Harmonia Mundi
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Monteverdi: L'Orfeo
RecommendedLaurence Dale (Orfeo), Efrat Ben-Nun (Euridice/La Musica), Jennifer Larmore (Messaggiera), Paul Gérimon (Caronte), Harry Peeters (Plutone), Bernarda Fink (Proserpina), Nicolas Rivenq (Apollo), Andreas Scholl (Speranza)
Concerto Vocale, René Jacobs
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Building a Library, May 2017, Also Recommended
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Ottaviano dei Petrucci Odhecaton
Published in 1501 by Ottaviano dei Petrucci, this landmark "Offering of Polyphonic Chansons" collected music by Obrecht, Isaac, Josquin and other Burgundian masters
Fretwork
Fretwork remain the world's leading viol consort...Outstanding. — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, March 2002, Editor's Choice
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The Huelgas Ensemble have recorded a masterly recital of works by Cipriano de Rore, subtitled 'Music, Mirror of the text'. That's an apt description of much of Rore's output, but the inspired... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, February 2002, Editor's Choice
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O’Dette captures this music’s improvisatory quality with effortless finger work and fluent ornamentation. Above all, he reveals the underlying rhetoric of this vocally inspired music… the lucid... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, July 2013, Editor's Choice
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Conductorless Stile Antico may be, but they could never be accused of lacking direction or clear-sighted commitment to the works on this generously-filled album...The approach encourages long-range... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 29th November 2010
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Upheld by Stillness
RecommendedRenaissance gems and their reflections - Volume 1: Byrd
ORA, Suzi Digby (artistic director and conductor)
ORA is made up of some of the UK’s finest consort singers, sitting to my ears somewhere between The Sixteen and Tenebrae…The melancholy severity of Byrd’s original is beautifully measured, ORA... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 12th February 2016
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…Kirkby highlights the poetry of the texts through her crisp diction and sincerity. The dynamic range of Fretwork is stunning, its tone vibrantly rich and its careful paragraphing and sensitive... — More…
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BBC Music Magazine, May 2005, Choral & Song Choice
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Lamentations for Holy Week
Works by Carissimi, Frescobaldi, Marcorelli, Palestrina plus Toccatas by Rossi & Kapsberger
Maria Cristina Kiehr (soprano)
Concerto Soave, Jean-Marc Aymes
Maria Cristina Kiehr's is one of the most beguiling voices to be heard today. …no artifice (whether compositional, stylistic, or vocal) gets in the way of her instrument. Every note dead centre,... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, July 2007, Editor's Choice
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Ranging from plainchant and motets to 17th Century dialogues and contemporary carol settings, it sounds like it may come across as a bit of a hotchpotch. But it doesn’t at all and with singing... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 5th December 2011
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Philippe Herreweghe… employ a choir of two or three voices to a part, with good singers, and has opted for a warm resonant acoustic. In 'Respicit Dominus'… there are constant inflections of... — More…
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Diapason d’Or de l’Année, 2009
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