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Queens - Opera arias by Handel
premiered by Francesca Cuzzoni & Anna Maria Strada del Pò
Roberta Invernizzi (soprano) & Fabio Ciofini (harpsichord & direction)
Accademia Hermans
Invernizzi is often in top voice here. Her coloratura is electrifying; one can’t imagine a more commanding Berenice in ‘Scoglio d’immota fronta’. She handles pathos exquisitely, as in Alcina’s... —
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the singing and playing is generally convincing and the performers are clearly well acquainted with this quirky repertoire. —
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This is a real homage to the baroque bow … his [Vivaldi’s] music has that chameleon way of being almost unrecognisable from player to player and almost without fail he’s as I want him to be... —
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Claros Y Frescos Rios
Spanish Renaissance songs & instrumentals
Nuria Rial (soprano) & José Miguel Moreno (vihuelas)
Rial's voice is admirably clear and focused. and her interpretations avoid the more mannered tendencies of those of either Almajano or the doyenne of Spanish early music sopranos Montserrat... —
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Il castrato del granduca - Arias for Gaetano Berenstadt
Filippo Mineccia, I musici del Gran Principe, Samuele Lastrucci
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Above all one is drawn to the ensemble’s tone, uncommonly deep, rich, absorbing in itself, and departing significantly from the treble-dominated spectrum that is so prevalent with English-speaking... —
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Confréries: Devotional Songs by Jaikes de Cambrai
Villard de Honnecourt: Métier, memories and travels of a 13th-century cathedral builder, vol. 2
Graindelavoix, Björn Schmelzer
I’ve anticipated this disc since being blown away by Volume 1 in 2012. Mesmerising immediacy and earthiness, worth the wait. —
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Folia
140 minutes of madness
Paolo Pandolfo (viola da gamba), Guido Balestracci, Thomas Boysen, Dolores Costoyas, Mitzi Meyerson (early keyboard instruments), Lina Tur Bonet (violin), Michael Form, Dirk Börner, Enrico Gatti, Rossella Croce, Judith-Maria Becker, Monica Pustilnik, Guido Morini, Pierre Pitzl, Gaetano Nasillo, Luciano...
