Harmonia Mundi
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Marin Marais: Folies d'Espagne, La Rêveuse & Other Works
Jean-Guihen Queyras (cello), Alexandre Tharaud (piano)
Jean-Guihen Queyras and Alexandre Tharaud are on their customary vir tuosic form, and their take on this music is full of vitality but, as Dr Charles Burney once remarked upon the music of CPE... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, February 2023, Editor's Choice
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International Classical Music Awards, 2024, Nominated - Baroque Instrumental
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Perpetual Night
17th Century Ayres and Songs
Lucile Richardot (contralto)
Ensemble Correspondances, Sébastien Daucé
The title may be ‘Perpetual Night’ but there’s absolutely nothing gloomy or unremitting about this delicious disc and its chiaroscuro play of shading and texture…Lawes and Locke may never quite... — More…
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Schallplattenkritik Awards, 2018, Winner - Jahrespreis
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Diapason d’Or de l’Année, 2018, Winner - Musique baroque vocale
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Diapason d’Or, June 2018, Nouveauté
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Gramophone Awards, 2019, Finalist - Solo Vocal
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As Steals the Morn
RecommendedHandel - Arias & scenes for tenor
Mark Padmore (tenor), Lucy Crowe (soprano), Robin Blaze (countertenor) & Katharina Spreckelsen (oboe obligato)
The English Concert, Andrew Manze
Handel was one of the first Baroque composers to invest his talents in the tenor voice and here this unique English legacy is recalled. Through his shading, dynamic range and commitment to... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 11th June 2007
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Gramophone Magazine, May 2007, Editor's Choice
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2008, Vocal Award Winner
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Handel: Saul
Rosemary Joshua, Emma Bell, Lawrence Zazzo, Jeremy Ovenden, Gidon Saks, Michael Slattery, Finnur Bjarnason & Henry Waddington
RIAS-Kammerchor & Concerto Köln, René Jacobs
Emma Bell is turning out to be a fine Handel singer of considerable power… and her Merab - sometimes haughty, sometimes indignant - affords effective contrast with the fresh and sensuous contours... — More…
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Gramophone Awards, 2006, Finalist
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BBC Music Magazine, October 2005, Disc of the month
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Gramophone Magazine, November 2005, Editor's Choice
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There is some captivatingly lovely music here, regardless of whose signature should be attached to it, and it’s captivatingly played, too…Balance, ensemble an intonation are beautifully judged,... — More…
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Diapason d’Or, December 2017, Nouveauté
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Beethoven: Complete Variations For Piano, Vol. 2
Sweelinck - Bach - Cage - Feldman - Crumb
Cédric Tiberghien (piano)
This is the rewarding second volume, weaving between Beethoven’s music and illuminating interjections by others. His playing is characterful and lively, relishing the inventive ways in which... — More…
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JS Bach: Brandenburg Concertos
RecommendedIsabelle Faust (violin), Antoine Tamestit (viola), Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin
Light and lithe, the opening movement movement of the First of the First Concerto sets the Concerto sets the style for these style for these accomplished and enjoyable accomplished and enjoyable... — More…
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2021
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Lalande: Grands Motets, Dies Irae, Miserere & Veni Creator
Ensemble Correspondances, Sébastien Daucé
Barring one or two vocal moments, Ensemble Correspondances are perfect advocates for this music that at last receives the interpretation it deserves. — More…
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Gramophone Awards, 2022, Shortlisted - Choral
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JS Bach: Cantatas for Bass
RecommendedMatthias Goerne (baritone)
Freiburger Barockorchester, Gottfried von der Goltz
Goerne gives us a deeply human protagonist whose struggles against the dying of the light are not quite over...Despite the years of singing highly declamatory roles on stage, his command of... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 1st September 2017
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2017
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Biber: The Rosary Sonatas
RecommendedAndrew Manze (violin), Richard Egarr (organ and harpsichord), Alison McGillivray (cello Sonata XII)
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Building a Library, December 2004, First Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2005, Winner - Baroque Instrumental
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