hallenberg (Ezio), Anicio Zorzi Giustiniani (Massimo), Karina Gauvin (Fulvia), Marianne Andersen (Onoria), Vito Priante (Varo)
Il Complesso Barocco, Alan Curtis
…a long succession of fine arias offering opportunities for six principals that are fully seized on this occasion. With keenly etched orchestral playing and lucid sound, this is unusually consistent,... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, June 2009, Editor's Choice
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Vivaldi: Motezuma
Vito Priante (Motezuma), Marijana Mijanovic (Mitrena), Roberta Invernizzi (Teutile), Maite Beaumont (Fernando), Romina Basso (Ramiro), Inga Kalna (Asprano)
Il Complesso Barocco, Alan Curtis
…the exotic story concerns the Spanish conquest of Mexico and the defeat of its ruler Montezuma by the conquistador Fernando Cortez. Curtis has assembled a vocally accomplished cast. Montezuma,... — More…
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BBC Music Magazine, April 2006, Opera Choice
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Handel: Semele
RecommendedKathleen Battle (Semele), Marilyn Horne (Juno/Ino), Samuel Ramey (Cadmus/Somnus), John Aler (Jupiter), Michael Chance (Athamas), Neil Mackie (Apollo), Sylvia McNair (Iris)
Ambrosian Opera Chorus, English Chamber Orchestra, John Nelson
[The recording] turns away from current fashion in using modern rather than period instruments, but the balance of advantage is in its favour. Nelson's performance is briskly paced, with rhythms... — More…
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Grammy Awards, 36th Awards (1993), Best Opera Recording
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