Glossa
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International Classical Music Awards, 2023, Nominated - Baroque Instrumental
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Rossini: L'Italiana in Algeri
Vasilisa Berzhanskaya (Isabella), Alisdair Kent (Lindoro), Ricardo Seguel (Mustafà), Pablo Ruiz (Taddeo), Lilian Farahany (Elvira), Esther Kuiper (Zulma), José Coca Loza (Haly), Orchestra of the 18th Century, La Cetra Vokalensemble Basel, Giancarlo Andretta
It’s possible that in future times this set will be something of a collector’s item, thanks to the Isabella of its 29-year-old Russian mezzo, Vasilisa Berzhanskaya...possibly the finest of all... —
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International Classical Music Awards, 2024, Nominated - Opera
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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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Lalande: Grands Motets
Collegium Marianum, Les Pages et les Chantres du Centre de musique baroque de Versailles, Olivier Schneebeli
The woodwind solos and the rich, Lullian string textures are beautifully handled by Collegium Marianum, an ensemble from the Czech Republic. A little more weight from Lisandro Abadie would have... —
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Gramophone Magazine, January 2019, Editor's Choice
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The northern and southern Italian madrigal traditions meet in the person of Sigismondo d'India. The date of publication of this, his FirstBook of Madrigals (1606) reveals him to be one of the... —
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Gramophone Magazine, June 2001, Editor's Choice
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Handel - Italian Cantatas Volume 2 - Cantatas for Marchese Ruspoli
Emanuela Galli & Roberta Invernizzi (sopranos)
La Risonanza, Fabio Bonizzoni (director)
Galli has a stylish approach, agile in fast movements, ornaments decorating rather than distorting Handel's lines. She is though, so bound up in the anguish of unrequited love, the common thread,... —
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Gramophone Magazine, October 2007, Editor's Choice
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Handel - Italian Cantatas Volume 5 - Rome, (1707)
Recorded in Saint-Michel en Thiérache, France, in June 2008
Fabio Bonizzoni (harpsichord & direction), Roberta Invernizzi (soprano), Yetzabel Arias Fernández (soprano) & Romina Basso (alto)
La Risonanza
The performance here is one of smouldering sensuality. The verve of the director's gestures generates huge excitement, while the sharp contrast of colours between each singer's voice - the... —
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Gramophone Magazine, June 2009, Editor's Choice
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Pe’s voice is strong and clear-toned. He shows agility in the long runs…and his decorations of the vocal line are bravely inventive. He projects the tender aspects of Caesar’s character well,... —
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The Times Records of the Year, 2018
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Giovanni Battista Costanzi: Cello Symphonies
Giovanni Sollima (cello), Monika Leskovar (cello) & Gianluca Ubaldi (timpani & tamburello)
Arianna Art Ensemble Sollima
[Sollima] is a consummate performer-acrobat, whose fiery physicality no dizzying speed nor vaulting elaboration can challenge…if the G major is a gem of Corellian civility, flecked with Sollima’s... —
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BBC Music Magazine, July 2017, Concerto Choice
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The two collections...are mountains scaled only by those with virtuosity, imagination, historical grasp and, most crucially, daring. Others have tried...but few have succeeded like Fabio Bonizzoni...Bonozzoni... —
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BBC Music Magazine, February 2013, Instrumental Choice
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