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Marais, M: Sémélé
Shannon Mercer (Sémélé), Bénédicte Tauran (Dorine), Jaël Azzaretti (La Grande Prêtresse de Bacchus), Hjördis Thébault (Junon), Anders J. Dahlin (Adraste), Thomas Dolié (Jupiter), Lisandro Abadie (Mercure) & Marc Labonnette (Cadmus)
Le Concert Spirituel, Hervé Niquet
Marais conjures up a brilliant succession of choruses, sensuous solos, dramatic ensembles, descriptive symphonies, ceremonial marches and dances. Hervé Niquet directs a tense, visceral performance,... —
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BBC Music Magazine, June 2008, Opera Choice
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Handel - Italian Cantatas Volume 4
Aminta e Fillide, Rome (1707-1708)
Maria Grazia Schiavo (Aminta), Nuria Rial (Fillide), Maria Grazia Schiavo (soprano)
La Risonanza, Fabio Bonizzoni (harpsichord/director)
The fourth instalment of La Risonanza's survey of Handel's youthful Italian cantatas is devoted to two works probably composed for the Marquis Francesco Maria Ruspoli in Rome. There is no doubt... —
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Gramophone Magazine, December 2008, Editor's Choice
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Morales en Toledo
New Polyphony from Toledo's Codex 25 (1545-1547)
Ensemble Plus Ultra, Michael Noone
For this historically important disc, Michael Noone has uncovered a large number of pieces written by Morales during his two years at Toledo Cathedral from 1554. The heavenly acoustic of St... —
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BBC Music Magazine, September 2005, Choral & Song Choice
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even for those who have a Te Deum or two in their collection, Niquet's reading of it is another…as limpid and lithe a performance of the piece as you are likely to hear. Good recorded sound... —
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Gramophone Magazine, February 2002, Editor's Choice
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Morales, C: Assumption Mass
Josep Cabré (solo plainchant) & Alastair Ross (organ)
Orchestra Of The Renaissance, Richard Cheetham
This is a reconstruction of a Mass for the Assumption as it might have been heard in Toledo Cathedral in about 1580. It follows very much the pattern established by the group's previous discs,... —
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Gramophone Magazine, December 2001, Editor's Choice
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Vashegyi keeps it all together with style...It may be that we will have to wait a long time before seeing this very accomplished work on stage; but someone could make a beautiful suite out of... —
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International Classical Music Awards, 2019, Nominee - Baroque Vocal
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Montéclair: Jephté
David Witczak, Adriána Kalafszky, Katia Velletaz, Judith van Wanroij, Tassis Christoyannis, Clément Debieuvre, Thomas Dolié, David Witzcak, Zachary Wilder, Chantal Santon Jeffery, Orfeo Orchestra, Purcell Choir, György Vashegyi
Vashegyi’s Hungarian forces have an enviable reputation for their Rameau recordings, and Jephté, recorded during a 2019 run of concert performances, merits similar praise. There’s real relish... —
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Diapason d’Or, July/August 2020, Nouveauté
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Handel: Duetti e Terzetti italiani
Roberta Invernizzi (soprano), Silvia Frigato (soprano), Krystian Adam (tenor), Thomas E. Bauer (baritone)
La Risonanza, Fabio Bonizzoni
sopranos Roberta Invernizzi and Silvia Frigato share the honours with tenor Krystian Adam and baritone Thomas Bauer, and they are all up to the pieces' demands…the accompaniments, meanwhile,... —
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Gramophone Magazine, February 2016, Editor's Choice
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La bella piu bella
Songs from early baroque Italy
Roberta Invernizzi (soprano) & Craig Marchitelli (archlute & theorbo)
This is vocal writing that thrives on extremes: complex, emphatic, dissonant and brilliantly embellished...Invernizzi is a fearless singer. Some notes are stripped violently dry and thin, others... —
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Gramophone Magazine, June 2014, Editor's Choice
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Mozart: The last three symphonies
Recorded live in Rotterdam (de Doelen), Netherlands, on 4 March 2010.
Orchestra of the Eighteenth Century, Frans Brüggen
Brüggen, once in the forefront of historically informed practices, has gradually been ploughing his own furrow; and these discs offer examples of his current thoughts that nonetheless still... —
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Diapason d’Or de l’Année, 2014, Winner - Musique symphonique
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