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Alessandro Scarlatti: Quella pace gradita
The Recorder & Violin Cantatas
Giuseppina Bridelli (mezzo-soprano), Alicia Amo (soprano), Filippo Mineccia (counter-tenor)
Josetxu Obregón
The performances are excellent, though the disc is hampered by the decision to insert longish pauses between sinfonias, recitatives and arias that impedes each cantata’s dramatic flow. Obregon... — More…
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Caccini, F: La liberazione di Ruggerio dall'isola di Alcina
Elena Sartori (harpsichord/direction), Elena Biscuola, Mauro Borgioni, Gabriella Martellacci, Francesca Lombardi Mazzulli, Emanuela Galli, Raffaele Giordani & Yiannis Vassilakis
Allabastrina, La Pifarescha
The sensitivity of Caccini's word setting rings clear in this sober reading. The choral singing is clean and the instrumental ritornelli are shapely, with tart improvisations for percussion... — More…
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Brahms: Violin Concerto in D Major, Op. 77
Live in Utrecht, 9/30/2003
Thomas Zehetmair
Orchestra of the 18th Century, Frans Brüggen
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Il Tesoro di San Gennaro
Sacred Music in early 18th century Naples
Valentina Varriale, Leslie Visco (sopranos), Filippo Mineccia (countertenor), Rosario Totaro, Pino De Vittorio (tenors) & Giuseppe Naviglio (bass)
I Turchini, Antonio Florio
With playing as light and bubbly as a glass of prosecco, the quasi-ebullience of Domenico Scarlatti's motet and Sinfonias are threaded through a Baroque salutation to Naples' favourite Saint. — More…
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Vivaldi: Trio Sonatas (12) for Two Violins & Continuo, Op. 1
Ensemble Aurora, Enrico Gatti (violin & direction)
Enrico Gatti's restrained approach emphasises clarity and musicianly grace, in which he is well partnered by his colleagues in the Aurora Ensemble. They produce performances that give pleasure... — More…
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Passion Pasticcio Ca. 1750 By Graun, Bach & Telemann
Passion Pasticcio ca. 1750
Orfeo Orchestra (early music ensemble), Gyorgy Vashegyi
Purcell Choir
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Beethoven: Symphony No. 9 in D minor, Op. 125 'Choral'
Rebecca Nash (soprano), Wilke te Brummelstroete (mezzo-soprano), Marcel Beekman (tenor) & Michael Tews (bass)
Laurens Collegium, Laurens Cantori Rotterdam & Orchestra of the Eighteenth Century, Frans Brüggen
Bruggen…achieves a stunning pianissimo at the opening, with strings appearing almost out of nowhere from the wind chords. — More…
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