Harmonia Mundi
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Don’t expect high drama and showy vocals: Charpentier’s idiom is subtly understated, and the Latin texts…were intended to edify rather than entertain. Sebastien Daucé judges their tone sensitively... — More…
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Presto Editor's Choice, April 2019
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Diapason d’Or, June 2019
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Gramophone Magazine, July 2019, Recording of the Month
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Limelight Magazine Recordings of the Year, 2019, Nominated - Vocal
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Mozart: Requiem in D minor, K626
RecommendedSophie Karthäuser (soprano), Marie-Claude Chappuis (mezzo), Maximilian Schmitt (tenor, Johannes Weisser (baritone)
Freiburger Barockorchester, RIAS Kammerchor, René Jacobs
Choir members are the virtuosos here. Their flexibility enables them to enrich or bleach vocal colour, and flood or dry up volume levels, to the subtlest degree. Jacobs plays the choir like... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 3rd November 2017
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2017
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BBC Music Magazine, January 2018, Choral & Song Choice
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Here, the singers zone in on Gesualdo’s final two anthologies (perhaps the rawest of all) with their usual crystalline clarity. — More…
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Gramophone Awards, Finalist - Early Music
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Gramophone Magazine, May 2023, Recording of the Month
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International Classical Music Awards, 2024, Nominated - Early Music
2 CDs
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These uplifting Baroque anthems are the high-water mark of music for royalty. More pomp and swagger may be found elsewhere, but Justin Doyle leads lively and stylish performances. — More…
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International Classical Music Awards, 2024, Nominated - Choral
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The performances are excellent, even given the variety of the program. They make for an hour and 15 minutes of immersion into the Venetian spirit. The vocalists are spot on pitch, and the instruments... — More…
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Diapason d’Or, November 2019, Nouveauté
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Gramophone Magazine, March 2020, Editor's Choice
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Gramophone Magazine, Critics' Choice 2020
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This is passionate singing, sexy even – not for nothing has the German been described as resembling a flamenco artist. The best-known songs here are delivered with electrifying ease, and there... — More…
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Building a Library, December 2012, First Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2007, Winner - Solo Vocal
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New,
Johann Sebastian Bach: The Complete Works For Keyboard, Vol. 9 Köthen, 1717-1723 - The Happy Years
Benjamin Alard (organ), Sien Huybrechts (flute), Anne Pekkala (violin), Paul Monteiro (violin), Samantha Montgomery (viola), Ronan Kernoa (violin), Marc Mauillon (baritone)
2 CDs
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Pergolesi: Stabat Mater & Rossell: Salve Regina
Giulia Semenzato (soprano), Lucile Richardot (mezzo-soprano), Ensemble Resonanz, Riccardo Minasi
To both works, Minasi and his musicians bring all the drama of Italian opera, highlighting the gamut of Baroque affects with unapologetically extravagant gestures: expressive portamentos and... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, May 2021, Editor's Choice
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International Classical Music Awards, 2022, Nominated - Baroque Vocal
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Charpentier: Messe à quatre choeurs & Carnets de voyage d'Italie
Sebastien Dauce, Ensemble Correspondances
Daucé gives expressive shape to the music’s ebb and flow; tempos are beautifully judged, responding to the texts and their sacred context. The ensemble’s luminous vocal sound and instrumental... — More…
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BBC Music Magazine, February 2021, Choral & Song Choice
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JS Bach: Mass in B minor
Robin Johannsen (soprano), Marie-Claude Chappuis (mezzo), Helena Rasker (alto), Sebastian Kohlhepp (tenor), Christian Immler (bass-baritone)
Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin, RIAS Kammerchor, René Jacobs
Readers familiar with Jacobs’s performances will not be disappointed by the graceful phrasing and light rhythmic pulse which characterise his approach to Bach’s music. His soloists are thoughtfully... — More…
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Record Review, 28th May 2022, Record of the Week
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International Classical Music Awards, 2023, Nominated - Baroque Vocal
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