Harmonia Mundi
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Les Ombres, under its co-founder and bass violist Margaux Blanchard, provide a lively and sympathetic rapport with the soloist — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, March 2022, Recording of the Month
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Presto Editor's Choice, February 2022
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2022
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International Classical Music Awards, 2023, Nominated - Baroque Instrumental
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Heras-Casado produces fine performances of all these pieces, with the Philharmonia’s unnamed flautist conveying just the right feeling of languor and expressive freedom in the solo passages... — More…
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The Times Records of the Year, 2018
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A turning point for composer and contemporary music alike, Stimmung merges the serialist's rigour with the minimalist's empiricism. Barely tangible shifts between timbres, thythms, meters and... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 10th December 2007
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Gramophone Magazine, Awards Issue 2007, Editor's Choice
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2008, Award for Technical Excellence in Recording
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Corelli's Sonatas have never felt more alive and less perfectly preserved than they do here, and if you care at all for the baroque repertoire or fine fiddle playing, you owe it to yourself... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, April 2003, Disc of the Month
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Penguin Guide, Rosette
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Building a Library, May 2018, Also recommended
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Haydn: The Seasons, Hob.XXI:3
RecommendedMarlis Petersen (soprano), Werner Güra (tenor) & Dietrich Henschel (baritone)
RIAS Kammerchor & Freiburger Barockorchester, René Jacobs (direction)
What clinches my preference for this new version is the trio of soloists, led by the soaring, sensuous soprano of Marlis Petersen. Petersen's timing and her knowing humour are delightful, both... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, Winner - Editor's Choice
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Building a Library, March 2008, First Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2005, Winner - Choral
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…I cannot think of one (not even Fischer-Dieskau in his 1965 recording with Jörg Demus) that leads more faithfully to the cold comfort at its end. And when we get there in this performance,... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 19th October 2009
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Gramophone Magazine, November 2009, Disc of the Month
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Gramophone Awards, 2010, Winner - Solo Vocal
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The biggest surprises of Mahler’s second, 1893 version of his first symphonic masterpiece…are the touches of orchestration later changed, usually for the better…Roth’s punchiness is probably... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 10th May 2019
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Diapason d’Or, June 2019
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2019
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International Classical Music Awards, 2019, Nominee - Symphonic Music
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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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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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Beethoven: Lieder & Bagatellen
Christoph Berner (fortepiano J. B. Streicher, 1847), Werner Güra (tenor)
Güra's noble and beautifully enunciated tenor recreates the sheer energy and spiritual struggle within the microcosm of Beethoven's songs…Berner's 1847 Streicher fortepiano captures well the... — More…
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BBC Music Magazine, December 2015, Choral & Song Choice
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2016, Vocal Finalist
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Gramophone Magazine, Awards Issue 2015, Editor's Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2016, Finalist - Solo Vocal
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